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glatt 06-22-2012 10:53 AM

Be careful what you wish for. Unicorns are constantly snagging their horn on low tree branches when they gallop.

I'm sure you would be a smart unicorn, so it wouldn't happen to you so much, but you'd have to hear about it from the rest of them. And that might get old.

Ibby 06-22-2012 11:06 AM

I think the bottom one is important because it shows that we really don't like the insane exponential growth of the gap between the wealthy and the poor.

infinite monkey 06-22-2012 11:06 AM

Damn unicorns are always kvetching about something, aren't they? Sure, the media paints them as a gentle ethereal creature but once you've spent some time among them you know better!

infinite monkey 06-22-2012 01:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Ibram (Post 816306)
I think the bottom one is important because it shows that we really don't like the insane exponential growth of the gap between the wealthy and the poor.

Puh. Subjective and irrelevant.

I don't think anyone needs to tell anyone that they don't like the fact that there are insanely uber-rich. Except the uber-rich, they might not know we don't like it.

Ibby 06-22-2012 01:57 PM

I think it's important to understand what society thinks is "fair", even if we don't necessarily do anything to force it to be. It's definitely politically relevant I believe.

classicman 06-22-2012 09:12 PM

I like that its changed so much in the last few years.
Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. :eyebrow:

classicman 06-22-2012 10:36 PM

Kinda funny. Great comeback.

Glinda 06-22-2012 11:51 PM

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Originally Posted by infinite monkey (Post 816302)
Hell, I'd like to be a unicorn but it ain't going to happen.

I, for one, would be very interested in seeing a monkeycorn. Surely there's a surgeon out there who can make this happen.





ETA: Oh, dear ghod, they exist!
https://encrypted-tbn2.google.com/im...dEFMczKn_5vgAN

infinite monkey 06-23-2012 07:24 AM

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Ibby 06-23-2012 05:53 PM

Tony Soprano explains Bain Capital.
I assume it's mostly tongue-in-cheek rather than a serious accusation, but.


classicman 06-23-2012 06:26 PM

:lame: I must have missed the Tony part... I couldn't see through all the bullshit.

Clodfobble 06-24-2012 10:06 AM

We've been watching Downton Abbey, the main theme of which is the breakdown of the stark class system in Europe around WWI. It's fascinating to compare to now. Back then, the uber-rich were very uber-rich indeed--though I'm not sure how the distribution of wealth would compare to now--but they also were expected to support the poor beneath them. Pretty much the whole village is Lord Grantham's responsibility, including things like singlehanded funding of the local hospital.

Spexxvet 06-25-2012 12:30 PM

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What we would 'like' wealth distribution to be is rather silly. I like the contrast between what it 'is' and what we 'think' but what we 'want'?

Hell, I'd like to be a unicorn but it ain't going to happen.


DanaC 06-25-2012 12:49 PM

Waitafuckingminutetheresunshine!

How comes Infi gets to be a unicorn? Why is it the hobo-killer gets to play horny ponies?

Spexxvet 06-26-2012 11:00 AM

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Originally Posted by DanaC (Post 816866)
Waitafuckingminutetheresunshine!

How comes Infi gets to be a unicorn? Why is it the hobo-killer gets to play horny ponies?

I've never been called sunshine before. :)

Infi gets to be a unicorn because she needs the horn to skewer hobos.


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