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You know the feeling. You get into an argument with someone, the two of you are going at each other back and forth, and they get you so riled up that you suddenly can't think of a good comeback until long after the fight is over.

There's actually a French term for this called l'esprit de l'escalier. It describes the feeling you get when you come up with the perfect reply after the fact.

We've all been there. It's devastating.

So let's take a moment and pay our respects to and celebrate the really good comebacks—the ultimate expressions of wit and cleverness. Taken from the appropriately titled subreddit r/MurderedByWords, here are some of the best ways people have ended their disagreements.

#2

Deutscher Patriotismus vs. American Patriotism

Deutscher Patriotismus vs. American Patriotism

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#3

"Educate Your Self"

"Educate Your Self"

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#4

That’s A Stupid Reason To Ban Transgender People

That’s A Stupid Reason To Ban Transgender People

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Anti Vaxxer Pretends To Be Educated

Anti Vaxxer Pretends To Be Educated

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Stephanie Did It
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And polio, measles, pneumonia, diptheria, influenza? Oh and that pesky Bubonic Plague. A healthy gut sure worked there.

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#6

Just Try Not Being Straight For Awhile

Just Try Not Being Straight For Awhile

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Lauren Caswell
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I remember this from a few weeks ago! After all, ii did say I wanted to, given its a brilliant comeback :D

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#8

This Comeback Belongs In The Hall Of Fame

This Comeback Belongs In The Hall Of Fame

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Jihana
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Seems like for some people the concept of consent is a pretty hard one to grasp...

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#9

In The Interests Of Public Safety

In The Interests Of Public Safety

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#11

Bye Bye Trash!!

Bye Bye Trash!!

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Lauren Caswell
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He himself is both a boob and an ass. If he can find a like minded friend they'd make an interesting pair 😂

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#13

Honestly, You're Not Important Enough To Be Microchipped

Honestly, You're Not Important Enough To Be Microchipped

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Monday
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I ask again...why would they give us FREE microchips with our vaccinations? If they wanted to microchip us you'd better believe they're going to make us pay for it too.

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#14

"I Don’t Understand Marches"

"I Don’t Understand Marches"

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Monday
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How does Tomi still have a job? I feel like I could write a bloody book about the moronic things I've seen from her on this website alone...Did she just never learn how to think...or at the very least google...before she speaks/posts?

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#15

Your Bigotry Is Showing

Your Bigotry Is Showing

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Toujin C'Thlu
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Stuff like this also shows how mentally stuck in the past conservatives are. They honestly think scenes like this will actually scare people as much it scares them.

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#16

America, F**k Yeah!

America, F**k Yeah!

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Foxxy (The Original)
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's sad that someone let alone a child needs to do this. This is a government and school funding issue.

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#17

Babies Are Not A Plaything

Babies Are Not A Plaything

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Scagsy
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Regardless of context, I think the reply was justified. As someone who can't have kids, I am sick to the back teeth of people asking me when and why we don't have kids. Mind your own business.

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$10 To Clean The Bathroom?!

$10 To Clean The Bathroom?!

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Lauren Caswell
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

7 out of ten dollars? Smh is that really what they think? I pay around 19-21% and get a lot of it back in tax credits. Do you think it's the 'ism' that makes ppl think socialism is communism? We could always try calling it socialocracy

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#21

Let's Blame Children's Knees For Making Men Uncomfortable

Let's Blame Children's Knees For Making Men Uncomfortable

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Lauren Caswell
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Do they not filter out the weirdos who apply to be teachers? Or are they just good at hiding it?

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#22

God Is A White Man

God Is A White Man

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Nikki Sevven
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Funny, I've read the Bible many times, and have yet to come across the chapter and verse where God mandates that white men be in the majority. Anyone?

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#23

America Was Not Started By Protestors!

America Was Not Started By Protestors!

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#24

Who Knows What They Put In "Food" Anyway?

Who Knows What They Put In "Food" Anyway?

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Lauren Caswell
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I heard he apparently was breathing air in those two weeks, so hold ur breath and I'll get back to u asap....

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Monday
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's not all! I heard a rumor that he may have been wearing clothes right up to the moment he died! That' can't be a coincidence!

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Orillion
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He was 99 years old. At that age there is no unexpected death, you know your time is running out soon-ish.

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Az
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't know about you but looking at the bloke I'd say his death was entirely expected.

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cybermerlin2000
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Beware of the water! He was made up of about 70% water when he died plus he had been drinking it!

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Marianne
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Horrible how people unexpectedly die when they are 99 years old. (Not making fun of him, he had a long and meaningful life. What else could you ask for?)

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Kathryn Baylis
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And he was also 99 when he died (a couple months shy of 100 years old). So be careful of numbers—-the really big ones will kill you.

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TheGirlFromTheNorth
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They also said he was having issues with is heart, were 99 yrs old (some months until turning 100) and had lived a long and full life. Rip Prince Philip <3

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Jon Steensen
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It is not a vaccine that protect against death! So statistically some people will die shortly after recieving the vaccine. In fact since we are currently vacinnating the people who are most likely to die if infected by covid, beacause they are the weakest, we are likely to se more vacinated people dying than non vacinated people. But concluding that it is the vaccine that killed them, just demonstrates that you do not understand the correlation between different factors. They very likely to die soon, vaccine or not. It is third factor (vulnerability) that causes the correlation, not the vacine causing the death. Always be carefull with drawing conclusions based on statics and anecdotal evidens.

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James Kistler
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He was 99 years old, wasn't anything unexpected about his death.

