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"mary mayo"

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Jul 9, 2009, 5:52:03 AM7/9/09
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I'd like to be buggered in a public toilet.


alan.holmes

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Jul 9, 2009, 12:32:31 PM7/9/09
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<Mary Mayo> wrote in message news:2v1455....@news.alt.net...

>
> I'd like to be buggered in a public toilet.

I'd love to help, but I don't do buggery!

>
>

Scouse git

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Jul 9, 2009, 12:49:53 PM7/9/09
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alan.holmes wrote:

Shame I was hoping you'd bugger off, you crossposting freak.

--
It wasn't me, I was in bed, at the movies...with my mates all night

mower man

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Jul 9, 2009, 5:11:47 PM7/9/09
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alan.holmes wrote

> <Mary Mayo> wrote in message news:2v1455....@news.alt.net...
>> I'd like to be buggered in a public toilet.
>
> I'd love to help, but I don't do buggery!
>
>>
>
>
>

Which however seems to imply that you do *something* in public toilets
other than the usual excretion, defecation, etc.?

--

Chris

I am not young enough to know everything.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

alan.holmes

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Jul 10, 2009, 8:19:57 AM7/10/09
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"mower man" <nos...@f2s.com> wrote in message
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> alan.holmes wrote
>> <Mary Mayo> wrote in message news:2v1455....@news.alt.net...
>>> I'd like to be buggered in a public toilet.
>>
>> I'd love to help, but I don't do buggery!
>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> Which however seems to imply that you do *something* in public toilets
> other than the usual excretion, defecation, etc.?

Only with women!

Berf

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Jul 10, 2009, 10:02:45 AM7/10/09
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alan.holmes wrote

> "mower man" <nos...@f2s.com> wrote in message
> news:zMOdnR5Q5NuHwMvX...@pipex.net...
> > alan.holmes wrote
> >> <Mary Mayo> wrote in message news:2v1455....@news.alt.net...
> >>> I'd like to be buggered in a public toilet.
> >>
> >> I'd love to help, but I don't do buggery!
> >>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Which however seems to imply that you do *something* in public toilets
> > other than the usual excretion, defecation, etc.?
>
> Only with women!
>

Just don't sit in a public toilet in a US airport and nudge the foot of the
person sitting on the can in the next stall.

It appears that the US police "pretend" to be having a dump, are fishing. And
one day came up with a Senator!

They caught a big one!

http://www.nypost.com/seven/08282007/news/nationalnews/senator_busted_in_toile
t.htm


Mike P

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Jul 10, 2009, 10:42:27 AM7/10/09
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On 10 July, 15:02, Berf <be...@live.ca> wrote:
> alan.holmes wrote
>
>
>
> > "mower man" <nos...@f2s.com> wrote in message
> >news:zMOdnR5Q5NuHwMvX...@pipex.net...
> > > alan.holmes wrote
> > >> <Mary Mayo> wrote in messagenews:2v1455....@news.alt.net...

> > >>> I'd like to be buggered in a public toilet.
>
> > >> I'd love to help, but I don't do buggery!
>
> > > Which however seems to imply that you do *something* in public toilets
> > > other than the usual excretion, defecation, etc.?
>
> > Only with women!
>
> Just don't sit in a public toilet in a US airport and nudge the foot of the
> person sitting on the can in the next stall.
>
> It appears that the US police "pretend" to be having a dump, are fishing.  And
> one day came up with a Senator!
>
> They caught a big one!
>
> http://www.nypost.com/seven/08282007/news/nationalnews/senator_busted...
> t.htm

Your toilets are spooky. That half-length wall to the next stall is
just not right !! I don't want to see the legs of the person having a
shit next door thankyou very much :-p

Mike P

forty

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Jul 10, 2009, 12:46:02 PM7/10/09
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That's not too bad, at least in comparison to when someone cuts a glory
hole through one of those walls...

--
forty

"There's a very fine line between not listening, and not caring. I like
to think that I walk that line every day of my life."

