MRAA (ie MRAV) bashing

Like i said i was deliberately spreading misinformation.
The mra have it down to an art form.

 

Welcome back.

That Dastardly Scoundrel Postman Pat

 

I'll never be able to listen to "Knights In White Satin" again without
thinking of the booth...

Postman Pat

 

So, after all that whining you're falling back on the
"I was trolling" defence? Wow. Sophistimicated.

-----sharks

 

I think we can still let SA have Wilcannia.

Al

 

But only on pension day!

 

Why smokers? Are they sick? Make sick people pay more for health
insurance. It's criminal that everyone pays the same premium regardless
of how healthy they are or how many claims they make and then the health
insurance companies actively encourage people to make claims on their
insurance... and never buy health insurance off companies who use
professional sporting persons in their advertisements... nothing worse
than knowingly paying for self inflicted injuries suffered by
millionaires... and the government forces us to do this.

Nev..
'03 ZX12R

 

I thought she was "TOLD"!

Nev..
'03 ZX12R

 

""TOLD"!"!

-----sharks

 

I wasn't trolling I was serious.
When I saw the initial email in the mra mailing list i got pissed off
with the tone or martin's email.
I think Martin deserved a taste of his own medicine.

 

Have you been told?
Follow the whole fuckin thread smarty pants

 

Minx said....

Don't smokers already pay for their habits through excise? And if a high
salary earner smokes, then merely by his marginal rate, he pays more
than a low income earner who doesn't smoke.

Thing is, stats tend to show that low income earners smoke more than
high income earners. Something to do with higher education and people
allegedly being smarter as a result.

As for the fat people thing, I understand that some airlines have forced
overly dimensioned pax to pay for an extra seat....

 

Smee said....

And you're a shit stirring bullshit artist.

It's up to Minx and the individual concerned if they wish to make this
public. Suffice it to say, after I posted that note in the MRA Forum,
someone said that they wrote to Minx telling her that what she posted
was incorrect.

I don't know what the "words" were.

The purpose of my original post to the MRA Forum was to advise people
that there was a misunderstanding as to Damien Codognotto's role within
the organisation and in particular who was running with this petition.

And it is something that needs to be rectified.

I think that it's fairly common knowledge now, that DC's somewhat
disruptive and aggressive attitude has alienated a lot of people over
the past few years. And it's something that the Board is trying to deal
with.

Anyway, that's all it was. For whatever reason, you've seen fit to drag
this down to some indeterminable level and try and make an issue where
really, there is none.

But then, I should not have expected anything else. This is Usenet,
after all.

 

Well, given that Martin is still sitting over there with a silly look on
his face wondering what the **** you're on about[1], I guess it's fair
to say your dose of 'medecine' missed the mark by a fairly wide margin.


Moike

[1] Although it's getting hard to see him in the crowd that's gathering
over there.....

 

*sigh*
I suppose you have to read the mra threads in order to know.
Martin always looks like that

 

....but that's a direct tax on their habit, not an extra fee they pay as
a consequence of their habit. A better example would have been the
extraordinarily disproportional premiums which smokers have to pay for
life insurance...


Nev..
'03 ZX12R

 

That would make the map look rather odd...

Hammo (It's not that bad!)

 

They certainly do, through the nose in fact. RRP of a $10 pack of
cigarettes is about $8 tax and $2 cost of
manufacturing/distribution/profit etc

JL
(I gave up when they were $2 a packet...)

 

Naah all those straight lines are decidedly unnatural

I suspect both NSW *and* SA would be improved by handing over Wilcannia

JL

 

Interesting pricing in Singapore. A packet of Rothmans were S$10.50 in
retail shops. S$20.50 a carton of 10 packets at the airport duty free. Are
you sure it's only 80% tax?

Theo