I am thinking with government restrictions in Australia and the United Kingdo we should be using BBSing as an alternative medium. Its akin to HAM radio now
You should not need to submit your ID just to use a bloody search engine.
MIKE POWELL wrote to UTOPIAN GALT <=-Kingdo
I am thinking with government restrictions in Australia and the United
we should be using BBSing as an alternative medium. Its akin to HAM radionow
You should not need to submit your ID just to use a bloody search engine.
A lot of this could be avoided if parents were more aware of what their children were up to online, and also if the didn't look at tablets and phones as something to keep the kid occupied (and out of their hair).
Not sure what you're talking about here. I have certainly never done
that.
Fun fact, there is a character in that game whose role is that of an evi right-wing antagonist trying to turn you into a radical. Can you imaginethat was quite funny actually. they made her hair purple because they assumed that people leaning right might associate that with something negative the sa way they do when they see left wing people with brightly colored hair.
Fun fact, there is a character in that game whose role is that of a right-wing antagonist trying to turn you into a radical. Can you imthat was quite funny actually. they made her hair purple because they as that people leaning right might associate that with something negative t way they do when they see left wing people with brightly colored hair.
Which game is this?
MIKE POWELL wrote to GAMGEE <=-
Not sure what you're talking about here. I have certainly never done
that.
That is because you live in the "free-state" of Florida and not the UK
or OZ. ;)
Also parents need to teach their kids what things are acceptible to talk about online and what things are not.
Standard stuff, don't give your address to anyone, if questions get
personal in nature, always remember that ther's a person behind every keyboard.
It was pretty simple, when I was about 14 our computer teacher at the residential school use to tell us, don't do anything online you don't
want your mother to find out that you did.
Yes, If you buy alchhol or tobacco you have to show id.
So Trump is correct.
Trump always baits the left.
Groceries. He said Groceries.
It makes lefties extremely upset when you point out the homeless drunks that walk around downtown in various cities have no problem getting a state ID to continue to do what they do. Yet somehow a sixteen year old kid with no intention of getting a drivers license is somehow incapable, heck even put through significant hardship in the course of getting an non-drivers-license state ID. Right.. So if these guys do just fine using their ID at the grocery store and gas station for boozin', why can't everyone else do it to vote?
Yes, but... even he knows. He's just talking out of his ass, like he
often does, and like virtually all/any other politician does most of the time. They just can't seem to help it.
MIKE POWELL wrote to GAMGEE <=-
Yes, but... even he knows. He's just talking out of his ass, like he
often does, and like virtually all/any other politician does most of the time. They just can't seem to help it.
A true, red MAGA would jump in and correct you here... "He IsN'T a POlitICIan, lEFty!"... while others might point out that he seems to
talk out of his ass a whole lot more than average.
I can remember when I thought that Obama used social media *way* too
much but, compared to now, I almost cannot remember him using it at
all. ;)
Trump also equated showing ID at the gas station, something I've never done. for showing an ID at the grocery store, I suppose he should have been clearer about showing ID at a grocery store when buying age-restricted items.
Yes, because at a gas station, you can also buy chewing tobacco, cigarettes, and alcohol (sometimes). Most definitely, he should have been more clearer (i he ever, though?), precisely because people like to take what he says and twi it into something completely different.
Gas stations are another place that people are apt to buy booze and, especially, cigarettes. The payment kiosks at the Kroger fuel depots here have a cashier surrounded by nothing but cigarettes. Snacks, etc., are in refrigerators and cabinets outside.
Yes, he could have been more specific. Who knows what he really meant (probably part of the point)?
Re: Bbsing
By: MIKE POWELL to POINDEXTER FORTRAN on Wed Jan 28 2026 08:29 am
Gas stations are another place that people are apt to buy booze and, especially, cigarettes. The payment kiosks at the Kroger fuel depots have a cashier surrounded by nothing but cigarettes. Snacks, etc., a refrigerators and cabinets outside.
Yes, he could have been more specific. Who knows what he really mean (probably part of the point)?
I remember when restaurants & other places in the 80s (and maybe early 90s?) often had vending machines with packs of cigarettes (and naturally they didn't need ID). Interesting times, those were..
Nightfox wrote to MIKE POWELL <=-
I remember when restaurants & other places in the 80s (and maybe early 90s?) often had vending machines with packs of cigarettes (and
naturally they didn't need ID). Interesting times, those were..
