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12 minutes ago, devon TWiG said:

I have spent time in South Africa and the murder rate is very high , so I doubt they keep all the murderers in jail for life ...knowing the mentality of life there they get let out to murder would be murderers to keep the jail population down !!!

.....or enter political life 

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I forget the Terry Pratchet quote on his definition of suicide, included insulting various fictional characters in his city, the US has suicide by police (or something like that where they can't do it themselves so goad the police on), perhaps this is the Russian version, suicide by Putin ?

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On 07/01/2024 at 19:54, Steven P said:

I forget the Terry Pratchet quote on his definition of suicide, included insulting various fictional characters in his city, the US has suicide by police (or something like that where they can't do it themselves so goad the police on), perhaps this is the Russian version, suicide by Putin ?

“Murder was in fact a fairly uncommon event in Ankh-Morpork, but there were a lot of suicides. Walking in the night-time alleyways of The Shades was suicide. Asking for a short in a dwarf bar was suicide. Saying 'Got rocks in your head?' to a troll was suicide. You could commit suicide very easily, if you weren't careful.”

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10 hours ago, Peter 1955 said:

“Murder was in fact a fairly uncommon event in Ankh-Morpork, but there were a lot of suicides. Walking in the night-time alleyways of The Shades was suicide. Asking for a short in a dwarf bar was suicide. Saying 'Got rocks in your head?' to a troll was suicide. You could commit suicide very easily, if you weren't careful.”

What a mind he had. I think I've either read or listened to everything he published by now. It makes for great background noise for mundane tasks like log splitting or hedge cutting.

I'm currently on "the science of discworld; the globe" 

The combination of actual scientific research, total fantasy and how he integrated the two with humour and class is unparalleled in my opinion.

(I know he had help with some of them)

Such a shame he went the way he did.

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