# Pitting the Zimmerman trial circus

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-zimmerman-trial-circus/663419>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [July 13, 2013, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-zimmerman-trial-circus/663419 "2013-07-13T19:53:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Troppus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a587f6/32.png) [@Troppus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troppus)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-zimmerman-trial-circus/663419/799 "2013-07-19T08:30:10Z")

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> [@Tequila\_Party](#):
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> I’ll try one more time and speak slower.
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> Because
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> you
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> are
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> coming
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> off
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> as
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> unhinged.
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> Doesn’t matter what anyone else would do or if she, gasp, gets away with a wrong opinion. Save your blood pressure. The only person you can control is you.\*\* And even if you keep going on and on at her like some demanding deranged monkey, that doesn’t mean she’ll answer you. Why? Because no matter how worked up you get, you can’t _make_ her do anything. So, I repeat that you ought to let it go. Otherwise, you might just turn into the board loon. \*\*
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> Unless that’s your goal.

Pah ha ha (bolding mine)

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