There are some absolute gems on the BBC's "Have Your Say" page at the moment, in a thread about whether the law should be changed to ensure parents are told if their under-16 daughter is having an abortion...
quote:You can't buy a packet of cigarettes and smoke, but you can have an operation. No wonder this country is the laughing stock of the world. We have less moral or ethical backbone than any other nation, anywhere in the world." Keith Hutchinson, Sunderland
It gets off to a great start in the first sentence which plays on the supposed absurdity that an under sixteen year old can't smoke, yet can have an operation. Of course this juxtaposition only works if you believe that 'having an operation' is somehow worse than smoking, which is kind of stupid. And by 'kind of' I mean 'very'. Imagine: "Oh yeah - you keep having a go at me about my smoking, but let's not forget that earlier in the year you had an operation! So!"
The second sentence comes out of nowhere - a product of total paranoia and insecurity. I can't think of any examples of the UK being 'the laughing stock of the world', except maybe at brief points in the past during disastrous sports tournaments. Keith strikes me as one of those people, who whenever he hears people laughing, imagines they're laughing at him.
My favourite, though, is the final statement, which ramps the stakes absolutely sky high. "We have less moral or ethical backbone than any other nation, anywhere in the world". Regardless of how you define 'moral or ethical backbone' (and lets remember that deciding to allow teenage girls to have this operation in privacy actually represents a strong ethical decision on the part of the medical profession), I think Keith's assertion is open to question. Maybe we should move Keith to Somalia, for example, a country that has lack effective central government since the nineties (I'm sure of my facts on this - it was in Black Hawk Down), where warlords train children to fight in their militia, where food is hoarded and starvation of the population is used as a weapon, and Keith can asses whether this represents a stronger moral backbone than a health system trying to help teenagers in trouble.
I nicked this next one from Monkey Susan...
quote:The real reason why a waiting list for, say, a hip operation is so long is because the said specialist is too busy performing abortions. Why is the human race so consistently disappointing?
quote:186,000 babies killed last year and only a tiny fraction imperfect. The official immigration figure for last year is almost the same number. We are told we need foreign doctors and nurses because of a shortfall. Hardly surprising when the willingness to violate the Hippocratic oath and kill healthy babies in the womb is a career requirement. I wait thirteen weeks before I can see a consultant, presumably because the rest are too busy either killing babies or doing fertility treatments. Surreal.
rob brownell, colchester
I really like that last bit that tries to mesh ideas about doctors performing abortions, with doctors doing fertility treatment. What's his point? That somehow if we stopped abortions and fertility treatment then it would all come out in the wash? That individual circumstances are irrelevant in the face of a net gain to society of healthy babies? Also - what's to do with that figure on the immigrants coming into the country? Is he suggesting that we're getting in immigrants to stop the gap created by teenage girls killing their babies? That if we didn't allow abortions, than we wouldn't have to allow immigrants and refugees into the country.
Here's one of my favourites:
quote:"When kids drive a car and kill someone. They should be heald responsible. This should be the case with underage sex."
This next one is actually very sensible, though the last line reminds me of the bit in Starship Troopers where the verteran with no arms or legs sighs nostalgically "Mobile infantry made me the man I am today!"...
quote:'When I was 16, I had an abortion. I didn't tell my family at the time as my Dad’s reaction scared me more than the procedure itself. 5 years later, I told my Mum - she thanked me for not telling her. She said I couldn't have coped on my own – she’d have had to help. She said she’d have been forced to tell my Dad - something that would have been catastrophic for our relationship. If there had been a risk to my confidentiality – It would have been even worse - I wouldn’t be where I am today.
Name Withheld, Reading, Berkshire
So there you have it - a catalogue of stupidity from Britain today. You can debate the issue yourselves if that's what makes you happy, or post your own snippets of idiocy from elsewhere on the internet. Really, though I think you should just applaud me for wittily putting down people who can't answer me back, when all they've done is express an opinion on an emotive subject.
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
well done thorn! Your trademark vitriolic humour certainly makes those people look foolish. If only they knew! They think that they're making a good point, but by humourously critiquing their opinions, you've not just proved that the vast majority of people stupid, but more importantly, that you are clever.
