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Conflicts, ratings, trolls - a service announcement | 53 comments (53 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

wait... maybe that argument WAS about the use of the word 'clamoring'...

Still, I demand that it be entered into evidence that I had previously been compared to Ann Coulter. Surely that counts as an extenuating circumstance.

Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. -Hobbes

by Izzy (izzy at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Jun 12th, 2007 at 01:03:02 PM EST

Re: I object! (4.00 / 3)

well it's a word that I can only hear in a Scottish accent so I probably see it in an entirely different light to everyone else here.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Tue Jun 12th, 2007 at 01:39:13 PM EST
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Re: I object! (none / 1)

No, that's how I hear it, too. Wait, does that admission help or hurt my case?

Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. -Hobbes

by Izzy (izzy at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Jun 12th, 2007 at 02:00:34 PM EST
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Re: I object! (4.00 / 7)

I suggest to the almighty front pagers to add some rules:

Thou shalt not compare Izzy to Ann Coulter or other filthy animal
Thou shalt not mention pancakes nor peanut butter
Thou shalt not pronounce the name of Jehovah (OMG, I said it!)

"Dieu se rit des hommes qui se plaignent des conséquences alors qu'ils en chérissent les causes" Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

by Melanchthon on Tue Jun 12th, 2007 at 01:48:37 PM EST
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Re: I object! (none / 1)

Yod-he-Vau-he is allowed, I presume?

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Tue Jun 12th, 2007 at 04:52:28 PM EST
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