Have the UK police got nothing else to do at all?
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
the Daily Mail has been known to get the news wrong just for the sake of a cheap sensationalist headline.
Where is your proof of this outlandish claim? The Daily Mail is a good news source, reporting on important things for the regular people, rather than the heads of power.
CaptainSeeSharp wrote:
The Daily Mail is a good news source
:laugh: Thanks for that. I needed a good laugh.
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CaptainSeeSharp wrote:
The Daily Mail is a good news source
:laugh: Thanks for that. I needed a good laugh.
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As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
No proof? You insane claim that the Daily Mail is fictional fairytales has been publicly marked as false.
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No proof? You insane claim that the Daily Mail is fictional fairytales has been publicly marked as false.
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No proof? You insane claim that the Daily Mail is fictional fairytales has been publicly marked as false.
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Pretty soon you will have to worry about carbon crimes, bio crimes (being sick out in public or not having your routine injections), and the population growth police.
modified on Friday, September 25, 2009 4:37 PM
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There have already been cases that could be seen as bio crimes - people purposefully drugged people and injected their blood into them to give them HIV That is, IMO, a crime that should be punished by slow impalement.
I was thinking more along the lines of innocent people being prosecuted for having the flu or failing to take injections or have their children injected.
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I was thinking more along the lines of innocent people being prosecuted for having the flu or failing to take injections or have their children injected.
CaptainSeeSharp wrote:
I was thinking more along the lines of innocent people being prosecuted for having the flu or failing to take injections or have their children injected.
Not so much being prosecuted, but there are plans here in the UK for schools and health visitors to be notified of children who haven't had their MMR jabs or equivalent.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
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No proof? You insane claim that the Daily Mail is fictional fairytales has been publicly marked as false.
CaptainSeeSharp wrote:
No proof? You insane claim that the Daily Mail is fictional fairytales has been publicly marked as false.
The regulation that the Daily Mail (and then other tabloids) picked up on was related to regulation (EEC) No 1677/8 laid out to specify quality standards for cucumbers. At no stage do these regulations talk about a cucumber having to be straight - they do state that class 1 cucumbers must have an arc of no more than 10 mm for every 10 cm of cucumber; and if they don't the arc must be no more than 20 mm for 10cm to be a class 2 cucumber. Perhaps you'd care to read the actual regulations yourself[^].
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
the Daily Mail has been known to get the news wrong just for the sake of a cheap sensationalist headline.
Where is your proof of this outlandish claim? The Daily Mail is a good news source, reporting on important things for the regular people, rather than the heads of power.
You've never left Ohio, you're scared to even leave the house, but you know what constitutes a good news source in the UK ? I assume a 'good news source' is whatever panders to your world view and bias ?
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CaptainSeeSharp wrote:
No proof? You insane claim that the Daily Mail is fictional fairytales has been publicly marked as false.
The regulation that the Daily Mail (and then other tabloids) picked up on was related to regulation (EEC) No 1677/8 laid out to specify quality standards for cucumbers. At no stage do these regulations talk about a cucumber having to be straight - they do state that class 1 cucumbers must have an arc of no more than 10 mm for every 10 cm of cucumber; and if they don't the arc must be no more than 20 mm for 10cm to be a class 2 cucumber. Perhaps you'd care to read the actual regulations yourself[^].
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
I can't believe I've written an entire post concerning cucumber regulations. Has the lounge really come to this?
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
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I was thinking more along the lines of innocent people being prosecuted for having the flu or failing to take injections or have their children injected.
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Hey, it's a global pandemic don't you know. Apparently stopping breathing for 2 hours is about to be classified a pandemic as well.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
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CaptainSeeSharp wrote:
I was thinking more along the lines of innocent people being prosecuted for having the flu or failing to take injections or have their children injected.
Not so much being prosecuted, but there are plans here in the UK for schools and health visitors to be notified of children who haven't had their MMR jabs or equivalent.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
Oh the irony! Sensationalist reporting of an investigation... leads to... People not taking the MMR jab... leads to... Sensationalist reporting of prople not taking MMR jab... I would love to know where this is going to lead now, but I don't quite have the imagination....
Vincent www.pub-olympics.com
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Oh the irony! Sensationalist reporting of an investigation... leads to... People not taking the MMR jab... leads to... Sensationalist reporting of prople not taking MMR jab... I would love to know where this is going to lead now, but I don't quite have the imagination....
Vincent www.pub-olympics.com
Sensationalist reporting about the drastic effects of (other papers) sensationalist reporting.
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I can't believe I've written an entire post concerning cucumber regulations. Has the lounge really come to this?
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
ROTFL !!! Only when CSS is involved.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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Oh the irony! Sensationalist reporting of an investigation... leads to... People not taking the MMR jab... leads to... Sensationalist reporting of prople not taking MMR jab... I would love to know where this is going to lead now, but I don't quite have the imagination....
Vincent www.pub-olympics.com
It is good, isn't it?
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
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I can't believe I've written an entire post concerning cucumber regulations. Has the lounge really come to this?
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
Well at least it wasn't from memory! :D Err, it wasn't, was it??
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Well at least it wasn't from memory! :D Err, it wasn't, was it??
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No - I had to look it up again. I was the IT Manager for a wholesale produce distributor when that regulation came in, and I remember having to update a lot of systems. That particular one stuck with me (mainly because I had to update 4 cities in one day - covering about 500 miles, and the time taken to do the installs, plus the drive time meant I was on the road for about 22 hours).
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1216017/Police-threaten-mother-cells--pulling-dead-plant-flowerbed.html?ITO=1490&referrer=yahoo[^] These kinds of things are really shameful. It is as if the police have solved all crimes, and protected citizens from all possible crimes, and hence there is nothing else to do other than things like these. Shameful!
To involve the police was insane, but as a gardener who grows Canna Lillies what she did was wrong because the top dies off naturally every year in that climate but the rhizome will send up a new shoot the next year. To pull the whole thing out like she did is a crime against gardening.
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My point is; the Daily Mail has been known to get the news wrong just for the sake of a cheap sensationalist headline. They ran an article a couple of years ago that the EU was going to ban grocers from selling curved cucumbers. Let's just say that this was complete and utter Horlicks.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
If by "complete and utter Horlicks", you mean "correctly summarizing the regulation". Quality standard regulations by definition exclude products from going to market. One would assume violation of said regulations would result in punishment (by the state, obviously). I fail to see any fallacy in the alluded headline. The sensationalism or outrage opined by the Daily Mail is understandable if they hold the belief that punishment must come from the hand of the free-market, not the collective thought of politicians--who are not held responsible for sustainability of the grocery food supply-chain.