BS: 2nd Thoughts on Capital Punishment???

Subject: BS: 2nd Thoughts on Capital Punishment???
From: Bobert
Date: 23 Apr 13 - 08:24 PM

I donno???

This past weekend we were booked in a fairly decent hotel and seems that the last night was prom night and...

...what the hell is wrong with parents these days???

I mean, booking rooms for their kids in a motel for after-prom parties, or what-evers, is beyond my comprehension...

So these kids aren't content to just party in their rooms at 2:00 in the friggin' morning... No, they have to make as much noise in the hall of the hotel as they can with their screams and laughing and carryin' on???

What the hell is that about???

B~

Subject: RE: BS: 2nd Thoughts on Capital Punishment???
From: Elmore
Date: 23 Apr 13 - 08:28 PM

Can we make abortion retroactive?

Subject: RE: BS: 2nd Thoughts on Capital Punishment???
From: Bill D
Date: 23 Apr 13 - 08:55 PM

Those parents are young enough to have been part of the generation which included hippies, smoke-ins and the Pill. They KNOW what the kids will be doing. They have a limited idea about how to channel it, however. They should be required to post a VERY large bond to cover possible damage and other guests complaints.

Subject: RE: BS: 2nd Thoughts on Capital Punishment???
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 23 Apr 13 - 08:57 PM

If we are having Capital punishment for trivia I'm gonna start with teabaggers who can't spell in their signs.

Subject: RE: BS: 2nd Thoughts on Capital Punishment???
From: Bobert
Date: 23 Apr 13 - 09:00 PM

Them too, JtS...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: 2nd Thoughts on Capital Punishment???
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 24 Apr 13 - 05:57 AM

WTF is a 'teabagger'?
And you have the temerity to criticise the Brits for our use of our language! :-)

Subject: RE: BS: 2nd Thoughts on Capital Punishment???
From: GUEST,Lavengro
Date: 24 Apr 13 - 06:17 AM

Been in the same sort of situation more than once B. Personally I wouldn't want to go as far as euthanasia to resolve it.

But you know what, the people I get annoyed at are not the kids who haven't had the benefit of being taught boundaries or respect (and are a bit excited), or their ineffectual parents to who it would seem want to be buddies rather than parents? "What, your parents paid for the room? Wow they're soooo cool!"

It's the hotels who make group bookings for these kids and put them on mixed floors with other residents. They then compound error by not policing the noise levels. What you are paying for (and what they purport to provide) is a clean room and a nights sleep. If they can't manage that then get your cash back.

Subject: RE: BS: 2nd Thoughts on Capital Punishment???
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 24 Apr 13 - 06:21 AM

"Can we make abortion retroactive?"
And can we make thugs who persecute pregnant women in order to remain in the nineteenth century equally retroactive.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-20321741
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: 2nd Thoughts on Capital Punishment???
From: Joe Offer
Date: 24 Apr 13 - 06:25 AM

High schools here in the Sacramento are very good about controlling the conduct of students at graduation night festivities, often hosting chaperoned, all-night parties at locations where nobody is allowed in or out after the party has begun.

I don't know about problems after proms, but only one of my four kids went to a high school prom - as an anti-prom statement, he wore a (nice) black shirt and took his girlfriend's two-year-old daughter as his "date" to the prom. They were the hit of the prom, and their prom photo was very cute.

I work with high school kids in the church youth group. Most go to prom. They go out to dinner, then to the dance, and then home. A good number of kids, like mine, don't want to deal with the social pressure and pretentiousness of it all.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: 2nd Thoughts on Capital Punishment???
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 24 Apr 13 - 06:29 AM

They've started having Proms here now. Another odd import.

Subject: RE: BS: 2nd Thoughts on Capital Punishment???
From: kendall
Date: 24 Apr 13 - 07:29 AM

First it was the plague....

Subject: RE: BS: 2nd Thoughts on Capital Punishment???
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 24 Apr 13 - 07:36 AM

Oh! I do like to be beside the seaside
I do like to be beside the sea!
I do like to stroll upon the Prom, Prom, Prom!
Where the brass bands play:
"Tiddley-om-pom-pom!"
So just let me be beside the seaside
I'll be beside myself with glee
And there's lots of girls beside,
I should like to be beside
Beside the seaside!
Beside the sea!

