On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 20:39:15 +0100, "Peter Hearnden"
wrote:

That's a bit of an apples and oranges comparison, or is it swallows and
summers....

Whatever, little rotters, I'd take awy something precious to them from
them - binge drinking perhaps....

Take away their mobile phones and they would surely wither away.

"Gavin Staples" wrote in message
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How can anyone claim with justification that education standards are
rising.
If all they can do these days is smash everything up.
I have had some of this a few months ago when some intellectuals broke
into the gardening shed at the back of my office, snapped the garden tools
and then threw them round the car park, and then took the light bulb out
of
the shed and smashed it. Yet this year A level pass rates were 96
per-cent.



"JPG" wrote in message
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On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 13:43:05 +0100, "Keith (Southend)"
wrote:

May they rot in hell !


That's too good for them.

My father told me about a small weather station in a public park in
Gloucester (the Lannet) that stood there for about 20 years before the
war, unprotected and complete with unlocked Stephenson screen, rain
gauge, state of ground bare patch, Besson comb nephoscope the lot. It
was untouched for all this time, not even any suspicious yellow rain,
and removed in the 50s when the vandalism seemed to start.

How times change - if anything stands still for any length of time
these days it will either be trashed or have grafitti sprayed all over
it. The more inaccessible the better, it seems.

JPG

"Col" wrote here on 21
Aug 2004:

Strange that you say the vandalism started in the 50's. I have
this view of the 50's as being a time when people actually
respected the law.
snip

Off topic for this NG, I know, but related to the above and
nevertheless enlightening (it was for me, anyway!) - in one year on
the UK railway network:

25,000 carriage windows were smashed.
13,500 seats were slashed.
13,000 luggage racks were rendered useless.
3,500 mirrors were stolen or smashed.

The year in question was... 1944. Just goes to show.

(Source: Whitaker's Almanack 1946)
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"David Buttery" wrote in message
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Off topic for this NG, I know, but related to the above and
nevertheless enlightening (it was for me, anyway!) - in one year on
the UK railway network:

25,000 carriage windows were smashed.
13,500 seats were slashed.
13,000 luggage racks were rendered useless.
3,500 mirrors were stolen or smashed.

The year in question was... 1944. Just goes to show.

(Source: Whitaker's Almanack 1946)

Ah, that would be those pesky Germans throwing bombs around

Col
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"JPG" wrote in message
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On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 16:01:45 +0000 (UTC), "Col"
wrote:


"JPG" wrote in message
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That's too good for them.

My father told me about a small weather station in a public park in
Gloucester (the Lannet) that stood there for about 20 years before the
war, unprotected and complete with unlocked Stephenson screen, rain
gauge, state of ground bare patch, Besson comb nephoscope the lot. It
was untouched for all this time, not even any suspicious yellow rain,
and removed in the 50s when the vandalism seemed to start.

Strange that you say the vandalism started in the 50's. I have this view
of the 50's as being a time when people actually respected the law.

Late 50s, I would say, just after the Teddy boy era as rock and roll
was taking off. No connection implied.

How times change - if anything stands still for any length of time
these days it will either be trashed or have grafitti sprayed all over
it. The more inaccessible the better, it seems.

The decline of society. Don't get me started on that one

Col


Same he-) I think we can all agree how pointless vandalism is. It is one
of my pet hates beacuse of the mindlessness of it and the harm and cost of
it.
Trouble is, it seems to be worse here in Britain than many other places.
Why I don't know.

Gavin.

"Ron Button" wrote in message
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Col, actually things started to get worse soon after those nice
civilizing Vikings left our shores.....

It hasn't been the same since the Romans left.
Now *there* was an ordered society for you!
You'd think twice about vandalising your local weather station
with those dudes in charge......

Col
--
Bolton, Lancashire.
160m asl.
http://www.reddwarfer.btinternet.co.uk
http://www.reddwarfer.btinternet.co....rPictures.html

Col, actually things started to get worse soon after those nice
civilizing Vikings left our shores.....


RonB"Col" wrote in message
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"JPG" wrote in message
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That's too good for them.

My father told me about a small weather station in a public park in
Gloucester (the Lannet) that stood there for about 20 years before the
war, unprotected and complete with unlocked Stephenson screen, rain
gauge, state of ground bare patch, Besson comb nephoscope the lot. It
was untouched for all this time, not even any suspicious yellow rain,
and removed in the 50s when the vandalism seemed to start.

Strange that you say the vandalism started in the 50's. I have this view
of the 50's as being a time when people actually respected the law.

How times change - if anything stands still for any length of time
these days it will either be trashed or have grafitti sprayed all over
it. The more inaccessible the better, it seems.

The decline of society. Don't get me started on that one

Col
--
Bolton, Lancashire.
160m asl.
http://www.reddwarfer.btinternet.co.uk
http://www.reddwarfer.btinternet.co....rPictures.html

"Col" wrote in message ...
"JPG" wrote in message
...


That's too good for them.

My father told me about a small weather station in a public park in
Gloucester (the Lannet) that stood there for about 20 years before the
war, unprotected and complete with unlocked Stephenson screen, rain
gauge, state of ground bare patch, Besson comb nephoscope the lot. It
was untouched for all this time, not even any suspicious yellow rain,
and removed in the 50s when the vandalism seemed to start.

Strange that you say the vandalism started in the 50's. I have this view
of the 50's as being a time when people actually respected the law.

How times change - if anything stands still for any length of time
these days it will either be trashed or have grafitti sprayed all over
it. The more inaccessible the better, it seems.

The decline of society. Don't get me started on that one

I have seen a document bemoaning the impact of vandalism on the
observing network in South Australia - written (incidentally, by one
Clement Wragge) in 1886....

Blair Trewin
National Climate Centre
Australian Bureau of Meteorology

In uk.sci.weather on Sat, 21 Aug 2004 at 13:43:05, Keith (Southend)
wrote :

May they rot in hell !

If caught, then organs should be extracted to the same value as the
equipment they ruined...
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham

There organs are worthless like there lives themselves!