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StenGuns Veteran Volks Folk

2,147 posts · joined Mar 2004 ·

#448542
Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as knowing when to come in out of the rain, why the early bird gets the worm, life isn't always fair, and maybe it was my fault. Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend more than you earn) and reliable parenting strategies (adults, not children, are in charge).

His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a six-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.

Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job they failed to do in disciplining their unruly children. It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer Panadol, sun lotion or a sticky plaster to a student but could not inform the parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.

Common Sense lost the will to live as the Ten Commandments became contraband; churches became businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims. Common Sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar can sue you for assault. Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realise that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.

Common Sense was preceded in death by his parents, Truth and Trust, his wife, Discretion, his daughter, Responsibility; and his son, Reason. He is survived by three stepbrothers; I Know My Rights, Someone Else Is To
Blame and I'm A Victim. Not many attended his funeral because so few realised he was gone. If you still remember him, pass this on. If not join the majority and do nothing.

StenGuns Veteran Volks Folk

2,147 posts · joined Mar 2004 ·

#448543
I guess I lost commonsense when I started collecting beaten up, rusting, old hulks of metal.

DOUBLECAB Unwanted member

915 posts · joined May 2005 ·

#448547
StenGuns wrote:


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Midlife crisis Nartispuddlejumper, Bureau of Toxicity

2,282 posts · joined May 2003 ·

#448553
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What about the guy in the USA Bought a motor home put in on crusie control and went down the back to make a coffee, the van crashed, he sued the makers for not telling him or having it in it hand book that it was not an auto pilot!

Not only did he get a new motor home he also got a huge payout.

Commonsense is dead
we all will pay for the death of commonsense
If you can't laugh at yourself you can't laugh at anyone else! Because life is to short not to LAUGH

shaihulud Custom Title Time!

1,448 posts · joined Nov 2005 ·

#448580
How true.

It can all be blamed on psychiatry, psychology, sociology and political correctness.

I interpret "I have my rights." as "UP YOURS!"

"Someone else is to blame." as "It's my fault."

"I'm a victim." as "I'm a weakling."

PrettyBlueBug Almost over it...

2,032 posts · joined May 2005 ·

#448583
So true, and so sad!

pete wood 23 Windows of Awesome

6,828 posts · joined Jan 2004 ·

#448606
There is an old saying, "there's nothing common about sense."

BTW Sten, you'll be relieved to know the church I work in is not a business.
"stoopid is stronger than axles"
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StenGuns Veteran Volks Folk

2,147 posts · joined Mar 2004 ·

#448612
Didn't doubt it for a moment mate!
pete wood wrote:There is an old saying, "there's nothing common about sense."

BTW Sten, you'll be relieved to know the church I work in is not a business.

MrDude Learner Dubber

11 posts · joined Oct 2005 ·

#448618
"Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job they failed to do in disciplining their unruly children. It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer Panadol, sun lotion or a sticky plaster to a student but could not inform the parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.

Common Sense lost the will to live as the Ten Commandments became contraband; churches became businesses;"


sounds a bit like right to life sesationalist crap propaganda to me

[ Edited on 19-1-2006 by MrDude ]

[ Edited on 19-1-2006 by MrDude ]

DOUBLECAB Unwanted member

915 posts · joined May 2005 ·

#448635
MrDude wrote:sounds a bit like rght to life propaganda to me

[ Edited on 19-1-2006 by MrDude ]

:o Just curious MrDude.....does that make U for or against it ......or what point are U trying to make and why?:alien

twoguns simply aircooled

4,275 posts · joined Nov 2002 ·

#448656
back in 92 we had to recall all the blenders that Phillips made, and have the instruction booklets re written after a lady sued and won for loosing two fingers after sticking her hand in the blender to help push the food down off the sides. the instruction booklet didnt advised whether she could or couldnt.
of course we all know she didnt bother to refer to the instructions in the first place... that job was handed to her lawyer.
Simply Cruzin'...

StenGuns Veteran Volks Folk

2,147 posts · joined Mar 2004 ·

#448658
MrDude.. Please! whatever you do...

DO NOT ANSWER THIS QUESTION!!!!!

