Freedom of speech is in the american constitution... not the British or Australian... in fact, we don't have a bill of rights like USA does...
Not sure where thread starting and freedom of speech have a common link... it's just about appropriate places...

Does this mean the terms United Kingdom and Great Britain are now redundant? Mmmmm. Call the presses!
Not sure what the aborigines have to do with Scotland and Wales plight... Australia resembles America in that we have one centralised federal government and then the states... we've never had the conflict of centuries of warring and fighting for individual kingdoms. That Scotland and Wales are seen as separate races and therefore fight to have their own countries... sure, fine. But it's a fight they haven't won yet. The aborigines had Atsec for a while there... but it was a mess of corruption and was shut down. Thus, their fight for self detirmination was... terminated due to their own shortcomings. But their fight continues... At the end of the day, they just want money... they don't argue for a separate identity, for self rule, for a separate state. So no real parallel there.

As for all your rights... I'm not arguing about your right to post. I'm not judging the content of your posts... I am judging the content of your threads. Two very different things.
It's about some self discipline, that's all. Others put in the effort to go and find the appropriate thread for what they want to say. That you seem too lazy to bother with that... starting to scream that there are rules for everyone else, but not for you.
As for arguing what is a lesser thread... mmm, you're on shaky ground there.

I don't follow you around. I read new threads to see what they are about. Charity sometimes has me putting a reply if I see no one has bothered. Other times I feel an impatience because I look in the new thread, see it's some dinky thing that could have been put somewhere else and I could have had the choice to not look at it if I didn't feel like reading that topic.

It's courtesy to fellow members. That's how I see it.



Ha, wasn't sure anyone would get it! I know you're a Little Britain fan... I remember you put a good one in about Traction Control... "The computer says no.".

Yes, and I've said in a PM to him, post post and post some more! Apecar wants to get hysterical because he's not allowed to turn the off topic into a personal blog. What's the big deal? Everyone else follows the rules, everyone else tries to keep things tidy, everyone else puts in the effort to find appropriate threads... everyone else pays the courtesy to each other to maintain threads that other people started.

You started an Uccio thread. You looked around and saw one wasn't already in existence. So you started one. Great. Amazing that there wasn't one already. But if there had been one, anything you wanted to say, you would have dug up the one already in existence. Again, if you can be bothered doing that, and I can, why can't apecar?
As for bringing stuff up to discuss... no one has any problem with that. Slice of life bits... no big deal. But I put my ten cents worth in because this very situation had just been brought up and apparently dealt with. But it seems... apparently not.

Also it is a courtesy to the person who started a thread in the first place. They had the notion... and contributing to existing threads means we don't have a forum full of pointless little humdrums filling page after page. And it means threads don't just die out...

Apecar, it's personal in so much as you want to take it personally. As for perpetual blackmail that unless you get your way in everything, you're leaving! Fine, whatever. Ciao ciao... and as Tassie has once said... don't let the door hit you on the way out.

Get it right Catty..

I said:

"And don't let the doorknob hit your a$$ on the way out"

Who is this everyone else person.. Do they post regularly, I must have missed them..

It's not what you say it's the way that you say it............
Council Complaints.

These are genuine extracts from council complaint letters

1. My bush is really overgrown round the front and my back passage has fungus growing in it.

2. He's got this huge tool that vibrates the whole house and I just can't take it anymore.

3. It's all the dog mess that I find hard to swallow.

4. I want some repairs done to my cooker as it has backfired and burnt my knob off.

5. I wish to complain that my father hurt his ankle, very badly, when he put his foot in the hole in his back passage.

6. And their 18 year old son is continually banging his balls against my fence.

7. I wish to report that tiles are missing from the outside toilet roof. I think it was bad wind the other night that blew them off.

8. My lavatory seat is cracked, where do I stand?

9. I am writing on behalf of my sink, which is coming away from the wall.

10. Will you please send someone to mend the garden path? My wife tripped and fell on it yesterday, and now she is pregnant.

11. I request permission to remove my drawers in the kitchen.

12. 50% of the walls are damp, 50% have crumbling plaster and 50% are just plain filthy.

13. I am still having problems with smoke in my new drawers.

14. The toilet is blocked and we cannot bath the children until it is cleared.

15. Will you please send a man to look at my water; it is a funny colour and not fit to drink.

16. Our lavatory seat is broken in half and is now in three pieces.

17. I want to complain about the farmer across the road; every morning at 6am his cock wakes me up and its now getting too much for me.

18. The man next door has a large erection in the back garden, which is unsightly and dangerous.

19. Our kitchen floor is damp. We have two children and would like a third, so please send someone round to do something about it.

20. I am a single woman living in a downstairs flat and would you please do something about the noise made by the man on top of me every night.

21. Please send a man with the right tool to finish the job and satisfy my wife.

22. I have had the clerk of works down on the floor six times, but I still have no satisfaction.

23. This is to let you know that our lavatory seat is broken and we can't get BBC2

. Maree....behave!

Those are hilarious - thank you so much.

I wish to point out that none of them have anything to do with me - particularly those I have highlighted!

Okey dokey... you notice I kept my comments exclusively to the business of tidy threads... as for the rest... that's another debate, isn't it? Some people's opinion that others get away with the proverbial "murder" whilst others are poor beings whipped into submission... bah.

Considering what could be said versus what does get said... there is always an effort to try and follow forum rules... skating close to the line... that becomes subjective. Everyone, I guess, has to agree to disagree.

Sorry, Tassie, didn'tmean to misquote you... was just wracking my feeble memory for something you wrote a while ago... anyway, I like my version better, so I'll renounce the credit given to you for the quote. Happy chappy now?

Tidy threads... what's in them after that... alright, who is gonna throw another punch? Let the round begin... again.

someone mentioned his hatred for police today