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Ken Burch

(50,254 posts) Wed Dec 13, 2017, 10:16 PM Dec 2017

Could we maybe come up with a substitute for "(name's) turn in the barrel"?

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Here's the actual origin of that phrase(trigger warning for anyone who's been sexually assaulted).

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=in%20the%20barrel

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Could we maybe come up with a substitute for "(name's) turn in the barrel"? (Original Post) Ken Burch Dec 2017 OP

Franken was really pushing the investigation into the Trump/Russia guillaumeb Dec 2017 #1

I get that and am aware of the payback aspect of what was done to him. Ken Burch Dec 2017 #2

Agreed. eom guillaumeb Dec 2017 #6

Good Godz leftstreet Dec 2017 #3

Sorry. Your response caused me to add a trigger warning in the OP, though. Ken Burch Dec 2017 #4

I honestly thought it meant shooting fish in a barrel irisblue Dec 2017 #5

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)

1. Franken was really pushing the investigation into the Trump/Russia

Reply to Ken Burch (Original post)

Wed Dec 13, 2017, 10:19 PM

Dec 2017

connection.

Mueller is also being harassed by various House lunatics. The pattern is clear.

Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)

2. I get that and am aware of the payback aspect of what was done to him.

Reply to guillaumeb (Reply #1)

Wed Dec 13, 2017, 10:59 PM

Dec 2017

I just wish we weren't using the punchline from a rape joke to describe it.

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)

6. Agreed. eom

Reply to Ken Burch (Reply #2)

Thu Dec 14, 2017, 05:53 PM

Dec 2017

leftstreet

(36,109 posts)

3. Good Godz

Reply to Ken Burch (Original post)

Wed Dec 13, 2017, 11:00 PM

Dec 2017

I didn't know that

Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)

4. Sorry. Your response caused me to add a trigger warning in the OP, though.

Reply to leftstreet (Reply #3)

Wed Dec 13, 2017, 11:08 PM

Dec 2017

n/t.

irisblue

(32,980 posts)

5. I honestly thought it meant shooting fish in a barrel

Reply to Ken Burch (Original post)

Wed Dec 13, 2017, 11:19 PM

Dec 2017

i.e. an easy target.

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