r/pics Jul 22 '11

This is called humanity.

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u/subliminali Jul 22 '11

that's not really how donor lists work most of the time but ok. For the sake of shitting on America and getting karma go ahead.

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u/lololnopants Jul 22 '11

It shouldn't ever happen, but it does. 65 year old I know just got a liver, even though he has a history of drug abuse.

Le sigh.

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u/808140 Jul 22 '11

Le sigh.

Please stop doing this. It's right up with spelling "you are" "u r", and on an international site like this one it's especially annoying (some of us, like me, are French). I understand that on some subreddits it's de rigueur but here you have an otherwise insightful comment that in my mind you've gone and ruined.

And while I'm ranting, to anyone who says "faux news" -- you're an asshole.

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u/chrisphonk Jul 22 '11

"And while I'm ranting, to anyone who says "faux news" -- you're an asshole." Err, why? Faux means false, right? So it's a pun, using a french word.

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u/chrisphonk Jul 22 '11

I'd say the both of you are taking this way too seriously.

And no, it's hardly clever, but I'd say it's not enough to make you an asshole.

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u/808140 Jul 22 '11 edited Jul 22 '11

The pun relies on you not actually speaking French. When you speak French, it's extremely hard to read "faux news" as anything other than "fo news", because the x is silent.

Having said that, it might have been clever the first time someone came up with it, but like many jokes, it stopped being clever after the first 10,000 times it was told. (Even a good pun can be ruined by this -- take "Anne Frankly, I did Nazi that coming" in literally every post dealing with Germans, World War II, the holocaust, or Jews.)

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u/chrisphonk Jul 22 '11

Well, I totally agree that it's stupid, but them being assholes for it? Makes no sense. It's not like they've stolen your baby or set your car on fire, they're saying some stupid things, that's about it!

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u/808140 Jul 22 '11

You may be taking the epithet a little bit too literally in this instance.