Mike P

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Jul 10, 2009, 1:00:20 PM7/10/09
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On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:46:02 -0400, forty whimpered:

I'll grant you that one. I just found it very weird when I went to the
gents in our offices in Pittsburgh, it was like someone had forgot to
finish building the stalls... weird.

Mike P

Berf

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Jul 10, 2009, 2:15:46 PM7/10/09
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Mike P wrote

> >> Your toilets are spooky. That half-length wall to the next stall is
> >> just not right !! I don't want to see the legs of the person having a
> >> shit next door thankyou very much :-p
> >>
> >> Mike P
> >
> > That's not too bad, at least in comparison to when someone cuts a glory
> > hole through one of those walls...
>
> I'll grant you that one. I just found it very weird when I went to the
> gents in our offices in Pittsburgh, it was like someone had forgot to
> finish building the stalls... weird.
>
>

I was up a Mosport last year for the ALMS, and one of the girls dropped her
camera into the "Port a Potty".

That's everyone's worst nightmare.

So we managed to fish it out.

Washed it off, and it worked!


God is a racing fan.

Bigbird

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Jul 10, 2009, 2:24:19 PM7/10/09
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Berf wrote:

> Mike P wrote
> > >> Your toilets are spooky. That half-length wall to the next stall
> > is >> just not right !! I don't want to see the legs of the person
> > having a >> shit next door thankyou very much :-p
> > >>
> > >> Mike P
> > >
> > > That's not too bad, at least in comparison to when someone cuts a
> > > glory hole through one of those walls...
> >
> > I'll grant you that one. I just found it very weird when I went to
> > the gents in our offices in Pittsburgh, it was like someone had
> > forgot to finish building the stalls... weird.
> >
> >
>
> I was up a Mosport last year for the ALMS, and one of the girls
> dropped her camera into the "Port a Potty".
>
> That's everyone's worst nightmare.
>

Those with dentures might disagree. ;)

> So we managed to fish it out.
>
> Washed it off, and it worked!
>
>
> God is a racing fan.

--
Bigbird
#

Berf

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Jul 10, 2009, 3:46:11 PM7/10/09
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Bigbird wrote

> >
> > That's everyone's worst nightmare.
> >
>
> Those with dentures might disagree. ;)
>

Bigbird, I have played ice hockey for most of my life.

Yet, I still have my own teeth!


tim.....

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Jul 10, 2009, 4:19:37 PM7/10/09
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"Mike P" <mikepe...@googlemail.com> wrote in message
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

In "less safe" places they don't have doors, and sometimes not even any
walls.

tim


Mike P


~misfit~

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Jul 14, 2009, 9:05:28 PM7/14/09
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LOL, 'Boston Legal' did a really funny episode about this. Hard to believe,
in the US they pay cops to s(h)it on public toilets and arrest anyone who
happens to tap their feet. Crrraaazy!
--
Shaun.

"Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he'll
be warm for the rest of his life." Terry Pratchet, 'Jingo'.


~misfit~

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Jul 14, 2009, 9:06:37 PM7/14/09
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Somewhere on teh intarwebs Berf wrote:

Where do you kep them? <g>

Runge16

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Jul 15, 2009, 2:09:53 PM7/15/09
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"~misfit~" <sore_n...@yahoo.co.nz> a �crit dans le message de
news:h3ja31$rng$1...@news.eternal-september.org...

Gregory Morrow

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Jul 15, 2009, 6:10:03 PM7/15/09
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Uh - oh, scRunge is back from his hols...

So which krappy holiday venue did you infest this time, dear scRunge - North
Korea...Albania...Trans - Dniester...or...???

We were fervently hoping that he was aboard the rattletrap Iranian Russian -
amde Tupolev TU - 154M airliner that crashed in Armenia...

:-)


--
Best
Greg

~misfit~

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Jul 15, 2009, 7:20:25 PM7/15/09
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Somewhere on teh intarwebs Runge16 wrote:

SFA other than to add some cryptic, dare I say schizoid, text into the
subject...

