Be a post whore!

[monster]

Originally Posted by Lola Bunny

Do what I do, rent blu-ray dvds from redbox. Or shamelessly borrow blu-ray dvds from friends.

How is this cheaper/better than borrowing them from the library at no charge?

[Lola Bunny]

Originally Posted by monster

How is this cheaper/better than borrowing them from the library at no charge?

I never knew we could borrow dvds at the library.

[infinite monkey]

And I am already losing, buying these often second hand DVDs. At some point all will be higher tech than i got, like blue ray (what's after that some sort of beaming device?) And i don't think they will have the value of my brother's amazing record album collection.

But i love having them. I should count my dvds, right now!

[infinite monkey]

Slightly over 160 movies.

[Aliantha]

You might not get booked for calling your neighbour and arsehole, but your neighbour might sue you for it anyway. Not sure which is worse to be honest.

[DanaC]

If someone's been hit with an asbo for calling someone an asshole, then some of the story is missing. Most likely the two or three years of antisocial behaviour leading up to the incident in the report.

It's not that easy to get an asbo on someone. Once they've got one it is painfully easy to extend or add more stuff (for apparent further breaches the standard of evidence required is pathetically low).

What you have to understand is that in the UK pretty much everybody lives cheek by jowl.

I don;t agree with the asbo system, I didn't agree with them when they were brought in a decade ago, but I recognise there needed to be some sort of recourse, particularly for people living on estates that were being made into hellholes by a few individuals or families.

[DanaC]

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.

[xoxoxoBruce]

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.

[DanaC]

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.

[BigV]

A holiday song from the cellar cookie jar:

Deck us all with Boston Charlie,
Walla Walla, Wash., an' Kalamazoo!
Nora's freezin' on the trolley,
Swaller dollar cauliflower, alleygaroo!

Don't we know archaic barrel,
Lullaby Lilla Boy, Louisville Lou.
Trolley Molly don't love Harold,
Boola boola Pensacoola hullabaloo!
- Walt Kelly

[infinite monkey]

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.

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by infinite monkey

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.

[morethanpretty]

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?

[ZenGum]

... hey, wait a minute ...



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

[morethanpretty]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

... hey, wait a minute ...



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

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