On 5/03/2012 One Day Hero wrote:
>On 5/03/2012 Doug wrote:
>Again, the main thing which seems to be pissing you off isn't the dog
>in the park, but the smartarse response to the old farts. Being a smartarse
>in a national park doesn't break any rules!
No. It's both aspects. Taking the dog in is bad enough, but not be adult enough to admit they shouldn't be doing it, and to lie about about having done it means that you're not going to get very far reasoning with these sorts of folks. In contrast, I spoke to some people about having a fire right next to the "No Fires Here" sign in the North Campground at The Piles and at least one person was adult enough to acknowledge that they were in the wrong and they stopped.
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>>The "beaten out of them during primary school" is a disturbing notion,
>>rather Hitlerian in its outlook. Thankfully, these resilient folk seem
>>to have outlasted you and your mob, ODH.
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>Well, now that you've brought Hitler into it, I think that dobbing your
>neighbours in to the authorities for very minor infraction of the rules,
>even though it doesn't affect you personally, is something he was quite
>in favour of!
If they had admitted they were in the wrong, Kieran et al probably wouldn't have bothered with notifying PV. And your use of the pejorative term "dobbing" is just another way of putting a juvenile twist on things.
Re bringing Hitler into it, one of his main and most brilliant strategies was the formation of the Hitler Youth, an early recognition of the powerful force of peer pressure that exists amongst the young. Your notion of people having the option of telling someone who can do something "beaten out of them during primary school" is one of the worst forms of bullying that exists.
Perhaps most of what you write here on Chocky is mere off-the-cuff spray and the rest of us should just shrug our shoulders and say to ourselves and each other "Oh, there goes ODH again." but ton the other hand, maybe not ... |