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临江之人畋，得麋麑，畜之。入门，群犬垂涎，扬尾皆来。其人怒，怛之。自是日抱就犬，习示之，使勿动，稍使与之戏。积久，犬皆如人意。麋麑稍大，忘己之麋也，以为犬良我友，抵触偃仆，益狎。犬畏主人，与之俯仰甚善，然时啖其舌。
三年，麋出门，见外犬在道甚众，走欲与为戏。外犬见而喜且怒，共杀食之，狼藉道上，麋至死不悟。
A man from Linjiang went hunting and caught a fawn which he took home to raise. As he brought it through his gate, his hounds began to slaver and crowed towards him wagging their tails. The man became angry and admonished the dogs. From then on he would hold the fawn in his arms and bring it near the dogs so that they would get used to it being there but not do anything. He then gradually allowed the hounds to play with the fawn. As time went by, the dogs behaved as the man intended. As the fawn grew it forgot it was a deer and thought the dogs were its good friends. It would bump and wrestle with them in play becoming ever more familiar. The hounds feared their master so they played nicely with the fawn, though from time to time they would lick their lips.
Three years passed and the deer went outside the gate [for the first time]. He saw many dogs on the road outside and ran over wanting to play with them. The outside dogs were both delighted and stirred up by this sight, and together killed and ate the deer, leaving nothing but a bloody mess on the road. Even to its dying moment, the deer was not aware [of its mistake].
*A Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation ("SLAPP") is a lawsuit or a threat of lawsuit that is intended to intimidate and silence critics by burdening them with the cost of a legal defense until they abandon their criticism or opposition. Winning the lawsuit is not necessarily the intent of the person filing the SLAPP. The plaintiff's goals are accomplished if the defendant succumbs to fear, intimidation, mounting legal costs or simple exhaustion and abandons the criticism. A SLAPP may also intimidate others from participating in the debate.That's just fundamentally unfair.
...likely inspired by Halo, "in which players can perform a posturing move over a defeated enemy,"Which, considering that the teabag maneuver probably wasn't the original intent of the crouch, is about as honest as saying "Lego blocks, a type of toy with which children can build 3D penises..."
But really. I like a lot of what you bring to this site, but you're making way too much out of this.
posted by dunkadunc at 4:13 AM on January 2