*applause* Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
Although probably not as clever as Hippychick.
I may live to regret the timing of that joke.
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Posted by Gordon T Gofer (Member # 24) on :
I can only reiterate what Thorn said and add that if he'd watched Black Hawk Down more carefully he'd have realised that War is Cool. Especially on 2 disk special edition DVD with the scrumptious licakable desert camouflage sleeve. Oh yes.
If I may be serious for a moment.
In the mind of a teenager would it not seem to be more preferable to visit a backstreet abortionist than to have one's parents discover you'd starting having a sex life before *golly gosh* the age of 30?
Again, like Thorn, I have truly inadequate points of reference: Alfie (Micheal Caine version).
That and perhaps the enormous mental trauma abortion causes a women related to me by 2 previous girlfriends (as a result of relations sometime before they met me).
What a girl or young woman needs is only for them to decide. If they want their parents to know about an abortion, should that not be thier decision to make?
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
Blimey! I wasn't expecting that to happen.
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
what did you press, Jonesy? What did you press?
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Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
I-I've no idea. It's quite dark in here and I was just absentmindedly stroking the keys on my keyboard. You know when you're hovering over a post and you press the shift button like five times or something and the Word paperclip asks you if you are trying to use stick keys to access the treasure map template? It was like that, but I've no idea what combination of keystrokes made it happen.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
I love it when people moan about 'foreign people coming over here, taking our jobs' when the majority of british people I see in the hospital spit on the walls, hide in the toilets to smoke or in some cases, steal portable toilets.
M Nut, Foolham.
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
quote:Originally posted by jonesy999: I-I've no idea. It's quite dark in here and I was just absentmindedly stroking the keys on my keyboard. You know when you're hovering over a post and you press the shift button like five times or something and the Word paperclip asks you if you are trying to use stick keys to access the treasure map template? It was like that, but I've no idea what combination of keystrokes made it happen.
It must be some kind of Easter Egg.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
And that's just the staff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!LOL
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
I have seen two (2) dead cockroaches in the coridor of my hospital. They were British cockroaches.
Posted by Vogon Poetess (Member # 164) on :
quote:Originally posted by Abby: I have seen two (2) dead cockroaches in the coridor of my hospital. They were British cockroaches.
How do you know? They could be skanky foreign roaches stealing dirt and medical waste from our sturdy native kind.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
I checked their ID cards.
Posted by rooster (Member # 738) on :
Interesting that the UK is singled out when the US had the same laws (I think recently they passed the parent notification requirement). Plus, we let kids die for their country before they can get drunk, which seems a bit more backwards.
Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
Tommy Lee is rocking Hoxton tomorrow night, doing his bit towards stopping this ID card madness.
And no, parents shouldn't be informed. What if it's the Dad or Uncle or Brother that's the father? Or - even worse - what if it's that horrific Mum that splashed her daughter's privacy over the Daily Mail ?
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Maybe her mum wanted to see the world?
Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
That's what credit cards are for.
Posted by Gordon T Gofer (Member # 24) on :
quote:Originally posted by Abby: I have seen two (2) dead cockroaches in the coridor of my hospital.
Tutus on dead Cockroaches? Whatever next? You probaby be descrating dead ethnic minorities with bacon. Shameonyou!
Posted by sabian (Member # 6) on :
quote:Originally posted by Gordon T Gofer: You probaby be descrating dead ethnic minorities with bacon.
The other day, I took my eldest into school and one of her classmates had a ham sandwich for breakfast (better than the regular donut and bag of wotsits)...
Anyway, she started chasing this little muslim girl around with the sandwich going, "You want some ham? You know you want some ham! HAHA"
Now, I don't know if she was doing it in that 'lets be an obnoxious kid' way or 'you towlhead, I'm gonna rub pork on you' way... But, it made me giggle. Then I felt bad.
Then I giggled again.
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Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
you should feel bad
Posted by kovacs (Member # 28) on :
I overheard some girls at work the other day fretting about seeing their tutor after missing a lecture. Until one of them came up with a bright idea.
