Slog - Comments on A Time To Vote

Comment by kyleen

kyleen — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:57:06 -0800

My favorite is the entry for #2 " Are England right tobring"...
Grammar, teeth, its all bad...

Comment by Abby

Abby — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:00:44 -0800

As for number 10, I'm thinking Berbatov.

Comment by Two nations separated by a common language

Two nations separated by a common language — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:04:17 -0800

When knives are outlawed, only outlaws will eat steak.

BTW, @1: England is a team, doofus, and in English, collective nouns can take plural verb forms. Silly 'Merkin.

Comment by DOUG.

DOUG. — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:05:26 -0800

Ha! I was in England last month. A middle-aged woman up north told me she was glad she'd moved out of London because of "all the Italian knife gangs roaming the streets there." I do believe this is suburban paranoia.

Comment by Will in Seattle

Will in Seattle — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:07:40 -0800

I vote for Toblerone.

Comment by boring

boring — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:12:06 -0800

slow news day, charles?

Comment by Fnarf

Fnarf — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:17:01 -0800

@2, KEEP YOUR COTTON-PICKIN' HANDS OFF BERBATOV.

Comment by Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:18:18 -0800

re: poll #8.

No. That's why i started with my second home.

Dolts.

Comment by Anon

Anon — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:20:05 -0800

Wow, govt has lost control is winning.

knife fights! 60%
scare story! 9%
statistics! 31%

I guess all those street cameras aren't working, eh?

Comment by Little Red Ryan Hood

Little Red Ryan Hood — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:23:01 -0800

here is a statistic for you: 37% of all statistics are made up. Use that to argue anything!

Comment by Abby

Abby — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:33:50 -0800

@7: Oh, I've got nothing to do with Berbatov. But keep an eye on Jubilation's Mancs...

Comment by umvue

umvue — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:49:25 -0800

My vote: I don't know, words can be used to argue anything.

Poop alert.

Dialectics.

1. Arguing vs. winning an argument.
2. "Good" statistics vs. "Bad" statistics.
3. Ignorant vs. non-ignorant.

Ignorance loses arguments to bad statistics. Non-ignorance loses arguments to good statistics.

Comment by Cookie W. Monster

Cookie W. Monster — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:49:16 -0800

If they think England is a scary place to live, they should try walking down the street on Capitol Hill in Seattle. Just the other day, I was walking down Pine Street, near 12th Avenue, minding my own business, when I was suddenly and urban-legendarily attacked by an angry gang of Slog commenters. How vicious and violent they were!

Why, they called me nasty names, beat up my pit bull, accused me of being a latent Scandinavian and, why, they even forced me to eat an entire box of Fruity Pebbles against my will! And then they ... (snif) ... they ... they told me my blog sucks!

The horror! The horror!

Comment by David Wright

David Wright — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:12:38 -0800

Presumably anytime anybody gets knifed, the "government has lost control" (unless, perhaps, the person doing the knifing is an MI5 agent).

Comment by Will in Seattle

Will in Seattle — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:26:54 -0800

One question I have is, why aren't there drug diversion courts to handle all the speed cameras?

I mean, speed is not good.