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Strangely enough, the corporal punishment at boarding school had little lasting effect.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Rubbish, have you seen the little buggers that the school system is turning out these days. Six cuts of the cane would do wonders for some of them (I also grew up in a boarding school). A little discipline mild sadism from the prefects was most effective in instilling respect.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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I just checked, and not only is your "joke" highly offensive, it's also totally inaccurate.
I measured my slippers and both of them are 11.13 inches long, well short of a foot. And if they had a low coefficient of friction, they wouldn't work as slippers either.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Great, now I'm reminded that during discipline teaching, Dad's belt had a lower coefficient of friction with the surrounding air than the paddle. 
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3rd laugh out loud of the day, and counting. 
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Obligatory Monty Python: "...and Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt."
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Based on the replies you can really tell we are a bunch of very logical thinkers here on CP. There is only 1 or 0.
Perks (or cons) of the job you could say.
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musefan wrote: There is only 1 or 0.
..and NULL.
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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My friend gave it to me when he was dying. It seemed very important to him that I have it. 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Message Closed
modified 29-May-20 8:20am.
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Every single comment ever said or posted could offend someone. I am sorry if this joke offends you. It clearly was not intentional.
You are violating CPs rules and should edit and clean up your post and walk away.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Yeah well this post did not put me in a good place
IT IS JUST SICK
DEATH IS NOT A JOKE
MEMORY OF WATCHING A FRIEND DIE DOES NOT EVER GO AWAY
clean up your post.
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, CCP
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wrote: DEATH IS NOT A JOKE
Yeah, but nobody died. This joke isn't a real story.
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While the original joke offended you, there is no room here for language like that.
I strongly suggest that you edit these two messages, and tone them down to be non-abusive while you still have an account ...
Taking offense to a joke is understandable, but the language you have used to express that offense is clearly unacceptable.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Have you ever had a friend actually die in front of you??
It's not a joke, it's just morbid
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, CCP
modified 29-May-20 8:23am.
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If I would be my usual me, I'd answer : "Yes, I did. He was even asking me why I stabbed him with this butcher knife". but since this subject seems to touch a nerve on your side, I will simply pass on and not put more oil on the fire.
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I think he just rage-quit (no pun intended).
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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Yes, his membership is over.
Not jokes: I have lost one than one friend in front of me. One died in my arms after an aneurysm, another died from a heart attack despite me doing CPR until the ambulance arrived. Another was shot during a battle with bandits in Hong Kong many years ago. He was telling jokes to cheer himself up and reassure us he was OK. He died at the hospital a couple of days later.
I can joke about death and am not offended by jokes about death - it is part of our lives we need to accept.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: was shot during a battle with bandits in Hong Kong
 
This sounds like right out of a movie.
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I had never been in a real battle before (or since). It was in the 1980's. We were providing military support and assistance to the British Hong Kong police who were having to deal with gangs of kidnappers and robbers that came over the border from China and then would run back over the border to get away. We were in pursuit of one group, they were armed with machine guns and opened fire on us, we returned fire - the battle lasted all of 10 seconds. They got away from us but the Chinese army got them (surrounded them and shot them all dead, just over the border).
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: They got away from us but the Chinese army got them (surrounded them and shot them all dead, just over the border).
Hence the saying: "Shoot first, regret not asking questions later"
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I hit one of them when we returned fire and he went down. His friends dragged his body off with them and then a few minutes later they were all shot by the Chinese army. Because of this I will never know if I actually killed him or just wounded him. I lie awake at night worrying about this, even though it didn't make any difference to him overall, it is important to me to know - and I'll never know.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Oh, that's good to know. I thought his account was closed for him, which would've been rather harsh.
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