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LOL! Indeed! 
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Stealing that and posting it on FB!
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Which, with a certain amount of irony, is where I stole it from. Ahh the circle of life
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Keith Barrow wrote: circle of life
Thanks, now I will have Elton John buzzing in my ear for the rest of the day 
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I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Earphones, AC/DC, problem solved!
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Keith Barrow wrote: Missing One Container at delivery: riceless.
Seriously, from a Chinese takeaway. Have they no pride?
I pretty much eat rice with every meal, except breakfast because I get croissants at the local super store.
Otherwise I would be eating rice with every meal.
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JimmyRopes wrote: Otherwise I would be eating rice with every meal
This also limits the wear off of your toilet seat.
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I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Rage wrote: This also limits the wear off of your toilet seat.
What toilet seat? Squat toilets are still used in this part of the world.
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I don't know what word he is suppose to have used. All the Newspapers are saying he said N*****. I have never seen a word spelt like that before. It's not spelt like that in the Oxford English Dictionary, though give it 20 years and I'm sure it will be. 
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South Park[^]
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He said Nissan? I'm not surprised he bleeped it out. He hates Nissan.
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I've had to google this, turns out he was doing eeny meeny miney moe, which does indeed contain the n-word:
Warning contains mumbled offesive language[^]
79% Of people who vote don't think he should be sacked, sounds very like The Mirror is puffing a story about someone who works for rival newspapers.
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I've got to agree with you, or was that was your sig I was reading? 
One day I aspire to having a signature.
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Keith Barrow wrote: I've had to google this, turns out he was doing eeny meeny miney moe, which does indeed contain the n-word
The way I learned it was "eeny meeny miney moe catch a tiger by the toe".
I suppose political correctness is older than I thought. 
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I think the version I most heard when growing up was "catch a tinker by the toe".
Presumably that is out of fashion too as tinker is a politically incorrect name for a gypsy.
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I'm 48 and that's what I learned. I do live in Atlanta, GA so maybe it was adopted earlier here. My grandmother used the word once but not with vehemence, she was describing a doll my aunt had as a child. It was her "N***** doll" and from the picture I saw, it was a black cloth rag doll. They are from rural northern Alabama and I was her Georgia Cracker.
A Georgia Cracker was explained as the driver of a mule train who cracked his whip to get the mules moving.
My younger brother called me the N-word once and got one of the worst spankings of his life.
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MarkTJohnson wrote: I'm 48 and that's what I learned. I do live in Atlanta, GA so maybe it was adopted earlier here.
I'm significantly older than 48 and grew up in New York City so it was euphemized long before you would have heard it.
I had heard the other version on the streets but in my household tiger was the acceptable version and using the other version would have resulted in a sever punishment.
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Yeah it's witch hunt bullshit. It was mumbled over in a non broadcast clip that Clarkson explicitly asked not be the cut that got used because it sounded like he said nigger, when (he claims at least) he didn't. And the version of eeny meeny he learnt as a lad probably had it in.
There's being offensive for the sake of it, and then there's airbrushing out history and pretending that the past wasn't as it was, and in this case it's the Mirror doing the latter and not Clarkson the former.
It was 'tigger' when I was growing up which is pretty obviously a substitution when you grow up and learn about it.
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Reminds me of the song by Elvis Costello "Oliver's Army" in which he uses the same word which is starred out when you watch it on youtube with the lyrics.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Really? They starred out the word?
So...who complained? The Lace Curtain, or the Shanty Irish?
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I wrote Top Gear a letter suggesting they not discipline Jeremy. Hamstringing those guys would ruin the show.
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"I don't know what word he is suppose to have used. "
Well aren't you the stupid one.
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Calendars are complicated things, especially when one has to do comparisons with historical frames of reference.
So what happened on the 30th February 1712?
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Well, you're gonna be waiting a looooong time for birthday presents!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Yeah.
I wonder how many people were born on that day.
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