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Tuesday, 31 January 2017

Short and to the point


A wotsit is a small orange fluffy corn-based snack. The nearest American equivalent is a Cheeto. The main difference is that wotsits are fluffier and more delicious.

https://twitter.com/TechnicallyRon/status/826160828747481089

11 comments:

  1. Since he's a self confessed sexual predator, I'd be worried what he'd think that sign is telling him to do.

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  2. Alun Jones I hate it when people force me to defend Trump. He's obviously a dangerously ignorant con-man, but he isn't a confessed sexual predator. There is a difference between making a confession and talking shit on a bus while unaware that you're being recorded.

    Why is it that politics encourages people to override their normal sense of intellectual honesty?

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  3. +Rhys Taylor In my grade-10 French class, I sat behind a kid who bragged that he 'banged' Celine Dion with a bag on her head. Should we have him arrested for that confession?

    I know what Trump said, I've watched the original footage. But it isn't the same thing as a confession. He may be a sexual predator, and he may not be. What I'm saying is that this is not evidence, and you know it.

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  4. You're right. He's also not a wotsit or actually Hitler either. Remove the post, Rhys.

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  5. Alun Jones What is a wotsit? I suspect it's a culturally specific reference? Google gives me cheese puffs. (Puffed corn foam with powdered cheddar. We call them cheesies in Canada.) Is that also used as an insult?

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  6. Tim Teatro Sure, but if Celine Dion said "actually, he did do that to me" maybe we'd consider your mate's confession to contain a grain of truth.

    15 women have said he's assaulted them. How many are still too reluctant to come forward, given the attacks on those who have put names and faces to their allegations? When do we start believing them that maybe, just maybe, this guy is a sexual predator?

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  7. Catherine Braiding​​​​ if you read what I wrote, I freely granted that he might be a sexual predator. My point was that the recording isn't evidence. While you emphasize maybe in your retort, you know very well that my conflict is with people asserting it as if it were just a fact.

    The man is disgusting, but I'll be damned if I'm going to abandon intellectual honesty for the sake of making a political point. He's not worth it. Especially not when there is such an abundance of good reasons to dislike him.

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  8. Tim Teatro I think you're having a rather extreme over-reaction to a throwaway witticism.

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  9. Rhys Taylor I'm not reacting to a throwaway witticism. I'm reacting to months of watching the left lose their minds bashing Trump and his supporters in stupid, intellectually dishonest ways. I have been convinced that such nonsense contributed significantly to Trump's popularity and ultimately, his victory.

    So, now I spend some portion of my time fighting the nonsense, contributing to the goal of denying him a second term. Wouldn't you call that some time well spent?

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