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Bulldozers can be used to grade surfaces prior to buildings being constructed... Buildings in which crimes are committed, from financial fraud to outright murder.

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Something interesting I read about building a foundation for a structure is that the soil below the foundation should be undisturbed. So can't grade below the surface for the future foundation.

A church which owns land, much land. Land on which houses have been built. Houses in which it is statistically probable that private acts of lesboid love have been committed![0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVRODdXVI3Q content warning: extensive presentation of lesbianism as some sort of crime. I do believe the sketch is however poking fun at people who do seem to think that way and not promoting it as a valid viewpoint itself.

Stephen Fry has been out as a gay man for a very long time. It's very hard to believe he could be promoting homophobia.

If you think this skit is promoting homophobia you need to work on your media literacy. If anything it's lampooning homophobia. The entire situation is portrayed as being absurdly focused on the witness' (alleged) sexual orientation.

Just because you portray something doesn't mean you endorse it. Alan Howard portrays the ring in the Lord of the Rings, That does not make him (or the movie) evil incarnate. Similarly Stephen Fry portrays a barrister with a weird obsession with lesbianism, that does not make him (or the skit) homophobic.

Bulldozers themselves have been used to murder. There were examples given in the article? Not sure the point of this comment?

> Bulldozers themselves have been used to murder. There were examples given in the article?

https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/israelpa...

killdozer? although "No one else was injured or killed,[1] in part due to timely evacuation orders"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Heemeyer

Here, I got another: https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19910912/1305069/ir...

I believe the comment's point is sarcasm

I believe it was what we call a joke.

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