Australian town bans bottled water

[Shelli]

Originally Posted by godfry n. glad

Like I would care would you think.

Boy, you ARE deluded.

Why don't you go kill some dogs?

Wait...

This doesn't mean that you're going get a grip in public, does it?

[Adam]

Originally Posted by The Lone Ranger

Hah! You obviously weren't reading carefully-enough.

I specifically referred to whether the lights were approaching or receding in reference to your vehicle, just to take into account the fact that you might have been driving backwards at relativistic speeds.

So there.

OK, first of all, it's appalling that this is not valid smileytext... :shaketlr:

We need a way to shake TLR when he uses his "facts" and "knowledge" to disprove whatever crazy thing I'm rambling on about!

Second, OK, you got me there, but what if I drive sideways? Surely, that will be different, right? I'm pretty sure my Jeep has a sideways button...I saw something like that when I was sifting through all the empty drink bottles on my floor looking for the cell phone I dropped.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by godfry n. glad

Why don't you go kill some dogs?

OK, now I'm confused. Is this some sort of self-referential metajoke I don't get? I thought you were in favor of dog killing.

[Shelli]

I can't wait to see how many more names I'm called and insults I'm giving by tomorrow morning.

[godfry n. glad]

Originally Posted by Shallow

Wait...

This doesn't mean that you're going get a grip in public, does it?

I'd love to donate to the canine euthanasia unit in your town, so that when your dogs get loose they'll have a chance of being offed.

Because I don't care. They're not my dogs. They're not in my town. They are just menacing others when they run loose without leashes. I'll bet she'll make some big deal about a couple of her useless dogs.

[Shelli]

Why, oh WHY couldn't I have turned it off without refreshing one last time?!!

[Naru]

Originally Posted by godfry n. glad

I'd love to donate to the canine euthanasia unit in your town, so that when your dogs get loose they'll have a chance of being offed.

Pet death burn? Nice.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by godfry n. glad

I'd love to donate to the canine euthanasia unit in your town, so that when your dogs get loose they'll have a chance of being offed.

Because I don't care. They're not my dogs. They're not in my town. They are just menacing others when they run loose without leashes. I'll bet she'll make some big deal about a couple of her useless dogs.

[Ensign Steve]

Originally Posted by Adam

I saw something like that when I was sifting through all the empty drink bottles on my floor looking for the cell phone I dropped.

Throw the bottles out the window, duh.

[Shelli]

Originally Posted by godfry n. glad

I'd love to donate to the canine euthanasia unit in your town, so that when your dogs get loose they'll have a chance of being offed.

Because I don't care. They're not my dogs. They're not in my town. They are just menacing others when they run loose without leashes. I'll bet she'll make some big deal about a couple of her useless dogs.

OH MY GAWD! YOU HEARTLESS BASTARD!!! HOW COULD YOU?!?!?!?



meh.. I can't even bring myself to pretend.

I will say that you've caught my attention, godfry, if only to wonder at just what the fuck is wrong with you.

[godfry n. glad]

Originally Posted by Shelli

I will say that you've caught my attention, godfry, if only to wonder at just what the fuck is wrong with you.

What the fuck is wrong with me is I care. I care about things which don't happen to be part of my immediate world. I care that careless people do stupid and thoughtless things that make it worse for everybody else.

You are now a clear member of those stupid and thoughtless people. You care only about yourself and your animals. Anything else is beneath you.

I'm just returning the favor. You don't care about things I do, so I guess l'll just refuse to give a shit about things you think important.

So...It's time to off all those extra dogs. Let's do it fast.

[Naru]

Originally Posted by godfry n. glad

What the fuck is wrong with me is I care. I care about things which don't happen to be part of my immediate world. I care that careless people do stupid and thoughtless things that make it worse for everybody else.

You are now a clear member of those stupid and thoughtless people. You care only about yourself and your animals. Anything else is beneath you.

I'm just returning the favor. You don't care about things I do, so I guess l'll just refuse to give a shit about things you think important.

So...It's time to off all those extra dogs. Let's do it fast.

I also find that it's best to form opinions sheerly out of spite.

Hey godfry, I care about not looking like a fucking nutcase on the internet, so I guess you can't...oh, wait...nevermind.

[Shelli]

Originally Posted by godfry n. glad

What the fuck is wrong with me is I care. I care about things which don't happen to be part of my immediate world. I care that careless people do stupid and thoughtless things that make it worse for everybody else.

You are now a clear member of those stupid and thoughtless people. You care only about yourself and your animals. Anything else is beneath you.

