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BioEnchanted posted:I think those lovely defenses are the gay/trans-panic "defenses" aren't they? Crimes of passion in general. There's a lot of "it was the jealous rage that murdered my wife and her lover, not me!" too.
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there wolf posted:The short answer is no. The insanity plea is a vanishingly rare occurrence in the US; the judge decides if you're fit to stand trial based on your mental health before anything else. That judge is very, very unlikely to decide you're competent enough for trial, and then allow a plea saying you're too crazy to be held responsible for your actions. Temporary insanity is pretty much unheard of as an actual plea, though there are a bunch of "I was upset, don't hold me accountable" defenses that crop up when a judge and jury want someone to walk. Twinkie anyone? Still happens all the time in Canada. Including "not criminally responsible because I was drunk", which works too
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Well, I mean, since the exam is over with, it's not wrong...
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That's unpossible!
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I'm calling this a technical puppetmaster defense.
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I wish Kurt Eichenwald would stop posting stuff
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An oldkurtless twittersphere would be a wonderful thing indeed.
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kurt is such a prime target https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n0Ays4vZ2Q
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davidspackage posted:I'm calling this a technical puppetmaster defense. More like "all my 2 friends".
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English is the worst loving language. I just found out 'a' or 'an' isn't dependent on vowel or consonants, but whether the next letter sounds like a vowel or consonant. And I have a teaching certification. gently caress this loving language.
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Krispy Kareem posted:English is the worst loving language. I just found out 'a' or 'an' isn't dependent on vowel or consonants, but whether the next letter sounds like a vowel or consonant. Good luck with that BA in Esperanto Studies
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Krispy Kareem posted:English is the worst loving language. I just found out 'a' or 'an' isn't dependent on vowel or consonants, but whether the next letter sounds like a vowel or consonant. This is what happens when you're not taught spoken language is always the primary version. (As it is, adding the n only even makes sense when considering speech. In written English it serves no function whatsoever.) e: You still got it technically wrong; it's an when the next sound is a vowel. The fact that it's also reflected in written English is, as literally everything in English orthography that bears any correlation with spoken English, incidental  .
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Lol I figured that out in middle school. Of course I was also the one having a stoke in highschool because people didn't know what an adverb was when the teacher decided to pop quiz basic English
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Except some people insist on "an historic" for reasons I can't fathom.
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Scarodactyl posted:Except some people insist on "an historic" for reasons I can't fathom. if you say 'historic' with a stereotypically british accent the h comes off as silent
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Scarodactyl posted:Except some people insist on "an historic" for reasons I can't fathom. Also "an hotel." I think those people were French in a past life.
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 I think "intelligent design" guy is some kind of Markov bot.   There's a whole lot of  on his Public page...https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100006321229258
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Scarodactyl posted:Except some people insist on "an historic" for reasons I can't fathom. Some people think "infinitives shouldn't be split" which isn't even a thing in English because guess what fuckers infinitives are always split in English 
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Canadians have a vast plethora of private, NGO, and governmental social support systems in place already and while quite a few people are struggling, they have the support they need in place. It's part of being the socialist hell-hole we are. Chances are these are the same people who tell homeless people they're lazy and should get a loving job already.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Some people think "infinitives shouldn't be split" which isn't even a thing in English because guess what fuckers infinitives are always split in English That was actually a rule made up a couple hundred years ago to force English to be like Latin, during the period where the Enlightenment was jacking itself raw over the pre-Christian Roman Empire. In Latin, infinitives are single words, so obviously they can't be split.
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Grraarrgghh posted:
 Megatron, being an opportunitst, is just trying to buy himself time to position himself in a situation where he has leverage in the standoff (holding Hot Rod hostage) . Optimus should've blasted him on the spot because having Starscream as his successor would allow for an easy victory over the Deceptions, and Unicron might not ever have gotten involved in the first place with such a weak Decepticon ruler at the helm.
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Byzantine posted:In Latin, infinitives are single words, so obviously they can't be split. Except in the future tense  e: And passive perfect. Forgot about that.
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See I don't use English well because I have real difficulty understanding the structure. I can do talking, but I genuinely have difficulty with poo poo like "what is a noun". I am not sure if I can blame dyslexia for that, or if I am just dense.
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Josef bugman posted:See I don't use English well because I have real difficulty understanding the structure. I can do talking, but I genuinely have difficulty with poo poo like "what is a noun". A noun is very much like making love to a beautiful woman.
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That's a simile!
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Josef bugman posted:See I don't use English well because I have real difficulty understanding the structure. I can do talking, but I genuinely have difficulty with poo poo like "what is a noun". What's your primary language? I remember nouns, verbs, etc. being pretty clear when I was learning French and (later) Swedish. Is there something about English that makes them non-intuitive or something? Knowing English the answer is probably yes. BioEnchanted posted:That's a simile! 
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Did none of your teachers put on Schoolhouse Rock in lieu of actually teaching? That poo poo gets drilled into you. No, that's a smilie.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Except in the future tense How does that even work? "The castle that has by tourists been visited"?
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Byzantine posted:That was actually a rule made up a couple hundred years ago to force English to be like Latin, during the period where the Enlightenment was jacking itself raw over the pre-Christian Roman Empire. In Latin, infinitives are single words, so obviously they can't be split. This never even made any sense to me as a rationale. If people wanted English to be more like Latin, why would "(not) splitting infinitives" even occur to anyone as a thing that was on the table for discussion? It would be one thing if Latin had infinitives that you could split but weren't supposed to; then giving English a similar rule would at least be following a kind of logic. But this is picking an arbitrary and nonsensical alien attribute to regard as the standard. Like saying "The US should be more like the UK, so let's ... cut our territory down to a rectangle 400 miles long"
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Strom Cuzewon posted:How does that even work? "The castle that has by tourists been visited"? No that's English, Latin is a different language. e: Here's a short look I didn't actually read it so let's hope it's correct http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/101/Infinitives.pdf
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What in the actual gently caress
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Admiral Joeslop posted:What in the actual gently caress Welcome to the brokebrain humblebrag
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Admiral Joeslop posted:What in the actual gently caress Not showering shows ecological thinking.
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Panfilo posted:
Disease doesn't try to kill. It just happens to. Parasites that leave their hosts alive fare way fuckin' better than ones that kill the host.
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Hey guys I just wanted to alert all of you that I was looking at drawings of women being violated by an octopus but I assure you it was completely ironic.
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Push El Burrito posted:Hey guys I just wanted to alert all of you that I was looking at drawings of women being violated by an octopus but I assure you it was completely ironic. Anyone have that screen-cap of the "anyone have pictures of Yoshi laying eggs lol just for laughs lol I wonder what they would smell like lol?" guy?
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Jerry Cotton posted:Anyone have that screen-cap of the "anyone have pictures of Yoshi laying eggs lol just for laughs lol I wonder what they would smell like lol?" guy? http://imgur.com/AfVqEMq
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