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Re: What age does buying lego become embarrassing?
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Sat, 15 Jul 2000 05:31:59 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, James J. Trobaugh writes:

Well Jeff that's an interesting way to look at things you don't agree with in
life. If you see or read a word you don't like, heck just ignore the rest of
the subject matter no matter if it is fact or fiction.  [snipped]

No, I don't think so.  I just find terms like that to be signs of
lazy thinking.  A cute label gets put on a group by a clever radio
commentator or columnist, and I can get some pleasure from that, but
then the term get picked up and parroted and used as a shorthand
or bonding term among people to cement their ideology amongst
themselves.

It happens on all ends of the political spectrum.

--

jthompson@esker.com   "Float on a river, forever and ever, Emily"



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  Re: What age does buying lego become embarrassing?
 
(...) Well Jeff that's an interesting way to look at things you don't agree with in life. If you see or read a word you don't like, heck just ignore the rest of the subject matter no matter if it is fact or fiction. It's attitudes like yours that (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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