I'm just returning the favor. You don't care about things I do, so I guess l'll just refuse to give a shit about things you think important.

So...It's time to off all those extra dogs. Let's do it fast.

Hrm.. well, according to the world of godfry, anything besides myself and my animals is beneath me and therefore not worthy of my concern and since you're not myself nor one of my animals, just what would make you think that I would give a rat's ass (and yes, Watser?, rats do too have asses ) about what you do or don't give a shit about? Hello?

[ChuckF]

He cares dammit. He cares. You blew it up! Damn you! God damn you all to hell!

[godfry n. glad]

Speaking of stupid, thoughtless things...

I see by the gray lines that ChuckF is here. Open wide, Shallow.

[ChuckF]

PRETEND IGNORE BURN

So godfry is this just a Thursday night ragehate eruption or is it a special occasion?

[godfry n. glad]

Whoops...brown lines. Even more appropriate.

[godfry n. glad]

Hey, Shallow...

Tomorrow, I'm going to check in with the Humane Society and the county Animal Control and see if they are looking for donations to expand their canine euthanasia units...If they are, can I make a donation in your honor?

[ChuckF]

Shelli does your county have some kind of donor-funded Bladerunner-type animal control system?

Because that sounds pretty badass.

[Sauron]

Well, we do have some roadside trash problems here. In fact, our MBA 510 class (Team Building and Ethical Leadership) took its service project as a roadside cleanup in North Bend, WA. North Bend is a small town on the west side of the Cascades. Originally the town was known for tall timber, rednecks, and truckers. Now, they've added some Microsoft money to the equation and it is changing the town.

Anyhow, we had 40 people picking up trash for almost a whole day, and we barely touched the surface of it. It wasn't just cans and bottles, it was shotgun shells, an old couch, chain-link fence, engine blocks, lots of broken clay skeets, and cardboard boxes of clothing that people dump.



Probably the worst part of it was the "trucker's orange juice". Long-haul truckers are reluctant to stop and use the bathroom at a truck stop because it can cut into their driving time and make them late for deliveries. Instead, while driving they just urinate into 32-oz or 64-oz soda bottles. They put the lid on it, and toss it out the window in some rural part of the road. Over time it changes color to a dark orange. We had 30 or 40 of those to clean up in mile or two stretch of road.

We also had similar problems back home in Virginia and West Virginia, mostly pop bottles and soda/beer cans. But the nickel deposit program solved most of that.

[Deadlokd]

Well that answers that. I've often seen coke bottles filled with yellow liquid on the side of the road and wondered how long the coke has been sitting there to turn that colour. Colour me stupid.

In other news the thread got real interesting.

[godfry n. glad]

That's a curious thing to do, considering most truckers' end points and way stations along their routes. Dumpsters and trash cans are major items of decor at such places, as are restrooms. It shouldn't be necessary to fling it into the verge. It seems a real fuckheaded thing to do.

For that matter, it'd be 'greener' all 'round if they'd just empty the bottle on the verge. That'd fertilize the grass, and weeds. It's the plastic soda bottle that's a pisser, not the urine in it.



I'll bet they don't have that in Indiana. Indiana is absofuckinlutely pristine. I bet truckers hold it all the way across.

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

[Ensign Steve]

Originally Posted by godfry n. glad

I'll bet they don't have that in Indiana. Indiana is absofuckinlutely pristine. I bet truckers hold it all the way across.

I think they're just more motivated to stop at the truck stops because they know the quality of cum-garglers in Indiana is the best in the country. Not necessarily in talent, but enthusiam.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by godfry n. glad

That's a curious thing to do, considering most truckers' end points and way stations along their routes. Dumpsters and trash cans are major items of decor at such places, as are restrooms. It shouldn't be necessary to fling it into the verge. It seems a real fuckheaded thing to do.

How curious. What could possibly motivate these fellows who are on the road for days at a time, who generally get paid by the mile rather than by the hour, and whose vehicles are slow and expensive to accelerate, to avoid extra stops however they can? What could their incentives be? It's a real head scratcher.

You know what I bet would change their behavior, though? A quarter deposit on those plastic bottles, because that would totally justify the extra time and expense of stopping to them. And, if not, at least it would encourage children to walk up and down the interstate looking for bottles to hand in for deposit.

I'll bet they don't have that in Indiana. Indiana is absofuckinlutely pristine. I bet truckers hold it all the way across.

Maybe. Or maybe, like I said, there are existing programs in place that do an adequate cleanup job?