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Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
It also seems pretty disingenuous to present those statistics without context, given that the statistics for Norway and Belgium, at least, each reflect a single mass-shooting, carried out by terrorists using illegal weapons.
edit: Slovakia and Czechia also seem to represents a single mass-shooting, as far as I can tell, albeit more after the "American model"; it's harder to find clear information on Serbia and Macedonia, but with the best will in the world to all concerned, the former Yugoslavia is not the very highest bar for the United States to clear. Finland is the only apparent outlier.
edit: Slovakia and Czechia also seem to represents a single mass-shooting, as far as I can tell, albeit more after the "American model"; it's harder to find clear information on Serbia and Macedonia, but with the best will in the world to all concerned, the former Yugoslavia is not the very highest bar for the United States to clear. Finland is the only apparent outlier.
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Broken_Erika
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Pffffft! Context is for Commie-Liberuls!
SS-18 ICBM
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True, the Snopes article I linked doesn't mention that spree killings would have a more disproportionate impact in societies with less people.
Please read what other people have said before you on the matter, SS-18 ICBM. Your being a weapon of mass destruction does not constitute a valid excuse.
TIL that all Westerners are WEIRD.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/jour...n-the-world/BF84F7517D56AFF7B7EB58411A554C17#
https://www.cambridge.org/core/jour...n-the-world/BF84F7517D56AFF7B7EB58411A554C17#
TIL that My Lai was 50 years ago
William Casey, the only one condemned, got lifelong and was pardoned by Nixon 3 days later, no sanctions were made to the US by the free world as well,
but My Lai was the beginning of the end of the Vietnam war
William Casey, the only one condemned, got lifelong and was pardoned by Nixon 3 days later, no sanctions were made to the US by the free world as well,
but My Lai was the beginning of the end of the Vietnam war
Zkribbler
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Actually, it was the Tet Offensive.
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TIL some American schools still allow paddling:
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brief...udents-punished-with-paddling-for-walking-out
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brief...udents-punished-with-paddling-for-walking-out
GoodSarmatian
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OMG, I'm not a dad but if a teacher used corporal punishment on my child I'd punch him the face. Closed fist and all.
Unless it's a female teacher. Because of sexist double standards she'd get away with an open handed slap.
GinandTonic
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Thats a really strange story. The paddle is available as an option to the student if the student and the parents consent. So it's two days internal exclusion on the naughty step or two paddles, students choice. The punishment for walking out of school was mandatory and it sounds like the teachers went way soft, perhaps because they actually agreed with the students.
Timsup2nothin
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If only those teachers had been properly armed they could have stopped the walkout by shooting the ringleaders, restoring discipline and delivering a lesson in proper respect for authority.
There was one time when most of the students in my high school walked out in protest. The only "punishment" we received was being marked absent that day, and I would imagine anyone who missed a test was probably not allowed to make it up later.
The reason for the protest was a dispute between the students and the school board; the situation was a bit dicey since the student council president was the son of the president of the school board, and they were on opposite sides of the issue.
The teachers knew that most of us would be walking out that day, and didn't try to stop anyone. They just kept on with classes for whoever was left.
The reason for the protest was a dispute between the students and the school board; the situation was a bit dicey since the student council president was the son of the president of the school board, and they were on opposite sides of the issue.
The teachers knew that most of us would be walking out that day, and didn't try to stop anyone. They just kept on with classes for whoever was left.
Well... cannot really disagree with that
Tet showed a determined enemy, causing more US casualties than the US people wanted to deal with
Westmoreland wanted to fight on considering the military losses of the VC, but was send home bty Johnson, and My Lai just 2 months after the Tet offensive is then indeed in the aftermatch of Tet, turning even more US citizens against the war.
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In Missouri the principal was allowed to paddle students with the parents permission. The teachers were not allowed to do it on their own. When I was growing up in North Carolina my first grade teacher was very much into hitting students with rulers and her hand. I don't know if she was allowed to do it but she did all the time.
An employee whose job was to be sacked
Posted on January 9, 2010 by henry tapper
According to no less an authority than Danny Baker, this story is absolutely true.
Harrods in the sixties employed someone to be sacked- surely the best job in the world.
Apparently the employee was paid to sit among the boxes on Harrods top-floor smoking his pipe and reading the Sporting Life. From time to time a bell would ring and he would be summoned to a department where an irate customer was being mollified by the Head of the Department.
Let us say today that Lady Ponsonby-Waffles has discovered one of the precious china teacups she recently purchased is chipped.
The Department Head greets our friend with “Lady Ponsonby-Waffles is a most valued customer, your failure to check the quality of her china cups has led to her current predicament, you sir are fired”
Despite Lady Ponsonby-Waffles pleas for mercy, the Head cannot be swayed. Our friend slopes disconsolately to the exit. Lady Ponsonby-Waffles drops her complaint convinced to the store’s determination to enforce the highest standards. Our friend, once passing the Department’s exit, slips back to his Sporting Life and his Pipe, to await the next occasion he would be called upon to be sacked.
Posted on January 9, 2010 by henry tapper
According to no less an authority than Danny Baker, this story is absolutely true.
Harrods in the sixties employed someone to be sacked- surely the best job in the world.
Apparently the employee was paid to sit among the boxes on Harrods top-floor smoking his pipe and reading the Sporting Life. From time to time a bell would ring and he would be summoned to a department where an irate customer was being mollified by the Head of the Department.
Let us say today that Lady Ponsonby-Waffles has discovered one of the precious china teacups she recently purchased is chipped.
The Department Head greets our friend with “Lady Ponsonby-Waffles is a most valued customer, your failure to check the quality of her china cups has led to her current predicament, you sir are fired”
Despite Lady Ponsonby-Waffles pleas for mercy, the Head cannot be swayed. Our friend slopes disconsolately to the exit. Lady Ponsonby-Waffles drops her complaint convinced to the store’s determination to enforce the highest standards. Our friend, once passing the Department’s exit, slips back to his Sporting Life and his Pipe, to await the next occasion he would be called upon to be sacked.
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