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I don't mean to be insensitive but that was almost Darwinian.
The astonishing thing is that a bunch of pre teen boys in a backwater town in a third world country even know the marvel franchise.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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You seem to under-estimate the penetration of US cultural products around the world. Nearly 25 years ago, I saw a Coca-Cola billboard in the middle of nowhere on the Tibetan plateau (somewhere between Lhasa and the Nepali border). I'm not surprised these teenagers know about marvel franchise.
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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Yah I should not be surprised, while travelling down the Mekong we visited a Cambodian village which had only 1 TV in a dirt floored hall where everyone sat on the ground watching a Thai games show it was bizarre.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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I've seen a documentary once where they went to some backwater village in Africa and installed the first computer in the village.
Without any explanation the village kids would start internet and browse to Google.
They had never even seen a computer before yet they knew exactly where to go 
The reach these companies have is kind of scary...
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Same in Samusir (Toba Lake, Sumatra, Indoesia). We visited a town of the Batak tribe[^] they had a common house with a generator to give power to a huge TV (it might have been a projector, not 100% sure anymore) and a Satellite receiver with an antenna of 4 or 5 meters diameter.
Was a bit  moment to see the contrast.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Thanks!
I have been trying to translate this sentence from French to English "How far will they stop?" for years now!
But, thanks to you, now I know! 
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You're welcome
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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So how did they get Scarlett Johansson to
1. Come to their house?
2. Willingly bite them?
/asking for a friend.
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The application of the word bollocks for non-brits.
The (dogs) bollocks - absolutely brilliant.
Bollocks - absolute crap.
Utter bollocks - lies
Bollocking - a stern telling off.
Stark bollocks - I am not wearing any clothes.
Bollocks to it - I shall ignore this.
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Yet another reason to learn the American version of English.
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Bollocks to that!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Yeah, in American, all these phrases can be replaced by some declination of f***.
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Bollocksed (I've also seen bollixed) - completely messed up and in need of repair
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Oh, nevermind.
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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That's nothing...
you should try the spanish "narices" (nose), "huevos" (eggs) or "cojones" ("testicles" colloquial with vulgar tendence)
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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With Parkinson's Disease medication, should you shake well before taking?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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If someone has Parkinson's Disease and heart disease, how should he take nitroglycerin?
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Very carefully! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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hmmm, not to sure what to think, a bit mean
it's a bit on the nose, and a bit on the cheek, and a bit on the chin, and now a bit ...
if you can't laugh at yourself ... then laugh at someone else??
(I mean we can't all be Germans can we?)
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, CCP
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Schadenfreude is one of my favorite words. 
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Is it also true that a person who's constipated really couldn't give a sh*t?
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