Compared to this chappy you're really puny.
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You've come right out the other side of the forest of irony and ended up in the desert of wrong.
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He hasn't been in the garage since July (or the sensor is busted)"See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."Comment
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Wow! His doorbell has rung 1897 times, and each time, an image is sent to his mobile phone.
His bill must be huge!
'Orwell's 1984 was supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual'. -
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Perhaps I missed it, but I couldn't seen an inventory of his fridge or food cupboards.
I know a person who gets their food delivered, and uses a barcode reader to scan the items in to their cupboards, so that they can put the items in to an Access database for inventory purposes.
I guess it must be very important to know how many tins of baked beans and prunes one has at any one time.
Just imagine the chaos and carnage if you ran out.Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
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Get used to it - In thirty years we'll all be forced to use monitors like this
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