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News that could have been in the Onion
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It sounds terrible but it is a thing to be discussed. The revenue model has to shift, and you should talk about that.
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Child laborers who need constant treatments are less productive and require more expensive maintenance than the ones who can be cured and then indentured as payment for the cure.
Do you guys even libertarian?
Do you guys even libertarian?
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It does, but what kind of moron is dumb enough to pose the question that way? People are already suspicious that profit motive keeps them from getting care. Do you want nationalized medicine? Because that's how you get nationalized medicine.
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Agree. I'd like the world to be like "of course profitability = sustainability of the thing we want to do" but that's totes out of bound to say out loud.
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New Yorkers call the police to report a tiger on the loose! But it turned out just to be a large raccoon.
"Millennials are lazy. They'd rather have avocado toast than cave in a man's skull with a tire iron!" -FFF
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It must have been an extremely large raccoon!
I should have listened to Warren. He was right again as usual.
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Well, put that way...
"Better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer."
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In fairness, a brickbat can be a somewhat effective weapon in close quarters.JD wrote: ↑11 Apr 2018, 13:43OK, it's not quite as dumb as a bucket of rocks, but...Millcreek School District Arms Teachers with Baseball Bats
...oh wait, yes it is just as dumb:
My prediction: within 1 year, about 300 of the bats will have gone missing and the majority of the remaining 200 will be covered in dust and shoved behind other things in the back of the closet.According to Hall, the 16-inch bats were distributed to each teacher, following an in-service training day on how to respond to school shootings.
...
Hall says the bats are primarily "symbolic", but they are now an option for teachers to use, should they need to fight back in a school shooting.
Millcreek Education Association president Jon Cacchione says he supports the decision to arm teachers with bats, which will be locked up in each classroom.
his voice is so soothing, but why do conspiracy nuts always sound like Batman and Robin solving one of Riddler's puzzles out loud? - fod
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no one ever yells worldstar when a pet gets fucked up - dhex
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I still want to see high school escrima tourneys.
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I didn't know that this wasn't just an alternate spelling of l'escrime.
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Escrima?
*sigh*
Fine. I'll google it. But It had better not awaken anything in me dammit.
*sigh*
Fine. I'll google it. But It had better not awaken anything in me dammit.
Goddamn libertarian message board. Hugh Akston
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Still waiting for the escrima Jedi
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Not sure I understand the applicability - a brickbat is not any kind of bat.Mo wrote: ↑20 Apr 2018, 09:43In fairness, a brickbat can be a somewhat effective weapon in close quarters.JD wrote: ↑11 Apr 2018, 13:43OK, it's not quite as dumb as a bucket of rocks, but...Millcreek School District Arms Teachers with Baseball Bats
...oh wait, yes it is just as dumb:
My prediction: within 1 year, about 300 of the bats will have gone missing and the majority of the remaining 200 will be covered in dust and shoved behind other things in the back of the closet.According to Hall, the 16-inch bats were distributed to each teacher, following an in-service training day on how to respond to school shootings.
...
Hall says the bats are primarily "symbolic", but they are now an option for teachers to use, should they need to fight back in a school shooting.
Millcreek Education Association president Jon Cacchione says he supports the decision to arm teachers with bats, which will be locked up in each classroom.
"Millennials are lazy. They'd rather have avocado toast than cave in a man's skull with a tire iron!" -FFF
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Before I googled it, I guessed several possibilites:Pham Nuwen wrote: ↑21 Apr 2018, 00:15Escrima?
*sigh*
Fine. I'll google it. But It had better not awaken anything in me dammit.
1) A new face cream produced by L'Oreal
2) Advanced macrame
3) A new dairy product
4) A new dating app
None of them seemed to fit the context of the conversation.
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Re: News that could have been in the Onion
I believe what is now known as a tire thumper was also known as a brick bat.JD wrote: ↑Yesterday, 12:15Not sure I understand the applicability - a brickbat is not any kind of bat.Mo wrote: ↑20 Apr 2018, 09:43In fairness, a brickbat can be a somewhat effective weapon in close quarters.JD wrote: ↑11 Apr 2018, 13:43OK, it's not quite as dumb as a bucket of rocks, but...Millcreek School District Arms Teachers with Baseball Bats
...oh wait, yes it is just as dumb:
My prediction: within 1 year, about 300 of the bats will have gone missing and the majority of the remaining 200 will be covered in dust and shoved behind other things in the back of the closet.According to Hall, the 16-inch bats were distributed to each teacher, following an in-service training day on how to respond to school shootings.
...
Hall says the bats are primarily "symbolic", but they are now an option for teachers to use, should they need to fight back in a school shooting.
Millcreek Education Association president Jon Cacchione says he supports the decision to arm teachers with bats, which will be locked up in each classroom.
his voice is so soothing, but why do conspiracy nuts always sound like Batman and Robin solving one of Riddler's puzzles out loud? - fod
no one ever yells worldstar when a pet gets fucked up - dhex
no one ever yells worldstar when a pet gets fucked up - dhex
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I don't think so.Mo wrote: ↑Yesterday, 13:45I believe what is now known as a tire thumper was also known as a brick bat.JD wrote: ↑Yesterday, 12:15Not sure I understand the applicability - a brickbat is not any kind of bat.Mo wrote: ↑20 Apr 2018, 09:43In fairness, a brickbat can be a somewhat effective weapon in close quarters.JD wrote: ↑11 Apr 2018, 13:43OK, it's not quite as dumb as a bucket of rocks, but...Millcreek School District Arms Teachers with Baseball Bats
...oh wait, yes it is just as dumb:
My prediction: within 1 year, about 300 of the bats will have gone missing and the majority of the remaining 200 will be covered in dust and shoved behind other things in the back of the closet.According to Hall, the 16-inch bats were distributed to each teacher, following an in-service training day on how to respond to school shootings.
...
Hall says the bats are primarily "symbolic", but they are now an option for teachers to use, should they need to fight back in a school shooting.
Millcreek Education Association president Jon Cacchione says he supports the decision to arm teachers with bats, which will be locked up in each classroom.
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Regardless, a tire thumper is a small baseball bat and makes a decent weapon.
his voice is so soothing, but why do conspiracy nuts always sound like Batman and Robin solving one of Riddler's puzzles out loud? - fod
no one ever yells worldstar when a pet gets fucked up - dhex
no one ever yells worldstar when a pet gets fucked up - dhex
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