Monuments to Stupidity

[Merlin]

I don't think I am turning it into a subjective issue. I think it's stealing but I was trying to define something tangible that could be stolen as OFF seemed to be struggling to even define what was being nicked. The item/object that is being stolen can hardly be described as the least important aspect in a theft case can it?

Sure, if they owner is on an unlimited tariff it is harder to define what exactly has been nicked but it is still theft. Someone is paying for a service and you're using it without their permission.

If its stealing , Matt....it defines itself as being objective….whether the person is on limited tariff…or whether the company itself is on limited tariff is irrelevant….(coz as you know , suppliers have limits too)…..

Its either stealing or its not stealing – simple….

If I was to read a book using the light from your living room window……am I stealing your light?

[sparkyminer]

If I was to read a book using the light from your living room window……am I stealing your light?

No, but you'd probably nicked his book.:D

[mathare]

Its either stealing or its not stealing – simple….

I agree, and as I said I regard it as theft whether or not a data limit was in place.

If I was to read a book using the light from your living room window……am I stealing your light?

Assuming you're not on my property you are likely to be in a public place or on an adjoining property. And if you're in public I think you need to worry more about the type of book you're likely to be reading and the indecent acts it is likely to make you want to perform :wink

[Onlyforfun]

But anyway, moving ever onwards in my search for the absurd and truly idiotic:

34 - Food additives. Heard some simpering female fool this morning on the BBC saying "It's so hard not to feed your kids food with additives." Before I could snort with derision my normally mild-mannered wife was swearing at the TV shouting "It's not difficult, just get off your fat and cook!"

Here, here! I'm no macro-biotic, vegetarian, organic, tree-hugger (as you have probably guessed by now), but it is just as cheap, just as quick, and a lot better for you to cook using fresh vegetables and meat. Anyway, I'm happy to spend an hour of an evening cooking for the next day rather than watch the crap that passes for TV these days (except for Trawlermen, Mock the Week, Worlds Deadliest Catch and repeats of That Mitchell and Webb Look).

The only fizzy drinks that make it into our house are the industrial quantities of tonic for my Gin!

35- "Citizens Juries". Firstly, we are not citizens, we are subjects. Secondly, we pay a bog-standard MP £60,277 pa. and look at what the rest earn:

Prime Minister - 187,611
Cabinet Minister - 136,677
Minister of State - 99,908
Parliamentary Under Secretary - 90,358
Government Chief Whip - 136,677
Government Deputy Chief Whip - 99,908

Government Whip - 85,782

Assistant Government Whip - 85,782
Leader of the Opposition - 130,312
Opposition Chief Whip - 99,908
Deputy Chief Opposition Whip - 85,782
Assistant Opposition Whip - 85,782
Speaker - 136,677 (gorbals Mick gets HOW MUCH!)
Chairmen of Ways and Means - 99,908
First Deputy Chairman - 95,108
Second Deputy Chairman - 95,108
Solicitor General - 126,846
Advocate General for Scotland - 126,846
And the gravy train continues into the Lords and doesn't include "expenses" like getting the interest paid on second homes in London even if you rent them out.

Gordon, you get £180k a year to run the country, get off your and do it. It's all well and good having "convictions" but if you have no ideas on what needs done and how to do it I suggest you give your salary back to the taxpayer.