I never knew we could borrow dvds at the library. :right:

The chap that dropped £10 by mistake was a spun story. You have to remember what our press are like and once something has been mis-reported they all pick it up and run with it without checking the source...

The chap did drop £10, but also other litter. He happened to be in front of some police (perhaps PCSOs) who pointed this out. He picked up the money but then dropped the other litter back on the ground. He refused to pick up what he had dropped (deliberately this time) more than once, was warned, and then fined.

Don't get me wrong, there are some bizarre cases out there.
But I believe there are more tales twisted to raise outrage and make good headlines.

Yeah, try to remember the nature of printed news in Britain. Newsnight runs a story without checking its facts and people end up resigning. But the papers can just make up whatever they want or take a little nugget of something and whip it into a story to outrage their readers.

Think Fox News in paper form and you have about 80% of the red tops and 30% of the broadsheets covered.

Yeah, I'm aware Dana, most of the ridiculous shit he posts is from the US with an occasional Aussie thrown in. But this whole ASBO thing is pretty bizarre just for the fact that it exists. Antisocial Behavio(u)r is certainly one of the most subjective aspects of society, and this smacks of witch hunts.

That was very much the fear when they were brought in. In truth the people most likely to find themselves caught up with asbos are youngsters who could most likely have been reached and diverted from criminality with better provision and support systems in place.

They're being phased out in favour of some new type of provision. Not sure how the new one works.

I was always against them myself, and considered them another rod to beat an already disenfranchised underclass, but then the people living on estates in the area I represented thought they were a good idea. They wanted to see them used more often and policed better. Their biggest complaint against asbos was that they didn't do what they were supposed to do (i.e keep the drug dealing burglar with a propensity to light fires away from their estate) because they were not sufficiently policed.

A holiday song from the cellar cookie jar:

Sunshine on my shoulders
Gives me sunburn
Sunshine in my eyes
Can make me blind
Sunshine on the water
Makes it lukewarm
Sunshine almost always gets me high.

I saw Jose Feliciano sing that on Merv Griffin, I think it was. He was very funny.

I'm looking at adopting!
He's a 2 year old male named Toby. There was another family about to adopt him but the reneged and are now getting a divorce instead. So, lucky me!
He has kind of golden blonde hair. He's potty trained (99.9%), and crate trained. They think he's a dachshund/dandie dinmont terrier mix, and he's so perfect sounding. Della and I should get to meet him on Sunday and hopefully we'll know more. Its a serious rescue though, so they do the whole couple of visits and home visit and then the foster mom has to approve me. I'm really nervous and I've never been through this process before. I know I know, its not the right time financially...but he sounds like the right dog. There will not be another dog like him and if he gets along with Della, then I'm not going to be able to say no. I've done the pros and cons, and the only real con is my finances are still a little shaky after my pro-longed surgery recovery. I owe my parents a bit of money so they aren't for the idea, but they'll just have to understand. Della needs a brother and its not been the "right time" for 3 years this June. I just don't feel like an opportunity like this one is gonna happen again for me. I have the cash for it, I just have to give my parents a good chunk as a show of good faith.
Sorry for being so me-centric.

Oh and my psychiatrist is sorta against it thinking it'll be too much stress, but I think it will be the good kind of stress. Besides, what does that pill dispenser know?

:eek:

... hey, wait a minute ...

:lol:

This isn't post-whoring, MTP, that's worth it's own thread.

Naww, no one cares that much I'm sure.

BS, sistah. Gettin a new dawg is totally threadworthy.

*blinks*

I call bullshit. I will always want to know about people's dogs.

MTP is channeling a Jewish grandmother, "Don't worry about me, I'll just sit here in the dark..."

Dear Facebook friends,

If you want to stay privately connected with me, FFS just PM me, it's real easy. Or drop me an email. or call me.........



are you ashamed of our relationship? :cry:









Or are you just a bit stupid?

Facebook is like a public restroom. ZMaybe in an upscale club -depending on the caliber of your "friends", but it's still public (and full of old, old graffiti that's really not worth c&ping because everybody but you has seen it before)

It is not the place to share anything that it would hurt you for somebody to find. It's ridiculously easy for people to "stalk" you there, this is nothing new. If this is your paranoia, it's not the place for you...snd really, please just get off the internet. You must know some nerd/geek types who give you the shudders. They are the people who can find anything you ever posted in any place on the intrnet. So if you don't want them to read it, just don't post it. facebook is too easy for them, trust me. my cat could stalk you on facebook. (if he wasn't so distracted by all the twittering)