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Oh dear God no!!!
Posted Oct 4, 2003
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3162506.stm
Just leave it alone guys 
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Latest reply: Oct 4, 2003
WTF?
Posted Sep 25, 2003
Another occasional series.
Number 1
Yesterday I heard that a California law to try and prohibit spam is being challenged because 'it will hurt business'. Today I learn that someone else may be challenging the US government's federal 'No-Call' scheme which allows people to include their phone number on a list which should not be called by telemarketers, because 'it will hurt business' and 'jobs will be lost'.
Since just about everyone hates both spam and telemarketing calls, I have to ask - WTF? 
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Latest reply: Sep 25, 2003
Staggered
Posted Sep 22, 2003
Each time I think I've discovered the limit of how incredibly lazy people in this town are, they amaze me once more
There are two dumpsters near our apartment, both of which have a sloping top and two half-lids which can be lifted up to drop rubbish in. Normally both lids are lifted up all the way and are hanging over the back of the dumpster so you can simply toss a bag of rubbish in.
I went out there this morning to do just that and found one hell of a mess. The dumpsters were emptied on... I guess Friday morning by a truck which has two great big forks on the front. The forks slide into slots on the side of the dumpster which is then lifted up over the cab of the truck and emptied into the back. As the dumpster comes back down in a big arc, the lids swing back into the closed position.
There have been a few occasions when I've gone to the dumpster and found that someone has opened the lids on one of them and hung them down the back, and that one has filled to the brim whilst the other one has remained closed and empty. What I saw this morning though took my breath away. One of the dumpsters had both lids shut, the other had one shut and one open. People had continued to fling bags of rubbish into that one even thoug it was overflowing on the open side and virtually empty on the closed side. The other (completely closed dumpster was utterly empty of any rubbish. As a result of bags falling onto the ground around the dumpster, the raccoons had got into them and strewn crap all over the place.
I got a number of questions which all boil down to one ultimate question (no, not that one 
) - what goes through people's heads when they do stuff like that?
1) Why can't you be bothered to lift the lid on the dumpster?
2) Can't you see that it's full?
3) Of course you can, so why do you throw the rubbish on there anyway?
4) Can't you see that the bag of rubbish you just tossed on top of it fell onto the ground?
5) Don't you know that the wildlife is going to scatter it all over the place?
After all, it is their own home these people are messing up
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Latest reply: Sep 22, 2003
Damn straight!
Posted Sep 16, 2003
From http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3112320.stm
"Ireland's recent plastic bag tax - supermarkets charge customers 15 cents per bag - has earned the Exchequer 11m euros and the respect of environmentalists.
Dublin is now drawing up plans for taxes on chewing gum, cash-till receipts and polystyrene fast-food boxes, all of which present a litter problem."
Bloody right. Big business comes along with new ideas all the time, but usually doesn't think of the consequences and usually doesn't have to pay for putting them right and cleaning up afterwards. It's a pity that it's the customers who have to pay the tax though, although they don't always *have* to buy the product.
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Latest reply: Sep 16, 2003
Only in Britain
Posted Sep 16, 2003
People's hero, or sad muppet who should know better than to wear his underpants over his, er... tights? 
You decide 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/3112670.stm
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