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Pirate and Foot-in Mouth Disease

 
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ThingsComeAround



Joined: 07 Nov 2008

PostPosted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 10:00 pm    Post subject: Pirate and Foot-in Mouth Disease Reply with quote

Classy, classy KT

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/opinon/2011/01/195_80287.html
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West Coast Tatterdemalion



Joined: 31 Aug 2010

PostPosted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 10:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Seriously, that's disgusting. It's real easy to be a "fearful" country when you are picking on things that are weaker than you, such as Somali pirates or farm animals. Try taking on the North and I might be impressed. But probably not.
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murmanjake



Joined: 21 Oct 2008

PostPosted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 1:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Am I to understand the cartoonist considers foot and mouth to be as "dead" as the Somali pirates.

And to have fled from South Korea because it/the pirate is scared?

This makes no sense to me.

Extermination?

Fearful is right, just not how the cartoonist uses it. Who else would feel the need to revel in an opponent's demise other than he who does not trust that he could defeat that enemy again?
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schwa



Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap

PostPosted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 2:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

murmanjake wrote:
Am I to understand the cartoonist considers foot and mouth to be as "dead" as the Somali pirates.

"Extermination" is surely used ironically, as both issues persist, & "fearful" is an apt & interesting choice of adjective. I grade it not bad as an editorial cartoon -- timely & hard to pin down as to what its getting at exactly, which makes it a bit provocative.
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murmanjake



Joined: 21 Oct 2008

PostPosted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 3:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

hmmm never thought to consider it so deeply...

still dont really get it though...
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