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Bob Bobbins
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I also heard that he regularly consumed dihydrous monoxide!! In fact everything that's ever consumed it has died, and it's in all of our food and beverages!!

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CatWoman312
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The fact he was 99 with a heart condition definitely didn’t contribute

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Jean-Daniel Mohier
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Unexpectedly while having been sick for a while, at age... let me check, let me check... 100 minus two months. Yes, checks out :-D

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blugeagua
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I heard he was nearly 100 years old. You never know when your time is up......

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Ryan Deschanel
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When a 99 years old guy dies, the first thing you think is "it was because of the vaccine" ?

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François Carré
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Also, two weeks before he died "unexpectedly", he appeared to be 99 years old, and it's concerning because it's very unusual and unexpected that people this age suddenly die.

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Luis Hernandez Dauajare
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Apparently only a vaccine can suddenly kill someone at the ripe age of 99...

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Deborah Rubin
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5 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wasn't he the one who was about 100 years old? How many vaccines did he take when he was younger?

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Tee Witt
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Prince Philip did not die unexpectedly, he was seriously ill and old.

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Debbie Burton
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

...although I know of 17 people that have had strange reactions to the vaccinations. All different and within 3 hrs to 5 days afterwards

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Patricia Kasprowski
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hmmmm -- he was also 97. A number I seriously doubt I shall reach. Or aren't Royalty supposed to ever die?

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Celtic Pirate Queen
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But I guess that fact that he was just shy of his 100th birthday had nothing to do with it.

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Josurf
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The man was 99 years old and recently stayed a month in hospital after being treated for a pre-existing heart condition.

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Donald Holder
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I heard that being 97 years old may have contributed to his death. You guys stay young out there!

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Meami
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wow. A guy that is older than dirt drops dead and it gets blamed on a vaccine!?!?!?!

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water reed
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I heard he drank water that day we better watch out🤣🤣🤣

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Roberto Durante
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

funeral business will have their best year in 2021 according to some prevision

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Grace Skerp
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

At 99 years old (a couple months away from the 100th birthday), death is not unexpected. If he hadn't been vaccinated, he'd still be alive?

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Anna Repp
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Cucumbers! It's got to be cucumbers! He ate them and he died. Here's a scientific fact - every single person that ate cucumbers in 1876 is dead now. Think about it!!!

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Evelyn Haskins
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nah! all you silly people! We would all live forever if the nasty Bolshie, Nazi, Capitalist, Government didn't make us do things that kill us!

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elfin
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"They" saying? Who saying? And are they as silly as you are?

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Coleen
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I heard he was almost 100 years old during those two weeks. Maybe there's a connection?

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Lilith the Demon Panda
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"a hundred year old man died unexpectedly"... that's a sentence I never thought of... the car crash he survived few years ago, THAT was unexpected

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Rissie
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He didn't die unexpectedly and he didn't have food that day. He just donated the remainder of his potions to his wife.

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Anna Banana
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Breaking news! A hundred year old man dies unexpectedly!

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RoseTheMad
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I heard he LIVED Yep, we all live just so we all die, and the man was nearly 100 years old and was in ill health for a long time no matter how much the media and the royals tried to say he was fine, everyone should have seen his death coming from a million miles off. xP

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Pangolin Pal
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And don't forget, he was 99 years old! Oh, but I'm sure that if only he hadn't gotten vaccinated against COVID-19, he would have lived to be 130, because reasons.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

CORRELATION DOES NOT MEAN CAUSATION! 🙌🏻gaaaah. Breaking news. Every single person that has ever lived and died, breathed oxygen. Therefore oxygen must kill! Let’s ban breathing air and make it illegal... the most ridiculous logic 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Seabeast
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How completely unexpected that a 99 year old man should die!

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GFSTaylor
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He was 99 years old and had been in hospital for weeks beforehand. How was it 'unexpected' ?

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Max Thompson
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Unexpectedly? Unexpectedly is 20-30 years old. 99 years old is "he lived a good life, and we knew this day would come."

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Linda Bellofatto
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They're also saying he was 99 years old and had been in the hospital not long before he died. So yeah, 99-year-olds are super healthy and the only thing that could possibly have killed him was the vaccine.

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Giulia
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"he died unexpectedly" sure it's not like he was almost 100 years old.

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denzoren
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I heard he lived for 99 years before and then he died unexpectedly...I'm good on that y'all have fun. Lol

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magnadar
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The same goes for the "died with covid19" or "died because of covid19" problem, though

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Natalia
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes, he was unlikely to die from something else in the age of -almost- 100..............

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Jeepers Creepers

Jeepers Creepers

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Lauren Caswell
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This, right? Taking strangers pics is not very subtle! Especially this well framed, poor dude. Now I wonder about genders reversed: guy taking picture of young woman with such inference? Well if I find that creepy (which I do), then by all logic this is equally as creepy (which it is)

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#27

There's No Vaccination For That

There's No Vaccination For That

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Gas Pump (Doesn't) Go Brrrrr

Gas Pump (Doesn't) Go Brrrrr

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Perry Sologia
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I was a kid working at a gas station, if the power failed, you cranked it by hand. Lot of years ago, mind

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“We Follow Biblical Rules”

“We Follow Biblical Rules”

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The word “homosexual” wasn’t added into the Bible until 1942. Can we not hide behind religion to excuse our homophobia, thank you.

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Can't Say Much, Can We?

Can't Say Much, Can We?

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Complete Slam Dunk From This Dude

Complete Slam Dunk From This Dude

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