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[jazzypom]

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[lady_teazle]

As always, thank you, OP. 😘

Here’s a tweet with a great thread and links regarding the human rights problems in Qatar, with special reference to Bayern Munich.

https://twitter.com/ftamsut/status/983303867520647169?s=21

Oooh, thanks for this thread

[jazzypom]

Interesting! Off to read now.

[funhouse]

swallow frogs?

it's a metaphor

[jazzypom]

It's taken from Mark Twain, when he says that if you want to get a difficult task done (swallow the frog) you do it the first thing/part in your day, instead of putting it off and dreading it. I'm trying to just swallow my frogs

RE: it's a metaphor

[funhouse]

is he related to shania? that sounds like good advice though

Re: RE: it's a metaphor

[jazzypom]

That I don't know. Mark Twain was a 19th C American writer known for his wit as well as the novels Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. Shania Twain is a Canadian singer from a hardscrabble background who blew up (with all the attendant dramas).