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[gleb]

We've been hearing this warped reasoning for so long about so many things that it has become received wisdom, but when you think about it for even a nanosecond it is perfectly obvious that most worthwhile things don't begin to pay for themselves. If you followed this absurd logic any distance at all, you would have to get rid of traffic lights, laybys, schools, drains, national parks, museums, universities, old people and much else besides. So why on earth should something as useful as a railway line, which is generally much more agreeable than old people, and certainly less inclined to bitch and twitter, have to demonstrate even the tiniest measure of economic viability to ensure its continued existence? This is a line of thinking that must be abandoned at once.

Bill Bryson. Notes from a small Island

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[tigressita.livejournal.com]

The word "twitter" looks ambiguous for obvious reasons. But I do like the fact that twitting and bitching are used to portray the act of comparable atrocity.))

[gleb.livejournal.com]

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