-- O, tell him it was Eid! that's what I told my tutor, about how it's really important to my family and my culture, all that? He totally went for it?
What a shower.
Posted by doc d (Member # 781) on :
i tell people its my culture to turn up drunk and/or hungover at least once a week.
Posted by doc d (Member # 781) on :
they don't believe me. i'm inventing a life i don't have. the most exciting thing in my days is the thought of expression of proteins detected by immunostaining.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Ick. I've just looked at the 'Have Your Say' comments on recently deceased author John Fowles> I didn't actually expect them to print my sarcastic tribute, but they did.
"I only recently discovered the work of John Fowles, reading The Magus out in Spain. The language was absolutely beautiful, but it got kind of repetitive after a while. No-one else I lent it to liked it much either.
Ian, Wimbledon"
I feel a bit bad now.
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
That should go on his gravestone.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Roy: That should go on his gravestone.
I reckon the words "a bit bad" should go on my own gravestone.
Anyway - on today's have your say, the topic is about the findings that having kids reduces testosterone. Keith Hutchinson from Sunderland opens his trap on this one, too. I'm getting to like him, now, mind...
quote:From personal experience most of the fathers who fit into the category of yob continue in this brain dead state, and in most cases bring up their kids in the same way. Both should be destroyed. The kid to prevent future criminal activity, the parent to prevent any further spread of their genes.
Keith Hutchinson, Sunderland, United Kingdom
I reckon Keith would actually make quite a good suitor for VP.
If anyone was in doubt about the findings, Steve from London lays it on the line:
quote:Prior to the birth of my son I was an unprincipled, vicious thug. Since my son's birth I've found I'm much more calm, reasonable and tolerant - sounds like the research is right.
Steve, London
Elsewhere, other contibutors are getting right to the heart of the matter with pin point clarity:
quote:Flintstones did not have children. Civil is a subject of great contradiction for any. Even the politicians gets wiped out in the wrong field when if comes to making them civilians or civilised. These days’ fathers have to learn the Windows and close the doors of the DTP. Quite a big responsibility. Why attach more?
In fairness - that contributor was actually from Dar Es Salaam. So what excuse does this next guy have?
quote:And I'd add this to all the cynics out there: you can't deny the findings - all you can do is question the conclusions. It's a bit like denying the existence of UFOs: of course they exist - by definition they are 'unidentified' flying objects. Sure, they might not be extra-terrestrial, but that's not the point...
tod malthus, Barnstaple
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Posted by Honeybaby (Member # 543) on :
quote:Originally posted by doc d: i tell people its my culture to turn up drunk and/or hungover at least once a week.
I claim the communion wine is potent stuff. Then I blame the teachers.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: Ick. I've just looked at the 'Have Your Say' comments on recently deceased author John Fowles> I didn't actually expect them to print my sarcastic tribute, but they did.
"I only recently discovered the work of John Fowles, reading The Magus out in Spain. The language was absolutely beautiful, but it got kind of repetitive after a while. No-one else I lent it to liked it much either.
Ian, Wimbledon"
I feel a bit bad now.
John Fowles is dead? Damn.
Posted by Endemic (Member # 821) on :
quote:Added: Thursday, 10 November, 2005, 09:47 GMT 09:47 UK I would like to know how many of the MP's that voted last night use public transport? Who are they to go against professional advice by the police? The next terrorist attack, should the MP'S that were against the 90 day containment be held responsible? I can tell you if any of my family, friends are effected in anyway by a terror attack i will! Mr Blair is trying to do anything in his power to stop 7/9 happening again and receiving no help from his so called colleagues. May be Mr Howard should call for the resignation of all the back benchers. It will be the only way Conservative will get in to power!
Tim Allen, Essex
Posted by Endemic (Member # 821) on :
I want to meet him.
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
quote:Originally posted by Endemic: I want to meet him.
You'd only cause him to flounce. Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
It's good to see that American stand up comedians turned sitcom actor turned voice over artists are taking an interest though. It's a sign of a healthy democracy.
