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Re:Police Accidentally Record Themselves Conspiring to Fabri... by cloudjacker on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @01:00PM (#12550031)
Bad apples emit a toxin that make other apples spoil faster.

It is basically the worst partial idiom to uphold the dignity of police officers

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Re:Police Accidentally Record Themselves Conspiring to Fabri... by maxerickson on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @02:02PM (#12550664)
It's not really a toxin though, it's a plant hormone.

http://postharvest.tfrec.wsu.edu/pages/N4I1C

Trapping that gas is why confined bananas will ripen faster.

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Re:Police Accidentally Record Themselves Conspiring to Fabri... by abysmallyideal on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @01:11PM (#12550152)
It is actually how Americans express the implication through a form of sarcasm. I don't know the exact term for that kind of expression , it isn't a direct sarcastic attack.

Instead of saying the whole org is bad, it expresses that the org 'is going bad'.

So even in the land of "free speech" alot of criticism against their institutions is veiled in various ways.

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