[lit-ideas] Re: What is the Opposite of Right?

  • From: Judith Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 22:22:54 +0100 (BST)

I'm currently on an Independent  page that says

"Showing 901-916 of 756 comments"

a teaparty troll invasion -- article on NHS, link from Drudge -- must have 
broken the system

please take them back...


> Surely it's the same reason the U.S. citizenship test says
> settlers came to America, "to gain religious freedom"?

I think the Culloden one's better :)

Judy Evans, Cardiff


--- On Thu, 28/7/11, David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: What is the Opposite of Right?
> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Thursday, 28 July, 2011, 21:18
> 
> On Jul 28, 2011, at 1:04 PM, Judith Evans wrote:
> 
> > The Gold Standard IQ test here (apparently based on a
> US one) asks
> > 
> > "Why should you pay taxes?"
> > 
> > As I wasn't really being tested I took the liberty of
> noting libertarians might object, then, answered.
> > 
> > Wrong.  
> > 
> > So, I tried again.
> > 
> > Wrong.
> > 
> > After much prompting, I did find the er right answer,
> the only right answer.
> > 
> > Any guesses?
> > 
> 
> Because they've nicked it from your wages and there's no
> way of getting it back?
> 
> Because you're particularly impressed by what Westland
> Helicopters did with Boeing's Apache shell?
> 
> Because your ancestors lost at Culloden?
> 
> Surely it's the same reason the U.S. citizenship test says
> settlers came to America, "to gain religious freedom"?
> 
> David Ritchie,
> believing I queue, you queue, we all queue for ice cream
> in
> Portland,
> Oregon------------------------------------------------------------------

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