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Jezza 
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Anyone heard of the 1983 Church Street bombings in South Africa?
While I don't fully agree with Wokko's points I'm inclined to agree with him on the majority of his posts.
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Guys put the but parts of your memorials here, or was I a little insensitive to your feelings with the title?
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| OK so can we move on now? |
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yeah as soon as people stop saying RIP but... 
its simple, wait til someone is cold before you start trashing their memory. its kinda like going to someones funeral and saying what a prick they were (mind you my old mans funeral could be pretty quiet!)
or - shut up unless you have something nice to add to the RIP bit!
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Tannin 
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Beware of absurd attempts to control the conversation like this:
| think positive wrote: | as soon as people stop saying RIP but... its simple, wait til someone is cold before you start trashing their memory.
shut up unless you have something nice to add to the RIP bit! |
From a poster who, in another RIP thread (only this time about someone she didn't like), could write:
| think positive wrote: | | rot in hell |
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| Tannin wrote: | Beware of absurd attempts to control the conversation like this:
| think positive wrote: | as soon as people stop saying RIP but... its simple, wait til someone is cold before you start trashing their memory.
shut up unless you have something nice to add to the RIP bit! |
From a poster who, in another RIP thread (only this time about someone she didn't like), could write:
| think positive wrote: | | rot in hell |
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fair point, but that was a self confessed murdering thief who only did it for his own benefit, oh I'm sorry, was he smacked when he was a child?
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think positive
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| think positive wrote: | | Tannin wrote: | Beware of absurd attempts to control the conversation like this:
| think positive wrote: | as soon as people stop saying RIP but... its simple, wait til someone is cold before you start trashing their memory.
shut up unless you have something nice to add to the RIP bit! |
From a poster who, in another RIP thread (only this time about someone she didn't like), could write:
| think positive wrote: | | rot in hell |
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fair point, but that was a self confessed murdering thief who only did it for his own benefit, oh I'm sorry, was he smacked when he was a child? |
but since I stuck the "but" in from now on ill drag up this thread when a notorious criminal dies, ok?
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Wokko 
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It's all a matter of perspective though, there are some who see Mandela as a murdering criminal, free speech can be a bitch like that but it's better than the alternative. Whenever someone wants to silence dissenting opinion I wonder on their motives. At best it stifles intellectual growth to never be confronted with views you don't like, I'd rather consider and dismiss something than shout down those saying it because next time they'll choose not to speak and all I'll have is an echo of my own voice.
You find negative or critical comments on the dead generally distasteful which I can respect, but it's not like with public figures that people are saying this crap to their family or friends. |
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pietillidie
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^That's simply false; it's not "all a matter of perspective" at all; on the contrary, the moon isn't made of green cheese any more than violent oppression gets to determine the legal boundaries of necessary force.
So that's one false claim and one irrelevant one (a straw man claim pertaining to populist saintliness) you've made on the topic so far; that's what happens when you build a moral edifice on something as untenable as the righteousness of status quo.
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Tannin
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| think positive wrote: | | Tannin wrote: | Beware of absurd attempts to control the conversation like this:
| think positive wrote: | as soon as people stop saying RIP but... its simple, wait til someone is cold before you start trashing their memory.
shut up unless you have something nice to add to the RIP bit! |
From a poster who, in another RIP thread (only this time about someone she didn't like), could write:
| think positive wrote: | | rot in hell |
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fair point, but that was a self confessed murdering thief |
Quite so, but then he didn't kill anywhere near as many people as Thatcher (may she rot in seven hells) did, not steal even a tiny fraction of what she took.
(However, as a matter of detail, I fully concur with your remarks about that scumbag Reid. OK, he was only a minor sort of murdering, thieving scum compared with Thatcher, but he was murdering, thieving scum nevertheless and won't be missed in any way.)
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| Tannin wrote: | | think positive wrote: | | Tannin wrote: | Beware of absurd attempts to control the conversation like this:
| think positive wrote: | as soon as people stop saying RIP but... its simple, wait til someone is cold before you start trashing their memory.
shut up unless you have something nice to add to the RIP bit! |
From a poster who, in another RIP thread (only this time about someone she didn't like), could write:
| think positive wrote: | | rot in hell |
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fair point, but that was a self confessed murdering thief |
Quite so, but then he didn't kill anywhere near as many people as Thatcher (may she rot in seven hells) did, not steal even a tiny fraction of what she took.
(However, as a matter of detail, I fully concur with your remarks about that scumbag Reid. OK, he was only a minor sort of murdering, thieving scum compared with Thatcher, but he was murdering, thieving scum nevertheless and won't be missed in any way.) |
Lol!
Haha thanks for making me smile, having a boring work day fricken rug rats screaming everywhere!
I'm just not an opk person!!
And pietilidie I'm still trying to get my head around that statement!!
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Gina thinks she has things in common with Mandela
http://burdekinherald.com/2013/12/12/gina-rinehart-compares-self-to-nelson-mandela/
| Quote: | The worlds richest woman has compared her struggle with that of former South African President Nelson Mandelas. Speaking to the Herald last night Gina Rinehart spoke of her companys expansion into Asia, Australias relationship with Indonesia and the news that Justin Bieber may replace Paul Walker in Fast and Furious 7.
But what took the air out of the room was her admission that Mandela and herself shared many attributes. The issue I have is I have to pay workers near Adelaide $40 to $50 an hour, when people who do the same thing in Africa work for $1. Thats not fair, why should Australian workers get so much? So this is my crusade, Im hunting for worker equality just like Mandela fought for racial equality.
Mandelas death this week has sent vibrations across the world, his actions have inspired and it seems that Rinehart is no exception. |
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David
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Not sure if I'm being Captain Obvious here, but that's a (not particularly great) satirical article.
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Who ate all the pies?
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David
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^ Thread title says 'dead', not 'fat'.
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