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| quote: | Originally posted by Darkarbiter
Sorry but wtf does this have to do with lesbians. |
Pick a very marginalised group of people, it immediately becomes sensationalism and all the little, small minds which soak up the media like a sponge think its more interesting than straight people suing a chinese laundromat for 1mil after they lost his pants. (I mean for christ's sake!)
| quote: | Originally posted by LazFX
I felt bad |
As bad as after one that clobbered you when you tried to steal her little sweetheart once? 
| quote: | Originally posted by idoru
The last few weeks have really made me realize just how idiotic and full-of-themselves most of this country is. I mean I thought that I had some semblance of an idea before, but the whole "economy" thing has really shed a new light on it all. I've become disgusted by the whole thing. |
I don't know what brought it about but it's definitely a quintessentially American thing to sue over petty idiocy more than anywhere else in the world. Fairly much anyone in a public business lives in fear/irritation of being bothered by someone with a grievance and risks being dragged off through the mud for all they're worth... even if they're not worth very much.
At some point it probably had a purpose of punishing people for criminal negligence and dereliction of duty that seriously messed up someone's life, but it seems to have taken on a life of its own since for mostly nothing in most cases. Heck, only place in the world I ever bothered taking out personal liability insurance 
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