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Thread ID: 69799	2006-06-12 19:01:00	Power Crisis. I find it amusing	JJJJJ (528)	PC World Chat

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462661	2006-06-14 21:54:00	You know I live in Auckland . I've also lived in New Plymouth and Wellington . But I am not Just Another F***ing Anything, and I really resent being labelled as such . What have I or anyone esle here done to warrant being labelled with such an insulting acroynm? From here on in, I think we'll call a halt to the **** acroymn being used . It has been pointed out to me by several insulted members that we ban profanity, including when obviously used in acroymns, so let's ban this one . If someone wants to tell us why we are all such terrible people because we happen to live here, how we are ruining your country by existing and how everything that happens here is somehow all our fault and well deserved, then from here on in they can do it with the word **** . And by the way, when 700,000 people are without power for most of day and hundreds if not thousands of businesses are closed, when an entire traffic system for a city of more than 1 millon people suddenly has to cope without any traffic control, it isn't as minor as you might think . Not the end of the world, and certainly not as painful as living without power in the snow for days but not exactly a minor event . And last time I looked I didn't see 700,00 people whinging on TV . Most of us just got on with coping as best we could, as are people down south . The media is not Auckland, just as it is not New Zealand . It is just the media, and it likes stories ahead of truth, pictures ahead of facts . Bruce: Oh dear Oh dear Oh dear – maybe you should get a little real, **** has long since entered the vernacular and has pretty much lost the connotations of the words forming the anagram . How about you get over it . But if the ****/ Speights crack upsets you I’ll willingly withdraw it . But I would really appreciate it if you could focus on the substance rather than the crack . The substance was to point out the reactions in the same TV programme of Aucklanders as opposed to South Islanders in the face of a major power outage (and in the latter case extreme weather conditions) Your proposal to ban brings to mind a couple of historical instances – 1 . King Canute called on the tides to stop – he got his feet wet 2 . The French Government passed a law prohibiting the use of English words in the French language – that didn’t work either . Oh well, never mind	dvm (6543)
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