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# Windowlicker.
Did you see this article in Teh Grauniad?

Really well written, by the most tolerant man in the world.

Take it easy.

(, Mon 21 Jan 2008, 13:18, archived)
# 'kin ell.
(, Mon 21 Jan 2008, 13:25, archived)
# That is terrible.
That poor man, those poor people in general.

Kids like that should be put in an oubliette.


I'm not fucking kidding.
(, Mon 21 Jan 2008, 13:27, archived)
# Oubliette?
It that French for gas chamber or something?
(, Mon 21 Jan 2008, 13:30, archived)
# I thought it was a breakfast treat.
(, Mon 21 Jan 2008, 13:32, archived)
# It's basically a well.
From the French 'oublier' - to forget. It's a long, deep hole where you put people and forget about them.
(, Mon 21 Jan 2008, 13:32, archived)
# Topping up with rotten fish heads from time to time?
(, Mon 21 Jan 2008, 13:34, archived)
# That'd be against the whole forgetting bit.
(, Mon 21 Jan 2008, 13:37, archived)
# Not if you forgot that they were down there
and just happened to be looking for a convenient spot to dispose of a load of rotting fish heads...
(, Mon 21 Jan 2008, 13:40, archived)
# it's like a dungeon where you leave people and 'forget' about them
oublier = forget
(, Mon 21 Jan 2008, 13:32, archived)
# Ta
Could be lots of French terminology derived from oublier though. Oubliette could be 'the state of forgetting to return to work after an unfeasibly long lunch break', or 'the unattractive habit of forgetting to resist invasion', or any number of things really.

/jingoistic blog
(, Mon 21 Jan 2008, 13:37, archived)
# hahaha
(, Mon 21 Jan 2008, 13:40, archived)
# New Labour:
Not particularly tough on crime
Completely oblivious to the causes of crime.
(, Mon 21 Jan 2008, 13:30, archived)
# But hey, all our mates at Capita are raking it in
so we don't care la la la
(, Mon 21 Jan 2008, 13:31, archived)
# Yup.
In a nutshell.
(, Mon 21 Jan 2008, 13:34, archived)
# Bingo.
(, Mon 21 Jan 2008, 14:00, archived)
# Well, that's fucking cheered me up...
:(
(, Mon 21 Jan 2008, 13:30, archived)
# Sorry!
I'd link to something witty, but it ain't going to work is it...?!

X
(, Mon 21 Jan 2008, 13:32, archived)
# whoa.
(, Mon 21 Jan 2008, 13:31, archived)
# good lord.
(, Mon 21 Jan 2008, 13:32, archived)
# fuck...
thanks for that
(, Mon 21 Jan 2008, 13:35, archived)
# Holy shitting fuck.
However bad it gets for me, at least it's not that bad.
(, Mon 21 Jan 2008, 13:46, archived)