[ 10.11.2005, 09:47: Message edited by: Dr. Benway ]
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
quote:Originally posted by Dr. Benway: It's good to see that American stand up comedians turned sitcom actors turned voice over artists are taking an interest though. It's a sign of a healthy democracy.
But he's also an ex coke addict and convicted felon. Is this the kind of people we want in our so-called healthy democracy?
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
they're okay as long as they don't get to vote, or go near playgrounds.
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
quote:Originally posted by Dr. Benway: they're okay as long as they don't get to vote, or go near playgrounds.
But they do get to vote. I have no problem with drug addicts, but someone dumb enough to go to jail shouldn't be allowed to choose who runs the country. Although it does help to explain two consecutive Bush terms.
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
exactly! If are sent down, then you no longer deserve to be a citizen. Why should you matter any more? Deal with it. It's important to give judges the ability to permanently remove civil rights. We're not running a fucking kibbutz here.
Posted by discodamage (Member # 66) on :
absolutely. most crims would probably or scrawl the words 'I DoNT FUkkIN NO duZ I' all over the voting paper anyway, or vote for a racialist party or something. democracy is better off ignoring anything they might rasp out of their idiot maws on the subject of democracy.
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
Good to know we're all on the same page.
Posted by rooster (Member # 738) on :
um, ralph, in most states ex-felons can't vote.
ETA: and the argument goes if they were then Bush would not have won.
[ 10.11.2005, 11:34: Message edited by: rooster ]
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
and in some states, it doesn't matter if you're a felon or not - you still can't vote!
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
quote:Originally posted by rooster: um, ralph, in most states ex-felons can't vote.
Most states.
quote: A growing number of states, nine in the past several years, are allowing convicted felons to regain their voting rights. Since 1996, nine states, including Maryland and Virginia, have eliminated some voting barriers for people with felony convictions, according to a report by the Sentencing Project, a think tank that advocates alternatives to imprisonment.
[ 10.11.2005, 11:44: Message edited by: ralph ]
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
the article continues..
quote: 'It's time for change', President of the Sentencing Project Will Fryham told reporters. 'By allowing felons to vote, we are adhering to the rights of Americans as stated in our beloved constitution. For too long, the only service we have offered is a last meal. Now, perhaps, we can offer these lost souls a final chance of redemption, before they follow the will of God and the American people'.
Posted by rooster (Member # 738) on :
Interesting, just read this:
quote: In six states that deny the vote to ex-offenders, one in four black men is permanently disenfranchised.
I'd say that negatively impacts the democratic party.
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
quote:Originally posted by Dr. Benway: the article continues..
quote: 'It's time for change', President of the Sentencing Project Will Fryham told reporters. 'By allowing felons to vote, we are adhering to the rights of Americans as stated in our beloved constitution. For too long, the only service we have offered is a last meal. Now, perhaps, we can offer these lost souls a final chance of redemption, before they follow the will of God and the American people'.
Indeed it does. But since I disagreed with what it stated, I decided to omit it.
The 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America permits states to deny the vote "for participation in rebellion, or other crime." It can be argued that prisoners and ex-cons alike should not be allowed the vote.
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
quote:Originally posted by rooster: I'd say that negatively impacts the democratic party.
I'd say that Democrats negatively impact the democratic party. Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Ooo! Political! I like jokes like that - ones that sound clever, but actually become increasingly meaningless the more you think about them.
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
It was pretty much meaningless the instant I posted it. Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Today on Have your say the BBC poses the question "Should women be blamed for being raped?" Well, "no, obviously not" is the answer to that one, but as ever the cretins are out in force. I know everyone's sick of this schtick now, but here's one that's worth considering...
quote:My best friend was raped after going out on a 'tarts and vicars' pub crawl where she engaged in sexually provocative games with strangers wearing next to nothing and drank copious amounts of booze. She stumbles home over the field by her house and one of the boys she had been teasing all night raped her. Although this act was despicable and inexcusable I chastised her severely for her idiocy.
