Very interesting.
I like things like this, it helps me decide where I stand on issues that don't directly affect me. It was the same with the UK fox hunting debate.
Whichever side resorts fastest to the following retorts loses:
"It just is"
"You'd have to ask Fred that, he knows the details"
"The Bible says so"
"I'm not a lawyer"
"If you had seen what I have seen..."
"I know in my heart"
"This government has a history of...etc"
"Electrofrog!"*
*Red Herring: I'd go with this person
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TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Wed 21 Jan 2009, 23:31,
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You forgot the most common one
"Tch, whatever."
Usually accompanied by eye-rolling.
Always gets my bloodlust up in any debate.
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Spunk Murphy Tchaikovsky is a synonym for fanny, apparently, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 3:45,
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