What would you like to ban?

Julia · 1 January 2009

Those awful garments, apparently considered shorts, worn by teenage boys where the crotch is between their knees and the waistband fails to cover the bumcrack.

Owners of little fluffy dogs who think it's really cute when their small animal persistently yaps and jumps up at the heels of big dogs.

Jehovah's Witnesses recruiters who cart little kids around with them in their prosletyzing. And then when you've told them to go away, they leave their stupid literature in your letter box.

2020hindsight · 1 January 2009

IFocus said:
I remember talking to a Swiss guy years ago and asked him why he immigrated to Australia.

He said he was sick of the lack of freedom as every thing was banned or regulated back home.

lol, reminds me of a quote of Peter Ustinov's ... "Everything in Switzerland is banned! - except for those things that are compulsory!"

(sounds a bit like Singapore )

GumbyLearner · 1 January 2009

Feral Cats

Public funding for Private Schooling

Payroll Tax (why tax the people that create the jobs?)

Stamp Duty

The sale of diet soft drink in junk food joints

And anything else thats similarly absurd

MrBurns · 1 January 2009

Commercial television, the news is just a mix of ads and promos for their partners, the ads are an appalling tasteless invasion of privacy and everything else in the main is just low grade crap.

Leave just the ABC.

MrBurns · 1 January 2009

The sale of all junk food in schools, why do they need junk food during those hours ? There's plenty of time after school if they MUST eat rubbish.

So why do they do it, oh yeah they have agreement with the junk food companies dont they, exactly like pimps for drugs.

classer · 1 January 2009

Ban Ki-moon

2020hindsight · 1 January 2009

Julia said:
Owners of little fluffy dogs who think it's really cute when their small animal persistently yaps and jumps up at the heels of big dogs.

owners of big dogs (shepherds) which attack a bitch from behind when she is simply chasing a ball in an off-lead area - bowls her over - just a "yelp" and a limp at the time - .. which 6 months later requires a $4000 knee reconstruction to correct the damage

MRC & Co · 1 January 2009

Fat girls wearing tight tops.

Smoking.

Gossiping excessively, people need to get their own lives and live them.

And the final and most important one: "Wogs" who try to talk and act "fully sick".

Nyden · 1 January 2009

MRC & Co said:
Fat girls wearing tight tops.

And the final and most important one: "Wogs" who try to talk and act "fully sick".

Ditto.

Don't forget overweight women wearing tights (the pants) ... nasty, nasty stuff.

Garpal Gumnut · 1 January 2009

I would like to ban all green bags, with messages like "Woolworths" or " Save the Whales" that sad people bring to the supermarket when I can get good plastic bags, which harm no living things that I know of, for nothing.

gg

Flip · 1 January 2009

giant inflatable gorillas

Nyden · 1 January 2009

Garpal Gumnut said:
I would like to ban all green bags, with messages like "Woolworths" or " Save the Whales" that sad people bring to the supermarket when I can get good plastic bags, which harm no living things that I know of, for nothing.

gg

Why do you intentionally try to stirr things gg? Plastic bags are a horrid plague on the environment, and don't say they don't harm animals. I saw a documentry a while back on plastics in our ocean - and there are parts out there in the sea that resemble rubbish tips with all the gunk out there.

http://www.reusablebags.com/facts.php?id=2

Countless plastic bags end up in our ocean and cause harm to our marine wildlife. Many marine animals and birds mistakenly ingest plastic or become entangled and choke in plastic bags that is floating around. For instance, environmentalists have pointed out that turtles often mistake plastic bags for jellyfish and invariably swallow them. It is estimated 100,000 marine mammals die each year because of plastic litter in our ocean in the North Pacific. (www.algalita.org)
Land animals seem to be victims as well. In countries such as India, cows are mistakenly ingesting plastic bags on the streets as they are scavenging for food and end up choking or starving to death, as the plastic cannot be digested.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1974750.stm)

http://www.earthresource.org/campaigns/capp/capp-background-info.html

Reusable bags are far sturdier, and they do not break (and have all of your items fall out). Plus, by using them - you are infact helping the profit margins of companies such as Woolworths, and that can only be a good thing for us investors.

Edit:

Even if you are responsible, and reuse your plastic bags until they "wear out" a little, and then dispose of them - do you really believe that all of your bags make it safely to the appropriate places? One swift breeze and a bag or 2 of yours is off to the ocean. Who knows, your bag might just choke a turtle

MrBurns · 1 January 2009

Immigration for everyone regardless of the social consequences here.

Taxi drivers who cant drive, speak English and don't know where they are let alone where YOU want to go.

