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Old 09-05-2012, 10:06 AM   #211 (permalink)
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I realize this is serious, but still...

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Other karaoke massacres have taken place in the Philippines, where the Frank Sinatra song "My Way" has had to be removed from many songbooks after sub-standard renditions provoked a string of killings.

In Thailand, meanwhile, a man shot eight of his neighbours, including his brother-in-law, after tiring of their tuneless reprisals of John Denver's "Country Roads".

In the United States, a woman punched a man for continuing to sing Coldplay's "Yellow" after she had told him he was not up to the task.
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Old 09-05-2012, 10:56 PM   #212 (permalink)
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i had a neighbour who used to sing karaoke at top volume nearly every night

i would have killed him, if there were no consequences
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Old 09-05-2012, 11:30 PM   #213 (permalink)
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Wow, the karaoke stakes are impossibly high over there. Here the worst you have to fear is some drunken idiot trying to get on stage with you for a duet.
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Old 09-06-2012, 01:21 AM   #214 (permalink)
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Wow, the karaoke stakes are impossibly high over there. Here the worst you have to fear is some drunken idiot trying to get on stage with you for a duet.
who is the dude in your avatar, that's creepy.
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who is the dude in your avatar, that's creepy.
I think the right side is Richard Dawkins. I've been wondering who the woman on the left is though.
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Old 09-06-2012, 04:30 AM   #216 (permalink)
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I think the right side is Richard Dawkins. I've been wondering who the woman on the left is though.
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Old 09-06-2012, 10:00 AM   #218 (permalink)
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I think the right side is Richard Dawkins. I've been wondering who the woman on the left is though.
I'm desperately hoping that it is also Richard Dawkins.
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Old 09-06-2012, 04:05 PM   #220 (permalink)
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My wife was telling me about this last night. This woman should be stripped of all her wealth and property, be forced to live in a leaky shack and work in a coal mine for $2 a day. Assuming she can fit through the entrance of the mine of course.
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