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Old November 25th 08, 06:00 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
Tom Anderson Tom Anderson is offline
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On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, D7666 wrote:

On Nov 25, 4:57 pm, Boltar wrote:


On Nov 25, 2:05 pm, "Richard J." wrote:
By the way, please don't use the word 'nazi' to describe something that's
just irritating. It's gratuitous exaggeration, doesn't help your argument,
and devalues the horrors of the real Nazis.


Lighten up. Its a common colloquialism


Indeed.

If one goes down the road of censorship i.e. by attempting to prevent
the use of certain words then [a] one is guilty of the same
totalitarianism of the subject that started this digression [b] one will
ended up not using any adjectives in case someone somewhere at sometime
did something to somebody in history.


Yeah. And then you'd just look like a spastic.

Do you see what i did there.

tom

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