it depends
if you pick a freebie wild flower and then try to flog it to someone, then yes
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:16, 1 reply, 12 years ago)

Isn't that just farming?

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:32, Reply)

There really is no point in trying.

(Bazongaloid, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:33, Reply)

Not where I live there isn't, no - there's no fields for miles.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:35, Reply)

the thing is, if you woke up to find that a group of people had stolen all your vegetables
and pipework and mugged your wife, you'd be ranting along with everyone else. a bleeding heart only bleeds so far, sunshine.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:37, Reply)

I don't think any part of my rant would automatically assume that the crimes had be carried out by a certain group of people becuase of their ethnicity, though
becuase I'm not a racist cunt.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:40, Reply)

hmmmmm
i'd like to say i agree with this. but the reality is, that if a gypsy encampment moved into the area and suddenly things like copper pipes went missing overnight, i would probably draw assumptions. i blame the media, can't possibly be my own fault for that.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:47, Reply)

"Drawing assumptions"
QV Blacks, Jews, "Yardies", "Pakis", women can't (your gripe here).
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:49, Reply)

no, this was on a one very specific point
i wouldn't normally draw assumptions. if you live in london you see so much cuntery from so many different people that all your assumptions tend to fly out of the window
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:52, Reply)

Oh, right.
So you'd just assume it's the blacks, then?

Or the Jews?
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:54, Reply)

ALL OF THEM

( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:54, Reply)

So why focus on the Romanians?

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:58, Reply)

Hang on, where am I saying this isn't a problem?
Don't you project yourself onto me. I merely questioned why you felt that on the one hand " they are big employers/tax payers/draws for people to come to london and spend money here, and their rights should be protected" and yet on the other hand you say that people who sell things to other people are parasites.

Can't you see the huge inconsistency in what you've written?
(Bazongaloid, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:41, Reply)

no, al
i can see you doing what you do, trying to read between the lines to be "clever" or "edgy" or "funny".

of course there is a difference between manufacturing something, and employing people to do it, and paying rent, and wages, and hiring outsourcing companies, etc etc. even if you make it yourself from scratch, if you buy the equipment, you are adding to the economy.

nicking stuff and selling it with the whole cash going in your back pocket not the same. you know that and i know that.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:43, Reply)

Picking wild flowers is "nicking stuff"?

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:46, Reply)

there are different laws on that
depends which bit of the plant you pick, blah blah. i suspect the flower beds in hyde park belong to the crown, but don't know that for a fact.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:48, Reply)

What I'm actually doing is drawing attention to your highly inconsistent viewpoint regarding "rights"
You've said that a business should have the right over a person simply because it makes more money.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:48, Reply)

no, al
that is not what i said.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:49, Reply)

See below

(Bazongaloid, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:55, Reply)

Well it sort of is.
I mean - it's an absolutely petty point, but you did say "it depends on other people having money to ... buy things off them".

Which is, er ... capitalism. Lowest possible outlay, highest possible price.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 12:51, Reply)