Sounds like a plan.

"bomb noun (FAILURE)
[ S ] US informal
something that has failed:"

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/bomb

The UN has bombed. Get rid of it.

Never underestimate the stupidity of kangaroos.

lee wrote Yesterday at 1:47pm:


This sound like a good plan to you - killing the homeless?

It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads, and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags, and importuning every passenger for an alms. These mothers, instead of being able to work for their honest livelihood, are forced to employ all their time in stroling to beg sustenance for their helpless infants who, as they grow up, either turn thieves for want of work, or leave their dear native country, to fight for the Pretender in Spain, or sell themselves to the Barbadoes.

I think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the commonwealth, would deserve so well of the publick, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation.

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I have already computed the charge of nursing a beggar’s child (in which list I reckon all cottagers, labourers, and four-fifths of the farmers) to be about two shillings per annum, rags included; and I believe no gentleman would repine to give ten shillings for the carcass of a good fat child, which, as I have said, will make four dishes of excellent nutritive meat, when he hath only some particular friend, or his own family to dine with him. Thus the squire will learn to be a good landlord, and grow popular among his tenants, the mother will have eight shillings neat profit, and be fit for work till she produces another child.

Jonathan Swift, 1729

greggerypeccary wrote Yesterday at 4:33pm:



Wow reduced to quoting "celebrity".

greggerypeccary wrote Yesterday at 4:51pm:



Taylor Swift doing her bit for the planet.

lee wrote Yesterday at 4:56pm:


Why do people name their kids by misspelling tailor? Anyway, as a girl she shoulda been named seamstress. Or couturier.

Couturier Rapide. Or Epponnee-Raelene Couturier Rapide.