Alex P
Thanks for that Alex! While we're on the subject of 'idiocy', you have to wonder about the mentality of a person who, when their mate is seriously assaulted, starts putting the boot into them for their idiocy, and then goes on the internet and brags about it from the moral high ground.
:spazz face:
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Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote: name and shame all rapists in their local area, making it very public on what they have been convicted for (with pictures).
Rich B, Chester, United Kingdom
That's just fucking sick.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Nick Weeks lays down the law.
quote:Women are not to blame if they are raped. Men are not to blame if *they* are raped (yes - it does happen, more frequently than many people realise). Gay people are not to blame if they are queerbashed.
None of us - ever - in any way are 'asking for it'. To suggest otherwise is to misunderstand the the violence that is the driver for both rape and queerbashing.
Nick Weeks, London
lol @ his use of 'queerbashed'
quote:Only the criminal is responsible for the crime. However, if I drove my BMW into an inner city area, left the keys on the bonnet, and walked away, I should not be surprised if it got stolen. There is behaviour that invites or encourages crime. I got robbed once because I did not close my front door. The thief was the thief, and was culpable, but I was stupid, and it's not "blaming the victim" to acknowledge that.
Garys advice: cut your tits off ladies.
I love your 'have your say' thread Thorn.
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Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
I like the running analogy between a woman being raped and having your car nicked.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
If todays the day to miniaturise a Thornspazz into a little smiley, then so be it:
Preffered the actual smiley.
Oh poo, it keeps the grey background. ???
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Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Did you know that immigrants are stealing our flu jabs?
quote:With all the money Britain have, and we can't afford a simple Flu jab!
It's time Britain stopped shipping money out to other countries all the time and started looking after our own!
My Dad has Rhumatoid Arthritis and if he caught Flu it'd Kill him!
Ceri Rowlands, Walsall West Midlands, United Kingdom
What I like/ hate about Ceri's post is the outrage that we can't even afford a simple flu jab, as though because it's a well known illness the cure must be cheap and easy to come by rather than being say, a massively expensive and continually elusive medical problem. Maybe she thinks the flu jab is lemsip ground up into a syringe.
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Posted by omikin (Member # 37) on :
i think it's an enormous achievement to see ceri type a [semi-]coherent sentence. with the level of intelligence she demonstrates in her post i would have thought she'd struggle to stand erect and breathe at the same time.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
How common is proper 'flu anyway? As opposed to a really fucking rough cold? I think I had flu once at university, where I had a steaming headache, I went pale, and I could hardly move, and every muscle in my body seared with the kind of wrenching burning pain that you get after, say, a really good workout. Anyway, it was far and away the worst I'd ever felt.
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
yeah i had that once, and I thought that I was going to die, right there, wearing that stupid little hat. It was quite disorientating, and I lost track of time. Waking up and it's night, then day, then night again, and the whole time shivering and unable to move. The whole experience was only 'bettered' by the time I ate an eighth of resin.
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Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: How common is proper 'flu anyway? As opposed to a really fucking rough cold? I think I had flu once at university, where I had a steaming headache, I went pale, and I could hardly move, and every muscle in my body seared with the kind of wrenching burning pain that you get after, say, a really good workout. Anyway, it was far and away the worst I'd ever felt.
S'posedly the difference between cold and flu is - if you won the lottery, no matter how bad your cold, you'd go get the money. If you've got flu you'll give the money to someone to put you out of your misery.
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
that's also the difference between a grade 3 and a grade 7 hangover.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
Oh oh! The flu rant is one of my favourites!
People bitching and moaning ...oh I have really bad flu today but I had to come to work to finish this project anyway!...WRONG That isn't flu!....oh I have flu so I can only go out for a little while...WRONG That isn't flu!...oh, I have flu I feel rubbish...WRONG If you are standing here whining at me then that isn't flu!
Additionally I was pleased to note that those fine people at Metro thought it would be a good idea, and definitely in the public interest, to run a story about what would happen if Bird Flu combined with Ebola. Apparently it would be really bad!!!1123!!! But is very unlikely. Looks like they had a spare page to fill and felt like shitting everyone up.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
quote:Originally posted by Dr. Benway: that's also the difference between a grade 3 and a grade 7 hangover.