Subject: RE: BS: 2nd Thoughts on Capital Punishment???
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 24 Apr 13 - 07:57 AM

http://aattp.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/anatomy-tea-bagger.jpg

Teabagger explained.

Subject: RE: BS: 2nd Thoughts on Capital Punishment???
From: Will Fly
Date: 24 Apr 13 - 08:08 AM

If by a "Prom", you mean an end-of-term dance for pupils, then I've played one or two of those - for very, very well-off, "posh" teenagers.

They usually go OK, but there was one occasion, towards the end of the evening, when 3 or 4 very drunk kids came up on to the stage and made for the instruments, obviously intending to have a go. As if by magic, a couple of us appeared and held them gently by the arms, whispering quietly in their ears that, should one finger of theirs touch any of the instruments - however fleetingly - they would find their trousers round their ankles and their ties used as gags while we escorted them off the stage. That worked...

One of the teachers had the grace to apologise for them afterwards.

Subject: RE: BS: 2nd Thoughts on Capital Punishment???
From: Allan Conn
Date: 24 Apr 13 - 08:09 AM

It is a bit easier in more rural areas. My son's prom finished about the back of 11pm (in the Cross Keys Hotel in Kelso) then they all went out of town to a barn on a farm and partied until 6am in the morning. Some went to the prom in limos and there was even one group of kids in a horse drawn carriage. Never had such a thing in my day but I suppose it is with watching all these American teen flicks!!

Subject: RE: BS: 2nd Thoughts on Capital Punishment???
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Apr 13 - 09:18 AM

I went to the prom in a friend's Simca -- with both ladies wearing "wide" prom skirts. It was, well, cozy -- and the car was waaaaaaaaay underpowered for four people.

Subject: RE: BS: 2nd Thoughts on Capital Punishment???
From: GUEST,gillymor
Date: 24 Apr 13 - 09:49 AM

My first car was a pokey little Simca. I loved it but fortuntely was able to borrow my Dad's Checker to drive to the prom.

The death penalty should be reserved for only those who bring a jet ski within one mile of a saltwater flat containing spooky redfish.

Subject: RE: BS: 2nd Thoughts on Capital Punishment???
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 24 Apr 13 - 09:56 AM

The death penalty should be reserved for only those who bring a jet ski within one mile of a saltwater flat containing spooky redfish.


You could shorten that...

The death penalty should be reserved for only those who bring a jet ski.

Subject: RE: BS: 2nd Thoughts on Capital Punishment???
From: GUEST,gillymor
Date: 24 Apr 13 - 09:58 AM

That's a little harsh, Jack. Maybe life without parole.

Subject: RE: BS: 2nd Thoughts on Capital Punishment???
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 24 Apr 13 - 10:24 AM

Jet skis owners, People with Harley's without mufflers, people with speakers pointing outside the car. At least make them all live together and listen to each other.

Subject: RE: BS: 2nd Thoughts on Capital Punishment???
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 24 Apr 13 - 10:31 AM

Live and let live, eh, Jacko? After all, they're doing a lot less harm than people who drill untrue dogma into kids...

I was thinking of pointing my windscreen washer nipples outwards in order to squirt random pedestrians. Whaddya think?

Subject: RE: BS: 2nd Thoughts on Capital Punishment???
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 24 Apr 13 - 10:50 AM

Yeah, Steve, It is me that is picking the fight (provoking you? in your specific words?) with you and it is you that is upholding the reputation of the Mudcat. Thank you for setting us straight on that.

Subject: RE: BS: 2nd Thoughts on Capital Punishment???
From: GUEST,gillymor
Date: 24 Apr 13 - 11:04 AM

"I was thinking of pointing my windscreen washer nipples outwards in order to squirt random pedestrians."

Malicious pubic lactation.That should be another captial offence.
(Doesn't that leave a milky film on your windshield?)

