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    Default STOP PRESS! Office Chair set ablaze!

    It's true.

    “The chair knew the risks. Gang warfare in Kendal is rife, and when you choose a side you gotta be down with risks. This was a declaration by the Standard Lamp Posse of Kendal. No one messes with lamps,” said a Lancaster respondent.


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    There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.

    “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”

    To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.

    "The purpose of a university education for Left / Liberals is to attain all the politically correct attitudes towards minorties, and the financial means to live as far away from them as possible."

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    Default Re: STOP PRESS! Office Chair set ablaze!

    Here's the original report, plus comments.

    Thank you so much for running this story. My family and I cried when we read of the cruel fate of this chair; this has a very special meaning for me. As a child I was abandoned by my biological parents and brought up by a chair very similar to this one. To me it was mother and father combined. Never was there a kindlier and more loving parent than my chair; I remember one freezing winter it pawned its castors to buy me a coat for school.

    This fate of this chair is nothing less than murder. Did those animals who took its life realise how its family must be grieving right now?

    My many thanks to the people of your area who have provided this poor thing with a decent burial.

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    Default Re: STOP PRESS! Office Chair set ablaze!

    It is stories like this that make you stand up and take notice.
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    At least the delinquent didn't shoot it...
    "There is a true glory and a true honor; the glory in duty done and the honor in the integrity of principle."

    "The truth is this; the march of Providence so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often only see the ebb of the advancing wave. It is history which teaches us to hope."

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    ...in the back.

    Somebody's gonna be in the hot seat when they find out who did this.
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    Default Re: STOP PRESS! Office Chair set ablaze!

    Quote Originally Posted by Gregoshi
    ...in the back.

    Somebody's gonna be in the hot seat when they find out who did this.
    it's the **** that happens while you're waiting for moments that never come

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    It's a flaming shame if someone gets 'bum burn' over this.
    There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.

    “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”

    To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.

    "The purpose of a university education for Left / Liberals is to attain all the politically correct attitudes towards minorties, and the financial means to live as far away from them as possible."

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    Default Re: STOP PRESS! Office Chair set ablaze!

    I hate it when things like this happen. It's a constant pain in the rear.

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    An incident like this could start a swivel war.
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    Default Re: STOP PRESS! Office Chair set ablaze!

    Somebody's gonna be in the hot seat when they find out who did this.
    But it was burned already.

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    Default Re: STOP PRESS! Office Chair set ablaze!

    Quote Originally Posted by Kanamori
    But it was burned already.
    Okay, then they'll get their ash kicked.
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    Default Re: STOP PRESS! Office Chair set ablaze!

    But was the chair armed?
    "If there is a sin against life, it consists not so much in despairing as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this one."
    Albert Camus "Noces"

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    Default Re: STOP PRESS! Office Chair set ablaze!

    Quote Originally Posted by Banquo's Ghost
    But was the chair armed?
    Only with the standard chair arms..
    O well, seems like 'some' people decide to ruin a perfectly valid threat. Nice going guys... doc bean

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    Default Re: STOP PRESS! Office Chair set ablaze!

    Quote Originally Posted by Redleg
    Only with the standard chair arms..
    I heard they were padded.
    "There is a true glory and a true honor; the glory in duty done and the honor in the integrity of principle."

    "The truth is this; the march of Providence so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often only see the ebb of the advancing wave. It is history which teaches us to hope."

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    Default Re: STOP PRESS! Office Chair set ablaze!

    Quote Originally Posted by Redleg
    Only with the standard chair arms..
    Well, technically, now they are fire arms.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gregoshi
    Well, technically, now they are fire arms.
    I don't know how you can continue to come up with those lines with such persistent enthusiasm. How can you live with yourself?

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