The Lief Reservoir of Simple Truths and Smart One-Liners

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Fuk da police

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It's a special kind of sad when people make it a priority to post a thread when they get drunk.

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Non-Western countries in general have horrific attitudes toward the mentally disabled and mentally ill.

(also true of Western countries not that long ago, of course)

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Vanilla (D)

(sorry Miles )

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Vanilla (D)

(sorry Miles )

I don't get it

Vanilla as in normal and conventional (not unexciting and boring). I just chuckled at the Vanilla (D). It seemed like a fitting description of Miles.

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Probably fits better here than the sulfur mine due to the short yet elegant simplicity.

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It may be true, but it is still a personal attack, so not a good idea to post it here.

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Thinking yourself to be the pinnacle of anything is more likely to make you a pompous ass than cause self-improvement.

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Sometimes the Atlas Forum is like Mitt Romney minus the money.

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Also it's insane that it takes a week to re-ban Libertas because the ban brigade tells Nym to, but we have nasty trolls who do nothing but derail threads and spit out personal attacks (like Krazen) lingering on this forum for years on end now.

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Atlas Forum: The only place where same-sex marriage polls better than sex.

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Context:

I thought he meant too liberal to get his party's nomination.

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Nobody would be better off if they were a Scientologist

Quoted as a general truth. The few people who manage to join the upper echelons of the organization are of course better off financially.

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Nobody would be better off if they were a Scientologist

Quoted as a general truth. The few people who manage to join the upper echelons of the organization are of course better off financially.

This one was better:

It wouldn't be the first scam he falls for.

It is not a competition, so no reason to quote my entrance when mentioning the other one.

One is a general truth relevant for hundreds of thousands of people lured into Scientology and the other just for ODF, so they are truths on vastly different levels.

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It is so difficult to differentiate between satire and serious posts on this forum.

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Football needs more fights in between plays. They're less dangerous than actually playing football.

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Context:

He's a Republican so...no.

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Not exactly a one-liner, but here we go:

As a social sciences student, I have realized how much the cancer of economic thinking has spread throughout this field of study. What I hate, more than the ideological framework in itself (which is an interesting perspective in itself), is the smug, self-satisfied and downright authoritarian belief held by its proponents that their economic rationality is the only rationality, that they got it all figured out, and that everybody else is just unable to see the truth because their judgment is clouded by silly things like norms and values. It never occurs to their minds that norms and values are also part of the human experience and play an essential role in any well-functioning society, or that no sane human being has no other goal than to maximize its material interests. It's this delusion of grandeur that makes homo economicus theory one of the most dangerous ideas of the 21st century.

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I'm glad you put this post in the Reservoir, because its grammar is far too atrocious to belong in the Gallery. Sorry about that.

It is also not an effort post, so it doesn't belong in the gallery. It is a simple truth (or maybe a couple of them).

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Suburban Toronto is generally a horrible place.

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'Consistency' is a worthless political virtue. In the same way that a doctor prescribing the same medication for every ailment would be a quack, a politician who has the same solution for everything is a charlatan.

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More than the money, working at a grocery store would finally eliminate the excuse that McDonalds was more convenient than going to the grocery store after work, because he'd be standing in one when he punched out.

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All chocolate is good.

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I agree with Gustaf about a sex-related topic (!!!!!!!).

Literally everything you can do with boobs you can do with butts.

I would never ever ever suck on a butt.

prude!

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Why did Politicus post my line on the "Greece suxx" thread and then immediately delete it?

It contains a core of truth, but I realized it was a tad too hyperbolic + I do not know enough about German media to say for sure.

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If the city is called New York, then the state should be called New Yorkshire. New York (state) resembles Yorkshire much more than it does York, and it would clear up some of the confusion resulting from the city and state having the same name anyway.