25-07-2023, 21:46
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Re: Beat the cost of living crisis with a 99p steak grown from human flesh!
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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
Yup.
It's a Black Mirror type of story which sounds so ridiculous that it must be true!
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal
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A Modest Proposal For preventing the Children of Poor People From being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and For making them Beneficial to the Publick,[1] commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729.
The essay suggests that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food to rich gentlemen and ladies. This satirical hyperbole mocked heartless attitudes towards the poor, who were predominantly Irish Catholic (i.e., "Papists"),[2] as well as British policy towards the Irish in general.
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