December 2, 2008 10:31 am
Matt Tobey
Matt Tobey
Try as I might, I always had a hard time understanding terrorism. I guess it's not that surprising when you consider I also don't understand economics, cell phones, zippers, the expression "the exception that proves the rule," eyeballs, regular phones, toes, gramophones or grandmas. I guess for me, understanding things is just the exception that proves the rule. But I can at least cross terrorism off my list after John Oliver's insightful breakdown of the Mumbai attacks on last night's Daily Show.
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john oliver is a genius..
forget about the mohammedans posting as indians..
long live john stewart..
the m**r analyst isa stoke of genius..
maybe the real networks can have names like this..
then we can reduce the terrorists agenda to one of farce..
let us refer to terrorists as assholes and all muslims who support as s..f**ckr supporting m**f..ckrs
john oliver is a genius..
forget about the mohammedans posting as indians..
long live john stewart..
the m**r analyst isa stoke of genius..
maybe the real networks can have names like this..
then we can reduce the terrorists agenda to one of farce..
let us refer to terrorists as assholes and all muslims who support as s..f**ckr supporting m**f..ckrs
This is truly beautiful.
"peace loving muslims"?
I'll believe that when I see terrorism repudiated by muslims. At best the muslim world ignores it, or says "well, America provoked them", or "it is the responsibility of the zionists". If they really are peace-loving people it is time to stand up for peace!
Patrick, ali,
Days after the 9/11 attacks, the American satirical newspaper the Onion published an entire issue devoted to it. Among the notable headlines: "9/11 Hijackers surprised to find selves in hell," with all sorts of pungent and hilarious descriptions of what the devils had planned for them.
I have trouble seeing what's offensive to Indians about Americans calling the people who attacked India mother***s and a**holes. Isn't that what most Indians are thinking about them right now? Strikes me as more comedy solidarity than anything.
Fuck off retards!!
How would Americans have felt about jokes regarding 9/11? There are plenty of American comics that have already had that routine for years.
Yes, John Stuart has a comedy show. Yes, they are all motherf*ckers, and we're angry about it. I think we share the same views about terrorists as the Indians. Is the tragedy funny? No. Can we try and laugh about how we hate senseless violence? Sure, it's a coping mechanism.
Wow! can yanks be anymore misinformed?!!!
you ass holes …. do you really have any sentiments at all ….
how would you have felt, had we Indians mad a joke on Twin Towers Tragedy ….
you ass holes……
Wow .. I actually applauded sitting at my computer.
Fantastic. They nailed it. Yes this is about all those m********** behind the creation of faux terrorists, 'war on terrorism' ideas. rot in hell.
i think we should just call all the people doing this stuff motherf**kers & a**holes instead of islamic terrorists. I'm sure that to a lot of people "islamic terrorist" is an oxymoron. why go insulting all the peace loving moslems?
Good stuff.
Checkout and support the Jewish Internet Defense Force (they don't want to kill anyone):
http://www.thejidf.org
nullOne:
That's a commonly-held belief – in fact, I believe it turns out that the explanation you've been given (although it makes sense) is created to fit the phrase rather than the other way around.
In fact, the meaning of the phrase is that "having to make an exception proves that there was a rule there to make an exception for".
For example, "children allowed into this theme park free this Saturday" 'proves' that there's a rule that children aren't normally allowed into the theme park for free.
Hope that makes sense.
Wow, sounds like a man with a plan to me!
jess
http://www.anonymity.at.tc
'ken oath Fuck 'em all, let God sort 'em out!!
"The exception that proves the rule" is actually just a case of misunderstanding. It means "prove" in the classical sense, as in "to test", so an "exception that proves the rule" would be an exception to a known rule that in turn either proves that rule false, or modifies the rule.
Gramaphones have a little needle that vibrates to the frequency of ambient sound, scratching a rotating tube of wax, directly translating sound waves into a physical expression of the waves.
Economics is a study of macro-sized human behavior, made up of memes which, like all information, are the subject of evolution. The stronger the meme, in this case, the more capital, stability, or material goods it brings to the bearer of the meme.
Grandma's are just f**cking crazy.