Trainspotters being stopped under anti-terror powers

[Board Game Geek]

The British people of today do not deserve either, because they let this happen without complaint.

I think you will find that complaint is pointless and effectively outlawed anyway.

I'm sure a great many people are too terrified to complain, because the consequences are too frightening to imagine.

This isn't "V for Vendetta" you know.

As long as most people get their dose of reality TV, soap operas, SKY+, booze, fags and a night out to the pub or cinema once in a while, being a "martyr" and trying to start a rebellion is going to be way down on their list of "must-do's".

[NickFitz]

I'm sure a great many people are too terrified to complain, because the consequences are too frightening to imagine.

As long as most people get their dose of reality TV, soap operas, SKY+, booze, fags and a night out to the pub or cinema once in a while, being a "martyr" and trying to start a rebellion is going to be way down on their list of "must-do's".

You address the first point with the second: the vast majority of people don't give a monkey's fsck. They aren't terrified; they just don't really care, nor do they know what to care about.

Tell them that you want to concrete the local park where their kids play so as to build a new ASDA and a few of them may form a committee and kick up a bit of a stink, until the local councillors ignore them and grant planning permission anyway. Meanwhile, their neighbours will think "What can you do," or "Great! Easier shopping!"

Tell them that you want to tattoo a barcode on their newborn baby's arm and a few of them may kick up a stink. Meanwhile, their neighbours will think "What can you do," or "Great! Easier to get what's left of her back after she's been kidnapped by the deranged paedophiles that, The Sun assures me, roam the land in feral packs!"

'Twas ever thus. One of the curses of being a person of above-average intelligence living in a democracy (tr: rule by the people) is that you're forced to endure the decisions made by the imbecilic majority.

Unfortunately, the alternative systems of government always turn out very badly in the long run, so one has to make the best of an imperfect world.

[Board Game Geek]

Posted by NF 'Twas ever thus. One of the curses of being a person of above-average intelligence living in a democracy (tr: rule by the people) is that you're forced to endure the decisions made by the imbecilic majority.

A friend of mine once said to me:

"If there ever is such a thing as reincarnation, I'd like to come back with a significantly lower IQ".

I think I begin to understand what he meant now...

[NickFitz]

A friend of mine once said to me:

"If there ever is such a thing as reincarnation, I'd like to come back with a significantly lower IQ".

I think I begin to understand what he meant now...

Although one should be careful what one wishes for: cockroaches have to be getting their souls from somewhere, and there's no guarantee of a nuclear war to give them the last laugh

[Board Game Geek]

Is there scientific proof of "a soul" ?

Surely if we had such things, we should be able to prove them ?

Or is this another faith-based concept handed down by the Great Sky Fairy ?

NN btw :-)