Assholes in Goatchurch !!!

[Hughie]

I can only say I'm glad not to be a child in this day and age.

 

[shotlighter]

I can only say I'm glad not to be a child in this day and age.

I get your point but I'm eternally glad my lad had a hat on!!
On a mere irresponsable note I once did use him as a "probe" on the Lumb Hole dig when he was about 14 (helmet on) to prospect a passage that was too small for adults!!!....waits for storm of abuse.

 

[emgee]

I can only say I'm glad not to be a child in this day and age.

I get your point but I'm eternally glad my lad had a hat on!!
On a mere irresponsable note I once did use him as a "probe" on the Lumb Hole dig when he was about 14 (helmet on) to prospect a passage that was too small for adults!!!....waits for storm of abuse.

Did it go? Was he upset if it didn't go?

 

[darkplaces]

Hang on but with all this safety how do we rid our planet of the idiots!?

Thats how it used to work. If you were stupid you quickly removed yourself from the breeding pool, hence over time humans got brighter as only the fitter more intelligent stock of humans got to breed. NOW with every idiot able to breed the human race is doomed, and its effects are evident to everyone that we are getting dumber with more idiots everywhere then we used to have.
 
This is the price we pay for 'safety'!

Answer me this - WHY should risk be eliminated, isnt risk a GOOD thing (I think it is) we need risk! I object to anyone who thinks risk should be removed.

 

[Les W]

Hang on but with all this safety how do we rid our planet of the idiots!?

Thats how it used to work. If you were stupid you quickly removed yourself from the breeding pool, hence over time humans got brighter as only the fitter more intelligent stock of humans got to breed. NOW with every idiot able to breed the human race is doomed, and its effects are evident to everyone that we are getting dumber with more idiots everywhere then we used to have.
 
This is the price we pay for 'safety'!

We no longer rid them from the planet. We use the more humane* system of keeping them off the streets with daytime tv and celebrity big brother.



* matter of opinion 

 

[ChrisB]

we are getting dumber with more idiots everywhere then we used to have

And the hamsters are getting smarter 

 

[whitelackington]

i have never worn a helmet wilst on a bike

neither have I, it is unmanly

( See my avatar, cloth cap )

 

[graham]

I once went on a Motorcycle Action Group anti-helmet protest & wore a helmet the whole time.  :halo:

mainly 'cos I didn't have anywhere on that bike to stow it easily. 

 

[whitelackington]

Hang on but with all this safety how do we rid our planet of the idiots!?

Thats how it used to work. If you were stupid you quickly removed yourself from the breeding pool, hence over time humans got brighter as only the fitter more intelligent stock of humans got to breed. NOW with every idiot able to breed the human race is doomed, and its effects are evident to everyone that we are getting dumber with more idiots everywhere then we used to have.
 
This is the price we pay for 'safety'!

Answer me this - WHY should risk be eliminated, isnt risk a GOOD thing (I think it is) we need risk! I object to anyone who thinks risk should be removed.

I expect I misheard this D.P.
but recently I thought I heard on the BBC wireless that 10% of the U.K. population
are suffering from mental health problems. :blink:

 

[graham]

Oh Ho here we go again. Whitelackington jumps in where others are more prudent. What makes him think that mental health problems are any more genetically related than, say, problems such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease?

 

[whitelackington]

Oh Ho here we go again. Whitelackington jumps in where others are more prudent. What makes him think that mental health problems are any more genetically related than, say, problems such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease?

I don't, necessarily
both my parents had mental breakdowns,
largely caused by being close to exploding bombs in the war,
so I doubt if they were genetically caused :-\

 

[graham]

So why, then, did you follow DP's comment with that one of yours?

 

[whitelackington]

D.P. thinks we are helping to keep idiots alive, he is correct, we are
I doubt if he thinks that they should be executed for idiocy
but there is an increasingly relevant point here.

The more society becomes politically correct
or what other nonsense phrase you care to use,
we are helping people to stay alive, while in previous generations they would be let to die.
One day the burden of looking after these people who can not properly look after themselves will become to much for society to bare.
This problem will soon have to be thought through. :-\

 

[graham]

yes but, where is the link between his comment about breeding and yours about mental illness?

 

[whitelackington]

I have an idiot living near me, he has still managed to get a woman pregnant,
however he will not be able to support the child as he can not support himself.
So guess who will have to pick up the tab?
Society.

 

[Peter Burgess]

Whitelackington is obviously a mental health expert.

 

[cap n chris]

Wasn't there a nice German man who thought that physically and mentally disabled people should be assisted with rearrangement of their longevity?

 

[whitelackington]

Oh Ho here we go again. Whitelackington jumps in where others are more prudent. What makes him think that mental health problems are any more genetically related than, say, problems such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease?

Obviously I am only an observer of life and not an expert
but there really are a huge amount of barely functioning people out there in the community.
If somebody is born genetically, mentally deficient
they used to be called "a congenital idiot"

If they have an accident, then become an idiot
what are they called?

 

[Peter Burgess]

Oh Ho here we go again. Whitelackington jumps in where others are more prudent. What makes him think that mental health problems are any more genetically related than, say, problems such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease?

Obviously I am only an observer of life and not an expert
but there really are a huge amount of barely functioning people out there in the community.
If somebody is born genetically, mentally deficient
they used to be called "a congenital idiot"

If they have an accident, then become an idiot
what are they called?

fullmentalcapacitylackington? Witslackington?

 

[graham]

I have an idiot living near me, he has still managed to get a woman pregnant,
however he will not be able to support the child as he can not support himself.
So guess who will have to pick up the tab?
Society.

Please define "idiot".

Thank you.