?

Runge16

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Jul 16, 2009, 12:43:02 AM7/16/09
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There is no crappy destination, morrow, except in your sick head.
Except maybe the poor white man's ghetto you infest.


"Gregory Morrow" <xz77...@xxptbtar.ch> a �crit dans le message de
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zxcvbob

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Jul 16, 2009, 12:51:23 AM7/16/09
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>> "Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire and
>> he'll be warm for the rest of his life." Terry Pratchett, 'Jingo'.
>>


I always thought it was Robert S. McNamara who said that ;-)

Best regards,
Bob

~misfit~

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Jul 16, 2009, 3:58:00 AM7/16/09
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Hi Bob. I always thought that it was me. <g> Seriously. Perhaps I'd heard it
peripherally once and then regurgitated it but some friends and I were
playing with the "Give a man a fish.." thing and I came up with that
sometime in the 80s. I started using it in my sig more recently when I
remembered it again during a similar such conversation and got told that it
was a Terry Prachet quote, from Jingo.

Hence the attribution. I can change it if you like? <g>

Cheers,
--
Shaun.

"Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he'll

be warm for the rest of his life." Terry Pratchet, 'Jingo'.


Bob Muncie

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Jul 16, 2009, 4:17:19 AM7/16/09
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~misfit~ wrote:
> Somewhere on teh intarwebs zxcvbob wrote:
>>>> "Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire
>>>> and he'll be warm for the rest of his life." Terry Pratchett,
>>>> 'Jingo'.
>> I always thought it was Robert S. McNamara who said that ;-)
>
> Hi Bob. I always thought that it was me. <g> Seriously. Perhaps I'd heard it
> peripherally once and then regurgitated it but some friends and I were
> playing with the "Give a man a fish.." thing and I came up with that
> sometime in the 80s. I started using it in my sig more recently when I
> remembered it again during a similar such conversation and got told that it
> was a Terry Prachet quote, from Jingo.
>
> Hence the attribution. I can change it if you like? <g>
>
> Cheers,

Shaun - Since I posted my query, I've looked it up and saw it was a
valid quote that gives me a big smiley when I see it. I also like
Terry's books. I own several. I don't care much for the goofy stuff, but
I do like the fantasy stuff.

Bob

Mr. Joseph Littleshoes Esq.

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Jul 16, 2009, 4:40:40 AM7/16/09
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Runge16 wrote:

> There is no crappy destination, morrow, except in your sick head.
> Except maybe the poor white man's ghetto you infest.
>

You tempt me dude.

--

Mr. Joseph Littleshoes Esq.

Domine, dirige nos.
Let the games begin!
http://fredeeky.typepad.com/fredeeky/files/sf_anthem.mp3

~misfit~

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Jul 16, 2009, 5:32:35 AM7/16/09
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Somewhere on teh intarwebs Bob Muncie wrote:
> ~misfit~ wrote:
>> Somewhere on teh intarwebs zxcvbob wrote:
>>>>> "Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire
>>>>> and he'll be warm for the rest of his life." Terry Pratchett,
>>>>> 'Jingo'.
>>> I always thought it was Robert S. McNamara who said that ;-)
>>
>> Hi Bob. I always thought that it was me. <g> Seriously. Perhaps I'd
>> heard it peripherally once and then regurgitated it but some friends
>> and I were playing with the "Give a man a fish.." thing and I came
>> up with that sometime in the 80s. I started using it in my sig more
>> recently when I remembered it again during a similar such
>> conversation and got told that it was a Terry Prachet quote, from
>> Jingo. Hence the attribution. I can change it if you like? <g>
>
> Shaun - Since I posted my query, I've looked it up and saw it was a
> valid quote that gives me a big smiley when I see it. I also like
> Terry's books. I own several. I don't care much for the goofy stuff,
> but I do like the fantasy stuff.

