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Originally Posted by Peter Ward
Some rules I follow with religious fervor...like Instrument Flight Rules (not doing so will kill you). Having to pay $50 & notify the council, police, fire brigade, and Air Services Australia each and every time I might want to launch a model rocket?? Lunacy.
I suppose unless we have velcro straps on our shoes...a tying shoe-laces license will be next.  |
The world has gone crazy, and it's the financial (insurance), legal (lawyers) and political (you know who) morons who have made it this way, along with a generally overly reactionary public that just jumps on a bandwagon out of ignorance and/or stupidity. Before about 1980, you'd never hear of people carrying on the way they do today, kids knew the meaning of the word respect and there was a modicum of common sense that pervaded society. These days, kids can get away with blue murder with no consequences and adults act more like spoilt kids...want all the goodies but no responsibility for anything untoward which might occur. Our parent's generation did some stupid things, yes, but in general they never carried on like people do today. At least not without the consequences of their actions coming back at them...hard. These days, someone sends millions of people into bankruptcy, crashes an entire economy or at least puts it into a spin, rips off everyone and what happens...they get a retirement package of several million, a gold watch and a pat on the back!!!!. Sometimes someone has to fall on the sword, but that's more to do with hiding or diverting attention away from even bigger crimes that those who should know better have committed themselves. These are the guys who are legislating all the nonsense we're talking about here.
If you want to put this into an historical perspective, this is like Rome, around 250-400AD. Everyone knows it's wrong, everyone knows what's happening but everyone is lurching along like a mob of drunks with no care at all at what's happening. Why spoil the party??!!. Why worry??!!. Doesn't concern
me, I'm getting what
I want. Bugger you, Jack.
Daniel, I'm sorry to hear about your son having those allergies, but as you said, it's the junk they've been putting in our foods and other things for so many years that has brought this about. Unfortunately, you've been unwitting participants in causing the allergies...we all have. Everyone has been eating this garbage for years, you'd expect your own body to deal with these chemicals well enough, but it does cause changes and those changes, which end up genetic, are being passed onto our kids. The longer this goes on, the more allergies and cases of allergies will arise. I'll bet the big food and chemical companies already knew about this 30-40 years, or more, ago. So did the governments. But they did nothing to stop it, because if they did, it would mean their profits would go down. That is what all and everything boils down to...greed, power and influence.
Well, enough of that.....bring back cracker night!!!!
