So, my nephew's girl posted a picture on FaceBook. This is not unusual.
What was unusual was that I looked at it without dismissing it as rubbish like so many of them posted by those two are. A picture of a young lout driving around in the snow, late at night, in a supermarket carpark. The blurb with it claimed 'They are only having fun, let them be, and only their car or themselves will be hurt.'
This ignored the neighbours who have their eardrums burst by the noise of course, or the damage done to the furniture in the car park, or any costs for damage, which they will not pay as they run away. Being young enables you to be thoughtless towards others and completely taken over by whatever you are doing. Tsk! We never did things like this when we were young. Of course we had no cars, only one young man amongst us had a car, and his folks had money, but that does not matter.
Round here similar gatherings have seen dozens of cars meet, create chaos, intefere with those using the many late night facilities, and creating a huge noise nusance. The police have cut this down, fines, bans have had an effect on the people responsible, growing up, finding work, and a girl friend has also limited the gatherings somewhat.
All that apart, I considered a quick, appropriate reply to this facebook post,
'Just shoot them,' I said helpfully.
When I went on facebook later it appears I am banned again 'for violence' this time. How can removing such youths in an efficient manner be considered 'violence,' when the US cops, and that is where facebook originates, do this daily? It all appears confused in my mind as white supremacists, anti-vaxxers lying about Covid, or flat earth people and politicians are never removed 'for violence,' at any stage.
It now is revealed that I am also banned from a variety of groups and other luxuries that I may miss by the time the 29 day ban has ended. Or maybe not as the case goes.
A close examination of all the six reasons to ban me all involve humour, only an algorithm would do this, no human reader, and all are harmless, usually posted on Twitter without a problem, also elsewhere.
I suppose it means I will have to find other means of causing arguments, Twitter today, and somewhere else tomorrow. Maybe I ought to visit a town centre pub tomorrow night?