Hi Bob. Yep, must admit to being partial to some of Terry's work myself.
He's a very talented man.

Cheers,
--
Shaun.

"Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he'll

be warm for the rest of his life." Terry Pratchet, 'Jingo'.


Mark

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Jul 16, 2009, 5:35:22 AM7/16/09
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In rec.autos.sport.f1 ~misfit~ <sore_n...@yahoo.co.nz> wrote:

> Somewhere on teh intarwebs Bob Muncie wrote:
>>
>> Shaun - Since I posted my query, I've looked it up and saw it was a
>> valid quote that gives me a big smiley when I see it. I also like
>> Terry's books. I own several. I don't care much for the goofy stuff,
>> but I do like the fantasy stuff.
>
> Hi Bob. Yep, must admit to being partial to some of Terry's work myself.
> He's a very talented man.

For now. :-(

Life can be very cruel.

Bob Muncie

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Jul 16, 2009, 5:43:00 AM7/16/09
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Mark - Were you part of the multi-group post? If so, sorry about that,
and you notice I did trim it down on this posting to you.

I hope you have a nice day.

Bob

~misfit~

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Jul 16, 2009, 8:52:08 PM7/16/09
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Indeed it can. Alzheimer's is something I dread. <fingers crossed>

Giusi

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Jul 17, 2009, 4:52:16 AM7/17/09
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"~misfit~"

Alzheimer's is something I dread. <fingers crossed>
> --
> Shaun.

My mother died last week after years in an institution not even knowing who
she was, let alone anyone else. You don't even know how to feel, because
who would ask anyone to exist in a state like that? It's not only a cruel
disease, I now realize she progressively suffered it for almost 30 years.
Murderers often don't pay a sentence like that.


bulka

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Jul 17, 2009, 5:30:03 AM7/17/09
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Terry Prachett. yes.

David Melville

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Jul 17, 2009, 5:56:54 AM7/17/09
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Sorry to hear, Giusi.

Nothing I could write would seem more than platitudes, so, a simple
"condolences".

Dave

Omelet

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Jul 17, 2009, 12:05:59 PM7/17/09
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In article <7case5F...@mid.individual.net>,
"Giusi" <deco...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm so sorry Giusi! I can feel for you.

I worry about dad and his memory loss and occasional bouts of dementia
behavior. For the time being he can still drive to the store and not get
lost (but sometimes comes home with stuff other than what he went there
for) but he's still reasonably sane.

He has serious Atrial valve stenosis and the docs say he can drop dead
at any time, or live another 10 years.

I want to keep him around as long as I can, so long as he still has his
mind. Once that has gone sufficiently. I pray he simply dies in his
sleep some night. :-(

I love him enough to let him go...
--
Peace! Om

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass.
It's about learning to dance in the rain.
-- Anon.

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Becca

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Jul 17, 2009, 12:53:25 PM7/17/09
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Giusi wrote:
> My mother died last week after years in an institution not even knowing who
> she was, let alone anyone else. You don't even know how to feel, because
> who would ask anyone to exist in a state like that? It's not only a cruel
> disease, I now realize she progressively suffered it for almost 30 years.
> Murderers often don't pay a sentence like that.


Giusi, I feel so bad for you and your mother. You gradually lose the
person you love and that must be heartbreaking to live through.


Becca

Jean B.

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Jul 17, 2009, 12:56:17 PM7/17/09
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Hugs to Giusi. I know a bit about how you feel, although the
nuances are never the same. My dad was demented when he died.
You are torn when they die. Things won't get better, thus death
is welcome. BUT you still grieve when they are gone. (For that
matter it was the same when mom had pancreatic cancer, just not so
protracted.)

--
Jean B.

Ian Dalziel

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Jul 17, 2009, 1:47:20 PM7/17/09
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Pratchett.
--

Ian D

Mr. Joseph Littleshoes Esq.

