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Gotta keep it from The Children
0tterbot wrote: "==Daye==" wrote in message ... On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 09:33:13 +1000, "0tterbot" wrote: but from a practical p.o.v. - who on earth would know the number, be able to write down the car's numberplate while tooling down the highway, etc. it's all a bit hard in practice, innit. it *is* nice to see that it will work if pursued, though! There was a story on "A Current Affair" or "Today Tonight" about a man who has a notepad attached to his dash. He writes down all the number plates of people throwing butts out the window. He then calls and dobs them in. He probably isn't the only person who does it. probably not. i hope he also writes down people who run red lights - a habit which has reached epic proportions in my area. kylie Now I think that both of these are bad habits for one to acquire, but what's to stop someone from, say, writing down all the license numbers of people he doesn't like and reporting them for littering? Will the police really take the word of a citizen complaint in something like this? (or are Ozzies so generally honest that this isn't a problem?) nate |
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On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 09:39:39 +1000, "0tterbot" wrote:
if you want to have a dig at someone, put it at the feet of people who propose dubious laws. it sounds to me like *they* wish to have control out of all proportion to their entitlement to do so. kylie How about if I'd like to take a dig at people who feel they can argue complicated subjects but somehow can't manage the shift key? |
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In article , Nan says...
On 23 Jun 2003 20:25:03 -0700, Banty wrote: In article , "LaTreen says... x-no-archive: yes Do you raise as big a fuss when people change diapers in public? Do you object when people bring their children into public pools wearing swim diapers (that release fecal matter - a PROVEN health hazard) into public pools? Both are an entitlement issue with parents. How many times are diapers changed in cafes and airplanes? I WILL smoke outside. When I wait for a bus - I go under the shelter with everyone else and I DO light up. If people are there with children I make a point to stand by them. You can take your ill-behaved children anywhere you want. I WILL smoke where ever I am allowed to by law. If they don't like it, they can move - that's the entitlement attitude that applies to me when your children are obnoxious and ill-mannered. There is an law against smoking in an athletic field near my house and I will smoke there until I am fined for it. If I am fined, I will drag the case out in court as long as I can to run up the cost and waste the town's money. I see the litter left behind by breeders from little league and the feces left from the dog owners. These people don't care about the public - why should I? LaTreen Washington The Problem Exhibit B. Banty No, just another CF troll. Nan OK - Problem Smoker's Attitude Exhibit B. Problem CF Attitude Exhibit A :-) Banty |
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In article , Pockets says...
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 09:39:39 +1000, "0tterbot" wrote: if you want to have a dig at someone, put it at the feet of people who propose dubious laws. it sounds to me like *they* wish to have control out of all proportion to their entitlement to do so. kylie How about if I'd like to take a dig at people who feel they can argue complicated subjects but somehow can't manage the shift key? Look - a compatriot of yours, or possibly even you, from alt.peeves set up the original post in this thread as a crosspost to misc.kids. Even if it wasn't you, I'm sure you've noticed that by now - you being so able to manage complicated subjects and all, at least by your own report. "Otterbot" is a well-established personage here in misc.kids, with a well-established posting style. You're basically an interloper here, riding on a thread which was cross-posted from your 'group from the get go. We have no obligation whatsoever to you - no obligation to alter posting style, to amuse you or to "be original". Let alone to breathe your poison. Grow up, get over yourself, or see a shrink about your authority/extent of boundary issues. For one thing, seems to be a compulsive problem - the poster you slammed for posting style is sympathetic to your point. Banty |
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"Banty" wrote: The Problem Exhibit B. No, just another CF troll. Nan OK - Problem Smoker's Attitude Exhibit B. Problem CF Attitude Exhibit A :-) CF? P. Tierney |
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On 24 Jun 2003 09:34:36 -0700, Banty wrote:
In article , Pockets says... On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 09:39:39 +1000, "0tterbot" wrote: if you want to have a dig at someone, put it at the feet of people who propose dubious laws. it sounds to me like *they* wish to have control out of all proportion to their entitlement to do so. kylie How about if I'd like to take a dig at people who feel they can argue complicated subjects but somehow can't manage the shift key? Look - a compatriot of yours, or possibly even you, from alt.peeves set up the original post in this thread as a crosspost to misc.kids. Even if it wasn't you, I'm sure you've noticed that by now - you being so able to manage complicated subjects and all, at least by your own report. "Otterbot" is a well-established personage here in misc.kids, with a well-established posting style. You're basically an interloper here, riding on a thread which was cross-posted from your 'group from the get go. We have no obligation whatsoever to you - no obligation to alter posting style, to amuse you or to "be original". Let alone to breathe your poison. Grow up, get over yourself, or see a shrink about your authority/extent of boundary issues. For one thing, seems to be a compulsive problem - the poster you slammed for posting style is sympathetic to your point. Make sure you let that White Charger cool off before you put him up in the barn. Doesn't it get hot under all of that armor? |
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Pockets of Resistance wrote: On 24 Jun 2003 09:34:36 -0700, Banty wrote: In article , Pockets says... On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 09:39:39 +1000, "0tterbot" wrote: if you want to have a dig at someone, put it at the feet of people who propose dubious laws. it sounds to me like *they* wish to have control out of all proportion to their entitlement to do so. kylie How about if I'd like to take a dig at people who feel they can argue complicated subjects but somehow can't manage the shift key? Look - a compatriot of yours, or possibly even you, from alt.peeves set up the original post in this thread as a crosspost to misc.kids. Even if it wasn't you, I'm sure you've noticed that by now - you being so able to manage complicated subjects and all, at least by your own report. "Otterbot" is a well-established personage here in misc.kids, with a well-established posting style. You're basically an interloper here, riding on a thread which was cross-posted from your 'group from the get go. We have no obligation whatsoever to you - no obligation to alter posting style, to amuse you or to "be original". Let alone to breathe your poison. Grow up, get over yourself, or see a shrink about your authority/extent of boundary issues. For one thing, seems to be a compulsive problem - the poster you slammed for posting style is sympathetic to your point. Make sure you let that White Charger cool off before you put him up in the barn. Doesn't it get hot under all of that armor? It's a 426, to be sure, but runs a bit cooler with the 4-speed and the air works. oh... never mind. nate |
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"Pockets of Resistance" wrote in message
... Grow up, get over yourself, or see a shrink about your authority/extent of boundary issues. For one thing, seems to be a compulsive problem - the poster you slammed for posting style is sympathetic to your point. Make sure you let that White Charger cool off before you put him up in the barn. Doesn't it get hot under all of that armor? mm, i'd spell that "armour" but since your valid, sage & timely point about my capitalisation, i have seen the light about other people's posting choices (who are these people anyway, i say?!) & henceforth shall defer to you on all matters. plus, i'm pretty sure that americans are allowed to spell it that way. just as i'm allowed to post without capitals if i want to. and anyway, if you were a regular *here*, you'd be well appraised of the fact that my family & i live in penury & cannot afford capital letters. we go without food sometimes in order to be able to afford punctuation marks. i had to sell my baby on the internet to buy some exclamation marks one time when i was having an argument with a cranky cross-poster from alt.peeves. i have to go away & cry now; you are SO INSENSITIVE. kylie |
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0tterbot wrote: "Nathan Nagel" wrote in message ... probably not. i hope he also writes down people who run red lights - a habit which has reached epic proportions in my area. kylie Now I think that both of these are bad habits for one to acquire, but what's to stop someone from, say, writing down all the license numbers of people he doesn't like and reporting them for littering? well that's a very good question & i'm glad you asked. i don't know the answer though :-) Will the police really take the word of a citizen complaint in something like this? (or are Ozzies so generally honest that this isn't a problem?) my best guess is that it would work the same way as if you are caught by a speed or red-light camera or if you neglect to vote - you'd be issued with a notice to pay a fine & then have the option of either paying the fine without discussion, or explaining yourself, or disputing the event in court. most people who really are guilty aren't going to go to court - they'd pay the fine instead, so despite the fact that the assumption is that you are guilty i'm sure you have the option of taking it to court instead *or* making a statutory declaration that some other person did it in your car (if that's what happened), in which case i suppose it's transferred to them instead, after a suitable amount of grinding of bureaucratic machinery. kylie You have speed and red light cameras there? Sheesh, I thought it was only in DC where we'd sunk so low. Hopefully yours don't work on a commission basis (don't get me started. Seriously. This has been discussed in another newsgroup which I frequent beyond the point of nausea to nearly shoving sharp desktop implements through my nostrils and eardrums in an attempt to avoid inadvertantly reading another post on the subject. And yet some people still don't see the blatant corruption...) nate |
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0tterbot wrote: "Nathan Nagel" wrote in message ... 0tterbot wrote: i had to sell my baby on the internet to buy some exclamation marks one time when i was having an argument with a cranky cross-poster from alt.peeves. i have to go away & cry now; you are SO INSENSITIVE. kylie *ahem* I'd like to point out for the record that I did *not* cross-post this thread, it came pre-crossposted for my convenience. oh nathan, i wasn't talking about *you*. in fact, i was making it up completely!!!!!!!!!!!!! --- whoops, there goes a week of lunches so stop stomping all over my joke. I'll buy ya dinner next time you're in DC-land then. So how's archy, anyway? who? Now we're even apparently. http://www.donmarquis.com/archy/index.html Somehow it's less funny with an explanation (I *knew* I should have gone with an e.e.cummings reference.) nate (still smarting about the "cranky" comment...) i love cranky people. i am one. :-) kylie I'm just practicing to be a curmudgeon someday. nate |
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