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krazycanuck · 05-07-2009, 07:29 PM

This is why I hate people.

Jayems · 05-07-2009, 07:30 PM

Step 1: Ensure Blue Bins have same address as house they are outside of.
Step 2: ?
Step 3: Profit

BlackArcher101 · 05-07-2009, 07:31 PM

Wait.... so people aren't home during the day? OMG... I'm going on a crime spree!

GoinAllTheWay · 05-07-2009, 07:31 PM

What was the editors comment?

Displaced Flames fan · 05-07-2009, 07:36 PM

Hilarious.

So all houses with recycling bins at the curb are unoccupied? Am I missing something not living in Calgary?

Here it is possible to put your garbage out for pick up and then walk right back inside your house without fear of reprisal! Also, I could choose to put the garbage out and leave while the rest of my family remains inside, armed, waiting for any would-be burglars to make their move.

FurnaceFace · 05-07-2009, 07:37 PM

The theory is people who are home bring their blue bins after the truck rolls by so potentially thieves could just target the houses with bins left out. Of course, any thief will have a couple of dozen other ways to figure out who is home and who isn't, they don't need the bins so Kathy better worry about those reasons too. Perhaps she'll have to quit her job so she can stand by her panic room with 911 on speed dial in case anyone does break in. That would free up a job for someone with rational thought.

Displaced Flames fan · 05-07-2009, 07:40 PM

Still, it is possible that someone who hasn't pulled their bin up to the house is in fact AT HOME.

Jayems · 05-07-2009, 07:40 PM

And, if any burglar hadn't thought of the blue-bin idea, they certainly know about it now! Thanks for contributing to the crime problem in the city, Kathy.

4X4 · 05-07-2009, 07:41 PM

I think the worst letter to the editor I ever saw was in the Calgary Sun about 10 years ago. The context was something to do with years having religious connotations because of the suffix AD.
A previous letter disregarded the AD and basically said who the hell cares how the years are named, religion is outdated anyway.
So this idiot replies with a very harsh tone "correcting" the other letter writer, insisting that years indeed have religious meaning because we live in (whatever year it was) AD - After Death! As in, after the death of our lord!!
Yeah.
Some people should be banned from pens and keyboards.

metallicat · 05-07-2009, 07:42 PM

I think maybe she is talking about people who leave big boxes out, advertising that you just bought a nice brand new 50" plasma, or something like that. Maybe she means which houses to target for a new TV?

Edit- I've sort of always wanted to start a website that would post letters to the editor from the major newspapers from North America, and then give people the opportunity to comment on them. Something like this thread I guess.

Iowa_Flames_Fan · 05-07-2009, 07:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan

Here it is possible to put your garbage out for pick up and then walk right back inside your house without fear of reprisal! Also, I could choose to put the garbage out and leave while the rest of my family remains inside, armed, waiting for any would-be burglars to make their move.

I've always known there was something not right about you Americans. Now I know what it is.

Displaced Flames fan · 05-07-2009, 07:56 PM

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Originally Posted by oilers_fan

I think maybe she is talking about people who leave big boxes out, advertising that you just bought a nice brand new 50" plasma, or something like that. Maybe she means which houses to target for a new TV?

Edit- I've sort of always wanted to start a website that would post letters to the editor from the major newspapers from North America, and then give people the opportunity to comment on them. Something like this thread I guess.

I could submit some real winners from the mighty beacon of journalism that is the Wichita Eagle.

ricosuave · 05-07-2009, 07:57 PM

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Originally Posted by 4X4

I think the worst letter to the editor I ever saw was in the Calgary Sun about 10 years ago. The context was something to do with years having religious connotations because of the suffix AD.
A previous letter disregarded the AD and basically said who the hell cares how the years are named, religion is outdated anyway.
So this idiot replies with a very harsh tone "correcting" the other letter writer, insisting that years indeed have religious meaning because we live in (whatever year it was) AD - After Death! As in, after the death of our lord!!
Yeah.
Some people should be banned from pens and keyboards.

It always used to drive me crazy when the Sun would print the word "Gawd", instead of "God" in an article or quote. Whether or not they still do it, I don't know, since I avoid that rag at all costs.

Ford Prefect · 05-07-2009, 08:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 4X4

I think the worst letter to the editor I ever saw was in the Calgary Sun about 10 years ago. The context was something to do with years having religious connotations because of the suffix AD.
A previous letter disregarded the AD and basically said who the hell cares how the years are named, religion is outdated anyway.
So this idiot replies with a very harsh tone "correcting" the other letter writer, insisting that years indeed have religious meaning because we live in (whatever year it was) AD - After Death! As in, after the death of our lord!!
Yeah.
Some people should be banned from pens and keyboards.

What that Einstein didn't realize is that AD doesn't even mean After Death. He is correct in that it has a religious connotation, but the AD is an acronym for Anno Domini, which translates from Latin as In The Year Of Our Lord. Death has nothing to do with it.

4X4 · 05-07-2009, 08:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Ford Prefect

What that Einstein didn't realize is that AD doesn't even mean After Death. He is correct in that it has a religious connotation, but the AD is an acronym for Anno Domini, which translates from Latin as In The Year Of Our Lord. Death has nothing to do with it.

Lol. I think that anyone that passed grade three will know that. The fact that the sun printed the letter, and the editor gently corrected the author, but still used it to fuel the debate is what really had me shaking my head.

Ford Prefect · 05-07-2009, 08:17 PM

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Originally Posted by 4X4

Lol. I think that anyone that passed grade three will know that. The fact that the sun printed the letter, and the editor gently corrected the author, but still used it to fuel the debate is what really had me shaking my head.

Ya, some people really telegraph their IQ without even realizing it.

awildermode · 05-07-2009, 08:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Ford Prefect

What that Einstein didn't realize is that AD doesn't even mean After Death. He is correct in that it has a religious connotation, but the AD is an acronym for Anno Domini, which translates from Latin as In The Year Of Our Lord. Death has nothing to do with it.

jammies · 05-07-2009, 08:23 PM

I wrote a letter to the editor once. It was 4 sentences. The editor took out the most important sentence and left the other 3 intact so that my argument - which pointed out the contradictions and downright falsehoods of an opinion piece by a columnist - was eviscerated, and then made some kind of "well everybody has their opinion, eh?" comment at the bottom.

I guess I should've known, and I certainly do now - it's all about slanting the facts, not reporting the facts or analyzing the facts. Slant sells.

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Anno Domini is "in the year of our Lord", isn't it? That's why academics and historians are leaning towards CE, or Common Era now, although as an atheist I say, "Who cares?"

Ice · 05-07-2009, 08:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan

Still, it is possible that someone who hasn't pulled their bin up to the house is in fact AT HOME.

Its very possible. I didn't work for 9 years and I didn't bring in the the trash or recycle bins during the day even if I was home all day. That's a boy's job.

Ford Prefect · 05-07-2009, 08:34 PM

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Originally Posted by jammies

I wrote a letter to the editor once. It was 4 sentences. The editor took out the most important sentence and left the other 3 intact so that my argument - which pointed out the contradictions and downright falsehoods of an opinion piece by a columnist - was eviscerated, and then made some kind of "well everybody has their opinion, eh?" comment at the bottom.

I guess I should've known, and I certainly do now - it's all about slanting the facts, not reporting the facts or analyzing the facts. Slant sells.

----

Anno Domini is "in the year of our Lord", isn't it? That's why academics and historians are leaning towards CE, or Common Era now, although as an atheist I say, "Who cares?"

Farley Mowat said it best when he borrowed the quote, "Never let the facts get in the way of good story," to defend something he wrote. At least he was honest.