“Judge Thokozile Masipa called him “a good candidate for rehabilitation.”

Pretty sad that we have the be grateful for a six year sentence (which, let’s be real, he likely won’t even serve half of that) because they were originally going to put him on house arrest.

I was like 12

That is what I meant. But Derby wins. I’m silenced, and will rely on others to flag or dismiss me.

I didn’t walk back what I said because I didn’t say anything wrong.

You do have a point - note the difference in tone and reporting styles by the same author when it is a non-celebrity who suffered an unusual death (although in this case, it was a victim of domestic violence who was murdered): http://jezebel.com/a-woman-has-be…

Is that what happened? Wow, all that hard work getting into the The Black, ruined. RUINED!

Truly*

A trooolee patronising comment, well done.

Truly

“Truly” and not “truely.”

*truly

You spelled ‘truly’ wrong 😉

If you’re going to be an asshole and correct other people’s spelling EVEN WHEN YOU UNDERSTOOD WHAT THEY MEANT make sure your own spelling is impeccable. It’s TRULY not TRUELY.

As a Canadian, I feel like I can say this is the result of too much cheap beer and picking the wrong wild mushrooms.

Correct. This story smells to high heaven of bullshit.

Could have been Australian!

wait just a damn minute! Are you saying that you’re skeptical that a person out picking mushrooms evaded a hungry wolf for 12 hours finally using a bear to defeat it? What are your problems with this story? That the wolf seemed to have a pretty long agenda? That a competent woodsperson who could suss out a mama bear’s…

It’s spelled ‘truly’, as in ‘It’s truly the case that when people mistype a homophonous word, it’s often not because they’re confused, but rather that the muscle memory in their fingers has its own ideas. And pointing out a spelling error that didn’t get in the way of your understanding what they were communicating is…

She’s also so Canadian: