george_george

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by george_george 16y ago
The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer... but only in relative terms. In absolute terms, we're all getting richer. It's pretty hard to argue that the lower classes are getting poorer when you compare what we had 50 or 1
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by george_george 16y ago
I think this was probably one of the worst responses you could have given. The email seems to indicate that the guy feels guilty about buying your laptop, and that his offer is an attempt to ease his conscience. Now he's thinking to himself
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by george_george 16y ago
Theodore Dalrymple is great. This is one of his best: http://www.city-journal.org/html/11_3_urbanities-how_and_how...
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by george_george 16y ago
>He's not speculating that God might exist... I understand that. I just don't understand why he feels the need to start making these unscientific speculations about whether God does or does exist or whether aliens do or don't exist.
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by george_george 16y ago
First the existence of aliens and now the existence of God. What totally unscientific speculation is Stephen Hawking going to make next for the media to latch on to?
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by george_george 16y ago
I'm an Australian living in a town with a pretty high level of immigrants, including a lot of Americans and Canadians, and I can't tell the difference between an American and a Canadian at all. I'm not entirely convinced the difference betw
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What Time is Dinner? The history of mealtimes.(history-magazine.com)
1 points by george_george 16y ago|1 comments