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Grex > Agora47 > #158: Cancer survivor: Rosie O'Donnell told her liars 'get cancer' | |
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jep
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response 4 of 63:
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Nov 7 03:15 UTC 2003 |
It's hard for me to see what she could have done better. I see no
reason to believe the company makes junk. They made one bad stroller
and then didn't go above and beyond their warranty to support it.
Rosie O'Donnell didn't have to do what she did. I'm willing to give
her credit.
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happyboy
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response 5 of 63:
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Nov 7 08:29 UTC 2003 |
bullshit, it was a CYA move.
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tsty
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response 6 of 63:
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Nov 7 09:54 UTC 2003 |
oh .... mymy .. such a tempest in a teabag .... .. who's al atwitter?
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tsty
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response 7 of 63:
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Nov 7 09:56 UTC 2003 |
... the above wa sin relation to the overall conflilct .. in teh instant
case as reated by richard ... i give the prize to rosie, hersolf.
she is tons better than that nasty rag.
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mary
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response 8 of 63:
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Nov 7 11:11 UTC 2003 |
I'm still trying to figure out what's so weird about linking
the lying and cancer. Either the person on the receiving
end of that comment is really stupid and believes it or
really religious and believes it. Or both. But either
way, if you let comments like that irk you then you've got
bigger issues than Rosie.
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md
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response 9 of 63:
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Nov 7 11:51 UTC 2003 |
Re #8: Susan Sontag used to call the Vietnam conflict "the cancer of
America." Then Susan Sontag got cancer, and proceeded to write a book
called _Cancer as Metaphor_ in which she attacked people who callously
use a life-threatening disease as a metaphor without considering the
feelings of the victims of that disease, and more or less apologized
for doing so herself. I guess if you actually have cancer you might
find it offensive when people say stuff like that. You might not even
have to be something contemptible, like "stupid or really religious."
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willcome
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response 10 of 63:
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Nov 7 12:28 UTC 2003 |
HEY> M_NET SURVIVED CANCER TOO!
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aruba
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response 11 of 63:
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Nov 7 14:43 UTC 2003 |
I would think it would be worse if someone close to you had cancer.
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albaugh
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response 12 of 63:
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Nov 7 18:52 UTC 2003 |
You can certainly debate the appropriateness and inconsiderateness of making
a "people who lie get cancer" comment. But it's really just an extreme
example of something you might tell a gullible kid, such as "little boys who
don't eat their peas grow tails". (Of course, someone like Calvin would think
that would be cool and try it... ;-)
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happyboy
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response 13 of 63:
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Nov 7 19:03 UTC 2003 |
re6: i'm really worried about your drinking.
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keesan
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response 14 of 63:
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Nov 7 19:20 UTC 2003 |
There is actually a bit of statistical support to the statement. Stress
(causing by lying) decreases immunity. So does depression. Depression can
also be caused by stress.
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happyboy
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response 15 of 63:
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Nov 7 19:26 UTC 2003 |
*rolls eyes* yeah, sindi, i'm sure she said it
to be *helpful*.
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gull
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response 16 of 63:
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Nov 7 19:35 UTC 2003 |
I think it was a stupid thing to say. I don't know if I'd say it was
hateful. Just stupid. Sort of like the comment that got Rush Limbaugh
fired from ESPN.
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mary
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response 17 of 63:
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Nov 7 19:42 UTC 2003 |
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tod
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response 18 of 63:
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Nov 7 20:21 UTC 2003 |
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aruba
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response 19 of 63:
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Nov 7 20:51 UTC 2003 |
Rush Limbaugh was on ESPN?
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happyboy
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response 20 of 63:
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Nov 7 21:03 UTC 2003 |
for a minute
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mcnally
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response 21 of 63:
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Nov 7 21:41 UTC 2003 |
You blinked, you missed it..
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remmers
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response 22 of 63:
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Nov 7 21:52 UTC 2003 |
(http://msn.espn.go.com/gen/news/2003/1001/1628537.html has the story.)
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mary
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response 23 of 63:
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Nov 7 23:57 UTC 2003 |
Re: #9 Rosie's comment was probably intended as provocative
sarcasm in the extreme. How truly silly to get bent over it.
And to believe it... well... I guess I'd not really find such
gullibility detestable as pitiable.
Has Ms. Sontag also sworn off using phrases such as "death of
a friendship", or "rape of the land", or "divorce from reality"?
Or maybe that sensitivity will arrive only after she herself
has been raped or divorced. Sounds like a pity party to me.
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tod
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response 24 of 63:
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Nov 8 00:56 UTC 2003 |
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md
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response 25 of 63:
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Nov 8 13:54 UTC 2003 |
Re #23 'Has Ms. Sontag also sworn off using phrases such as "death of a
friendship", or "rape of the land", or "divorce from reality"?'
I doubt it, but if a rape victim was upset because someone said to
her "Sluts get raped" would you tell her to get over it?
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slynne
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response 26 of 63:
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Nov 8 14:15 UTC 2003 |
I am always amazed at how so many people *love* to hate women like
Rosie O'Donnell, Roseanne Barr, etc. I always wondered if it is because
they are kind of masculine or if it is for other reasons.
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md
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response 27 of 63:
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Nov 8 14:19 UTC 2003 |
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md
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response 28 of 63:
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Nov 8 14:21 UTC 2003 |
Yeah, that's it, people are afraid of strong women. I mean, if Rush
Limbaugh had told a cancer victim "Liars get cancer" nobody would've
minded, right? [snort]
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