How to say: “I give up, I got nothing” with a witty little graphic Jan. 31, 2015)

31 January 2015 at 4:01 pm

How to say: “I give up, I got nothing”
with a witty little graphic

So how DOES one concede that one has been shown up, out-pointed, exposed as a fraud, a scoundrel and a liar?

A useful convention occasionally employed on this site is to type a colon (:) then the word rollthen another colon (:)

: roll :

Remove the gaps and you will end up with this pleasing little image: 

which says so eloquently: “I concede, and I skulk back to my corner in disgrace.”

vide….

http://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-31012015/#comment-960330

• marty mars19.1

  31 January 2015 at 4:28 pm

  I dunno about that M – they gave you quite a few chances to answer the question or provide the evidence but alas twas for nought.
  • Morrissey19.1.1

    31 January 2015 at 4:37 pm

    No, Marty, you’re wrong. I conceded—admittedly after a bit of squabbling—their point that not a lot of journalists are actually in jail in the United States—pointing out that this happy state of affairs is entirely due to the radicals and liberals who wrote the Constitution, and to generations of activists who have fought for the right to speak freely in America.

    I also pointed out, with a few examples, that the United States regime has been, and is, a grave threat to journalists all over the world.

    Perhaps you need to read a little more thoroughly and widely on this topic. Here’s a good place to start….
    https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/journalism-under-attack-and-not-just-ferguson
    • marty mars19.1.1.1

      31 January 2015 at 5:00 pm

      Thank you for your concern my friend – you would have had more luck quoting figures for people of colour wrongly imprisoned or maybe indigenous people wrongly and unjustly imprisoned, even today – maybe some of them were journalists too.
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