tanters
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Maybe some of our NSW brothern could explain themselves 
e-mailed to me today:
'We have the Pope here at the moment - 500'000 people expected to turn out for his mass on Sunday which is being held across the road from the venue in Randwick racecourse and centennial park - There has been an influx of over 120'000 international visitors(more than the 2000 olympics) for what is called 'World Youth Day' and its a mad bunch of catholics running around with flags draped around them chanting oi oi oi to everything they can think of screaming out.
There were lots of protestors too, they were handing out free condoms and wearing t-shirts saying 'the pope is wrong wear a condom' so the state government last week passed a new law which made it illegal to annoy a catholic - I kid you not, that was the legal definition of the offence 'annoy a catholic' - if you were caught wearing one of these t-shirts or handing out condoms or generally annoying any of these saints the you were fined $5500- -- - - someone got fined on the day the law was passed and took the state to the federal court at which point the fine was quashed and the law was thrown out and the NSW state government made look like a bunch of tools for coming up with such utter nonsense in the first place - - now every c  nt is going around with the t-shirts on, hilarious stuff.
What a country! 
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blue meanie
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global warming my ars...!!!
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Rescue01
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Its just as daft as any other politically correct law that prevents us making jokes about any other religion in case we offend them.it seems the only person who is not safe is a law abiding white hetrosexual male 
its a funny old world  Its not the height of the fall but the sudden stop at the bottom that hurts!!
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countrywide
Joined: 16 Sep 2007
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What if your annoying somebody for other reasons and you find out they are catholic, is that still illegal.
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Rescue01
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 Its not the height of the fall but the sudden stop at the bottom that hurts!!
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tanters
Joined: 24 Oct 2007
Location: Up The Deise!
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countrywide wrote:What if your annoying somebody for other reasons and you find out they are catholic, is that still illegal.
No doubt about it.....
best you ask first before you rip into them .... or scout for crosses/ rosary beads etc
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Rescue01
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anyway i though illegal was a sick bird 
I'll get my coat Its not the height of the fall but the sudden stop at the bottom that hurts!!
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tanters
Joined: 24 Oct 2007
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Rescue01 wrote:anyway i though illegal was a sick bird
I'll get my coat
The doors over there
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NoDo$h
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Sick bustard.....  Going, going...... Gone!
Carbon footprint? I neither know nor give a damn
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RED DISCO
Joined: 15 Jan 2007
Location: Back in feckin drought. We'll All be roon'd.
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Did our bit for democracy & free speech on that one.
The more enlightened live down south, in Victoria
Could of done with the law down here for a while last weeks though. Could of kept a few s off my back. We'd like to know a little bit about You for our files,
We'd like to help You learn to help Yourself,
Look around You all You see are sympathetic eyes,
Stroll around the grounds until You feel at home.
2005 TDV6 S with Terrain Response (& all that entails), Tasmods (going) 2008 TDV6 HSE (coming; or is that my heavy breathing) & a Dark Side umbrella.
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Bodsy
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Stop Hawking your jokes around here.... TDV6 HSE Black, Black Wheels /MTR's(in the shed!), Black RRS front/rear LR badge (tbf) Black Leather, Black Glass, Black TowB, Shiny Tasmods, Dull Mantec, White (& Orange) Reflective D3 Sticker, Black steering wheel badge, black air intake. Optima & Traxide dual battery setup.
Need black RRS wheel centre caps.
Now with added Engel.....
We D3, therefore we are..........
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Neil Pettersen
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| Re: Forbidden to 'Annoy a Catholic' in Sydney NSW |
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tanters wrote:.....the NSW state government made look like a bunch of tools .......
What a country!
There are plenty of wa ers like this, running State/Territory Governments all
over this Continent ...... Tasmania is a good example (I've lived there too ) of rights-abuses.
All of them legislate policy on the run  ....... maybe we should be grateful there is
no Death Penalty here , unlike the USA. Disco3.co.uk ; We all know nothing about something
Who's lookin'
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TDMP
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RED DISCO wrote:
Hi Dave - havn't seen you around for a while? Tristan
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