Feil wrote:You say it is your custom to not roll up your sleeves in the presence of men, regardless of reason. Very well. We also have a custom. When medical students disobey hygiene rules, we dismiss them with a failing grade. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.
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LOL....Am I the only person who got that. That's hanged from what some UK General said when he was pacifying India and Pakistan when referring to burning widows
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Sir Charles Napier wrote:You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.[
It is/was in someone's signature too.
"In view of the circumstances, Britannia waives the rules."
"All you have to do is to look at Northern Ireland, [...] to see how seriously the religious folks take "thou shall not kill. The more devout they are, the more they see murder as being negotiable." George Carlin
"We need to make gay people live in fear again! What ever happened to the traditional family values of persecution and lies?" - Darth Wong
"The closet got full and some homosexuals may have escaped onto the internet?"- Stormbringer
