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[Riverwind (imported)]

Ironic: Don't you think its ironic that we were all told we had to have digital TV because it was better? Before if we had bad weather the picture might get a bit fuzzy, today you get a little box that says no single. How Ironic.

Ironic: Americans are up in arms, ready to fight because health care for everybody might cost a few billion dollars, yet, a disaster happens and we dig in and donate money at the drop of the hat. Aid to Haiti raised 350 million on just the telethon the other night. We don't have a problem giving our money away but refuse to spend it on our self. How Ironic.

Ironic: The government decided that we use to much water flushing the toilet, so they made the tank 2 gals,

in doing so they made the whole smaller so now I flush it 4 or 5 times to get everything down but it does save water per flush. How Ironic.

Ironic: We bail out the banks that fucked up the economy and cost us several trillions in wealth but now a year later there doing so good they can give themselves billion dollar bonuses but were looking for work, and they think its not fair that we want to put some regulations on them, they are saying they might need to move overseas. How Ironic.

OK, I started this thread, add to it, you can use other words, remember not to be personal about it, its meant to be fun and should make you shake your head and smile, at least that have not taken that from us. How Ironic.

River

[punkypink (imported)]

hang on, are you in the UK or USA?

[Dave (imported)]

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Ironic: The government decided that we use to much water flushing the toilet, so they made the tank 2 gals, in doing so they made the whole smaller so now I flush it 4 or 5 times to get everything down but it does save water per flush.

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Easy fix -- don't shit so much. Great God in heaven you must have hemorrhoids a mile long if you shit that much.

[gareth19 (imported)]

Ironic: Don't you think its ironic that we were all told we had to have digital TV because it was better? Before if we had bad weather the picture might get a bit fuzzy, today you get a little box that says no single. How Ironic.

Ironic: Americans are up in arms, ready to fight because health care for everybody might cost a few billion dollars, yet, a disaster happens and we dig in and donate money at the drop of the hat. Aid to Haiti raised 350 million on just the telethon the other night. We don't have a problem giving our money away but refuse to spend it on our self. How Ironic.

Ironic: The government decided that we use to much water flushing the toilet, so they made the tank 2 gals,

in doing so they made the whole smaller so now I flush it 4 or 5 times to get everything down but it does save water per flush. How Ironic.

Ironic: We bail out the banks that fucked up the economy and cost us several trillions in wealth but now a year later there doing so good they can give themselves billion dollar bonuses but were looking for work, and they think its not fair that we want to put some regulations on them, they are saying they might need to move overseas. How Ironic.

OK, I started this thread, add to it, you can use other words, remember not to be personal about it, its meant to be fun and should make you shake your head and smile, at least that have not taken that from us. How Ironic.

River

Some people get bent out of shape for misusing their/there/they're; some smugly enjoin the cacophony of "to go boldly" to the smooth iambic movement of "to boldly go," and some find as perferable to like in sentences such as "He didn't cut his hair like I did." My pet peeve is the misuse of ironic, a word which means to dissemble, to say one thing and mean the opposite, as when that lying bastard Socrates says of Parmenio's theories "I'm the forgetful sort" but in reality remembers every flaw and weakness in it or Oedipus's statement to Jocasta that "Even if I were born a slave, my birth cannot affect your status" when in reality the truth of his parentage drives her to suicide or Jane Austen's opening "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." None of the situations River mentions are ironic, at best they are paradoxical, they intend one thing but produce the opposite effect as in Cretan philosopher's statement "all Cretans are liars" whose revelation of lying produces truth.

[sag111 (imported)]

Ok so what you are telling is you want the same people that screwd up your TV and messed up your crapper to run your health care just wondering.:-\

[curious_guy (imported)]

Ironic: The government decided that we use to much water flushing the toilet, so they made the tank 2 gals,

in doing so they made the whole smaller so now I flush it 4 or 5 times to get everything down but it does save water per flush. How Ironic.

River

I have read in the usenet newsgroup: alt.home.repair that there are reasonably priced toilets with large, fully glazed, traps which flush very well. I think the Glacier Bay brand at Home Depot brand is one of them.

You can use Google Groups to find the discussions. Search the group alt.home.repair for "fully glazed" and you should find them.

[Paolo]

OK

so what you are telling is you want the same people that screwed up your TV and messed up your crapper to run your health care just wondering.:-\

AMEN!

It's the beginning of the end of free TV and a decent toilet.

I want one of those power-flush toilets from the mall! You could flush a small car down one of those things!

[Riverwind (imported)]

Well, I can see where this thread has gone, right in the crapper, How Ironic.

River

[Uncle Flo (imported)]

hang on, are you in the UK or USA?

The windy one is in the USA. --FLO--

[Riverwind (imported)]

and be thankfull your up wind from me most of the time.

River