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I've been the victim of more of these than I can count. And I'm not even on Facebook. Finally, an article that confirms my every suspicion:
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And English, so rich in theory, but so poor in realization, the poverty of day-to-day language and ideas.
For a few ideas that get you out of the box, try:
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude
and, rather the opposite: http://matadornetwork.com/life/35-untranslatable-words-describe-nuances-love/
Favorites: L'esprit de Escalier, Saudade, Koi No Yokan (that seems like 3 words to me...meh, Japanese...), Wabi-Sabi (2 words again), Aware, Mamihlapinatapai, there are more, find them and send them on...
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A short selection of compelling first and second hand tales of those people who were buried alive. Some survived, while others were preserved only in gruesome accounts.
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And two rather brilliant videos from Electric Six:
Danger! High Voltage
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Gay Bar
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I'd only ever seen the rathergood version, this is easily as good...
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If you're reading this I'll consider that proof that you can read, maybe even write and probably, as a result, want Harper out of office this election.
We're of like minds.
This site: http://www.strategicvoting.ca/ will show you how to strategically vote, depending on the riding you're in. I'll have to vote Liberal, I don't particularly like (at all like) Justin Trudeau, but this is clearly a situation where the devil you don't know can only be better than the devil we do...
Hopefully on Monday Canada, once again, can become a Democracy, and we can begin to clean up the mess that Harper's left behind...