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Kosh
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quote:
Originally posted by HopefulNebula:
Indeed he did. (Although I'm laughing, kind of. It's like laughing at really awful horror movies.)

(edited because my first analogy sucked donkies for pennies.)

If you are looking for political correctness, or polite discorse, boy are you lost!!


Fucktard. I love brittish humor!

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HopefulNebula
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Not at all, Kosh. If I were looking for polite discourse, I'd not have said anything at all. I'm just sticking up for myself here.

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AndrewR
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quote:
Originally posted by The Ginger Beacon:
Yes, I love "fucktard". I'd love to know where it's from though.

Isn't it like one of those Internet meme things... I *THINK* I saw it for the first time a few years ago on one of those ytmnd pages... and it's increased in use over the last year. Infact I find myself using it too! [Smile] It's a very useful word. I think the percussive 't' sound in it adds to it's impact, rather than it's compounding with the word 'retard'.

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Daniel Butler
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I think a word can have more than one meaning. Retarded and gay have more than one meaning.

Boy, we sure got off topic fast on this one, huh?

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The Ginger Beacon
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Yes, well, we all knew it would get kicked out of cour like that episode of 'Becker' (anybody else watch that?).

I hope the fucktard gets dis-bard, as some of the other leagal types are calling for. And then rips his trousers on the way out. And then his house gets hit by lightning and his wardrobe burns down.

Or something bad. I dunno. I've not eaten my dinner yet.

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Saltah'na
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Ya think this is over yet?
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/562391

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Mars Needs Women
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What, is he expecting his case to go all the way up to the Supreme Court?
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Sean
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The original article links don't work anymore, so I have to ask, just how did he come up with his pant's value at $54 million? Does he have nothing better to do with his time?

My solution? Put him on The People's Court, and let him fight it out with the owners of the dry cleaners. Give him the value of the pants, and be done with it.

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Jason Abbadon
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Yeah- nothing like some vindictive nut useing the legal system to drive a small drycleaners out of business with a frivolus legal case.

Someone should strangle this guy with those pants for being such an ass.

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Dat
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The funny thing is that the pair of pants were eventually located, but the judge claims the pair is not his even though it all points to being his pair.

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The Ginger Beacon
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As far as I remember he says that the pants that were found have turn-ups on the legs, but he claims that he's not worn turn-ups since the seventies and produced a picture to prove it.

He's gone for the 9 judge panel, I bet anyway, so he has the option to take it to higher legislation if they tell him to piss off - which I imagine they will.

Oh, and the $54,000,000 price tag? He demanded the cost of the suit when they didn't give him his trousers. Sometime after they offered him some compensation (forget how much, few thousand?).

He then took out a writ, originally demanding something like $65 million, but he reduced it later on in the trial. He came to this astronomical figure by combining the cost of the suit (a grand) + his legal fees (to pay himself his fee for defending himself) + the cost of hiring a car in perpetuity to go to another dry cleaners + a large fund for the cost of prosecuting other such injustices. And presumably a bag lunch.

And his case? The laundry had a sign in their window saying "Satisfaction guaranteed".

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Mars Needs Women
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Clearly guy has some sort of mental disease, cause I don't think any sane man would keep at this for so long.
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Saltah'na
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Any person with a grudge and an axe to grind (like this guy here) wouldn't let this go so easily.

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Mars Needs Women
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Yeah I could understand if it was something severe, like if he or a family member of his had been harmed. But a pair of pants, give me a break.
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The Ginger Beacon
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He obviously loved those trousers very dearly. We should feel his sorrow for the loss of his trousers and join with him in their memorial.

Or just laugh at him for being a tenatious fool.

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