Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as: Knowing when to come in out of the rain; why the early bird gets the worm; Life isn't always fair; and maybe it was my fault.

 

Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in charge). His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a 6-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.

 

Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children. It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer sun lotion or an Elastoplast to a student; but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.

 

Common Sense lost the will to live as churches became businesses, and criminals received better treatment than their victims.

 

Common Sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault. Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.

 

Common Sense was preceded in death by his parents, Truth and Trust; his wife, Discretion; his daughter, Responsibility; and his son, Reason.

 

He is survived by his 4 stepbrothers:

 

• I Know My Rights

• I Want It Now

• Someone Else Is To Blame

• I'm A Victim

 

Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone.

 

Common Sense turned in his grave when his antithesis, Crazy Chris, stole his name.

 

Do you still remember him?

Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as: Knowing when to come in out of the rain; why the early bird gets the worm; Life isn't always fair; and maybe it was my fault.

 

Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in charge). His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a 6-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.

 

Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children. It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer sun lotion or an Elastoplast to a student; but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.

 

Common Sense lost the will to live as churches became businesses, and criminals received better treatment than their victims.

 

Common Sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault. Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.

 

Common Sense was preceded in death by his parents, Truth and Trust; his wife, Discretion; his daughter, Responsibility; and his son, Reason.

 

He is survived by his 4 stepbrothers:

 

• I Know My Rights

• I Want It Now

• Someone Else Is To Blame

• I'm A Victim

 

Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone.

 

Common Sense turned in his grave when his antithesis, Crazy Chris, stole his name.

 

Do you still remember him?

Wow. Are you sure you aren't the Daily Mail in disguise Ethan?

 

Common Sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault. Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.

There's a difference between defending yourself and beating the burglar in a pre-meditated attack to the extent that they have permanent brain damage.

 

And with regards to the coffee case, the woman who sued McDonald's and won $2.9 million in damages received third-degree burns to her groin, inner thighs and buttocks, requiring skin grafts and a week in hospital. Why? Because the coffee was far hotter than it should've been - twenty degrees higher, on average, than any other food establishment's, and McDonald's had received no fewer than seven hundred complaints about the heat of the coffee. The woman only sued McDonald's after they offered just $800 towards her medical bills.

 

Common sense isn't dead. (Does anyone else here notice the irony of Ethan ranting about common sense being dead in much the same reactionary fashion as Crazy Chris would?) Common sense, however, IS dead on your behalf. Clearly you can't distinguish apocryphal 'oh, there's not much news today, let's throw in an urban legend' stories from the truth, or take too many stories at face value.

 

How laughable that you parade yourself as an intellectual, Ethan!

LMAO. What is this?!

 

Common sense isn't dead. This is mostly a case of mistrust in authority of any sort. People are so on edge these days that you can't do anything without being branded this and that or doing something wrong, and the rules are so fine-tuned that on occasion they backfire and contradict what they're supposed to do. It's just life. But people still know what's the right thing to do. One of my classmates cried in class once and my teacher wanted to hug them, and knew common sense would be to comfort them, but she didn't want to risk being branded a paedophile or reported. Everybody is transfixed with laws and rules, and we have so many that it just contradicts everything. Common sense can still prevail. And it DEFINITELY is still alive. It just means you have to look harder for it.

Edited July 11, 201015 yr by ~ it's lewis ~

And what's the need for this elaborate metaphor?! Really? Maybe I just hate pretentiousness but regardless it's still weird.

Hey guys I'm still very much alive. :cheer:

 

 

Very good post though Ethan all all true unfortunately. :(

Edited July 11, 201015 yr by Common Sense

We must mourn this fact.

Common sense isn't dead. (Does anyone else here notice the irony of Ethan ranting about common sense being dead in much the same reactionary fashion as Crazy Chris would?) Common sense, however, IS dead on your behalf. Clearly you can't distinguish apocryphal 'oh, there's not much news today, let's throw in an urban legend' stories from the truth, or take too many stories at face value.

 

How laughable that you parade yourself as an intellectual, Ethan!

 

Hear, hear Danny, half of this stuff he's going on about is utter balls tbh, and the sort of rubbish we'd expect from the Hate Mail, in fact, I'm pretty sure he lifted this whole article from the Mail...

 

And Ethan, if you persist in posting comments in a practically fukkin' impossible to read font colour, I'm deleting them....

 

Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend more than you can earn)

 

Yeah, and who do you suppose it was that actually oversaw the "credit culture" and the whole culture of "me, me, me", "I want it now and I dont care how I get it"...? That would be Thatcherism and Reaganomics in the 80s when everyone and their dog started getting credit cards, personal loans, etc, and students being forced to take top-up loans, overdrafts, etc, instead of having decent maintenance grants at levels which allowed them to actually live relatively comfortably while studying.... In short, the sort of corrossive, neo-liberalist Capitalism that you're in favour of....

