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Thread ID: 132565	2013-05-17 23:03:00	Another Gem	B.M. (505)	PC World Chat

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1341774	2013-05-17 23:03:00	From the Politically Incorrect Editor of out local paper. :lol: Society’s headlong plunge into PC lunacy continues. The signs are all there. Literally. On the side of the road. A few years ago, astute Sun readers pointed out the ridiculous “Pavement Rehabilitation” which we think means “road works”. Now the whole country is sliding down the slippery slopes of lunatic labelling. We don’t have rubbish dumps any more. Not even refuse sites. We instead have a proliferation of fancy named places such as ‘transfer stations’. Where in the name ‘transfer station’ does it suggest that’s where we dispose of our rubbish? It sounds more like somewhere you drop grandma off after a weekend visit. Even Tauranga.co.nz feels the need to explain – to assure residents they’re not taking their rubbish to a bus station. “What is a Transfer Station?” the website asks. • a place to take your rubbish and recycling • more commonly known as a “Tip” or “Rubbish Dump” • activity provided – rubbish disposal, recycling, greenwaste disposal I rest my case. Thanks Tauranga.co.nz Rotorua has gone a step further in flashing up their garbage: ‘Sanitary Landfill’. Sorry, but even Rotovegans can’t escape the fact that rubbish is rubbish. This is a rubbish dump. There is nothing sanitary about that. Junior jail And just up the road they’ve come up with a highly impressive new label for the place young bad-asses go: ‘Youth Justice Facility’. Now we could be wrong here, but isn’t this just a trumped up PC name for Junior Jail? Te Maioha o Parekarangi, for the record, is a junior jail for just 30 naughty persons, costing $47million to build, $7.3million a year to operate and reportedly 100 staff to run. It’s a shame we don’t have those sort of resources for the law abiding, tax paying all their life, pensioners. And that prisoner-to-staff ratio makes a mockery of our teacher-pupil ratio. Should we not be putting more effort and teacher resources into young children, rather than waiting until they are placed in these preciously-named facilities to shower them with support? :thumbs:	B.M. (505)
1341775	2013-05-18 01:54:00	So true B, I hate to hate, but I hate these faceless people who impose rubbish on us. Surely they must slither out of bed in the morn.	Cicero (40)
1341776	2013-05-18 02:11:00	‘Youth Justice Facility’. This was known as Borstal a few decades ago. Youths often came out of these facilities with a trade behind them. No need to go out to burgle, steal or rob to make a living after they got out.	Bobh (5192)
1341777	2013-05-18 02:38:00	‘Youth Justice Facility’. This was known as Borstal a few decades ago. Youths often came out of these facilities with a trade behind them. No need to go out to burgle, steal or rob to make a living after they got out. So true, and the Borstals didn’t cost $47m to build, and they didn’t have 100 staff looking after 30 delinquents at a cost of $7.3m annually. I wonder what other country provides such luxuries for their apprentice criminals. :rolleyes:	B.M. (505)
1341778	2013-05-18 06:19:00	I was under the impression that a transfer station was somewhere rubbish was dropped off so that it could be sorted and then moved to either a recycling plant or a tip. Obviously that would be too logical.	pine-o-cleen (2955)
1341779	2013-05-18 07:18:00	Who gives a toss what they do with the rubbish, the fact is its a tip, a place to tip your rubbish.	Cicero (40)
1341780	2013-05-18 09:16:00	I think all the “Greenies” should be given the job of going through each Rubbish Bag and sorting the “Disposable Napkins” from the “Broken Bottles”. :D Then they can make the appropriate transfer. ;)	B.M. (505)
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