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21 Mar 2006, 12:59 am

How are we all going with adversely affecting the world and the society we live in?

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21 Mar 2006, 1:04 am

Spifftastical.

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21 Mar 2006, 3:09 am

Last time I looked (Quiz similar to this one: http://ecofoot.org/ )

I was using twice my fair share of the world (which is better than the average Brit)

Of course were I to decide I was a detriment ...
("Detriments? It's detriments like us that built this bloody empire! (Michael Caine, The Man Who Would Be King), but I digress)
...I could always do the decent thing and remove myself from the equation. But should I follow Churchill's injunction: "You can always take one with you" (or three, or four, or more) and take a few deserving but unrepentant detriments with me? There's laws against that sort of thing, no matter how public-spirited one is being.

(Just to be safe, I hereby state for official purposes that this is dark humour, not the glorification of terror.)

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21 Mar 2006, 9:49 pm

Good, good. I'm glad we're all a terrible nuisance and a waste of valuable resources.

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22 Mar 2006, 3:25 pm

This world has come to some very bad things as time has gone by.

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22 Mar 2006, 4:25 pm

Emettman wrote:

Just to be safe, I hereby state for official purposes that this is dark humour, not the glorification of terror.)

Speaking of which: the Lords passed this dodgy 'glorification' law hidden in the aftermath of the Budget business today. Which means that to say that the tactics of Nelson Mandela and his allies in opposing the South African apartheid regime achieved a good thing will shortly - technically - be against the law. Yay for freedom of speech, I suppose.

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22 Mar 2006, 6:42 pm

Tequila wrote:

...the Lords passed this dodgy 'glorification' law ... .

Not of their volition, though. After several rounds of returning the bill to the Commons, they were up against the Parliament act.
It's come to a pretty pass when the Lords is the country's last best hope.

I'll be careful discussing Winston Churchill's advocation of suicide attacks.
Or that chap in Arabia who fomented rebellions and uprisings, and bombed trains.
T E something or other...

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23 Mar 2006, 11:46 am

Thank goodness I'm not where you all are.

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23 Mar 2006, 1:57 pm

I'm glad terrorism has been outlawed over there in the UK like it has been in the USA. It means we're much safer now. Common sense has prevailed thankfully. As for adversely affecting the world? I don't do that, at least not knowingly. I always put 100% effort in and do my best. What more can a guy do?

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23 Mar 2006, 3:23 pm

Who_Am_I wrote:

Good, good. I'm glad we're all a terrible nuisance and a waste of valuable resources.

Doing our best.

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23 Mar 2006, 5:13 pm

Fugly wrote:

I do think that the usual acts of terrorism are outlawed in most civilized countries around the world. Like bombing, killing, kidnapping, and destroying property, that sort of thing. The lawmakers often focus on these things.

By the way, I believe these acts are outlawed in Iraq as well, but the Iraqi people aren't yet feeling completely safe as of yet. Or that's at least what I hear.

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23 Mar 2006, 6:07 pm

odeon wrote:

I do think that the usual acts of terrorism are outlawed in most civilized countries ...

I took it that Fugly was being ironical, but perhaps not, then, if you take the counter-view.

My Aspie lack of perception creeping in?

I had banning terrorism on much of a par with banning underage drinking.

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23 Mar 2006, 6:09 pm

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23 Mar 2006, 6:11 pm

Oh, it was irony, then I completely missed it, in which case I should probably say I'm sorry now... Maybe it's my Aspie lack of perception? :oops:

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I had banning terrorism on much of a par with banning underage drinking.

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25 Mar 2006, 9:37 pm

pooftis wrote:

Who_Am_I wrote:

Good, good. I'm glad we're all a terrible nuisance and a waste of valuable resources.

Doing our best.

Keep up the great work.

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26 Mar 2006, 4:22 am

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I had banning terrorism on much of a par with banning underage drinking.

I'm a non-drinker who works in a pub - go figure - and at 3AM closing I can definitely see the analogy between drinking and terrorism...underage or otherwise. In fact I've heard that Hezbollah and Al-Qaeda are normally all OK guys, they just have the odd bucks' night that goes a bit too far...

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