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ROTFL!!!!!
And a banner like that ain't cheap either!
And a banner like that ain't cheap either!
Posted: 22:04 Aug 04 2008
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Almost as good as the parking regulations sign in Wales in Welsh which said something like "I am out of the office at the moment but if you send the full version of the document that you want translated I will do it on my return".
Posted: 17:12 Jan 05 2009 
I'm just extremely disturbed by the comment:
"I did not think about whether it meant forever. I'm just going to have to keep it as I can't afford to get another one done."
Of course, doing something that's meant to change one's skin pigment on a permanent basis - let alone for something that might only last a few weeks - has nothing to do with forever! How silly of me to think that!
Pardon me for being old and crotchety, but the ignorance and lack of forethought in today's teenagers terrifies me.
Although I look forward to seeing how they'll look in their seventies, when you can't see the piercing or what the full-body tattoo even is for the wrinkles and sagging.
(Edited by Samanfur 10/03/2009 13:55)
"I did not think about whether it meant forever. I'm just going to have to keep it as I can't afford to get another one done."
Of course, doing something that's meant to change one's skin pigment on a permanent basis - let alone for something that might only last a few weeks - has nothing to do with forever! How silly of me to think that!
Pardon me for being old and crotchety, but the ignorance and lack of forethought in today's teenagers terrifies me.
Although I look forward to seeing how they'll look in their seventies, when you can't see the piercing or what the full-body tattoo even is for the wrinkles and sagging.
(Edited by Samanfur 10/03/2009 13:55)
Posted: 13:07 Mar 10 2009
With a tattoo in that particular place you'd just have to wait for her to get pregnant and see whats left of the tattoo after that..... probably not going to be pretty!
How pissed off would you be though if you found out it said "supermarket"!
How pissed off would you be though if you found out it said "supermarket"!
Posted: 13:44 Mar 10 2009
Severely (particularly given what they charge for these things). But again, it doesn't seem as though this particular silly little girl thought even that far ahead.
Fail to plan and you plan to fail, yes?
Fail to plan and you plan to fail, yes?
Posted: 13:57 Mar 10 2009 Because teenagers today show less forethought than teenagers from years past? Sorry. Not buying that at all. I did dumb stuff when I was a teenager. Teens do dumb stuff today. It happens.
by Samanfur
Pardon me for being old and crotchety, but the ignorance and lack of forethought in today's teenagers terrifies me.
(Edited by Samanfur 10/03/2009 13:55)
Posted: 02:01 Mar 12 2009 Met her have you? Pre-judge much?
by Samanfur
this particular silly little girl
Posted: 02:41 Mar 12 2009 Well certainly before 1941 they didn't behave like that as teenagers didn't actually exist if the online etymology dictionary & James May's program on Teenagers for the open University is anything to go by.
by Tycho
Because teenagers today show less forethought than teenagers from years past? Sorry. Not buying that at all. I did dumb stuff when I was a teenager. Teens do dumb stuff today. It happens.
The amount of forethought might still be the same, although sometimes I do wonder, but in today's world there are so much more ways to seriously screw up due to the availability of cheap and widely available transport and communication, independent financial means, less social control and increasing peer pressure. Not too mention that local news is now global news so we get exposed to more of this type of news.
Therefore it might not be the amount of forethought that has changed so much, but the same amount of forethought can get you in considerably more trouble. So based on that certainly the amount of perceived forethought has changed.
If you get your story on a major news site people kind of have the right to have an opinion on you and on what you did or had done to you - that is what news is all about after all. They inform us of things and we create opinions based on it. If these opinions are fair or even handed doesn't really matter and in all fairness how can they be based on only news articles? It's like a first impression and she opted for a news article to be her's to the world and you cannot honestly say she made a good one based on this "news" article?
by Tycho
Met her have you? Pre-judge much?
Posted: 08:23 Mar 12 2009
What he said.
When it's complete with quotes from the girl concerned but none from the tattoist, and has no evidence of the quotes not being verbatim (which they'd have had to declare to avoid any accusation of libel), it also looks as though she's contacted the organisation herself as a human interest story. So she can't exactly claim that it's anyone else's fault that she said those things.
Although with that said, one of the reasons why I decided to keep my journalism strictly to freelance is because I got tired of being told to spin things. Even if some of the sentences're whole (as in this case), there's no knowing what interview content hasn't been included. It just happens that in this case, the individual quotes're strong enough to leave an impression on their own.
When it's complete with quotes from the girl concerned but none from the tattoist, and has no evidence of the quotes not being verbatim (which they'd have had to declare to avoid any accusation of libel), it also looks as though she's contacted the organisation herself as a human interest story. So she can't exactly claim that it's anyone else's fault that she said those things.
Although with that said, one of the reasons why I decided to keep my journalism strictly to freelance is because I got tired of being told to spin things. Even if some of the sentences're whole (as in this case), there's no knowing what interview content hasn't been included. It just happens that in this case, the individual quotes're strong enough to leave an impression on their own.
Posted: 15:53 Mar 12 2009
Sorry, I apologise for being gobby but sweeping phrases like "silly little girl" bother me a little.
Posted: 02:20 Mar 16 2009