And Ethan, if you persist in posting comments in a practically fukkin' impossible to read font colour, I'm deleting them....

 

 

To be fair to Ethan he didn't post it like that as it was in a normal font yesterday. Has gone light-coloured overnight.

Edited July 12, 201015 yr by Common Sense

To be fair to Ethan he didn't post it like that as it was in a normal font yesterday. Has gone light-coloured overnight.

 

Yeah, maybe, but when you change your font colour or size, it changes ALL your posts, including ones you'd already done.. I personally dont want to have to struggle to read something that's long in a font colour which is practically translucent.... It's a bit inconsiderate....

I can't even read the sodding thing. I wish members realised not every one has 100% vision.

I can't even read the sodding thing. I wish members realised not every one has 100% vision.

 

Looks like it's been sorted now....

 

Should make it one of the site rules though, no posts in hard to read font colours or sizes....

 

There's a difference between defending yourself and beating the burglar in a pre-meditated attack to the extent that they have permanent brain damage.

 

How can an attack on an intruder in your house ever be classed as 'pre-meditated'?! :wacko: Quite frankly, I'm on the side of the person defending their home and family - isn't any sane person???? :blink:

How can an attack on an intruder in your house ever be classed as 'pre-meditated'?! :wacko: Quite frankly, I'm on the side of the person defending their home and family - isn't any sane person???? :blink:

I presumed he was referring to the case with the thread last year where the burgled rounded up a vigilante mob and then beat the burglar senseless a couple of days afterwards, leading to brain damage? (Cue the Daily Mail et al screeching about the burgled's 'right to defend his home', even though it was a pre-meditated vengeance attack which had nothing to do with defence...)

Oh, bitchery.

am I the only one who thought it was about crazy chris lol

I presumed he was referring to the case with the thread last year where the burgled rounded up a vigilante mob and then beat the burglar senseless a couple of days afterwards, leading to brain damage? (Cue the Daily Mail et al screeching about the burgled's 'right to defend his home', even though it was a pre-meditated vengeance attack which had nothing to do with defence...)

 

OK, that's over the top - but you can understand the feeling of frustration and helplessness someone who gets persistently burgled feels.

 

When I lived in Bristol, I was burgled twice.... the police were jaw-droppingly blase and incompetent throughout, evenm telling me on both occasions they had absolutely no hope of actually finding out who did it..... and the people who came round fingerprinting made far more mess than the actual burglars.

 

Until we have a legal system that deals with burglary as a serious crime, which it is, it's literally raping your home, and a system that hands out sentences accordingly, which they never ever do, then we'll get more and more of the vigilante squads, and whilst the case you mentioned does sound over the top - perhaps the burglar was a persistent offender? Perhaps he targeted these people? Perhaps he deliberately destroyed someone's home? It's hard to believe a punishment as severe as this, however misguided, was over one piddly breaking and entering incident.

How can an attack on an intruder in your house ever be classed as 'pre-meditated'?! :wacko: Quite frankly, I'm on the side of the person defending their home and family - isn't any sane person???? :blink:

 

I would say that Tony Martin going out and getting an ILLEGAL firearm is a pretty premeditated act as well.. Not only that, I'd say getting said illegal firearm from an illicit source is a slightly more serious offence than nicking a stereo or DVD player, as it contributes to far more dangerous gang and drug violence on our streets..... But maybe you dont.... -_-

 

And do you think that investigation of these offences is gonna be getting any better or worse due to the Govt's cutbacks of public services.....? Just throwing that out there as another avenue of discussion, seeing as how we're talking about "common sense" and all.....

 

I would say that Tony Martin going out and getting an ILLEGAL firearm is a pretty premeditated act as well.. Not only that, I'd say getting said illegal firearm from an illicit source is a slightly more serious offence than nicking a stereo or DVD player, as it contributes to far more dangerous gang and drug violence on our streets..... But maybe you dont.... -_-

 

You're right... no, I don't.

You're right... no, I don't.

 

Oh, so in Russ-World, drug, gang and gun crime isn't a problem then, there's no trade in illegal firearms then eh...? And here's me thinking you lived in Bristol, a major city..... I'm seriously beginning to think Crazy Chris has hijacked your account.....

 

Yeah, let's see how sympathetic you or the gutter press would've been to Tony Martin had he been a young bloke living on an estate in Hackney or Peckham where there's far more reason to fear serious crime (gangs, drugs, etc) and it's consequences....

as I said in my post on another thread - I ignore one-sided old leftie bollox, I'm afraid. Next....