Garpal Gumnut · 1 January 2009

Nyden said:
Why do you intentionally try to stirr things gg? Plastic bags are a horrid plague on the environment, and don't say they don't harm animals. I saw a documentry a while back on plastics in our ocean - and there are parts out there in the sea that resemble rubbish tips with all the gunk out there.

http://www.reusablebags.com/facts.php?id=2

http://www.earthresource.org/campaigns/capp/capp-background-info.html

Reusable bags are far sturdier, and they do not break (and have all of your items fall out). Plus, by using them - you are infact helping the profit margins of companies such as Woolworths, and that can only be a good thing for us investors.

Edit:

Even if you are responsible, and reuse your plastic bags until they "wear out" a little, and then dispose of them - do you think they all safely make it to the appropriate places? One swift breeze and a bag or 2 of yours is off to the ocean. Who knows, your bag might just choke a turtle

You are looking at the wrong websites mate.

Plastic bags have been proven to be harmless.

I sometimes have to hold myself back at pedestrian crossings with these lemons dragging their green bags across the road.

Get real mate.

gg

Nyden · 1 January 2009

Garpal Gumnut said:
You are looking at the wrong websites mate.

Plastic bags have been proven to be harmless.

I sometimes have to hold myself back at pedestrian crossings with these lemons dragging their green bags across the road.

Get real mate.

gg

Show me. Show me some information which suggests that plastic bags in the sea are "safe". How the hell can an invisible choking-device floating around in the sea for 60 years possibly be safe?

Smurf1976 · 1 January 2009

Nyden said:
Why do you intentionally try to stirr things gg? Plastic bags are a horrid plague on the environment, and don't say they don't harm animals. I saw a documentry a while back on plastics in our ocean - and there are parts out there in the sea that resemble rubbish tips with all the gunk out there.

IF, and that's a big IF, the bags are disposed of in landfill then they are arguably better environmentally than the alternatives on account of resource use and greenhouse gas emissions.

It's the littering aspect that's the problem here - and that's not limited to plastic bags. Walk along any highway in a rural area, something I've done plenty of, and you'll be amazed at the amount of rubbish. Potato chip packets, soft drink and beer cans / bottles and cigarette packets dominate with plastic bags and all other things being a small minority of the dumped rubbish.

Nyden · 1 January 2009

Smurf1976 said:
IF, and that's a big IF, the bags are disposed of in landfill then they are arguably better environmentally than the alternatives on account of resource use and greenhouse gas emissions.

It's the littering aspect that's the problem here - and that's not limited to plastic bags. Walk along any highway in a rural area, something I've done plenty of, and you'll be amazed at the amount of rubbish. Potato chip packets, soft drink and beer cans / bottles and cigarette packets dominate with plastic bags and all other things being a small minority of the dumped rubbish.

Oh, I agree Smurf. I won't argue that if they're disposed of correctly, that there isn't really an issue. The danger is that they aren't, and because of they're design they quite easily travel with the wind - this applies to potato chip bags, and the like as well.

The even more pressing issue, is that the clear bags are near on invisible in the sea - and as mentioned in that article, can even resemble jelly fish. A bottle of coke in the ocean isn't going to choke a turtle, but a clear plastic bag will.

People will be less inclined to throw their $2 reusable bag on the street, as well

Garpal Gumnut · 1 January 2009

Nyden said:
Oh, I agree Smurf. I won't argue that if they're disposed of correctly, that there isn't really an issue. The danger is that they aren't, and because of they're design they quite easily travel with the wind - this applies to potato chip bags, and the like as well.

The even more pressing issue, is that the clear bags are near on invisible in the sea - and as mentioned in that article, can even resemble jelly fish. A bottle of coke in the ocean isn't going to choke a turtle, but a clear plastic bag will.

People will be less inclined to throw their $2 reusable bag on the street, as well

Nyden stop this Big brother rubbish and get on with the thread.

This only needs 2020 to derail the thread completely.

I just said what I'd like to ban, I don't need a homily from godbothering environmentalists.

gg

Nyden · 1 January 2009

Garpal Gumnut said:
Nyden stop this Big brother rubbish and get on with the thread.

This only needs 2020 to derail the thread completely.

I just said what I'd like to ban, I don't need a homily from godbothering environmentalists.

gg

I'd like a ban on ignorance

I'm an atheist, by the way.

(Oh, and you are of course entitled to your opinions gg; it just irked me that you would opt to ban the choice to be environmentally friendly ... you know, since that goes against your whole anti-big brother philosophy )

So_Cynical · 1 January 2009

The two-party-preferred voting...hate it.

http://www.australianpolitics.com/elections/two-party/two-party-preferred.shtml

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