You add a +2 modifier for a hangover shit though.
Posted by squeegy (Member # 136) on :
quote:Originally posted by Abby: what would happen if Bird Flu combined with Ebola.
That would be nasty. Loads of birds shitting blood everywhere.
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
do they have ebola round your way, squeegy? Ever caught it?
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by squeegy: That would be nasty. Loads of birds shitting blood everywhere.
Mmmmmm, Strawberry Guano...
Posted by squeegy (Member # 136) on :
quote:Originally posted by Dr. Benway: do they have ebola round your way, squeegy? Ever caught it?
Twice. The second time was a breeze though. Once your've shat your intestines out your ears nothing bothers you anymore.
Posted by Damon's Off (Member # 3) on :
On coursework and cheating Maynard has this to say:
quote: My father always said cheats never prosper and he wasn't an anti semite he was a man who had fought for his country. It seems to me that young people should be discouraged from cheating as it only leads to criminlaity in later years. I know.
Maynard Batting, Nottingham
Do jews cheat? Have I missed a meeting?
XXX D.O.
Posted by ben (Member # 13) on :
quote: My father always said cheats never prosper and he wasn't an anti semite he was a man who had fought for his country. It seems to me that young people should be discouraged from cheating as it only leads to criminlaity in later years. I know.
Imagine that. Writing comments that read like the auto-generated text that spammers use to thwart filtering software.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Here's a good one from that debate, where 'John' from Birmingham complains that job applicants can't even string a decent sentence together.
quote:
Course work was always going to be open to abuse and as such marks are not taken seriously, that is why when we interview we disregard formal education results and have applicants take our own tests, the results are no surprise, A grade A level students who cannot write a pormal response to an enquiry nor add up without a calculator and we are regularly told education standards are higher, I don't think so.
John, Birmingham
I wonder if those tests include learning the difference between a comma and a full stop.
Posted by scrawny (Member # 113) on :
*aghast*
Should breast feeding be banned in public? Keith Essex (not even Keith from Essex - the man is apparently one of Essex's many landed gentry) says YES:
quote: I personally find this sort of thing very embarrasing. It makes me feel like a peeping tom. Therefore I would agree that brest feeding in public should be banned. There are alternative places, consider others, please use them.
The BBC Have Your Say website makes me angry. Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
yeah. have your say makes me wonder if it is possible to renounce your citizenship of a country without actually having to, like, move to another one.
Posted by Damon's Off (Member # 3) on :
quote: Of course the death penalty works. If nothing else thats one less murderer on the street. Your way see them out killing again within 5 years. What kind of answer is that. Who cares whether any of these people ever get rehabilitated. We don't want them on the streets ever, nor do we want to be paying a fortune to keep them alive.
Keith Hutchinson, Sunderland, United Kingdom
Keith Hutchinson from Sunderland rules.
XXX D.O.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Damon's Off: Keith Hutchinson from Sunderland rules.
As a KH fan, you may be interested to take a look at his * message board and *online photo gallery.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: As a KH fan, you may be interested to take a look at his * message board
God, he may hate murderers, but he thinks nothing of paedophilia:
quote:Miner's Corner A great place to Remember the Miners
Sorry.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
And the prize for Best Thread Title Ever goes to *WINTER SEASON EGGSHOTTING TEAM GAME PLAN
quote: Apparently there have been lips wetted the far side of town, but the acorn doesn't fall far from the tree? the vodka bottle gets hoyed
Posted by Damon's Off (Member # 3) on :
quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: And the prize for Best Thread Title Ever goes to *WINTER SEASON EGGSHOTTING TEAM GAME PLAN
quote: Apparently there have been lips wetted the far side of town, but the acorn doesn't fall far from the tree? the vodka bottle gets hoyed
He is the ONLY ONE to have replied to HIS OWN thread. Perhaps this is because no one else can work out what on earth it is about? Are people throwing eggs at him?
XXX D.O.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
I think it's written in code. Perhaps he has succumbed to paranoia.