DOUBLECAB wrote::o Just curious MrDude.....does that make U for or against it ......or what point are U trying to make and why?:alien
[ Edited on 19-1-06 by StenGuns ]

[ Edited on 19-1-06 by StenGuns ]

PrettyBlueBug Almost over it...

2,032 posts · joined May 2005 ·

#448660
Some people are so damn stupid!! 😂

I noticed when I worked in a shop, that more and more kids nowadays don't have any commonsense. Everything is done for them. I guess part of the reason could be that as children they weren't allowed to play outside, to explore and learn things.

When my sister and I were growing up we didn't watch tv at all (well, except for Saturday morning cartoons :P). We were outside from morning until night climbing trees and pretending they were spaceships, etc. We learned that if you climbed a tree and fell, it hurts and there is no-one to blame but yourself. If we were running along a footpath and part of it was raised and we tripped, it was our own silly fault because we didn't look where we were running.... none of this 'sueing a council because the corner of a footpath was cracked off'!!

I think people need to take responsibility for their actions, instead of pushing the blame.

That one about the guy with the motorhome cracked me up when I first heard about it. So stupid!!!!!!! 😂

toplessbug Fahrvergnugen

879 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#448661
Bugger sten i was really looking foward to Mr dude's answer ,could have made a very interesting topic:beer:beer:beer
Don't argue with an idiot; people watching may not be able to tell the difference.

modulus Veteran Volks Folk

2,009 posts · joined Jul 2003 ·

#448684
Pretty_Blue_Bug wrote:When my sister and I were growing up we didn't watch tv at all (well, except for Saturday morning cartoons :P). We were outside from morning until night climbing trees and pretending ....
Trees! Luxury! When I were boy we lived in matchbox and played in the sewers. Every two minutes...

No. Sorry. Wrong forum.
Peter Hill
1975 Type 2 Double Cab
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DOUBLECAB Unwanted member

915 posts · joined May 2005 ·

#448759
toplessbug wrote:Bugger sten i was really looking foward to Mr dude's answer ,could have made a very interesting topic:beer:beer:beer

Hey Toplessbug.........I'm not surprised.........some people keep on (selfrighteously) telling other people what they should or shouldn't.....while in the same breath they tell U how tolerant a person they are.:puke:puke:puke

:beer:jesus:beer:jesus:beer:jesus:puke

Robo Compulsive Aussie Vee Dubber

4,491 posts · joined Feb 2003 ·

#448770
So many PPL have the same opinion, what are we going to do about it ?
Rob...
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DOUBLECAB Unwanted member

915 posts · joined May 2005 ·

#448777
Robo wrote:So many PPL have the same opinion, what are we going to do about it ?
Rob...

:o Hey Rob.........I've seen some.......so I have no probs waking up to the 'smell of napalm' in the morning.:P

Guess I'll just be a thorn in their sides when I ask questions that take them outside of their preconditioned comfort zones.:alien


cheers.............:beer

bajachris88 The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 6

6,661 posts · joined Apr 2005 ·

#448781

Yeah wrong forum but not far from the truth. The local storm water drain was the best billt cart track going. I still can't drive past it without a tear coming to my eye.
I was lucky to not be introduced to that much tv. Along with my older brother. can't say much about my 2 younger ones though. My bro and i used to play all the time in the storm water drains, when it was like a week later after rain, we would go there, and get mud/clay to block off the water supply or divert it around an area of hte creek, then spend 3 hard hrs or so bucketing out the water away and when we got rid of the water to something that was barely a puddle, we would catch the eels, yabbies and tadpoles. That was great fun. And this was done with a 4 and 6 yr old. 😀 Our methods worked so well.

We used to pay in the dirt, pretend we were secret agents running around, and so many other things. I could write u a life story on it, Lol.

But yeah, commonsense is quite dead. I see it in my 11 yr old bro. He was one to watch alot of tv, hardly socialise with other kids around the area, hardly plays outside, and he doesn't take responsibility to for anything, even his own mistakes. U prove it is his mistake in some way, and he pretends to not here u and go stroppo. Pisses me off.

