Stupid World

[mashman]

There's nothing flawed about "stop whinging and stand up and do something about it".
Even a hoary old curmudgeon like me hit the streets in '81. However I somehow doubt that someone who doesn't vote would have the energy to get out and march.

You posture and complain, yet you have no respect for the democratic process, preferring to make condescending and fatuous remarks about how you would fix it.
You just know better don't, you?

You and the rest of rent a rabble should take the heed of the Prime Minister - over 1,000,000 people voted for this government, if you can get that many on your next march, we'll listen.

I am doing something about it. So I shall "whine" all I like .

I do have respect for the democratic process and "my" solution would fix it... and in this case, yes, I do know better.

... give me a financial backer, the TV time and a decent spokesperson and I'll get those million votes... but I'd rather you voted for it because it made sense, not because it was popular ... and you wonder why people call them sheep.

[Oscar]

I am doing something about it. So I shall "whine" all I like .

I do have respect for the democratic process and "my" solution would fix it... and in this case, yes, I do know better.

... give me a financial backer, the TV time and a decent spokesperson and I'll get those million votes... but I'd rather you voted for it because it made sense, not because it was popular ... and you wonder why people call them sheep.

You could undoubtedly get a financial backer, the TV time and a decent spokesperson and a million votes, but for one thing - you talk shite.

[mashman]

You could undoubtedly get a financial backer, the TV time and a decent spokesperson and a million votes, but for one thing - you talk shite.

it ain't about me... I thought you might have figured that out.

[Oscar]

it ain't about me... I thought you might have figured that out.

It's hard to figure out what yer on about on a good day...

[mashman]

Its something we will see more of I reckon as times get tougher & councils bequeath ever more rate rises. Our land value has increased by 35000 since it was last valued & we have done nothing to it
Always thought that a rates revolt would certainly stir things up...it'd only take a few hundred rate payers to refuse the rises & take it as far as the courts to really get the courts & the authorities worried.

Civil disobedience... how dare they

It's hard to figure out what yer on about on a good day...

and I'm fresh out of babelfish... my apologies.

[mashman]

More on the Spanish austerity measure protest: 100,000 march in Spain over austerity.

"I'm here to defend the rights that we're losing and for the young people who have it so tough," 57-year-old middle school teacher Roberto Alonso said. "They're better educated than ever. But they don't have work. They don't have anything. They're behind and they'll stay that way."

"Javier Colilla, a 27-year old university student, said he showed up to protest in Madrid because Spain's economic situation seems like it will spiral into chaos.

"We've had this crisis for four years but it feels like it's just starting," the fine arts major said.

Colilla lives with his parents, sees zero prospect of getting a menial job after graduation and thinks he may never be able to buy an apartment.

"Right now I'm thinking my best option will be to go to Germany where I can wash dishes, make a little money and learn German," he said. "The prospects of getting a job in Spain are practically inexistent."

He said the government austerity cuts targeting "health and education, but rescuing banks are wrong. They need to find other places to cut"."

Pah!!! Money eh.

[puddytat]

You and the rest of rent a rabble should take the heed of the Prime Minister - over 1,000,000 people voted for this government, if you can get that many on your next march, we'll listen.

It may be the actions of only one individual which could make all the difference.........

[mashman]

It may be the actions of only one individual which could make all the difference.........

Wish you'd hurry up then

[puddytat]

Well a neighbour up the road got so wound up about one thing or another he did this....

http://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/n...un-cache#share

[mashman]

Well a neighbour up the road got so wound up about one thing or another he did this....

http://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/n...un-cache#share

that musta been some wind up.

[BoristheBiter]

that musta been some wind up.

It can't be, you didn't write it.

[mashman]

It can't be, you didn't write it.

we'll try again... me nono gotto no'o babelo fisho

[puddytat]

He's been winding himself up for years.......something to do with those who come from the promised land.

glad they got him BEFORE he went postal....

Come to think of it,
he was the epitome of a paranoid schizo right wing fascist wannabe old english reprobate curmudgeon....

and honestly we're all here sleeping better.....

[Oscar]

It may be the actions of only one individual which could make all the difference.........

True. But I don't think that the person posting random press links and making fatuous comments is that individual.

[mashman]

He's been winding himself up for years.......something to do with those who come from the promised land.

glad they got him BEFORE he went postal....

Come to think of it,
he was the epitome of a paranoid schizo right wing fascist wannabe old english reprobate curmudgeon....

and honestly we're all here sleeping better.....

as you say, kind of lucky that he went on an arson binge instead of the Breivik kind. Poor fella

True. But I don't think that the person posting random press links and making fatuous comments is that individual.

Shame you see them as random press links... but I guess that was to be expected.

Have another old chap.

New laws cost $3.5m each - study... so we're paying to remove our own freedoms... oh the irony.