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One is rather pathetic, I'm gonna get done for calling someone a pom! Next time I call you a sheep shagger am I to be hung drawn and quartered.
The other is an indication of the failure of civilisation, when some foul mouthed bigot can abuse a woman to that degree on public transport with little or no reaction then we have all become a bunch of wimps!
Mind you singing on a bus can be offensive in itself so there may have been some justification in asking her to shut up, I was once subjected to islamic wailing by some woman in a train in Paris, she was asked a number of time to shut up, not one person brought up her race or religion as the reason, she just had a horrible voice!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: Next time I call you a sheep shagger am I to be hung drawn and quartered.
well i'm not welsh so i dunno
Bryce
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RAH: For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
You've got a point or two
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: Next time I call you a sheep shagger am I to be hung drawn and quartered.
Probably not, but if word of it gets out, you may have some difficulty getting sheep to leave the bar at closing with you. They're sensitive creatures, and easily offended.
Will Rogers never met me.
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F*** you, we invented the pav.
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Yes we did. Don't ever question Margaret Fulton or we'll deport you.
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who the hell is "Margaret Fulton?"
not a (eye)patch on that famous kiwi Fred Hollows
Bryce
(before it all kicks off - i agree - Russell Crowe IS quintessentially Australian)
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bryce wrote: who the hell is "Margaret Fulton?"
tut, tut. I would have thought that was on that cultural test they make foreigners take these days.
bryce wrote: Russell Crowe IS quintessentially Australian
Born in NZ but chooses to live here, like someone else I can think of. Must like the place of something.
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your point is....?
Bryce
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bryce wrote: your point is....?
pointy!
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bryce wrote: (before it all kicks off - i agree - Russell Crowe IS quintessentially Australian)
Yeah, he's a bit of a dickhead...
If your neighbours don't listen to The Ramones, turn it up real loud so they can.
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bryce wrote: the difference between Van Dieman's land and Melbourne.
It's in the head count?
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you mean "head count" as in average head count per body?
Bryce
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Yet all you sheep shaggers keep coming over here in your hhundreds of thousands and stay.
If Kiwilsnd is so faarrrkkkking good, stsy thrre.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Hey, someone has to do the work while you guys are all down the pub or beach...
If your neighbours don't listen to The Ramones, turn it up real loud so they can.
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The lady must be blind not to have noticed the well-pampered sheep tied up in the back yard.
Silly duffer!
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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maybe, but i find it instructional that a well pampered, captive, sheep is not something mr chris maunder would miss.
Bryce
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I'm well versed in spotting kiwis.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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as well? goodness you've quite the sharp eye
Bryce
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"Mills, who has moved with her husband to Scotland."
Those frukkin' hairy jocks are finally gonna get what's coming to 'em, then!
It was only "racially aggravated", which means that the offence was that of public disorder -- in lang.CP, she did a "Friday Dalek" -- which may have escalated further than it would have because of the racial element.
The available penalties for public disorder are a tad low, so the CPS tacks on whatever it can to bump the charge up a bit.
e.g. if she'd said "slap", then "with menace" would have been added to the charge, just to give the magistrate room to hit her with a heavier penalty if it seemed she deserved it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Stupid PC bullshit. I can see the value in not allowing genuine racism as part of free expression. But it's being used to throw the book at people that don't deserve it.
Australian isn't even a race, anyway.
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good point - they're barely human
Bryce
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