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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  Simon

  What if you don't really have a case and just want to shake the tree in the hope that some money falls out?

  Oh, wait ...
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  original reddit post (removed).

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  Notice they don't point to anything specific, but they want a blanket statement saying everything is untrue, and anything negative about Mr ButtHurt be scrubbed from view.

  That's a legal Hail Mary legal letter if ever there was one!

  I hope he tells them to shove it ...
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  Hi people!

  by ozziepost in

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  hi guys, owyergoin?

  (that’s australian for youse foreigners!

  haven’t called in quite a while but just called by to say “i’m still standing and still enjoying shiraz !.

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  Ozzie! Of course we remember you!

  Funnily enough I was just thinking about you recently - I've been working on full-text indexing the site to improve the search, and saw lots of early posts whizzing past, it was like seeing life at FFWD speed. Brought back lots of memories. Good times.

  So sorry to hear about your wife ... hope you're seeing some sunnier skies now.

  We don't have Shiraz but we'll raise a glass of what we have :)
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  Peak Cancel Culture

  by Simon in

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  we seemed to have reached peak cancel-culture.

  now, we get to try to cancel the citizens of an entire country for something their government chose to do.. really, we can't allow russian individuals to compete in sports?

  to live a life?.

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  Motorways.

  Think about it.

  You're going faster.

  Why?

  Because you're Rushin'

  Russian!!! For gods sake!!!!

  We need to fire up McCarthy and round people up.
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  Peak Cancel Culture

  by Simon in

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  2. current

  we seemed to have reached peak cancel-culture.

  now, we get to try to cancel the citizens of an entire country for something their government chose to do.. really, we can't allow russian individuals to compete in sports?

  to live a life?.

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  Sorry, I thought we'd peaked, but there was more to come. I always underestimate people's ability for stupid.

  Apart from sports people and opera singers who have the audacity to have been born Russian, there is a new contender for the subject of leftist idiot cancellation.

  Ladies and Gentlemen (who aren't Russian), I give you:

  Poutine!

  If you don't know, it's a French Canadian dish consisting of Fries, Cheese Curds and Gravy. It's delicious, but you know what else it is? It's sounding a lot like "Putin"! So it's now OFF the menu.

  Thank god we've solved Ukraine.
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  Lloyd Evans, Philandering & Sex Slaves

  by Marbles in

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  the argument made by le supporters that his philandering is "between him and his wife" is a fallacy.

  philandering is a real social problem that affects many families (including mine).

  it's pretty apparent now that le has been using his wife and his in-laws to boost his writing career, and now that he has achieved his goals, he will discard them.

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  in an effort to keep his viewers believing he is a relatively innocent man, compared to other men who do club baby seal cubs to death. He's obscene, which is also over the top.

  Well, you have taken his "relative innocence" argument and dialled it up to 11, because serial killers and psychopaths are worse than people who hunt animals.

  You're really doing him a huge favour by making these kind of outlandish comparisons, because any reasonable person will conclude that he isn't that bad, and that you are overreaching with your claims.
  
  
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  Lloyd Evans, Philandering & Sex Slaves

  by Marbles in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  the argument made by le supporters that his philandering is "between him and his wife" is a fallacy.

  philandering is a real social problem that affects many families (including mine).

  it's pretty apparent now that le has been using his wife and his in-laws to boost his writing career, and now that he has achieved his goals, he will discard them.

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  LE has gone over the top, so it seems like I have to, also, to balance things out.

  It doesn't work like that, what you actually do plays more into his hands because he'll refer to this kind of accusation / comparison to then dismiss all of them and paint everyone as "unbalanced haters". You effectively hand him a get-out-of-jail-free card.

  It's far more effective to come across as reasonable and fair. It makes valid criticism stronger when you do.
  
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  Lloyd Evans, Philandering & Sex Slaves

  by Marbles in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  the argument made by le supporters that his philandering is "between him and his wife" is a fallacy.

  philandering is a real social problem that affects many families (including mine).

  it's pretty apparent now that le has been using his wife and his in-laws to boost his writing career, and now that he has achieved his goals, he will discard them.

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  Simon

  I think when you start comparing someone to the likes ofJeffrey Dahmer and Ariel Castro, you diminish what they do and discredit otherwise potentially valid complaints you might have about that persons behavior.

  Because what he's done is nowhere near them on the grand scale of things, and I think you must know that, surely?

  This is hyperbole and overreach so ridiculous I start to imagine you must be a plant.

  There's plenty of valid things to criticize him for without having to invent things.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  original reddit post (removed).

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  Simon

  Yeah, so if one month was capitalized and the others not, that would indicate someone edited something. But the fact that they are all lowercase suggest it's just the quirky way that software formatted dates.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  original reddit post (removed).

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  what do you think about the time stamp? Someone said it was missing a zero on the 24 hour clock and that also days of the week weren't capitalised? Is that an issue please?

  All the date formatting appears to be consistent AFAICT. Again, if one was different to the others then it could indicate some fakery, but I don't see it. I don't see a day of the week anywhere (was it the month name?) and the fact that 24 hour times don't have a leading zero is meaningless, it says more about people in the software industry not knowing how to format dates (seriously, you could be a full-time "date-time consultant" and do nothing else).

  That sounds more like someone determined to come up with some reason to claim them as fake than a legitimate discrepancy being found.