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Jul 17, 2009, 5:30:08 PM7/17/09
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~misfit~ wrote:

> Somewhere on teh intarwebs Mark wrote:
>

> >In rec.autos.sport.f1 ~misfit~ wrote:
> >
> >>Somewhere on teh intarwebs Bob Muncie wrote:
> >>
> >>>Shaun - Since I posted my query, I've looked it up and saw it was a
> >>>valid quote that gives me a big smiley when I see it. I also like
> >>>Terry's books. I own several. I don't care much for the goofy stuff,
> >>>but I do like the fantasy stuff.
> >>
> >>Hi Bob. Yep, must admit to being partial to some of Terry's work
> >>myself. He's a very talented man.
> >
> >For now. :-(
> >
> >Life can be very cruel.
>
> Indeed it can. Alzheimer's is something I dread.

> Shaun.


>
> "Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he'll
> be warm for the rest of his life." Terry Pratchet, 'Jingo'.

Only superficialy 'funny' as its an example of the "destroy the village
to save it" logic.

True the imolitated person will be warm for the 'rest of their lives"
but that ignores, in a vain attempt at humor, the destruction of the
very life the intention was to save, preserve, comfort etc.

Not unlike to days so called 'conservative' agenda to limit personal
freedoms in order to assure their survival. If you got nothing to hide
you should not mind people snooping.

If our doing nothing wrong the cameras every where should not bother you.

Nor any tracking device nor statistical analysis of your library reading
materials and eventualy any product you purchase.

As it is we cant spend $10,000 without the government getting a specific
notice of it. Cant even move funds amongst various accounts over
$10,000 without full disclosure.

graham

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Jul 17, 2009, 5:54:25 PM7/17/09
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"Giusi" <deco...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:7case5F...@mid.individual.net...
My sympathies Giusi. My Mother died last November after becoming
increasingly frail and helpless over a period of almost 10 years, but she
had her wits to the end. Either way it's very distressing and even though
it's expected, when it comes it's still a shock.
Graham


bugalugs

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Jul 17, 2009, 6:39:24 PM7/17/09
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Mr. Joseph Littleshoes Esq. wrote:
> ~misfit~ wrote:
>
>> Somewhere on teh intarwebs Mark wrote:
>>
>> >In rec.autos.sport.f1 ~misfit~ wrote:
>> >
>> >>Somewhere on teh intarwebs Bob Muncie wrote:
>> >>

<snip>


>> Shaun.
>>
>> "Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire and
>> he'll be warm for the rest of his life." Terry Pratchet, 'Jingo'.
>
>
>
> Only superficialy 'funny' as its an example of the "destroy the village
> to save it" logic.
>
> True the imolitated person will be warm for the 'rest of their lives"
> but that ignores, in a vain attempt at humor, the destruction of the
> very life the intention was to save, preserve, comfort etc.
>
> Not unlike to days so called 'conservative' agenda to limit personal
> freedoms in order to assure their survival. If you got nothing to hide
> you should not mind people snooping.
>
> If our doing nothing wrong the cameras every where should not bother you.
>
> Nor any tracking device nor statistical analysis of your library reading
> materials and eventualy any product you purchase.
>
> As it is we cant spend $10,000 without the government getting a specific
> notice of it. Cant even move funds amongst various accounts over
> $10,000 without full disclosure.
>

Eh ???

~misfit~

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Jul 17, 2009, 8:28:47 PM7/17/09
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Black helicopters mate, black helicopters.
--

~misfit~

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Jul 17, 2009, 8:36:45 PM7/17/09
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I'm so sorry to hear that, and so recently too. My condolences Giusi.

If only euthansia were legal I would make a living will so that I wouldn't
have to go through something like that. If it's any consolation they say
that severe Alzheimer's is actually harder on the family than it is on the
patient.

