Ugandan runner Rebecca Cheptegei: Olympic athlete dies days after being set alight by ex-boyfriend
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Marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei, 33, was doused in petrol after returning home from church.
      • norimee@lemmy.worldEnglish
        72·
        11 days ago

        It’s the Exception that proves the rule, is it not?

        I wish the majority or at least a lot of people were like Mr. Rogers, but truth is, he was exceptional.

        • ObjectivityIncarnate@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          10 days ago

          Can someone explain where the notion of an exception proving the rule came from? This has never made the slightest bit of sense to me, lol.

          • lobut@lemmy.caEnglish
            3·
            10 days ago

            I remember wrestling with that for years. I dunno, my last interpretation of it was the fact that if it was rare and considered an exception then the rule has a point?

            I dunno. I’m more than likely wrong but that’s as far as I could go with it.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      22·
      10 days ago

      Yeah. Climate change is just the earth getting a fever in an attempt to rid itself of the human virus.

      Part of my hopes it succeeds.