[Kellan]

Bagsy post 1000!

Thunders patented g33k detection system report 10375.343:

This man has to much time on his hands.

[Redfang]

Originally posted by Kellan
Bagsy post 1000!

 
No! Why didn't I do post #1000? I could've...
 
Anyway, post 1001, you can read it backwards, I don't care. And second post on the 21st page for those lucky enough to have threads sorted to 50 posts per page.

[wEvil]

you would go and bring down the tone of the conversation wouldn't you?



*sigh*

[Kellan]

Originally posted by wEvil
Casual abortion?  Inexcusable.  
Unwanted Children?  Beneath Contempt.

I was never supporting casual abortion - it seems a little sick, like it's a lifestyle accessory or the baby is something that has to fit into your diary, or it won't work.

When I used the term 'unwanted children' I didn't mean it in the sense above, but the one you went on to describe - as in, you wouldn't want to give them an unhappy life. I guess since you believe in the souls and karma thing, according to your belief the essence contained within a baby will be born again anyway - just somewhere else - the body being just a vessel, etc.

EDIT: I hope this makes up for lowering the tone of the conversation, wEvil.

[wEvil]

Correct - not that i'd be so undiplomatic as to push such a beleif on others.

The drugs idea is a good one but would be hard to enforce --

It would also be too much of a temptation for a western-type govornment to tax it so hard that the black market would prove more economical.


As a smoker, well....I don't particularly want to quit as it's almost my personal statement that I think most staunch anti-smoking campaigners are a bunch of glass-bubble-syndrome suffering whiners.  Obviously a sweeping generalisation but i'm tired of practising tolerance when someone opens a tin of tuna (which I can't stand), and getting shouted at when I spark up in a pub where most people are smoking anyway.

*edit*
Yep..it does

BTW - I wuz up in milton keynes a couple of weeks ago.  Totally random I know, but anyway...

[Zeronet]

Im not personally against contreception and although a baby inside the womb cant currently think, in a few years it will be able to. We can all complicate the issue but at the end of the day, abortion is killing a baby, dening something the right to live a life as we do. Anyway my current Issues for Life class is about this and im sure i'll be able to get more info.

[Kellan]

Orignally posted by wEvil
The drugs idea is a good one but would be hard to enforce --

Surely it would be easy to enforce - simply because it requires no enforcement! I guess you mean in terms of stamping out the black market whilst making the legit market viable, which would be a little more difficult.

Taxation on drugs would be a good thing though - the revenue gained could meet the cost incurred by the health services.

Personally, I don't like smoking myself, or smoke very much - I personally don't understand why people do it. However, I'm not about to force everyone to stop smoking - I'd never be so undiplomatic as to do that (cheers, wEvil) and I'm prepared to move myself if I don't like the environment. There are plenty of non-smoking areas and then there is outdoors too...

What can't you stand about tuna? I agree it smells pretty rancid...

EDIT: sorted the quote because some damn f00 posted whilst I was typing.

[wEvil]

I'm not contradicting your point Zeronet but consistent with my personal beleif system there's no point in living if you have no chance of enjoying life or doing what you're meant to do.

Obviously you need time to rediscover what you're meant to do here and of people never do, but so many individuals just get caught up trying to survive and just become..well, i suppose tired is the most accurate word, but it's worse than that.

It does make you wonder how different it would be if maybe that nasty emotional experience when they were younger (or older?) had never happened.


Tuna?
well...looks like its' been pre-digested in the lung of a small burrowing animal and small awful.  

Although I eat mussels so I suppose I can't complain...it almost makes me gag everytime i'm forced to smell it.

If someone doesn't like me smoking i'll gladly hold my rollie in the other hand and blow it away, or get up and go somewhere else...but in a group situation when you can't really go elsewhere, just one vocal person can almost ruin the whole night by going on about it.

[Kellan]

Originally posted by wEvil
BTW - I wuz up in milton keynes a couple of weeks ago.  Totally random I know, but anyway...

Ahh, so you have been to The Concrete Metropolis Of The Future. I quite like it - green, big, dual carriageways so I don't have to face the other evil traffic. Never mind the concrete...

I guess what you mean by the current work culture, I agree with. People view working as some kind of end in itself - they take their paycheck and keep on working month after month - never aspiring to anything more, except maybe a better paid job. It's a little sad really...

EDIT: Mussels? Eurgh.

Almost all of my friends smoke either habitually or socially. I don't mind it as long as they don't blow it directly into my eyes, and if you're going to be accomodating like that I don't mind at all really. As for being vocal, I only ever say "no thanks" when I'm offered a cigarette (every time they spark another up, LOL).

[wEvil]

Milton Keynes struck me as a kind of "Hatfield when they bothered with it", but with more skinheadz

Been stuck there (shatfield) for a year, and goddamn is it boring.

At least milton keynes has....has....stuff to do

[Top Gun]

Originally posted by wEvil
At least milton keynes has....has....stuff to do

Milton Keynes is great although I prefered it about twelve years ago when it wasn't so commercialized (I know it has always been like that to an extent).

