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Ticker

18:29 / 02.04.07

Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.

It's true you know. They sit around smoking the weed, making love, and playing chess while happy but dirty children frolic in the yard. Sometimes the people will rouse themselves to pick fruit off the higher branches of the trees but usually they're content to eat whatever the children bring back.

"A marriage/match made in heaven" tends to annoy me. IT WAS FORGED IN THE BLACKEST DEEPEST PITS OF THE EARTH, YOU CLOUD DRUNK SKY GAWKER.

Sibelian 2.0

07:14 / 03.04.07

Still, at least it's not "A is B: On C!"
Um. I've been guilty of this one recently at least twice on this very message board, Feverfew. Er, sorry.

bjacques

08:43 / 03.04.07

Worst among equals of A is B: on C has to be "on steroids." It's like "on acid," but you can safely say it in a US office without people thinking maybe you're due for another piss test. So whenever someone says "on steroids," substitute "on hemorrhoids."

While we're at it, "rogue nations" with "weapons of mass destruction" is just irritating. The Nuclear Club have plenty of WMDs between them and we kinda sorted that out (at least until Bush's people started making Russia nervous again by pimping the European shield for stopping non-US missiles). I'd say our bigger problem is lots of rogue (or just pissed-off) people with weapons of few destruction, which is pretty much what 4th-generation warfare is all about.

Sibelian 2.0

10:12 / 03.04.07

Worst among equals of A is B: on C has to be "on steroids."

Oh, dear.

(hides face in shame)

Shrug

11:06 / 03.04.07

That which is for you won't pass you by.

Unless your too bloody lazy and/or apathetic to get off your arse and actually actively look. Or worse still unless you don't put the time and effort into something that's actually worthwhile. Or unless life circumstances fuck up your chances at getting something that really definitely irrefutably is for you. Nope, won't pass you by.

Whisky Priestess

07:50 / 04.04.07

From Bush, earlier on p1: "See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction."

What, like the nuclear fucking bomb?

Silly me, of course; the Manhattan Project took place in Nazi Germany and was named after Hitler's favourite cocktail.

You knob.

Alex's Grandma

09:08 / 04.04.07

'Arbeit macht frei.'

It doesn't really, does it?

Dutch

09:37 / 04.04.07

"Spare the rod, spoil the child", has always seemed particularly cruel and depressing to me.

Quantum

13:46 / 04.04.07

'Just do it' pisses me right off, not only in the swoosh sense but when you ask how to do something and someone replies 'Just do it!'. Usually followed by 'No! Not like that!'
If I knew how to do it I wouldn't be fucking asking would I.

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