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Friday Open Thread (now with poll) | 99 comments (99 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

I've tried the Massive Marmitization of Finland, but so far only two converts - my daughters. Marmitization has to take place at a very formative stage of behavioural development to be successful.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 10:30:22 AM EST
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so a 300% rise in a single generation, the nation will be converts in no time at all.

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

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 10:32:51 AM EST
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Re: Hold the front page! (none / 0)

In ordinary times, an insight like that would have been enough to qualify you as a professional economic pundit.

[nostalgic sigh...]

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 07:23:30 PM EST
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I'm sure enough of my opinions would be considered dangerously left wing, so that that could never be the case.

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

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 07:40:16 PM EST
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Re: Hold the front page! (none / 1)

That was then.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 08:59:36 PM EST
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I've seen good success from using vegemite as a gateway drug...

by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 10:51:18 AM EST
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you've been hanging round school gates as an evil marmite dealer again havent you. ;-)

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

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 12:07:58 PM EST
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I shudder to think what the baptism ceremony looks like.

Yuk.

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 01:16:05 PM EST
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