Its interesting though, the people i have seen on the news that do friveless law suits are people from like 30 upways, and would have gotten less tv and media exposure then us younger generations.
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StenGuns Veteran Volks Folk

2,147 posts · joined Mar 2004 ·

#448820
Hahahaha..
Good to see one's sense of humour is not dead..
BTW here's a new smilie for ya'

DOUBLECAB Unwanted member

915 posts · joined May 2005 ·

#448965
StenGuns wrote:Hahahaha..
Good to see one's sense of humour is not dead..
BTW here's a new smilie for ya'
:o Yep, makes sense that, that is your commonsense.:alien

See my sense of humour is not dead.....Hahahaha:duh

helbus Administrator Mad fabricator, paint and body

7,386 posts · joined Sep 2002 ·

#448970
DOUBLECAB wrote:
Robo wrote:I have no probs waking up to the 'smell of napalm' in the morning.

Guess I'll just be a thorn in their sides when I ask questions that take them outside of their preconditioned comfort zones.
Why do you wake up in the morning?
What is the 'smell of napalm' ?
Why would you be a thorn in someones side?
Why do you ask questions? Actually scrap that one, you have answered that before many times. 🙂
What is a preconditioned comfort zone?
Why do you use :alien so often?
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DOUBLECAB Unwanted member

915 posts · joined May 2005 ·

#448989
Originally posted by Helbus


Why do you wake up in the morning?

:o If I do wake up its because my body is still functioning and the reason I need to wake up is that most days there is a whole array of functions/jobs that I have to do/perform/complete.

What is the 'smell of napalm' ?

:oThat is a reference from the movie 'Apocalypse Now" (a movie about the war in Vietnam) where the General ( i think, while since I saw it last) comes out in the morning and looks around at all the devastation of the war and makes the comment...'Love the smell of napalm in the morning'.....as it was the napalm bombs made of naphthalene & coconut oil....a jellied petrol bomb....I believe it leaves a distinct smell.....I used it (the term) to refer to the flack (devastation) usually awaiting me when I go into BA.


Why would you be a thorn in someones side?


:oYep...thats what I keep asking myself......sweet little me......makes me want to🥲🥲🥲:cry

Why do you ask questions? Actually scrap that one, you have answered that before many times. 🙂

What is a preconditioned comfort zone?

:o Well Helbus...according to my conception, it is what (all the data/information) we are all indocrinated with in our formative years by our parents,teachers/schools,friends,clergy including our own life experience etc.....the whole gambit of exposure to/of our lives.

This then at a certain point in our lives,( as I see it) it gives most of us a 'state of who we are and what we believe and stand for'.......and what we are comfortable with.

This I have termed/labelled "our preconditioned comfort zone"...............then what happens is that somebody like me comes along and questions a statement they have made or asks a question why they believe this or that......what then happens in a lot of cases is that it appears my question/s are perceived as a 'personal' attack instead of an invitation to debate/discuss that point or issue.........so to me it appears, by me having asked a question, I have/am taking them out of their 'preconditioned comfort zone'.

As I have said before.........it interests me why people hold certain beliefs/opinions......Oh and I also believe we all should question our beliefs and why we hold the opinions we hold ie. not just because our parents/teachers/clergy etc said so.....'It aint necessarily so'


Why do you use :alien so often? [/quote]


:o Many reasons, mainly to emphasise a point: ie. think about it...or....is this alien to U.

cheers:beer:beer

squizy Thinking about another dub...maybe

4,082 posts · joined Dec 2002 ·

#448991
Another thread bites the dust.:puke

StenGuns Veteran Volks Folk

2,147 posts · joined Mar 2004 ·

#448997
R.I.P

DOUBLECAB Unwanted member

915 posts · joined May 2005 ·

#449063
squizy wrote:Another thread bites the dust.:puke

:o Yep....sure I could have told Helbus where to stick his questions......like most insecure people do on AVD discussion forums when asked a question.....but hey thats not me.

But then again if you, stenguns or anybody else cant handle questions or answers to any questions U ask....kindly place a disclaimer/notice at the bottom of your postings that no further discourse will be entered into.🙄

StenGuns Veteran Volks Folk

2,147 posts · joined Mar 2004 ·

#449081
Love these smilies!! I'm getting the hang of it now..



[ Edited on 20-1-06 by StenGuns ]