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The weaker people in positions of authority are, the less you're allowed to laugh in their faces, and the more you should.



This sort of attitude is childish and pathetic.

And it will get you absolutely nowhere in life. Nowhere.


Slightly tongue in cheek:

You know that crappy little country, just off the north coast of mainland Europe, its where I live, its called the UK? Well, that's why we have far too much influence for our size.

We rip on our powerful people something rotten. It helps to keep the powerful on their toes and makes the rest of us feel a little bit better. Its a British tradition. And for us, it works quite well.


There is nothing childish about it. It's dead serious, and failure to do so costs lives. And regarding that second part: Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say infinitely when you mean very; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. -― C.S. Lewis




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