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Confusion on Jan 26, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Jailbreaking Is Not A Crime

Well, it doesn't work. These 'people' that they are trying to convince still have the same knee-jerk emotional reactions to the words, only now to our disadvantage.

As the parent says: for a bunch of smart guys, we keep doing stupid things. Stubbornly, with the excuse that it 'should work'. It doesn't. It's preaching to the quire.

ordinary on Jan 26, 2012 [–]

The saying is "preaching to the choir"[0]. :)

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[0] http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/choir#Noun

Moschops on Jan 26, 2012 | | [–]

The saying is also "preaching to the quire"[0]. :)

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[0]http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/quire#Noun_2

Confusion on Jan 26, 2012 | | [–]

Ah, thanks. For the longest time I used 'maby' instead of 'maybe' in Usenet posts, before someone pointed out it was wrong.

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