Re: OT: And you thought the world was sane...
Bah... those Arabs are just playing 'tit for tat' on the lawsuit thing. If the Jews can claim they have a 'right' to a land their distant ancestors occupied 2,000+ years ago, then the Arabs can claim they have a 'right' to compensation for another wrong 3,000+ years ago. Funny in a dark sort of way, but they're probably aiming for a political effect rather than humour. That's clever to use the Torah itself as evidence in the case since it's the basis for the claim on Israel/Palestine as well. The lawsuits of a few years ago over the unpaid insurance & whatnot from the WW II era probably gave them the idea.
How is watching students' weight an 'insanity'? Aren't schools supposed to be monitoring the health and welfare of the students?
Dictionaries don't have to be sane. They just document how people talk and they're doing their job... If the contents of the dictionary are getting weird it's because of people actually talking that way.
Again, this is quite normal. It's our modern world where people don't get married until they're nearly 30 or something (the age of first marriage is still creeping up) that is the abberation. And marriage was a financial deal between families, not a 'love' match. Children would routinely be pledged (betrothed) by their parents soon after being born as a way of forming an alliance with another family. They would be married as soon as possible because lifepsans were short and you wanted the next generation of babies as soon as you could get them.
I'd say only the first item here really fits the 'insane' Category and it's a response to another type of insanity they have been subjected to.
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