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They just focused on the wrong things: price, sales, brands, etc. don't matter.
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A couple of factors just to start you off:
Europe. They fucking
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...comparing the San Francisco Symphony with a kazoo player, spitting blood out the end of his instrument.
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James Surowiecki had a great column on sheer scale of this fuckup:
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I think we need to have an International Cheating Body...
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God, this was a despicable move on WSJ's part. They threw this poor girl to the fucking wolves.
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Why should anything but academics matter in universities admission?
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At that point I suppose it's just personal preference.
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"I'm sorry but..." is not so much an apology as shorthand for "I'm sorry if you're offended by this but..."
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But, as modern as I like to think I am, I still subscribe to the notion that if a guy wants to date you, he will make that very clear.
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This is one of those things where asking explicitly "hey, can we screw on your bed?" can save you, your host, and their roommates a headache.
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I would horse-collar them into sharing my single bed in a studio apartment before I let them sleep in a subway station or on the street.
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She's scared that she could end up in a place where she has to wear a skirt and do a head-on religious conversion.
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Wait is this the same dude from your previous question who "borrowed" all that money from you?
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Am I correct to infer that they just don't give a shit anymore, and treating me shoddily until I gtfo is easier than an actual breakup?
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1,760 of 1,814 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars TOO Informative.
Read this book before going on vacation and I couldn't find my cruise liner in the port. Vacation ruined.
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That app is email.
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Run you pigeons, it's Robert Frost!
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The rest stayed in their cabin and played Bananagrams. I guarantee you they all came back claiming their minds had broadened.
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We have a stock of post-docs in Biochem, Molecular Bio that are just waiting for profs to die so that new positions open up.
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If you read that and you still took it seriously, that's on you.
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Is there a TV show yet showing people doing nothing but using FaceBook?
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