I somehow managed to send the first part of this before the message was
finished. Here's the rest. (And now I'm done.)
I'd written that seriously disturbed people poison dogs with antifreeze
but that I wasn't going to give details about how this is done:
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To which it was replied that 'Seriously disturbed people do a lot of
things, like invade countries for no reason. Nobody's championing all
those animals in New Orleans who were killed by poisonous water that
resulted from lack of preparation. The glee in your words "seriously
disturbed" invalidates [sic] any seriousness in them.'
There have been tremendous efforts on the part of many organizations to
rescue and house at least domestic animals. Your uninformed words are an
insult to the volunteers on the scene and to the thousands who
contributed equipment and funds to help with this.
To be seriously disturbed is to be seriously disturbed. It is another
way of saying, in this case, that someone is seriously deranged. That
both of these expressions can be used flippantly in casual speech does
not mean that they were used flippantly here. The only reason I replied
to your original post about dogs lapping up antifreeze and then getting
'stomach aches,' was to say that dogs who lap up antifreeze get more
than stomache aches. They die.
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