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If I eat food, eat food with my crew

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If I roll deep,
Roll deep with my crew
If I eat food,
Eat food with my crew
If I smoke weed,
Smoke weed with my crew

How about you?
How about your crew?

This quote has variously been misattributed over the years to Benjamin Franklin, Ludwig von Mises, and Adam Weishaupt. In fact we can now say with some certainty that its author was one of the members of "The Roll Deep Crew":

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God help us all

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Henry Farrell:
The apex of contemporary elite culture is not occupied by writers, poets and artists, but by a chimerical combination of Jack Welch, Malcolm Gladwell, Thomas Friedman, and the anonymous scribes of the Economist magazine. Large circulation publications either fail even to pretend to pay attention to high culture (Time and Newsweek) or commoditize it (Vanity Fair, which is less a magazine than a locus of exchange between celebrities who wish they were intellectuals, and intellectuals who wish they were celebrities).

The end of Science

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nobel.jpegSome downright credible-seeming research, via The Times of India:
An average bloke devotes a good 43 minutes a day eyeing up 10 different girls, researchers have revealed.
What you are wondering, of course, is if a finding regarding "blokes" is generalizable to the average "dude"? A Nobel Prize is hanging on the answer.