Posted by Damon's Off (Member # 3) on :
Scratch that. The ENTIRE Northeast Grassroots Forum seems to consist of him talking to himself. Go Keith!
XXX D.O.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Damon's Off: Scratch that. The ENTIRE Northeast Grassroots Forum seems to consist of him talking to himself. Go Keith!
Anyone fancy, Paying him a visit? Keith is so lonely, To the point of madness.
Imagine his face, reading visitors posts; Like a jehovas witness, For once invited in.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
Yeah, let's totally troll the fuck out of him!
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
In other news, *a local website (local to me, that is) reports on an interesting plan:
quote: Newbury.net have uncovered a plan by West Berkshire Council to rotate the remains of Donnington Castle through 360 degrees.
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
lets hope that they can turn those plan around quickly.
Posted by ben (Member # 13) on :
*groans, laughter, applause* Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
and it wasn't even filed on 1 April, unlike that BBC zombie story.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by H1ppychick: and it wasn't even filed on 1 April, unlike that BBC zombie story.
Everyday is the first of April in glamourous Newbury.
From Greenham Common, through the Bypass, to Jordan's Wedding, Newbury has seen it all.
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Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Not actually a quote from Have Your Say - this is actor Anthony Hopkins on his nwe film production of King Lear: "I think it would be interesting to go back to the old traditional thing of setting it in Denmark." He actually goes on to say that when he played Lear on stage, he was unhappy with his performance. Hardly suprising if he'd wandered into the wrong play.
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Posted by LowLevel (Member # 30) on :
Happiness is a cigar called King Lear
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
LOL HopkINS is tEH PWNED!!111!1!!
Posted by Nathan Bleak (Member # 1040) on :
I know this thread is tired and ancient, but I didn't want to spam up dang's thread on slaves anymore than I already had. I just wanted to share this thing that made me laugh...
Is he typing through one of those electronic voice boxes as well?
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Posted by Hades (Member # 57) on :
quote:The real reason why a waiting list for, say, a hip operation is so long is because the said specialist is too busy performing abortions. Why is the human race so consistently disappointing?
quote:186,000 babies killed last year and only a tiny fraction imperfect. The official immigration figure for last year is almost the same number. We are told we need foreign doctors and nurses because of a shortfall. Hardly surprising when the willingness to violate the Hippocratic oath and kill healthy babies in the womb is a career requirement. I wait thirteen weeks before I can see a consultant, presumably because the rest are too busy either killing babies or doing fertility treatments. Surreal.
rob brownell, colchester
Im guessing these people are far to busy worrying about the moral state of our country to consider that the doctor they are waiting for to do their hip opporation is very unlikly to be the same doctor secialising in abortions.
Posted by Vogon Poetess (Member # 164) on :
The current thread on bullying is similarly eye-bleedy.
quote: My son was a bullying counsellor at his school , he had a simple method of dealing with bullies , he told them if it continued he would see them outside school and give them a good kicking . Bullying stopped , but the teachers heard about it and removed him from the position .
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
I can't believe that. That persons son had bullying licked and they put someone else in charge. Incredible!
Posted by Nathan Bleak (Member # 1040) on :
When staff members aren't allowed to follow children home from school and beat the crap out of them, you know that Britain has lost its moral compass. It's political correctness gone mad.
Posted by Nathan Bleak (Member # 1040) on :
I hate the way that BBC Have Your Say on bullying keeps referring to bullys as "thugs and hooligans". When I used to pick on the kids in the year below me I would pride myself and the skill and artfulness I brought to proceedings. Like, this one time when we were allowed to bring pets into school we I put Sarah Adams's cat in the broken microwave, and described to her the process of heated water molecules that would be making the creatures blood and flesh heat up, as she watched it spin slowly round on the glass plate, mewling slightly. There's a skill to succesful bullying - it's not all about using a blackboard rubber to stamp the word 'nob' on someone's blazer.
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
You were bullied on an almost daily basis, weren't you Thorn?
Posted by Nathan Bleak (Member # 1040) on :
I occasionally claim that I was in an attempt to add depth to my personality, but not really.
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