There's still a long way to go but, for anyone who's interested:

http://www.matchitforpratchett.org/

Cheers,

Berf

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Jul 17, 2009, 8:44:16 PM7/17/09
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~misfit~ wrote

>
> Black helicopters mate, black helicopters.
> --
>

I get a kick out of watching British police dramas, including the latest Law &
Order UK stuff. I've been a fan of that stuff for years.

In the American, or Canadian police dramas, they rarely utilize CCTV as a
source of information because there just isn't enough.

However, in Britain, it's always "we have 'im on the CCTV doing this, then on
the other CCTV doing that"

The fact is, there is an incredible amount of CCTV in the UK when it comes to
cities.

It's great that Google ran into a problem in a town somewhere in the UK where
they barred them from entering. All because of the Google Streets crap and
the townspeople objected.

Canada's "arms length" Privacy Commissioner was against Google Streets, but it
appears that Google won and they'll be doing it here as well.

In Toronto? When it comes to CCTV? They're portables that are set up in
areas of trouble, with appropriate signage, and not just everywhere and
anonymously.

Cities in the UK give me the impression that CCTV is everywhere.

That's right out of Orwell's 1984.

David Melville

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Jul 17, 2009, 11:01:24 PM7/17/09
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Loaded with Iraqi gold and Afghani hashish (Well where else do the CIA
get their money?)

Cheers,
Dave

sf

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Jul 17, 2009, 11:34:10 PM7/17/09
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On Sat, 18 Jul 2009 03:01:24 +0000 (UTC), David Melville
<doo...@doodah.com> wrote:

>(Well where else do the CIA get their money?)

CIA is one agency.

..."where else DOES the CIA get money?"


--
I love cooking with wine.
Sometimes I even put it in the food.

APLer

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Jul 18, 2009, 12:46:08 AM7/18/09
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bugalugs <bugal...@netscape.net> wrote in news:h3quj6$rd3$2...@aioe.org:

> Eh ???
>
US banking regulations. Exactly correct. They *have* to inform the
Treasury Dept (I *think* although maybe the FBI) whenever it happens. Put
in by scrub. One of his removal of rights that would actually *do*
something. Once you sort through *all* the transactions that is.

cybercat

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"sf" <s...@geemail.com> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 18 Jul 2009 03:01:24 +0000 (UTC), David Melville
> <doo...@doodah.com> wrote:
>
>>(Well where else do the CIA get their money?)
>
> CIA is one agency.
>
> ..."where else DOES the CIA get money?"
>
*smack* No spelling/gramma/typo lames allowed.


Matthew Malthouse

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Jul 18, 2009, 4:41:37 AM7/18/09
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On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:44:16 -0400, Berf <be...@live.ca> wrote:
>
> I get a kick out of watching British police dramas, including the latest Law &
> Order UK stuff. I've been a fan of that stuff for years.
...[snip]...

> Cities in the UK give me the impression that CCTV is everywhere.

There are a huge number although exactly how many is a matter of
dispute.

There's also controversy over their effectiveness in the prevention,
detection and prosecution of crime.
<http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/the-big-question-are-cctv-cameras-a-waste-of-money-in-the-fight-against-crime-822079.html>

One of the "problems" in counting is the proliferation of different
systems for differing purposes. Road speed violations, junction and
red light violations, general traffic condition and management, in
London Congestion Charge (entry toll) monitors, local government
street crime monitors, private security cameras both internal
(watching the employees) and external looking for unauthorised access.

Proponents of surveillance would argue that all these should be joined
up. That they haven't been is perhaps the only saving grace in the
situation.

When my car was broken into the crime officer dealing with the case
urged me to ask around the neighbours who might have suffered
similarly and lobby the local authority to install cameras on our
street.

That really irritated me. I have no confidence that cameras would
have prevented the crime. Even if it would have I am far from sure
I'd want my street monitored. Worst of all I do not believe that it's
the place of the police to try and bully the public into accepting or
even demanding further surveillance.

