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Crazychessplaya

 toerag  
    n    (Brit)  
slang  a contemptible or despicable person  
    (C20: originally, a beggar, tramp: from the pieces of rag they wrapped round their feet)

theoreticalboy

This place is a continual reinforcement of the dictum that sometimes one must do evil to do good.

mrguy888
theoreticalboy wrote:

This place is a continual reinforcement of the dictum that sometimes one must do evil to do good.


Such as spamming trolls to death?

Crazychessplaya

Chode - a strange word with many a connotation.

Crazychessplaya

jack·boot also jack-boot  (jkbt)

n.
1. A stout military boot that extends above the knee.
2. A person who uses bullying tactics, especially to force compliance.
3. The spirit sustaining and motivating a militaristic, highly aggressive, or totalitarian regime or system.
 
Learned it today, from Netzach.
Crazychessplaya

Just learned from Gil-Gandel:

Crazychessplaya

Learned from Eyechess in his recent thread on HOS quality: