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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: beet1e on October 04, 2005, 02:05:38 PM
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I always know when it’s time to buy a new car when I see someone sporting earrings/tattoos and a baseball cap driving the same make/model and age of car as what I drive myself. That has now started happening, so…
… I went off to the car dealership today to order my new car. The sales lady wasn’t quite ready when I got there, so I was offered coffee and the complimentary paper – the Daily Mail. I’ll come back to this in a moment, but I’d like to regale you with another anecdote first. It has been decided by TBNG (Tony Blair’s Nanny Government) that the guys in the car dealership workshops are required to wear protective helmets when working underneath the cars. I was thinking about this on the way home – what could possibly fall on their heads – the oil reservoir sump plug, perhaps? So the poor workshop guys are having the piss taken out of them by the sales staff. However, this is piffling stuff compared to my next story.
As you probably know, TBNG is concerned that British schoolchildren are not eating healthily. I’m all for the likes of Jamie Oliver presenting healthier alternatives, but TBNG has started to intervene where parents have responsibility. TBNG has already declared that schools must remove junk food from vending machines – stuff like crisps (potato chips), chocolate and soda pop drinks – all the bad things that our kids like! I think the school’s should decide what to stock in the vending machines, and whether to have vending machines at all. Our children are also fond of eating chips (known in the US as French fries or (if you must) freedom fries).
Well guess what? An agent in TBNG has made the proposal that schoolchildren should be detained on the school premises during the lunch break to PREVENT them from going outside to buy chips!
Daily Mail - full report (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=364241&in_page_id=1770)
So, I want all Americans (except those who live in NH - LOL) to think about this next time you buckle your car seat belt before you drive! The seatbelt laws are small beer compared to the nannying inflicted upon us beleagured Brits by TBNG.
It took me 50 minutes to drive the 7 miles back home from that car dealership. A large part of the problem was road congestion caused by TBNG having narrowed our roads to one lane, and having installed bus lanes where none is needed -doubly annoying when there isn't a bus in sight, triply annoying when the bus lane traffic light gets a 30 second green - but there's no bus. :mad::mad::mad:
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the women nannies and effeminate boston dwellers of this country use your country as a model of a socialist paradise... but... you knew that right?
lazs
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Originally posted by beet1e
It took me 50 minutes to drive the 7 miles back home from that car dealership. A large part of the problem was road congestion caused by TBNG having narrowed our roads to one lane, and having installed bus lanes where none is needed -doubly annoying when there isn't a bus in sight, triply annoying when the bus lane traffic light gets a 30 second green - but there's no bus. :mad::mad::mad:
If you had taken the bus instead of driving you would be enjoying a quick commute through the uncluttered bus lanes, doing your part in supporting the Kyoto treaty, unworried about the confusion of driving on the wrong side of the road.
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Originally posted by beet1e
Well guess what? An agent in TBNG has made the proposal that schoolchildren should be detained on the school premises during the lunch break to PREVENT them from going outside to buy chips!
When I was in school, we had a closed campus. We weren't allowed to leave without parental approval.
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Originally posted by beet1e
...and having installed bus lanes where none is needed...
5 points for correctly using "none is".
It irks me when people say:
"None of the guns are loaded."
None is singular. It should be:
"None of the guns IS loaded."
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It irks me when people tell me that a gun isn't loaded.
lazs
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Originally posted by lazs2
It irks me when people tell me that a gun isn't loaded.
lazs
Regardless if they say ‘its safe’, always check as a double assurance. Because the only time one does not check, it will be loaded. :-P
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..something we all check with our own eyeballs the instant we get our paws on it regardless of what we were told.
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Originally posted by Hangtime
..something we all check with our own eyeballs the instant we get our paws on it regardless of what we were told.
Anyone that doesn't is an idiot.
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EVERY gun is loaded. That's how I was raised. You get the piece, you clear it before anything else, but it's still loaded.
“Don’t you meddle with old unloaded firearms. They are the most deadly and unerring things that have ever been created by man......A youth who can’t hit a cathedral at thirty yards with a Gatling gun in three-quarters of an hour can take up an old empty musket and bag his grandmother every time at a hundred.” Mark Twain “Advice to Youth” speech, 1882
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Well if you want my opinion...oh wait..Im from NH :p
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None of them guns BE loaded.
sheesh!
