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Quotation of the Day for January 6, 2017"There's nothing they need, nothing they don't own already, nothing they even want. So you buy them a solar-powered waving queen; a belly button brush; a silver-plated ice cream tub holder; a "hilarious" inflatable zimmer frame; a confection of plastic and electronics called Terry the Swearing Turtle; or - and somehow I find this significant - a Scratch Off World wall map. "They seem amusing on the first day of Christmas, daft on the second, embarrassing on the third. By the twelfth they're in landfill. For thirty seconds of dubious entertainment, or a hedonic stimulus that lasts no longer than a nicotine hit, we commission the use of materials whose impacts will ramify for generations." - George Monbiot, in the article The Gift of Death, published in the Guardian, 11th December 2012. [http://www.monbiot.com/2012/12/10/the-gift-of-death/] Submitted by: Terry Labach Jan. 5, 2017  |
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