Canadian Town Bans Spitting, Swearing And Gathering In Groups Of Three Or More

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Quote from: Chef Ramsay on March 14, 2015, 06:20:41 PM

They could just overuse the disturbing the peace statute rather than micromanaging and creating more laws even further. Increasingly totalitarian societies don't like people hanging out in groups to spread the word about things outside of what the sanctioned media is able to spread.

I completely agree. There's laws already that cover this stuff, they just decided to go full retard.

Quote from: Vod on March 14, 2015, 09:48:58 PM

Quote from: (oYo) on March 13, 2015, 01:56:39 AM

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcThPQVrcKZnJ0yV0HShd9tyHZ0PetXKU0607YMRFBtOLB33VUAVpA

I take serious offense to this image.

The swastika should be in red.

Indeed, but I only found two images and the one I preferred (with a red swastika) wouldn't load. Sad

Quote from: guruton on March 14, 2015, 09:50:51 PM

maybe licking boobs is good to be banned too Grin

Don't even kid about that. You take that back! Angry

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I suspect none of these bylaws would hold up against a Charter challenge so the whole thing is kind of moot. Bad vibes, tho Angry

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Quote from: Vod on March 14, 2015, 09:48:58 PM

Quote from: (oYo) on March 13, 2015, 01:56:39 AM

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcThPQVrcKZnJ0yV0HShd9tyHZ0PetXKU0607YMRFBtOLB33VUAVpA

I take serious offense to this image.

The swastika should be in red.

maybe licking boobs is good to be banned too Grin

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Quote from: (oYo) on March 13, 2015, 01:56:39 AM

I take serious offense to this image.

The swastika should be in red.

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They could just overuse the disturbing the peace statute rather than micromanaging and creating more laws even further. Increasingly totalitarian societies don't like people hanging out in groups to spread the word about things outside of what the sanctioned media is able to spread.

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Quote from: ObscureBean on March 14, 2015, 02:11:01 AM

Quote from: (oYo) on March 14, 2015, 01:26:02 AM

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Quote from: (oYo) on March 13, 2015, 11:53:16 AM

It saddens me how people can greet this 'Brave New World' with such delight.

Well... you either didn't understand my comment or you chose not to understand it. I'm talking about taking responsibility for the 'Brave New World' you helped create along with everyone else, delight has got nothing to do with it.
If you prefer to sleep on a nice comfy bed and have internet instead of sleeping on dirt in some cave, that's perfectly understandable but you should accept the consequences of your choices and not be double-faced about them. If you think you can use control just to get the nice things while leaving out all the lame ones, then my friend you are more naive than the ant you walked on before going to bed.
There is always a way out but it's not a pretty one and it does not involve banding together to 'fight the system'.

I just disagree. I believe that, by using a little common sense and discretion, there's no need to go overboard in either direction. You're taking the position that to have any control you must accept all control, otherwise to limit control you must essentially rid yourself of control entirely. That is like saying, you must "throw the baby out with the bath water", if you don't like dirty bath water. There is a such thing as a line and crossing it. Do you drive your car with either the gas full throttle or the brakes full on? I doubt it. I'm sure you use moderation (based mainly on common sense) when considering what speed to drive according to your whereabouts and driving conditions. Without speed limits and stop signs you wouldn't automatically drive like a maniac either, just because no limits have been externally imposed upon you, unless you're just being foolish or reckless. Let's not support idiocy or fascism by making ridiculous, nonsensical rules for every little thing.

Don't you see the flaw in your reasoning? Common sense according to whom? Who's this perfect being that will give you a perfect definition for 'common sense' or tell you when enough is enough? Common sense has always been and will always be relative, the world as it is now is where 'common sense' leads to. Every leader in the history of mankind have operated according to what common sense is to them.
The 'balance' you describe here is what humans have been seeking since the dawn of man, take a look at the world can't you tell if we're nearly there?
This concept of "no need to go overboard in either direction" only exists in dreams my friend, it's what 'good' people keep telling themselves to take the edge off the pressure from guilt that keeps building day in day out.

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Common sense is a basic ability to perceive, understand, and judge things, which is shared by ("common to") nearly all people, and can be reasonably expected of nearly all people without any need for debate.

Unfortunately, people in positions of authority are all too often influenced by a number of things that may contradict common sense. Money and power being the most common.

