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’s all just love one another”.</p><p id="3f5f">It completely cuts away any possibility of intelligent discourse.</p><p id="cf5b">Until I read this I hadn’t realized how many times I’ve been floored with that remark and been left with a feeling of “having been mauled by a dead sheep”.</p><figure id="af55"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*uHE2VJIKNSr9-PvITCshQQ.jpeg"><figcaption>The granola jibe is a woolly touchy-feely brickwalling disguised as free love.</figcaption></figure><p id="351d">Update 20 August 2016:</p><p id="252f">I realize now that I’ve been smarmed:</p><div

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Granola: I’ve been Mauled by a Dead Sheep

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Brilliant and Biting

I had to read this a couple of times to fully appreciate it.

It’s the granola one that really gets me. “Let’s all just love one another”.

It completely cuts away any possibility of intelligent discourse.

Until I read this I hadn’t realized how many times I’ve been floored with that remark and been left with a feeling of “having been mauled by a dead sheep”.

The granola jibe is a woolly touchy-feely brickwalling disguised as free love.

Update 20 August 2016:

I realize now that I’ve been smarmed:

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