Subject: RE: BS: 2nd Thoughts on Capital Punishment???
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 24 Apr 13 - 11:10 AM

gillymor, LOL! Respectfully, I think you and I have both given WAY too much attention to Steve Shaw's nipples.

Subject: RE: BS: 2nd Thoughts on Capital Punishment???
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 24 Apr 13 - 11:40 AM

No need to alter the windscreen washers if you've got a car with headlamp washers. Just don't demonstrate how they work to the wife. Especially if she stands closer to get a better look. I'm talking really wet here...

Subject: RE: BS: 2nd Thoughts on Capital Punishment???
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 24 Apr 13 - 12:08 PM

A recent news article reports that during the recent recession the average net worth of those in the top 7% of incomes increased by 28%, while that of the remaining 93% decreased by 4%.

An article appearing about two days earlier, proclaimed that the "yuppie generation" (the ones we used to just call the "greedy bastards") are doing a much better job of balancing their work lives with their family responsibilities.

One might speculate that by "balancing work with family" they mean that the "yuppies" can (and do?) buy the spoiled little monsters any and every new "toy" they want enough to pitch a tantrum over?

John

Subject: RE: BS: 2nd Thoughts on Capital Punishment???
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Apr 13 - 02:00 PM

The OP sounds like some folk festival camp sites.

Subject: RE: BS: 2nd Thoughts on Capital Punishment???
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 25 Apr 13 - 10:49 AM

I'd go a step further. Simply the legal system no end.

For any crime whatsoever. First offense, be lenient. For very minor offenses a caution. For major stuff a short prison sentence. After all, anyone can make a mistake.

Second offense following any other crime, whether related to the first or not. Get Harsh. For a second parking offense, 30 days prison. For a second robbery at least 10 years. Etc. First time could have been a mistake. Second time is just plain stupid.

Third offense, whether related to the other two or not. Automatic death penalty. The first was a mistake. the second stupid. The third is just taking the piss.

Me, I am being very careful. I have one parking ticket and one speeding fine :-)

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: 2nd Thoughts on Capital Punishment???
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 25 Apr 13 - 11:14 AM

Bloody hell, Dave, I'd have been topped years ago for my third speeding ticket!!

Subject: RE: BS: 2nd Thoughts on Capital Punishment???
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 25 Apr 13 - 11:56 AM

Wow Dave! You make Catherine the Great look like Ghandi!

Subject: RE: BS: 2nd Thoughts on Capital Punishment???
From: GUEST,Musket sans sailor seaman
Date: 25 Apr 13 - 12:37 PM

Hallelujah!

Delighted to have read some of the above.

You see, I have a jet ski.   Three in fact.

What's more, I live in a civilised country where capital punishment is something we hear about when looking down on the ex colonies and other developing countries. What ho!

Subject: RE: BS: 2nd Thoughts on Capital Punishment???
From: GUEST,gillymor
Date: 25 Apr 13 - 01:05 PM

Off with your head!

Subject: RE: BS: 2nd Thoughts on Capital Punishment???
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 25 Apr 13 - 01:13 PM

How bout for humourless xenophobic stalking trolls?

Subject: RE: BS: 2nd Thoughts on Capital Punishment???
From: GUEST,Musket sans sailor seaman
Date: 25 Apr 13 - 02:18 PM

I am a troll and I live in a hole.

Capital punishment for those for whom losing credibility is always the fault of others?

For the rest of the world. Capital punishment for banjo players who don't remove their resonator in acoustic jamming sessions. Apart fromme cos I can't get the#$$!! $ thing off. Sorry.

Subject: RE: BS: 2nd Thoughts on Capital Punishment???
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 25 Apr 13 - 07:51 PM

Malicious pubic lactation.

Blimey, gillymor. I don't know where your nipples are but mine are a bit higher up than that.

Subject: RE: BS: 2nd Thoughts on Capital Punishment???
From: Bobert
Date: 25 Apr 13 - 07:59 PM

Don't get me started on banjo players...

B;~)

Subject: RE: BS: 2nd Thoughts on Capital Punishment???
From: GUEST,gillymor
Date: 25 Apr 13 - 08:09 PM

Yeah Steve, I suppose I was thinking of spraycocks.