A conversation
"Well, what doesn't kill you can only make you stronger"
"What?"
"What what?"
"That's a load of balls"
"how is it?"
"AIDS. That doesn't kill you."
"Yes it does"
"No it doesn't, it destroys your immune system and paves the way for alll sorts of crap and then you die of a runny nose or something"
"Oh fine.... it's the exception that proves the rule, then."
"Balls"
"What?"
"I hate that phrase. How can an exception prove a rule? If anything an exception UNDERMINES a rule!"
"...Shut up Tom."
"What?"
"What what?"
"That's a load of balls"
"how is it?"
"AIDS. That doesn't kill you."
"Yes it does"
"No it doesn't, it destroys your immune system and paves the way for alll sorts of crap and then you die of a runny nose or something"
"Oh fine.... it's the exception that proves the rule, then."
"Balls"
"What?"
"I hate that phrase. How can an exception prove a rule? If anything an exception UNDERMINES a rule!"
"...Shut up Tom."