:cool:
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"An agent in TBNG has made the proposal that schoolchildren should be detained on the school premises during the lunch break to PREVENT them from going outside to buy chips! "
I don't know of any schools around here that let the kids off school grounds during lunchtime. Is that a common practice on your side of the pond?
J_A_B
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When I was in Highschool Juniors could leave early if they didn't have any classes left in the afternoon. Seniors had open campus privilages and could leave when they didn't have a class and could leave for lunch.
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My High School campus was more than closed...full chain-link fence with a guarded gate. In fact the fence had razor ribbon accross the top...pointed INWARD.
It was not a prison (technically), nor some private institution, you gotta love Houston ISD.
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haha, my highschool is sposed to let early release kids off only, they r the ones with awsum GPAs or few clases or work. however we onyl have one security guard, and a small steel fence on 3 sides of the square parking lot and ditch on the other. when i want to leave i put it into 4 low and leave lol. i got out once in a rain storm. gotta love ex military 4 wheel drive.:aok
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How times have changed. Not only does EVERYONE have open campus priviledges at my school, but some teachers actually excuse tardies because the kid went off campus. The allure of picking up a 2 liter at Albertson's or walking up to 7-11 or going to Burger Kind or Taco bell is just too much for some.
Oh and we can leave any time we have a free period, if you can mamange to get "200 yards" from the school, smoke a cigarette, and make it back in 7 minutes, do it.
(7 minutes is our passing time and 200 yards is the distance you are "supposed" to be from the school when you use any tobacco product)
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What "times" are you two from?
Not throwing any stone, just curious as to what "time" you think I am from. I think the prison mentality of my HS was more a factor of it's location than the times. It was about 3 miles from the Galleria in Houston.
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Well I think you are.....OLD. No but seriously, it might just be the location, heck I think Denver Public Schools might have barbed wire around them, but i'm not sure.
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Maybe the kids wouldn't be so lardy and unhealthy if Maggie and her offspring hadn't started selling off school playing fields to housing developers. And maybe they'd have more time for exercise if the Conservatives hadn't introduced compulsory testing from age of 18 months or whatever it is.
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Originally posted by Russian
Regardless if they say ‘its safe’, always check as a double assurance. Because the only time one does not check, it will be loaded. :-P
Open, empty and butt first, only way to accept either a weapon or a woman being passed into your possesion.
Mebbe crude, but I was told that once, at the age of thirteen by a weapons instructor and have never forgotten it.
Sound advice really :)
BTW, Beetle, I disagree, I think it is only common sense.
Teaching kids about eating a healthy diet in Phys Ed classes, then selling them cream doughnuts, soft drinks and potato chips for lunch allways seemed a bit ridiculous to me.
They arent saying you cant eat all that stuff, they are just saying that your children, while under their care, will not be sold unhealthy junk food.
What is there to not like about it?
Oh yeah, my high school was closed too, you got caught outside school bounds, inside school hours, without an explanatory note, you were on detention.
The thing was, during school hours, the school is a student's legal gaurdian or custodian, and is responsible for the students safety, they cant garuntee your safety if they dont know where you are.
Dunno about over there, but down here, negligence of duty of care can land an organisation in some seriously hot water.
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Originally posted by J_A_B
I don't know of any schools around here that let the kids off school grounds during lunchtime. Is that a common practice on your side of the pond?
When I was at secondary school (age 11-18) it was normal to go into town at lunchtime. We were not supposed to leave the school during lunchtime in the first 2 years at the school, but many still did and I know I did.
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My gun is always loaded.
My rifle is always unloaded except during deer season.
The Republican governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee, has mandated that all vending machines in the state schools stop selling sodas and fatty snacks.
Beware of this man. He's a sheep in wolf's clothing and intends to run for president.
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Originally posted by Dowding
And maybe they'd have more time for exercise if the Conservatives hadn't introduced compulsory testing from age of 18 months or whatever it is.
Amen, i'd run all freaking day if we didn't have all those state mandated tests. You folks do know you pay teachers to watch kids take tests for 3 hours during certain times of the year don't you?