| Archive for Downsizer For an ethical approach to consumption |
| JB |
At least secure ID cards will make us all safeOr at least they would if Osama couldn't get ID in two minutes that passes all their security checks‘Fakeproof’ e-passport is cloned in minutes |
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| orangepippin |
You are missing the point. The purpose of ID cards is to allow the government to keep tabs on *you*. It's the same logic as with speed cameras and ANPR - real criminals use false plates and don't get caught. | ||||||
| Chez |
I'm planning on having half a dozen different ones. It'll be great. I'm already getting my enormous range of fake noses ready. | ||||||
| Rob R |
The government decided I had moved house without telling me; I wouldn't trust them to know who was/wasn't in the country with ID cards any more than I would trust Osama Bin Laden as a courier. | ||||||
| Andy B |
Its not like we get a choice. | ||||||
| Chez |
No, quite. I can't see any of us lining up on the barricades to stop it ... very British, all this low-grade mumbling. A large percentage of the country just seems to have decided that the government is something to be put up with rather than engaged with. Me included I guess. *wanders off to find cheese* |
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| Rob R |
We have, and I will continue to exercise that choice. 
Well... |
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| Chez |
It's just like chess for posh people though, isn't it? I know I'm feeling very down today - but quite honestly, they're pretty much (notice the generous tiny, tiny qualifier I put in there?) self-obsessed power-maniacs with little or no interest in 'real' people and the issues we have to engage with. The sooner the country falls apart and we can all get on with things without them interfering, the better. *pulls grumpy hat down over eyes* |
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| Andy B |
I have just been reading stuff on the climate camp website. Police prating about on behalf of the government again. You feel like you should be doing something but what exactly! Feeling somewhat lost and useless and confused 
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| Barefoot Andrew |
I thought you'd started Yorkshire's own government. A. |
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| Chez |
That's why they'd decided he'd moved. And Undesirably Alien. Or something. *passes chocolate cake of despair to Andy B* |
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| Andy B |
Hmmm! Thanks, very nice! |
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| Rob R |
The news not reached your neck of the woods yet then? 
Actually it's a job we often complain about not being done very well but it's not one I'd ever want to take on. Who was it I heard the other day saying that the desire to become a politician should be the first reason to be struck off the list? 
Edit: It was Billy Connolly. Billy Connolly for Prime Minister 
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| Chez |
The post-pony is running late today  .
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| thos |
Actually I think it was Plato, although he did have quite a few unpleasant ideas as well. |
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| GENT |
He once said on stage; "things would be a lot better if i were in charge!" the whole auditorium lept up in cheering and aplause and it lasted for atleast two minuets. VOTE BILLY!
We need a zombie invasion. |
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| thos |
So he's disqualified as well. |
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| Rob R |
Not necessarily, being in charge & being a politician aren't necessarily the same thing
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| GENT |
Look, spelling is not a strong point, im not proud of it, but when one is typing quickly, errors are to be made... 
I apolagise for any past present or future spelling/grammer errors. |
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| Rob R |
Personally I think dpack should be in charge. | ||||||
| Frewen |
Don't worry - we all do it (make spelling mistakes that is)
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| LynneA |
Come to Palace Gardens shopping centre, Enfield, tomorrow morning and collect them will you?
This Ministry of Paranoia ID thing is out of control. First is it was to prevent money laundering, now I have to provide ID to show I'm entitled to work in Britain. As I don't have a passport or a driving licence because of my epilepsy it's often a struggle. Being of Welsh descent, I'm highly unlikely to be an illegal immigrant. Some of my older relatives thought it reckless travelling as far as Cardiff. |
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| Rob R |
To be fair, they were right
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| GENT |
okay, he is cartainly the next best thing! i will have to re-paint the banners though, i already made up a load saying "vote for Connoly!"
zombie invasion would be ideal, it would reduce population, render government usless, sort the men from the boys-nice from the nasty, and i would get to implement my supreme zombie defence master plan!! 
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| Chez |
That Cardiff. It's a *hotbed* of evil, you know. I reckon it's the Torchwood people, I reckon. | ||||||
| lottie |
[quote="Chez"]
Well I'm not having an I.D. card---nice hobby for a pensioner--barricade manning
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