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Paging Kevin Bacon Paging Kevin Bacon everyone needs to calm down and get footloose

Bring back the color to the town of Taber

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzjYn406mGc
http://www.cbc.ca/news/trending/concerned-citizens-beg-kevin-bacon-to-dance-away-alberta-town-s-footloose-ban-1.2991105
https://twitter.com/SaveUsBacon

In case someone wanted to get that reference video XD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA-FVFuuuX4

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I do hope they launch a kickstarter campaign to have Kevin Bacon dance Footlose just outside the Towns limits
It would be one epic dance party for the ages

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Quote from: (oYo) on March 14, 2015, 01:26:02 AM

Quote from: ObscureBean on March 14, 2015, 12:41:27 AM

Quote from: (oYo) on March 13, 2015, 11:53:16 AM

It saddens me how people can greet this 'Brave New World' with such delight.

Well... you either didn't understand my comment or you chose not to understand it. I'm talking about taking responsibility for the 'Brave New World' you helped create along with everyone else, delight has got nothing to do with it.
If you prefer to sleep on a nice comfy bed and have internet instead of sleeping on dirt in some cave, that's perfectly understandable but you should accept the consequences of your choices and not be double-faced about them. If you think you can use control just to get the nice things while leaving out all the lame ones, then my friend you are more naive than the ant you walked on before going to bed.
There is always a way out but it's not a pretty one and it does not involve banding together to 'fight the system'.

I just disagree. I believe that, by using a little common sense and discretion, there's no need to go overboard in either direction. You're taking the position that to have any control you must accept all control, otherwise to limit control you must essentially rid yourself of control entirely. That is like saying, you must "throw the baby out with the bath water", if you don't like dirty bath water. There is a such thing as a line and crossing it. Do you drive your car with either the gas full throttle or the brakes full on? I doubt it. I'm sure you use moderation (based mainly on common sense) when considering what speed to drive according to your whereabouts and driving conditions. Without speed limits and stop signs you wouldn't automatically drive like a maniac either, just because no limits have been externally imposed upon you, unless you're just being foolish or reckless. Let's not support idiocy or fascism by making ridiculous, nonsensical rules for every little thing.

Don't you see the flaw in your reasoning? Common sense according to whom? Who's this perfect being that will give you a perfect definition for 'common sense' or tell you when enough is enough? Common sense has always been and will always be relative, the world as it is now is where 'common sense' leads to. Every leader in the history of mankind have operated according to what common sense is to them.
The 'balance' you describe here is what humans have been seeking since the dawn of man, take a look at the world can't you tell if we're nearly there?
This concept of "no need to go overboard in either direction" only exists in dreams my friend, it's what 'good' people keep telling themselves to take the edge off the pressure from guilt that keeps building day in day out.

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Quote from: ObscureBean on March 14, 2015, 12:41:27 AM

Quote from: (oYo) on March 13, 2015, 11:53:16 AM

It saddens me how people can greet this 'Brave New World' with such delight.

Well... you either didn't understand my comment or you chose not to understand it. I'm talking about taking responsibility for the 'Brave New World' you helped create along with everyone else, delight has got nothing to do with it.
If you prefer to sleep on a nice comfy bed and have internet instead of sleeping on dirt in some cave, that's perfectly understandable but you should accept the consequences of your choices and not be double-faced about them. If you think you can use control just to get the nice things while leaving out all the lame ones, then my friend you are more naive than the ant you walked on before going to bed.
There is always a way out but it's not a pretty one and it does not involve banding together to 'fight the system'.

I just disagree. I believe that, by using a little common sense and discretion, there's no need to go overboard in either direction. You're taking the position that to have any control you must accept all control, otherwise to limit control you must essentially rid yourself of control entirely. That is like saying, you must "throw the baby out with the bath water", if you don't like dirty bath water. There is a such thing as a line and crossing it. Do you drive your car with either the gas full throttle or the brakes full on? I doubt it. I'm sure you use moderation (based mainly on common sense) when considering what speed to drive according to your whereabouts and driving conditions. Without speed limits and stop signs you wouldn't automatically drive like a maniac either, just because no limits have been externally imposed upon you, unless you're just being foolish or reckless. Let's not support idiocy or fascism by making ridiculous, nonsensical rules for every little thing.

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Quote from: (oYo) on March 13, 2015, 11:53:16 AM

It saddens me how people can greet this 'Brave New World' with such delight.

Well... you either didn't understand my comment or you chose not to understand it. I'm talking about taking responsibility for the 'Brave New World' you helped create along with everyone else, delight has got nothing to do with it.
If you prefer to sleep on a nice comfy bed and have internet instead of sleeping on dirt in some cave, that's perfectly understandable but you should accept the consequences of your choices and not be double-faced about them. If you think you can use control just to get the nice things while leaving out all the lame ones, then my friend you are more naive than the ant you walked on before going to bed.
There is always a way out but it's not a pretty one and it does not involve banding together to 'fight the system'.

