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Fine. I'll say it.---Stay out of GD! (Original Post)
panader0
Jun 2014
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NightWatcher
(39,376 posts)1. screw that, copycat em
Ryano42
(1,577 posts)2. Good advice...
Reminds me of a Klingon quote:
"Only a fool fights in a burning house..."

- Kang
Tommy_Carcetti
(44,446 posts)3. The Klingons should have followed their own advice.
(Spoiler alert for all Star Trek fans who just got out of a 30 year coma)
Liberal Veteran
(22,239 posts)4. Good God! WTF happened to GD?
It's like they caught the shifting antigen DU copycat thread virus.
displacedtexan
(15,696 posts)5. Sage.
I left when someone tried to claim all of those Irish babies probably died before modern medicine. 1930 was cited in the first paragraph of the linked story in the OP.
I had to get out of there. Fast.
Earth_First
(14,910 posts)6. I can't stop!
Please forgive me?
panader0
(25,816 posts)7. It got a bit nutty over there yesterday
Seems to have calmed down a bit. I can't stop either....
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)8. Good advice.
Now that I am a "ROF"*, I got brave and stuck my toe in the boiling water. I need to put ice on my toe before going back, methinks.
*(Retired Old Fart with apologies to TROF for stealing his abbreviation.)
