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Did Louise Mensch retweet her own tweet?

That's even more sad than upfisting your own non-comments. And we all know how sad that is.

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Setting your mind at ease is today's highest priority and to hell with the rest of the harpies.

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Lol being British there are some very strange societal rules, and they depend on the part of the country. I work in retail and get called "love", "sweetie", "your such a good girl" on a daily basis. Put a British person on public transport though then it's do not make eye-contact, do not engage, determindly read a book or look out the window.

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Me too - never heard of this shoe thing either.

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What's the deal with shoe compliments, though? Too personal for public comment? Used by Brits as a subtle dig? Déclassé?

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That anyone sounds like Trump.

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"...not the local bar fly with the pics of his guns in his wallet...." Or the pics of guns, American flags, military jets and/or bald eagles as avatars. Oh and the usernames often involve the words freedom, liberty, patriot or (lately) Deplorable.

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Frank Luntz's house in CA has replicas of the Oval Office and the Lincoln bedroom in it. And a replica of Monica's blue dress. What a freak.

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I honestly don't know. Personally I wouldn't mind and most people I know would just say "thanks". Some people take everything as a veiled insult for some reason even if it wasn't meant that way.

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I feel like the fact that the Times, which famously flat-out lied about the FBI investigating the Trump campaign, chose Louise Mensch for the spotlight role of defender of Russian hack conspiracy theories on their OpEd page tells you pretty much everything you need to know about her validity.

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Annie, nice...shoes you got there, hope they don't get...scuffed.

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If they are sealed, how would ANYBODY know?

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Add Taibbi and Greenwald to that mix. Their deference to the Russians isn't just a blind spot. Someone's cutting them checks.

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It was less the shoes and more the "being on the tube" I think

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I never specified comments from *where*

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British public transport sounds like an introvert's heaven.

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