A few things to address:
Firstly, Legless, I'm hoping (genuinely) that there wasn't a typical drooling of sarcasm with your remark to me. In any regard, hell, I just got irked by Musukos tunnel-vision'esque (a new word, if you don't like it, ride it) manner of thinking. I suppose it matters little I actually am starting a law degree, for all its delights and rewards. Yay.

Now....

@Glomp - If it had been some little 'lad in trackies' as you put it, yeah, human nature makes you automatically wary. In OUR day and age. The tracksuit chav wasn't nearly as prevalent in the 80's as he is today, so effectively it's a moot point. You raise a valid issue, but if that's the case, why are there prats boosting around in council schemes on mopeds and the like without so much as a blink? You can't victimise one person for the issues of a majority, otherwise we'd not allow anyone from the Middle East on a fucking plane. And no, it's NOT coooooooool to break laws. It's mildly amusing to piss against a pub wall from time to time, but not 'coooooooool'.

@Chenobble - It's a bleak thing to recognise, but kids in our current generation ARE far worse off than we (and who are we? The ancient sages?) ever were. Politically correct bollocks and red tape make the most simple of things now a knives-edge issue, like teachers consoling a lad who cuts his knee open or giving your female workmate a kiss on the cheek at a New Years party. All it takes is one flippin' jobsworth and you can expect being rattled up in court.

No, beatings as a whole don't do kids any good, but if a child does wrong, and gets his backside tanned by his father for it (note, not a beating, a spanking, which is what I'm assuming Legless intended to portray), he's going to associate that thing with being punished, and (usually) not be daft enough to repeat it. No, it's not nice, and some kids have some crap memories of a spanking from their parents, but I'm going to guess that a fair few b3tans got a smack as kids, and are relatively well-adjusted folk who don't torture animals and collect skulls. I know I did, and I can proudly admit to being a typically dull bloke with few oddities aside from a loathing of Marmite.

@Musuko - Oh, don't think I forgot about you. Firstly, I fail to see where homosexuality was being brought into this, aside from my own remark which held no debate against 'safety' laws. What safety? I fail to see where a gay man is more likely to pounce on a woman than a straight man is, unless the topic of shoes and progressive theatre comes into play, so don't talk crap. Be gay if you like, it's everyone to their own, I couldn't give a shite to be honest. Far as those safety laws come into play, yeah, they're there for a reason, but common sense should always be a primary method of judgement. The law says people under eighteen shouldn't drink. Fair enough, but by that reckoning a seventeen year old, mature and sensible in his own right, is forbidden from drinking at a party? Sorry, nah. We're back onto the jobsworth argument again. I'd rather see the aforementioned seventeen year old drinking than a twenty-something girl who'll simply get off her face, pick a fight and pass out in a pool of her own vomit. Did I break the law? Perhaps, but I saved the police a boatload of hassle.

Stop looking at every argument from your own conjured perspective, as it's already been made clear Legless was giving a whirl with this bike in an ALLEY, not a blind corner. Without bleating the same remark, how would someone NOT have seen him had he somehow exceeded the blistering pace of ten whole miles an hour? Being untrained, unlicenced and overconfident? Pick any number of provisional licence holders. Yes, they're 'allowed' to drive, with someone there to watch over them, but it doesn't detract from the fact you've got a novice in control of a massive chunk of steel, most likely moving at a fuckload more than ten miles an hour. Shall we remove all learner drivers from public thoroughfare then?

No, I doubted so.

Since I'll already have to apologise for length (or will that be misconstrued as a potentially homosexual connotative?), I'll make one last remark. Musuko, I'm content to believe you do get caned more than most, but it only serves to show that even your 'intimate partner' (since I can't say gay boyfriend or anything to that effect) gets some pleasure out of causing you pain, but not likely for the same reasons you might think. ;)


HWTD, Bringing internet arguments since 2005.

Apologies for reply length, and for being completely hammered this reply around. Sense being made is optional, though the point should be there.
(HomeWithTheDownies A towering inferno of penisy pleasure, Wed 9 Jan 2008, 2:28, Reply)