Matthew
--
Mail to this account goes to the bit bucket.
In the unlikely event you want to mail me replace usenet with my name

Gloria P

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Jul 18, 2009, 11:58:24 AM7/18/09
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sf wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Jul 2009 03:01:24 +0000 (UTC), David Melville
> <doo...@doodah.com> wrote:
>
>> (Well where else do the CIA get their money?)
>
> CIA is one agency.
>
> ..."where else DOES the CIA get money?"
>
>


In British English, collective nouns are plural, haven't you noticed?
(I have learned this from being online 18+ years with people from all
over the world.)


gloria p

blake murphy

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Jul 18, 2009, 1:40:17 PM7/18/09
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On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:44:16 -0400, Berf wrote:

> ~misfit~ wrote
>>
>> Black helicopters mate, black helicopters.
>> --
>>
>
> I get a kick out of watching British police dramas, including the latest Law &
> Order UK stuff. I've been a fan of that stuff for years.
>
> In the American, or Canadian police dramas, they rarely utilize CCTV as a
> source of information because there just isn't enough.
>
> However, in Britain, it's always "we have 'im on the CCTV doing this, then on
> the other CCTV doing that"
>
> The fact is, there is an incredible amount of CCTV in the UK when it comes to
> cities.
>

maybe so, but the u.s. 'law and order' has plenty of phone logs, too booth
records, and security camera tapes.

of course, usually the security cameras or turned off, or the wily perp has
a hat on. otherwise, the episode would last about ten minutes.

your pal,
blake

Berf

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Jul 18, 2009, 1:52:13 PM7/18/09
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blake murphy wrote

www.privacy.org has a good map of privacy.

http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd[347]=x-347-559597


The "black" is endemic surveillance societies (The USA, Russia and China)

The "yellow" are some safeguards but weakend protections. Canada and France,
along with Argentina, believe it or not!

Red is Extensive surveillance societies. The UK, Brazil, Australia, Norway
and Finland.

It's an interesting map.


Berf

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Jul 18, 2009, 2:02:32 PM7/18/09
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Berf wrote

I apologize. Red is "Systematic Failure to uphold safeguards"

Mr. Joseph Littleshoes Esq.

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Jul 19, 2009, 5:31:31 PM7/19/09
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Gloria P wrote:

> sf wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 18 Jul 2009 03:01:24 +0000 (UTC), David Melville

> > wrote:
> >
> >> (Well where else do the CIA get their money?)
> >
> >
> > CIA is one agency.
> > ..."where else DOES the CIA get money?"
> >
> >
>
>
> In British English, collective nouns are plural, haven't you noticed?
> (I have learned this from being online 18+ years with people from all
> over the world.)
>
>
> gloria p

*Chuckle*

Where does dis mean more den dat? only in a Dim Sum place:) first i will
have some of dis and den some of dat?

Ebonically,

sf

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Jul 19, 2009, 9:11:34 PM7/19/09
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On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:31:31 -0700, "Mr. Joseph Littleshoes Esq."
<jpst...@isp.com> wrote:

>Gloria P wrote:
>
>> sf wrote:
>>
>> > On Sat, 18 Jul 2009 03:01:24 +0000 (UTC), David Melville
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> (Well where else do the CIA get their money?)
>> >
>> >
>> > CIA is one agency.
>> > ..."where else DOES the CIA get money?"
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>> In British English, collective nouns are plural, haven't you noticed?
>> (I have learned this from being online 18+ years with people from all
>> over the world.)
>>

I can put up with a lot of things, but I have no tolerance for that.
It's just plain wrong.
>>
>> gloria p
>
>*Chuckle*
>
>
Now I have to look at my Kill File and figure out why I didn't see
Gloria's post... I haven't killed her on purpose.

Virginia Tadrzynski

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Jul 21, 2009, 9:32:06 AM7/21/09
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"sf" <s...@geemail.com> wrote in message
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I don't see much of her posts either. I think she just might be stepping
back a little and saying to herself 'Dude, those people are nucking futs on
that NG'. I've done it myself on a few occassions.
-ginny


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