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That's about as stupid as I'd expect from you. Let's see, that was when? Who? Idiot!

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Really, by what you've written here, that's not at all surprising.

NO, you certainly do not! There are things you cannot say. "Prior restraint", as it's known here.

Who owns corporations? Yes, they have a right to speak, too.

Fear isn't necessarily a bad thing. There are things in this world that will kill us. Socialism is one.

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krw

No, nothing of the kind. Voter registration doesn't require the repeal of half the Bill of Rights, just common sense.

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krw

It will never pass for the same reason your fascist law won't pass; it's unconstitutional.

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krw

People today seem to like distopian imagery in things like Batman movies. In the 60's Batman was made for laughs. When Saturday Night Live (Is it even known outside the US?) had the original cast from

1976-1980 they started the show with scenes of nightlife in NY City. In 1980 the opening changed to scenes of riots and police and snarling dogs. I stopped watching it because of that. It isn't like 1984, or the original Planet of the Apes, where the distopian message had something to say. It's done now for gratuitous pleasure, but I don't know why distopian imagery appeals to anyone.

There is also the matter of what drugs they were on, and whether they stopped taking them, and whether unmedicated people with the same conditions go on shooting sprees.

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Tom Del Rosso

Do you have any other silly fairy tales?

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Michael A. Terrell

My father did.

He was hitchhiking around Europe in '48 and was coming home through Germany. He was given a lift by a lorry driver who turned out to have driven German tanks during the war.

He said they didn't mind taking British prisoners because they gave name rank and serial number, and refused to say anything else.

In contrast they didn't like taking American prisoners because they talked incessantly, obsessively trying to be your friend.

Clearly he hadn't met denizens of this group.

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Tom Gardner

People who live in a tiny apartment on the 23rd floor of a big-city apartment building don't need a truck. People who live in the woods and haul firewood and sheetrock and motorcycles do. I live in a house in a city, so I compromise on a 4wd hatchback with a rack on top, which is reasonable to park. The rack does let me move sheets of plywood and 10' hunks of pipe, and a lot of skis.

Some of the streets around here were originally intended for cows and goats. Gigantic SUVs and pickups barely scrape through.

We even had a dynamite factory for a while.

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There are remote places and even some small towns that do not have pickup of garbage and recyclables. On open-back pickup is ideal for hauling your smelly stuff to the dump.

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John Larkin

Yes, his son.

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krw

I did that for the 15 years I lived in Vermont. Garbage pickup was ridiculously expensive (mob run).

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krw

Except on those rare occasions when they do a bit of remodelling. Standard sheets of plaster board or ply, or a new bathtub aren't easy to fit into - or onto - a hatchback.

Nobody in their right mind needs a motorcycle. The same suicidal impulses can be catered to much more cheaply to by skiing into trees.

And the fact that it is an Audi lets you advertise that you are a status-seeking git who has more money than sense, which is mostly what car and truck choice is about anyway.

It blew up within 18 months? Impressively careless, even for a nitroglycerine manufacturing plant.

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With a decent roof rack, and 6m ladder underneath the plasterboard and the leading eage well secured (clamped between two pieces of wood, and to the ladder) in my expenince you can carry 7m sheets of platerboard on a hatchback, but many hatchback models can't mount heavy-duty roofracks.

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Jasen Betts

Try that with 1500 pounds of drywall.

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Michael A. Terrell

A big trailer for transporting horses or livestock around. Will take large furniture too although you do need thick polythene under it for obvious reasons (much easier than deep cleaning the box).

Either your trash cans are huge or your services are weird.

UK has typically universal kerbside trash and recycling collections that alternate every other week. Some have moved to every 3 weeks for garbage which is generating some protests as in summer bins can get smelly.

It also occurs to me that my idea of a truck is a ~4T or larger heavy vehicle whereas some here are clearly meaning open back pickup truck (which makes sense in rural areas much like owning a land rover here).

But you only need a few days insurance to do that. In the UK I can get 7 days comprehensive insurance and a years tax when I buy a new vehicle.

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I live in a semi rural area. Even so, others use three different garbage haulers. So four days a week, you hear them going down the roads.

I only prepare what I am to eat, for each meal so there is nothing to smell. I live by myself, and I am on a strict diet so I have to use portion control. The only times I have to toss food is if it goes bad in the fridge, after a prolonged power outage.

Mine is a half ton pickup, with a full eight foot bed. The Chevy Stepvan that I had, was rated for two tons. That is a common delivery truck for bread, and work uniforms.

This is what it looked like. Mine had the 14 foot cargo area.

Not here, I called agent after agent, only to be told they were not accepting new accounts at this time. The only online quote I could get required an one year commitment, with a large portion of the annual fee up front.

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Michael A. Terrell

trash can.

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Small trash can, but relatively long driveway.

Dan

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dcaster

You might have to make two trips.

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John Larkin

The second trip, to buy a new car? :)

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Michael A. Terrell

No, the second trip to buy a new truck.

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