>>>However, it also amazes me when people consider time served trivial if it isn't life or the full amount of the original sentence.
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>>I'm amazed that the words "original sentence" is used. "40 years, 1 day, 3 hours, 2 minutes and 16 seconds", now that would be original. Exactly 40 years, not.
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>>>Now imagine you had been in prison ever since. Would you consider that a light sentence?
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>>Nope, it has the dark overtones, no matter how much it calls for imagination.
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>But a lager taste can be found as well.

Good one... except it would be nearly impossible to explain the taste here. The nearest description is simply "beer", but that would just bring wrong images into most minds.