# Lots of tots rot!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [June 4, 2014, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053 "2014-06-04T19:38:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 10
### Author:  [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2014, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/181 "2014-06-14T00:11:07Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#):
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> The trick is to have sex with the foxes so they are too busy tending to the baby foxes and then you eat the chickens.
I do not want to do logic puzzles in Drunky Smurf’s brain. It’s scary in there.
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### Author:  [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2014, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/182 "2014-06-14T02:31:41Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#):
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> The trick is to have sex with the foxes so they are too busy tending to the baby foxes and then you eat the chickens.
I thought the answer was to kill (and roast) the chickens, kill (and skin) the foxes and grind the grain for bread.
So you have a nice lunch of roast chicken and fresh bread and give the foxskin wrap to your sweetie, so you can have some serious “Thank you!!!” sex in the boat.
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### Author:  [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2014, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/183 "2014-06-14T14:53:59Z")
[QUOTE=Skywatcher;17454185
Then there’s the time when I upended a couch so a heavy snorer would go up to bed rather than keep me awake.[/QUOTE]
What the FUCK does this mean? Fenris’ post was absolutely hilarious, but I really really need to have this sentence diagrammed or dissected by a scholar. Or I won’t get any sleep at night. And my bunnies will die.
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### Author:  [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2014, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/184 "2014-06-14T20:28:26Z")
I’m all for making fun of Skywatcher, but this isn’t rocket science people. He’s saying he was staying the night over at someone’s place or something and one of the people who actually lived there fell asleep on a couch in the same room he was trying to sleep.
┬─┬ノ( º \_ ºノ) . . . (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2014, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/185 "2014-06-14T21:34:55Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#):
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> I’m all for making fun of Skywatcher, but this isn’t rocket science people. He’s saying he was staying the night over at someone’s place or something and one of the people who actually lived there fell asleep on a couch in the same room he was trying to sleep.
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> ┬─┬ノ( º \_ ºノ) . . . (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
So then how did that wind up in dead bunnies?:dubious:
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### Author:  [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2014, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/186 "2014-06-14T21:48:21Z")
> [@kayaker](#):
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> so then how did that wind up in dead bunnies?:dubious:
┬─┬ノ( º \_ ºノ) . . . (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
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### Author:  [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2014, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/187 "2014-06-14T22:17:38Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#):
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> I’m all for making fun of Skywatcher, but this isn’t rocket science people. He’s saying he was staying the night over at someone’s place or something and one of the people who actually lived there fell asleep on a couch in the same room he was trying to sleep.
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> ┬─┬ノ( º \_ ºノ) . . . (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
A) the ascii is hilarious.
B) I’m having problems picturing Lute flipping someone else’s couch. He’s a weirdo, but outside of killing bunnies and brain-damaging kittens, I can’t see him being invited to a slumber party and flipping his host’s couch. His own? Sure. But someone else’s? He’s not an animal!
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2014, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/188 "2014-06-15T00:16:53Z")
Well, it probably made sense to HIM. Remember, he’s different, so we just have to except his excuses.
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### Author:  [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2014, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/189 "2014-06-15T00:19:26Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#):
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> Fuck Godwinizing-The Nazis didn’t do it to their own children.
Yeah, actually they did. In addition to murdering Jews, they also murdered thousands of their own [disabled children](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_euthanasia_in_Nazi_Germany).
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2014, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/190 "2014-06-15T01:01:47Z")
Technically, wouldn’t Magda Goebbels count too? I know, considering what else the Goebbels did it’s probably peanuts, but killing your own fucking children like that, that’s pretty messed up.
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### Author:  [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2014, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/191 "2014-06-15T14:12:13Z")
That sentence really didn’t make sense to me, so thank you. It makes sense now after reading the proper interpretation.
But really, upending a couch that a sleeping person is on because their snoring is keeping you awake sounds more like a \*\*ducati \*\*move than a Lute one (because of the near-implausibility to jerkishness ratio). Right?
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### Author:  [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2014, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/192 "2014-06-16T21:16:04Z")
The important point here is that this thread has still managed to be about Skywatcher.
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### Author:  [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2014, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/193 "2014-06-17T00:04:40Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#):
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> ┬─┬ノ( º \_ ºノ) . . . (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
(^o^)/
So awesome!!!
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### Author:  [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2014, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/194 "2014-06-17T00:32:29Z")
Stop flipping tables!
(╯°Д°）╯︵ /(.□ . )
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### Author:  [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2014, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/195 "2014-06-17T23:57:30Z")
Ok.
(ノ^_^)ノ┻━┻ ┬─┬ ノ( ^_^ノ)
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### Author:  [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2014, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/196 "2014-06-22T12:51:10Z")
OK, it looks like the original story was bullshit. Here’s the Associated Press’ [retraction](http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_IRELAND_CHILDRENS_MASS_GRAVES?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-06-20-14-48-31).
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### Author:  [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2014, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/197 "2014-06-22T16:48:55Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#):
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> OK, it looks like the original story was bullshit. Here’s the Associated Press’ [retraction](http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_IRELAND_CHILDRENS_MASS_GRAVES?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-06-20-14-48-31).
So, “many” of the children received baptisms, they may not have been in a septic tank or perhaps only some were, and the orphanage opened in 1925.
But there are still hundreds of bodies of babies and children piled into a mass grave behind the building?
I don’t think any of that makes the original story “bullshit.”
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### Author:  [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2014, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/198 "2014-06-22T19:13:11Z")
Agreed.
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### Author:  [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2014, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/199 "2014-06-25T06:17:57Z")
The international media made some errors in their reporting of the story, but the fundamentals still appear to be totally true - there was an exceptionally high death rate at this home; the child were extremely poorly treated and suffered from malnutrition; the 796 dead ones are not known to be buried anywhere else; there are at least some bodies in the sewage tanks. That AP article relies on Brendan O’Neill from Spiked who is a well-known crank, and the Irish Times which has been desperately trying to bury this story since it broke.
[Here](http://izzykamikaze.tumblr.com/post/89770303451/vaults-under-tuambabies-site-are-part-of-sewage-system) is the most recent piece of research, which in fact suggests that the original story was pretty much true and those bodies quite likely are in the sewage tanks.
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### Author:  [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2014, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/200 "2014-06-26T06:32:54Z")
Sorry, one other thing I should have mentioned is that the religious order who ran the home (the Bon Secours Sisters) has hired the most expensive and aggressive PR firm in Ireland. They _really_ want this story to go away.
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