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what i found hilarious is that they fell for it

i never made a joke about sexual assault

bats .. you sure have an over active imagination

maybe this story will serve as a warning to posters at this site as there are no limits to stupidity

http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~cheshir...einQuotes.html

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."

so said albert

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I'm only small :(

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-26224452

The Middlesboro Police Department said Coots refused to have medical treatment for the bite.

Coots said last year that he needed the snakes for religious reasons, citing a Bible passage in Mark's gospel.

The handlers' religious conviction is based on a passage in Mark's gospel which reads: "They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover."

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Doubt there are many people who can argue the stupidity of this one!

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I wonder if the snake spoke to him before he took a bite?

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In tongues ?

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The crime commited was a con leading to sexual assault. Hilarious, and not deserving of sympathy. Your words. You still stand by them?

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But you move around quickly, that would work.

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yes bats I do

to repeat: hilarious that they were so stupid to let it happen

but that it happened is anything but hilarious

it is hard to be sympathetic at this level of idiocy

bats, really it is not all that difficult, so what is it that you wont, can't, or don't understand?:)

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Whether this shower story is some kind of Benny Hill mishap or an example of vulnerable women being exploited very much depends on the individual(s) involved. Some women might laugh at their own gullibility but I suspect most would feel tricked and vulnerable. It may well be time to agree to disagree. ;)

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Shard ... I just can't see that.

Surely 99.9999% of women would NOT fall for this sort of thing (and that includes bats).

So how could most feel tricked and vulnerable?

This is sheer idiocy, not to be compared to victims of fraud or, worse still, victims of date rape

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I think most people would feel worse about being the victim of an assault if they knew they could have avoided it, had they seen the trick, and worse still if they thought people were laughing at them for their mistake. The situation is similar to that of a male tourist lured into an alley on the promise of, er, carnal pleasures, only to get mugged instead. He might curse himself for having fallen for an old line, obvious after the fact, but that wouldn't bring back his wallet.

We get it, Mike, you're an accountant, you don't go into alleys, you don't take your suit off in the shower, but not everyone's like that.

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:D

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Survival of the fittest ....

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-26250162

Willie Noble, 48, told police he only opened fire to scare the Little Rock youngsters after his car was covered with eggs, mayonnaise and toilet paper.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-26266487

Herbert and Catherine Schaible were convicted of withholding medical care from seven-month-old Brandon, who died of pneumonia and dehydration in April.

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They should have got a lot more than 7 years. Stupid and criminal. A good example of the dangers of Faith.

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Infanticide is always good for a laugh.

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LOL - who in their right mind would fall for "You must take a shower whilst the technician is there" To me that would mean it's a scam right away, and i'd tell them to shove off!

Some people :confused:

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a fair point

and what about the children of the J.W.?

Gawd forbid they would need a blood transfusion or would the hospital intervene?

I assume for a J.W. this 'article of faith' still holds?

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Yes that's madness. Not sure the legality of it these days.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-26286264

An Ethiopian woman who says she was gang-raped in Sudan has been convicted of "indecent acts".

mind boggling!

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13760895

"For the moment pregnancies can be disguised, but not for much longer. Many fathers will kill their own daughters if they find out they have been raped."

"It is killing done with love," says Ms Elgadi. "They believe they are saving the girl."

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http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-suffolk-26346472

"Put a pig's head in the window and all of a sudden we've got nationwide uproar.

"It's no different to a fishmonger's having fish."

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http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-f...where-26353893

"Red and blue lights are a pretty universal signal," says Highway Patrol commander Brad Horne. "Regardless of nationality and language, when we put lights on, people pull over and stop."

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Yup, that's stupid. Whether the diagnosis is being over-used or mistakenly applied in some cases doesn't mean it isn't a real condition. I know dyslexics who aren't slow or stupid, bur have this cognitive impairment. It can be improved or compensated for and doesn't necessarily preclude someone being successful or having a career, but it still exists.

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http://montreal.ctvnews.ca/language-...osts-1.1706151

She has been given until March 10 to come up with ways to address the complaint or face a fine

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montre...ment-1.2553268

since when is cash no good?

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That is stupid! Do they have authority to regulate Facebook?

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a lot of things this govt. does are idiotic and that is putting is nicely ;)

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http://ca.reuters.com/article/busine...140227?sp=true

But she said, again and again, that she was simply following Madoff's orders, knew next to nothing about Wall Street and had "no clue" that anything she had done was illegal.

"All the trades were backdated," she said. "I did what I was told."

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...y-9153098.html

A man in the US accidentally shot himself in the head and died on Monday as he was trying to persuade his girlfriend that guns are safe.

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Sorry ... I laughed at that !

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don't be

I feel sure many others felt the same way;)

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I shouldn't but ...waaahh!

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Speaking as someone who was dyslexic long before it was fashionable I can confirm that:

a) it is real
b) it is a cognitive disorder and has nothing to do with intelligence
c) it can be compensated for, but that requires a lot more effort than most people will realise
d) if you put in the effort, it does not preclude you from being successful or having a career.

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Bit like the scumbag in Limerick in Ireland that shot himself in the head showing fellow scumbags how to shoot someone in the head. "Just put the gun to their head and pull the trig…" BANG!

Only down side was he had already knocked up a few local slappers so he didn't quite manage to remove himself from the gene pool.


Best comment I heard about it was "he didn't listen to his mammy when she told him not to play with guns. But sure, you know yourself, in one ear and out the other!!!" :rofl:

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Quite.

One of our staff is dyslexic. He still managed to get a degree and the work he does for us is very good. He does numbers, not words.

Similarly, our librarian/information officer is a classic Asperger case. He is monumentally good at his job (I call him our secret weapon). We don't let him out much. I used to wonder how he'd managed to get married and have kids. Then I found out that his wife is a psychiatric nurse. That made things a little easier to understand.

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http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-26393546

Teen's Facebook brag costs dad $80,000 lawsuit settlement

some kid is no doubt in deep doodoo I would think