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"PLEASE SCULPT YOUR SHIT BEFORE THROWING. Thank U"

Quote from: thejaytiesto on March 13, 2015, 11:59:33 AM

Well, spitting is disgusting so fuck them, someone else has to clean all that shit but people dont seem to care about it. If they know they can get finned they'll think about it twice.

don't walk in your home with the same shoes you go outside.

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Well, spitting is disgusting so fuck them, someone else has to clean all that shit but people dont seem to care about it. If they know they can get finned they'll think about it twice.

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"PLEASE SCULPT YOUR SHIT BEFORE THROWING. Thank U"

pillage and plunders the land my cronies, it's clear, they can't resist... what they said. me Cry

, they don't understand nature. because it's natural, and they wouldn't have a job, but would have to find their nature.

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Quote from: M83 on March 13, 2015, 08:20:25 AM

I hardly think this warrants the swastika flag.

It's not the 'Nazi flag', but the Canadian flag with a swastika instead of the maple leaf. Sure it's OTT, just like banning people from gathering in groups.

Quote from: ObscureBean on March 13, 2015, 08:56:45 AM

Haha that's the funniest title I've come across in a long time, nice work! Cheesy

I really don't see how this could come as a surprise, the more you use control, the more of your 'freedom' you have to give up. And there is no 'them' either, the nature of control is to incorporate into itself everything it encounters.
Humans are such hypocrites, I don't know how they can even look at themselves in the mirror, everything they pride themselves on exist because of control. You can't accept with big smiles all the perks made possible by control and then turn around and fight it as if you're the most innocent of victims. If this sort of development scares/disgusts you, you'd better brace yourself, a whole different level of worst is headed this way Cheesy

Not my work. It's the title of the article.

It saddens me how people can greet this 'Brave New World' with such delight.

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Haha that's the funniest title I've come across in a long time, nice work! Cheesy

I really don't see how this could come as a surprise, the more you use control, the more of your 'freedom' you have to give up. And there is no 'them' either, the nature of control is to incorporate into itself everything it encounters.
Humans are such hypocrites, I don't know how they can even look at themselves in the mirror, everything they pride themselves on exist because of control. You can't accept with big smiles all the perks made possible by control and then turn around and fight it as if you're the most innocent of victims. If this sort of development scares/disgusts you, you'd better brace yourself, a whole different level of worst is headed this way Cheesy

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I hardly think this warrants the swastika flag.

Quote from: NUFCrichard on March 13, 2015, 04:57:03 AM

I would like to see spitting banned, it is littering really, I hate it, it makes me feel sick to see people gobbing all over the street all the time.
Swearing and gathering in groups of 3 or more seems a bit of a stretch, along with the permanent curfew for youths. I would be surprised if any of the rules stood up in court, so someone will test them out and get them overturned in no time no doubt.

Many of these things are already 'banned' in places. Swearing and spitting can get you fines. You can even be arrested for 'disturbing the peace' for swearing in public if its deemed to be disruptive though I'm not a fan of it unless in extreme cases.

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Quote from: Lethn on March 13, 2015, 06:29:12 AM

You know, I was going to get angry, but then I realised that this is one of the perfect targets for people on the internet to mock, nothing could be more deserving.

Like I said, I REALLY think it would make an awesome South Park episode. In the meantime, the internet is abuzz with a "Save Us Bacon" campaign.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/canada-town-blasted-for-footloose-bylaw-banning-spitting-swearing-shouting--and-gathering-in-groups-larger-than-three-10102695.html

https://medium.com/@savetaberbacon/save-us-bacon-dc15f2c0434a

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzjYn406mGc

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You know, I was going to get angry, but then I realised that this is one of the perfect targets for people on the internet to mock, nothing could be more deserving.

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No groups of 3 or more? Even churchgoers will be in trouble when they coming out of the church after service

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Is this surely happening in these days?

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Wondering how they could possibly enforce all that, seems like they're criminalizing childhood.

Quote from: (oYo) on March 13, 2015, 01:56:39 AM

No persons shall, during any period of the day allow, suffer or permit any electronic equipment, musical instruments, vehicles or any other devices to be sounded or used in any area of the Town of Taber, that may, or is likely, to disturb others.

So driving around in your car listening to music has been effectively banned there?

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