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by macliam » Thu Feb 09 2023 8:29pm
Richard Frost wrote: ↑Thu Feb 09 2023 6:25pm
“Nobody has ever committed a crime after being executed… 100 per cent success rate.”
Lee Anderson, the Conservative Party’s new deputy chairman, tells The Spectator he would support the return of the death penalty.
I'm reminded that Lord Denning suggested that had the Birmingham Six been hanged, it would have saved a lot of embarassment for the British establishment. Capital punishment used to be a good way to ensure no comebacks too.......
Just because I'm paranoid, it doesn't mean they're not out to get me
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Richard Frost
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by Richard Frost » Fri Mar 03 2023 5:52pm
“I’m sorry, but you can’t always be experiencing a higher volume of calls than average. That’s not how averages work.”
Twitter user @Kit_Yates_Maths, quoted in The Times
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by Richard Frost » Thu May 25 2023 6:48pm
“We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet.”
Stephen Hawking, quoted in the New York Post
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by Richard Frost » Fri May 26 2023 8:16pm
“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”
James Baldwin, quoted in The Village Voice
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by blythburgh » Sat May 27 2023 12:27pm
Richard Frost wrote: ↑Fri May 26 2023 8:16pm
“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”
James Baldwin, quoted in The Village Voice
How true, some cannot afford to buy a take away coffee these days but the really poor cannot afford to buy a decent jar of instant to make coffee at home
Keep smiling because the light at the end of someone's tunnel may be you, Ron Cheneler
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by Richard Frost » Mon Jul 17 2023 4:42pm
“The first 80 years are tough. Life gets better after that.”
Len Deighton, quoted in The Times
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