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"Mary Fisher" wrote in message
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"Conor" wrote in message

They're things. They're only things. It doesn't matter.

OK, I'll pop round and **** in your PC.

Why?


On my way, I'll pop into HMV and take a hammer to the CDs.

Why?

Because these are just things, with only a financial interest, and have no
real value compared to the desires and mechansims of nature.

But would it give you pleasure?

Or maybe actually causing damage to bits of plastic is something that has
an
effect on people, and we should consider that, whether the damage be
accidental or deliberate. Peoples lives depend on just things, peoples
income depends on just things. People can get emotional support from
things,

That's a shame.

and if someone else takes that thing away, or defaces it, is it just
damage
to to a thing, or damage to a person? Was the fact my stereo, TV and tapes
were stolen, and the *******s covered the carpet in paint only upsetting
because I was too attached to these things?

I've no idea. Perhaps you didn't have someone else to turn to, to support
you, to laugh and say it's a good opportunity to replace them with more up
to date things. Or just to have more space in the house, more space in your
life. I have no idea. I don't even know if that has happened to your
property.

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I had to pop out to Tescos earlier today. It was packed, and aside from
the
grumbles about people seeing it as some perverse social club, I saw
several
children. There was the young couple with babies of different ages all
piled
into a trolley, with the spare in a pushchair. That was a couple, FFS.
There
were other couples, wandering around with their spawn.

Just think, you were once the spawn of your parents ...

Then there were the
children accompanied by one adult - I have no problems at all there, as
there's no reason to believe that these people have any alternative to
taking the children out when they need to shop. I see the first group as
inconsiderate, the second as not. In no way am I saying people shouldn't
go
shopping with their children (much though I personally would prefer that),
I
have been saying all along that when there is more than one person capable
of caring for the sprogs in a household, why do the whole bloody lot have
to
thoughtlessly impose themselves on everyone else to get a pint of milk and
the Sunday roast?

Perhaps they enjoy each others' company, that's why they're together in the
first place, they want to share experiences.

I do wonder how you know what they're buying, you're taking a get interest
in their purchases.

Spouse and I go shopping together because we both hate it and wouldn't
impose it on the other. We might as well share the bad experience as we
share good ones. And it's not quite so bad when we have each other there.
I'm sure others might think like that, I'm sorry that not everyone has
someone to share good and bad times with.

Mary