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Article #63214Re: Let's keep it to B.C. issues
From: katherine.wagner
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 1995 00:00
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 1995 00:00
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TOR wrote: >Yes I'm sure it would bring laughter. People in a country used to >graft and corruption, Curdish rebellions, political persecution and >the odd terrorist bomb would no doubt wonder what all this bingo fuss >is about. Not that I'm minimizing it based on our relative B.C. scale. >But in a world wide perspective, it's hardly more than a 'fart in a >hurricane'. Which is why it is a good idea to keep it to our own news >groups. I read this twice and I still can't believe that someone would write it. As I follow your arguement, it is 'scale' that determines the amount of 'fuss' something should recieves. I don't think 'laughter' would be the response to hearing about crime. For example: I wouldn't 'laugh' if I read about a man beating up his wife halfway around the word simply because I was in the middle of a war zone. Katherine
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 106cdd,74f37ab34955535d X-Google-Attributes: gid106cdd,public From: katherine.wagner@hortus.bc.ca Subject: Re: Let's keep it to B.C. issues Date: 1995/11/06 Message-ID: <BCGE.73A5@hortus.bc.ca> X-Deja-AN: 118807917 organization: Hortus Botanicus BBS newsgroups: bc.general