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I self-flagellate constantly over having dropped out to get married, which is the WORST reason EVER and WHAT THE FUCK, CAT.
Result of Car Conversation Somewhere In Albany While a Mad Taxi Passenger Shot at Police yuki_onna 2009
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Hello Jimmie, the anti-Americanism makes me sick. we gave the world many good things & saves many a country's arses. yet, your ilk would have us self-flagellate. what nonsense.
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I, meanwhile, fight tears and the urge to self-flagellate when this is all over.
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I can't help but feel that whenever Westminster decides to self-flagellate over the conduct of its MPs, it usually coincides with the burying of other bad news.
John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the... 2008
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Let's all pound our chests, gnash our teeth, self-flagellate, whatever: it's symbolic at best and, worse, hurts Obama.
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Nowhere in that post did I express reluctance to be in solidarity with light-skinned women nor put messed up conditions on light-skinned women for that solidarity must self-flagellate, must mea culpa all over the place...
"All That Yellow Wasted" Anxious Black Woman 2008
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I can't help but feel that whenever Westminster decides to self-flagellate over the conduct of its MPs, it usually coincides with the burying of other bad news.
John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the... 2008
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There is a small part of me sympathetic to Imus 'sense of victimization, just out of simple understanding of human nature: a man can only prostrate himself for so long, self-flagellate, and be flagellated before he feels bitter, before he feels the punishment is unjust.
Stacy Parker Aab: The Trouble With Imus' "It's Not Fair, Other People Do It" Defense 2008
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Many Conservatives won't do so, which is patently wrong, and serves no purpose but to self-flagellate themselves about how poor President Bush is misunderstood.
Bush says the war is "sapping our soul." Ann Althouse 2007
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But it seems that we have to hate ourselves so much for being human, we Americans, that here ` s another thing to, like, self-flagellate over, like, "Oh, we ` re ruining our Earth."
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