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Started by Korea, March 10, 2009, 06:24:26 AM

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dps

Quote from: Valmy on August 24, 2018, 08:26:10 PM
How can you possibly hold somebody responsible for something somebody else did seven years before they were born?

Excessive concern over PR.

grumbler

Quote from: Valmy on August 24, 2018, 08:26:10 PM
How can you possibly hold somebody responsible for something somebody else did seven years before they were born?

Because advertising is about image, not fact.  This is a ridiculous situation, and yet it is hard to fault advertisers for shying away from the slightest association with negative things.  Advertising is generally the difference between the top-selling and low-selling product in a given market.
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

Admiral Yi

I'm going to get diabetes out of protest.

Razgovory

I accidentally ordered a book on formal logic for my sister.  Now she thinks I was insulting her.  So I sent her a book of insults so that she might know the difference.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

crazy canuck

Quote from: Razgovory on August 25, 2018, 12:02:55 PM
I accidentally ordered a book on formal logic for my sister.  Now she thinks I was insulting her.  So I sent her a book of insults so that she might know the difference.

Turns out it would be useful for her to read the first book.

DGuller

Just invite her to Languish, she'll get a whole library of insults.

garbon

I just came home to a letter posted from Italy that is a Nigerian scammer email in printed form. Wtf?
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

DGuller

Quote from: garbon on August 27, 2018, 08:05:37 AM
I just came home to a letter posted from Italy that is a Nigerian scammer email in printed form. Wtf?
So, are you in or out?

Josquius

Quote from: garbon on August 27, 2018, 08:05:37 AM
I just came home to a letter posted from Italy that is a Nigerian scammer email in printed form. Wtf?

Oh you have to play along.
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The Brain

Quote from: garbon on August 27, 2018, 08:05:37 AM
I just came home to a letter posted from Italy that is a Nigerian scammer email in printed form. Wtf?

Goodbye, sweet prince.
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Razgovory

Quote from: crazy canuck on August 27, 2018, 07:55:11 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on August 25, 2018, 12:02:55 PM
I accidentally ordered a book on formal logic for my sister.  Now she thinks I was insulting her.  So I sent her a book of insults so that she might know the difference.

Turns out it would be useful for her to read the first book.


My sister is a bit of a dim bulb.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

11B4V

"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

derspiess

"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

Eddie Teach

Quote from: Razgovory on August 27, 2018, 11:36:05 AM
Quote from: crazy canuck on August 27, 2018, 07:55:11 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on August 25, 2018, 12:02:55 PM
I accidentally ordered a book on formal logic for my sister.  Now she thinks I was insulting her.  So I sent her a book of insults so that she might know the difference.

Turns out it would be useful for her to read the first book.


My sister is a bit of a dim bulb.

Maybe you were insulting her.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Josquius

A theory: In modern times the names kids are given are becoming ever stupider because in modern times we meet more and more people who are forever ruining potential normal names to give kids.
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