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Fnord
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25 Feb 2016, 9:54 pm

Misslizard wrote:
Anyone caught counting with their fingers will have their digits cut off.
I'd better not get caught counting to 21 ...
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25 Feb 2016, 10:00 pm

Fnord wrote:
Misslizard wrote:
Anyone caught counting with their fingers will have their digits cut off.
I'd better not get caught counting to 21 ...
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Naughty naughty :lmao:



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27 Feb 2016, 5:56 am

This ban is clearly legitimate and long overdue.

Additionally, seeing as both "sheriff" and "saloon" are arabic loan words, I propose we ban western movies and also history.


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27 Feb 2016, 8:15 am

Misslizard wrote:
Anyone caught counting with their fingers will have their digits cut off.


Guilty unless proven innocent? How do you know they're using Arabic numerals in their head?

By the way, the ban is only wise. Who says algebra wasn't rigged with some backdoor so terrorists could, a thousand years later, make the head of everyone who's learned it go bang?


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27 Feb 2016, 1:56 pm

Spiderpig wrote:
Misslizard wrote:
Anyone caught counting with their fingers will have their digits cut off.


Guilty unless proven innocent? How do you know they're using Arabic numerals in their head?

By the way, the ban is only wise. Who says algebra wasn't rigged with some backdoor so terrorists could, a thousand years later, make the head of everyone who's learned it go bang?

They just have to look like they are counting in Arabic.If they have a beard that's enough,guilty.Let the finger lopping begin.
I'm immune to my head going bang,even with a tutor I couldn't get algebra.


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28 Feb 2016, 1:19 am

Using their logic, you end up making segregation.

"Don't wear this or that on Halloween!"

Yeah well, only Celts can celebrate Halloween, as it was culturally appropriated by a dominant culture.

I'm pretty sure they don't think these things through all that much.



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28 Feb 2016, 3:31 am

Of course not. The last thing most people worry about is consistency. It'd be counterproductive: the more whimsical the dictates you impose on others are, the clearer it is they're obeying your most genuine whim.


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