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Linda Smith
Topic Started: Mar 2 2006, 05:33 PM (235 Views)
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OK, this will mean very little to most Noggers (especially outside of the UK), but Linda Smith died of ovarian cancer this week. She was a comedienne who developed a real following on the radio (radio 4 listeners voted her wittiest person alive in 2002). Here's a nice tribute and a few of her great quips follow:

"People knock Asbos, but you have to bear in mind they're the only qualification some of these kids are ever going to get."

"I had absolutely no expectations of Tony Blair, and even I have been disappointed."

"David Mellor, the thinking woman's fat, ugly bastard. The last woman to run her fingers through his hair was the nit nurse."

"I do sympathise with Bush and Blair trying to find WMDs. I'm like that with my scissors. I put them down, then I search all over the house, and I never find them. Of course, I do know that my scissors exist."

And finally, she was born at Erith in Kent, a town of which she said:

"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham."
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That's truly sad news. She was very, very funny.
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A quick translation: Asbo = anti-social behaviour order. It's one of Labour's pet anti-crime measures. It's shit.
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A quick translation: Asbo = anti-social behaviour order. It's one of Labour's pet anti-crime measures. It's shit.

How interesting. It was presented as a good example which we should follow here in the Netherlands.
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Only if you don't live in Manchester...
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The problem with the ASBO is that is now the new "in-thing" to have for Chavs, along with burberry baseball caps and a child...
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Or the fact that they mean you can get chucked in prison for something that isn't a criminal offence, or that they are often used to treat the symptoms of a problem rather than actually doing something useful, or that the likelihood of you getting one seems to have more to do with where you live and whether you are of a desirable caste, or the fact that Blair likes them…
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Or the fact that they mean you can get chucked in prison for something that isn't a criminal offence

Exactly. I don't get why this hasn't been a more prominent complaint. We've effectively declared that if some part of the local government decides something is objectionable, you can be locked up for it regardless of whether the law says it's punishable. Hence - ASBOs issued to a child with Asperger's for staring into his neighbour's garden too much, and to a woman for walking around her house in her undies without closing the curtains. <_<
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Exactly. I don't get why this hasn't been a more prominent complaint. We've effectively declared that if some part of the local government decides something is objectionable, you can be locked up for it regardless of whether the law says it's punishable. Hence - ASBOs issued to a child with Asperger's for staring into his neighbour's garden too much, and to a woman for walking around her house in her undies without closing the curtains. <_<

Don't forget the Tourette's kid, for swearing.
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Or the person who tried to commit suicide from going near bridges.

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and to a woman for walking around her house in her undies without closing the curtains.

Does bra and undies count?
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Hell, my ex-girlfriend and I used to-

Um.

Anyway.
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I'm actually genuinely curious now. Was this normal inappropriateness or really bizarre inappropriateness.

NED knows it's just going to be a lie anyway.
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No comment. Aside from enough comment to tease (see previous post).

Have a lovely weekend, folks, I'm off to Brighton and won't be on the net until Sunday evening at the earlies.
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Don't forget to post and tell us how drunk you are.
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Ooh...I'm originally from near Brighton. There are some great restaurants and shops there...
Norbert

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No no no, it's spelled, "Steve," but it's pronounced, "Norbert ".

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It's Mr June

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