The Official Nonsense Thread

[Minty]

Yeah, that sounds like that Castlecary mob that appear in the newspapers every so often, tricking people into phoning premium lines. What gets me is the authorities way of dealing with them is spending a fortune on adverts warning people that if something sounds too good to be true, it is, rather than jailing the people behind it.

The excuse is that it's the people's own fault for getting conned. If the front envelope tells you that you've won a telly, but the small print inside at the very bottom in this size of typeface if you are lucky, that's not a case of buyer beware, that's a clear confidence trick. Certainly there should be a law making it illegal to have wording in competition flyers less that 10 point in size (the smallest used in standard newspaper articles), but no doubt the current & future governments don't want "wealth creators" being tied up with "red tape" from pursuing their democratic right to swindle little old ladies out of their life's savings phoning premium rate lines.

You have to admire St. Johnstone. First they stuffed Rosenburg, & now they've stuffed Minsk & bar disaster will be in the Europa League. Not bad having spent next to nothing on players bar the superb & desperately underrated Nigel Hasselbank.