Death of Common Sense

The fate of Common Sense is in your hands…

Common Sense died as we entered the Naughties; six-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment
for kissing a classmate, teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch, teacher fired for
reprimanding an unruly student, schools required to get parental consent to administer aspirin to a
student, honor student expelled for having a table knife in her school lunch, a government plan to ban
inhalers from 14 million asthmatics due to a trace of a pollutant that may be harmful to the environment.
 
Common Sense gets resurrected here and now.

Driving is ‘good time’ to use mobiles

Posted by Extremo on December 19, 2007 under Current Events

Driving is ‘good time’ to use mobiles

They Say:
“Australians believe using a mobile phone while driving is a good opportunity to catch up with friends or to do business.
They think there is little likelihood of being pulled over and fined or losing points from their licence. PhD researcher Shari Walsh, from Queensland University of Technology’s school of psychology and counselling, said her survey sampled 800 people at various times at a travel centre service station south of Brisbane.

“The most commonly reported reason for people using their phone while driving was that they thought it was an effective way to use their phone, so they are using their time in the car that they believe would otherwise be unoccupied,” she said. So it’s not just that they feel disconnected but more about the fact that people think it’s important to use their time and to hear what’s going on.”

We Say:
*sigh* For fucks sake people, I expect to see such a study come out of the US, not my homeland, you fucktards!

I’ve come up with my own custom ‘good time to’ list… Enjoy:

  • Find your inner child - On a football field, during a game…
  • Deciding Sachin Tendulkar is the devil - At a Cricket match in Mumbai…
  • Finding Jesus - During an Extreme Atheists Rally…
  • Realise you shouldn’t be talking on your mobile phone while driving - picking windscreen out of your forehead\nose\chin\ear\eyes\teeth\lips…

Australians all let us… Grow a fucking brain and realise, mobile phones are not to be used when driving, you drive a car when driving… That is all…

One Response to “Driving is ‘good time’ to use mobiles”

  1. Andrew Sayer Says:
    December 19th, 2007 at 7:42 pm

    I admit, years ago (1999) I got fined for talking on my mobile when I lived in Sydney. Nowadays, texting is thrown into the mix which adds another dimension of distraction. But I never have a camera at the ready when I see a police car drive past with the officer talking on his mobile. One day, my friend, one day.

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