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Did Epstein sell to Putin any copies of sex crimes tapes?

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It is SUCH bad taste to refer to this, when you must know that Mr. Epstein is no longer a billionaire since the massacre at Bowling Green!

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If they like him it's ok.

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That's just so beautiful, man.

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Is he the world's second-best blackmailer? After a certain national leader, not our own?

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Am I the only one who thinks that Deutsche Bank is an appropriate name for that particular institution?

No?

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Sorry I didn't know how to properly share, this is 5 newborn Yorkshire Terriers. I am sleeping next to their mummy in our whelping room. Shel

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[deleted. Just realized this is a dead thread.]

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Maybe I'm too familiar with German to get it -- it just means "German Bank", which is pretty generic.

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I remember reading an article once that said that rats, as social animals, are actually very supportive of each other.

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They'll readily hire people without certification, some of whom turn out to be excellent teachers, and some of whom do not. A school I attended as a kid had a physics teacher who had been hired as a swim coach; the kids in his class took up a collection to send him back to school. My own mother was hired without a degree by a girls school, and went on to a 20+ year career as a legendary English teacher and drama coach. I"m not exaggerating in the least.

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In other words, what is the Upper East Side (I mean, even as we speak, in our iconic cultural capital writ large)--UpEside upspeak for 'kompromat'?

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Is there--what?-- to go along with the 'Stockholm Syndrome', say, a 'Bratislava Syndrome' (or something), the point of which is that the blackmailee falls in love with the blackmailer, and wants to give him, shall we say, a $77m townhouse?

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One bitcoin is more than 10k right now.

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I know, but I've always pronounced it "Douche Bank".

Because let's be honest. At LEAST a quarter of the douchey financial bullshit I keep seeing has that bank named SOMEWHERE in the article.

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