Heh, they have an indoor ski slope there now (real snow), which is fun

[Zeronet]

Originally posted by wEvil
I'm not contradicting your point Zeronet but consistent with my personal beleif system there's no point in living if you have no chance of enjoying life or doing what you're meant to do.

Obviously you need time to rediscover what you're meant to do here and of people never do, but so many individuals just get caught up trying to survive and just become..well, i suppose tired is the most accurate word, but it's worse than that.

It does make you wonder how different it would be if maybe that nasty emotional experience when they were younger (or older?) had never happened.


Tuna?
well...looks like its' been pre-digested in the lung of a small burrowing animal and small awful.  

Although I eat mussels so I suppose I can't complain...it almost makes me gag everytime i'm forced to smell it.

If someone doesn't like me smoking i'll gladly hold my rollie in the other hand and blow it away, or get up and go somewhere else...but in a group situation when you can't really go elsewhere, just one vocal person can almost ruin the whole night by going on about it.

Tuna tastes good, smoking unlike tuna does harm you, its carsengenic(sp) like oil which means it gives ppl cancer and burns the inside of your throat, causing those hairs which get rid of dead skin etc that your breathe in to die and thus your lung gets filled with dirt etc causing it to go black.

None of my friends smoke and i dont really go out of my way to stop others(ie i dont snitch on them when they do it, just hold my breath whenever im within a few metres until i pass), besides refering to cigarette as Cancer-sticks and  feeling sorry for them as they spend one minute, taking 10 minutes off their life expectancy and just blowing the other way wont stop passive smoking hurting a person as it hangs in the air. 38,000 people a year in the US die from passive smoking. As the NHS commercial so rightly puts it "and if you dont want to give up smoking, my friends next door can help you". I really dont see the point in it, its not a fun thing to do, the only reason most people do it is because of peer pressure and then they get addicted to it. Still if you quit by the time your 35 you might(if you dont get lung cancer or one of the other 500 disease it causes) be able to put a extra 7 years on your life.

[Kellan]

Originally posted by wEvil
Milton Keynes struck me as a kind of "Hatfield when they bothered with it", but with more skinheadz

At least milton keynes has....has....stuff to do

Skinheadz? I don't really recall that many. We have an overabundance of trendies and of 12-year old greeb kids, but it's not terminal. And yeah, there's some pretty good stuff to do.

Top Gun - a non-commercialized MK? Isn't that what it was designed for? It's a city (okay, town) built around a big-ass shopping centre.

Zeronet - I'm sure that wEvil understand they're carcinogenic, but if they give him enough pleasure for him to overcome that and he's prepared to live with the consequences, I don't see the problem. As for passive smoking, all the places where we have to go are now smoke-free, and there are non-smoking areas in most other places. If you don't like passive smoking, don't go near passive smoke.

[Zeronet]

Lucky you. Our Town centre doesnt have any policies, hmm wait yes it does. If you skateboard in town they fine you £500.

[Top Gun]

Originally posted by Kellan


Skinheadz? I don't really recall that many. We have an overabundance of trendies and of 12-year old greeb kids, but it's not terminal. And yeah, there's some pretty good stuff to do.

I've seen more Skin headz in Olney than Milton Keynes (no offence). Of course if you were to go to Bedford........ you'd see all sorts of wackos.

Originally posted by Kellan
Top Gun - a non-commercialized MK? Isn't that what it was designed for? It's a city (okay, town) built around a big-ass shopping centre.

True but it was just shops, It's gone very corprate in the past few years (although probably as much as anywhere else). Plus, when it was built, the shopping centre was just one aspect of it, it seems to have grown in importance.

[Kellan]

Originally posted by Zeronet
Lucky you. Our Town centre doesnt have any policies, hmm wait yes it does. If you skateboard in town they fine you £500.

Ouch. People skate around the shopping centre and train station here...or pretty much anywhere. Nobody seems to mind too much.

Skinheadz in Olney?!? Again, hmmm seems to be in order...

[Top Gun]

I'm not sure if they actually lived there or came from somewhere else but I've seen gangs of about ten of them going avound canvasing for the BNP. when I used to live there.

[Styxx]

Originally posted by Ace
Amen brotha!

Thanks, thanks! Now for my next speech, "Drugs, illegal gambling and the Government: The three reasons why there is organized crime in Brazil"...

[Styxx]

Originally posted by Crazy_Ivan80
The environment is one such case, wages are another, safety a third, and many many more...

Funny thin is... on all "developed" countries, when the government intervenes, it's always on the side of the corporations. They pressure us to impose harsher environmetal laws, bug us saying that we're not taking good care of the Amazon Forest, and when it's time for the US senate or whatever to pass a law regulating emmission of polluents they say that they cannot do it because it will slow down the progress of the nation. Bunch o' hypocrites, but that's the way it is...

Just let everything fall into place, and The Plan™ will take care of it...

[Styxx]

Originally posted by Kellan
Unless they had done it for some good, Christian reason, that is.

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