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So let me get this straight: The US Senate just last year - while locked in a life-and-death struggle over the budget - managed to come together to pass a law protecting the remaining national stockpile of helium.
And these idiots are allowed to use it in BEER? Especially sh***y beer like Samuel Adams?
Nice to see the US has its priorities straight.
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Who cares if the paint and rust have been polished away to make it all pretty? This thing was designed to kill people indiscriminately. The fact that anyone would want/allow such a thing in their home says far more about their values than their wannabe-hipsterism.
My father had a pair of WWII-era hand grenades (although a WWII vet himself, he was in the navy - god only knows where he got them) that someone had carefully rendered inoperative, painted screaming red, and mounted on stands. They were proudly displayed on the mantel above our fireplace for my entire childhood. As a kid, i thought they were cool; but once I had studied even a little of the history of warfare and weaponry, I came to see their display as unbelievably offensive. It led to quite an argument with my dad - a difference of opinion we never did resolve before his death - and when I inherited most of his belongings, they were the only things of any potential "sentimental value" that I threw away.
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I blame Latin. All romance languages are based on Latin, and English is heavily influenced by French, a romance language. In Latin, MORs and MORtis both mean death.

As an aside, when my daughter was first reading the HP series, I though Voldemort was "Valdemort", which could be read as "Val de mort" or, "Valley of Death".
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Reminds me of my friend Mike's dad's garage when I was a kid.
The back wall was made up of those translucent corrugated fibreglass sheets nailed to vertical studs. Periodically, one or other of the sheets would get rattled loose by the wind and a chunk would snap off or it. Mike's Dad would patch it with whatever similarly translucent material - of whatever colour - he might have at hand. The results after 15 years or so were not unlike this admittedly far more beautiful window.
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"...which is something Americans love to do when they throw their own American parties."
A quick skim of this line, and i thought it said "when they throw up at their own American parties."
Sounded about right!
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