I remember when restaurants & other places in the 80s (and maybe
early 90s?) often had vending machines with packs of cigarettes (and
naturally they didn't need ID). Interesting times, those were..
yeah, i think the last one i saw was in a local dive bar. they already verified you were 21 to enter so they were able to get away with it. afaik they removed it when they basically fumigated the place when smoking indoors in public places was banned.
MIKE POWELL wrote to FUSION <=-
I agree with your sentiment but, as an aside, depending on how your
state has implemented the "Real ID" procedures, they may have made it
much more difficult for non-drivers to get an ID. Based on what they
have done in Kentucky... removed the ability to issue IDs from every county clerk's office, centralizing it in "regional offices"... I would estimate that they have.
Nightfox wrote to MIKE POWELL <=-
I remember when restaurants & other places in the 80s (and maybe early 90s?) often had vending machines with packs of cigarettes (and
naturally they didn't need ID). Interesting times, those were..
fusion wrote to Nightfox <=-
was a pretty hefty machine too. built like one of those big steelcase desks. shame it's not really convenient to sell anything else in them cause they're kinda cool
Denn wrote to fusion <=-
Yes, I remember those, they had them at every gas station and
restruant. I remember eating out and there was "smoking" or
"nonsmoking" area's.
I think '95 in Nashville was the last time I saw a smoking section in a restaurant. I was seated adjacent to it, in the non-smoking section. You're right, it didn't make a difference.
Those old mechanical vending machines, with the pull knob. Probably needed a pocket-full of quarters, too.
I agree, it didn't really make a difference. I'd think they would have ventilated the smoking section and design it to pull the smoke out, but that wasn't the case. At least, I don't recall ever seeing a restaurant that did that.
Re: Re: Bbsing
By: Nightfox to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Jan 29 2026 11:16:55
I agree, it didn't really make a difference. I'd think they would have ventilated the smoking section and design it to pull the smoke out, but wasn't the case. At least, I don't recall ever seeing a restaurant that that.
Remember, those buildings had been around years, even decades, before
the issue came up, and unless they were stand-alone buildings, they probably didn't even have the choice. And even if they did, they
probably wouldn't. To redesign an entire ventilation system would've
cost five-figures easily, which most independant eateries couldn't
afford.
Yes, I remember people smoking in restaurants for sure, and there was
even a "smoking section" on airplanes. Ridiculous, since the smoke
spread throughout the plane anyway. Glad that's gone.
yeah there was one bar in town here, maybe a couple years before the indoor smoking ban, that had a *fantastic* ventilation system just for that. some company designs equipment specifically to clear out cigarette smoke as fast as possible. the bar made a big stink (heh) about it.
I think '95 in Nashville was the last time I saw a smoking section
in a restaurant. I was seated adjacent to it, in the non-smoking
section. You're right, it didn't make a difference.
I agree, it didn't really make a difference. I'd think they would have ventilated the smoking section and design it to pull the smoke out, but that wasn't the case. At least, I don't recall ever seeing a restaurant that did that. But although that might have helped a bit, it might not have completely drawn all the smoke out anyway..
Denn wrote to Nightfox <=-
I think '95 in Nashville was the last time I saw a smoking section
in a restaurant. I was seated adjacent to it, in the non-smoking
section. You're right, it didn't make a difference.
I agree, it didn't really make a difference. I'd think they would have ventilated the smoking section and design it to pull the smoke out, but that wasn't the case. At least, I don't recall ever seeing a restaurant that did that. But although that might have helped a bit, it might not have completely drawn all the smoke out anyway..
yep you'd get the full on 2nd hand smoke experience.
The worst is going to a bar, you get the stale smoke, stale Beer,
Puke, and piss smells all in one shot, made me sick, I left and have
never been in a bar since.
Have you never bought Beer or cigarette's at a gas station?
No.
I agree, it didn't really make a difference. I'd think they would have ventilated the smoking section and design it to pull the smoke out, but that wasn't the case. At least, I don't recall ever seeing a restaurant that did that. But although that might have helped a bit, it might not have completel drawn all the smoke out anyway..
Denn wrote to Nightfox <=-
yep you'd get the full on 2nd hand smoke experience.
The worst is going to a bar, you get the stale smoke, stale Beer,
Puke, and piss smells all in one shot, made me sick, I left and have
never been in a bar since.
MIKE POWELL wrote to NIGHTFOX <=-
Here, in later years, some of the fast food places had sections that
were "walled off" with plexiglass (??), usually off in a corner. That seemed to help.
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