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Self Regulation - What does it mean to you? 18-Jul-2012 At 3:43:12 PM wallwombat

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On 18/07/2012 IdratherbeclimbingM9 wrote:
>ww&s wrote;
>>> Bring guns to NPs I say.that will keep mr ranger on his toes".
>
>On 18/07/2012 kieranl wrote:
>>Now this. There's no segue, link or modifier to say that, hey, now I'm
>>joking. The context is comment. If it was a joke, it's just dumb, but
>the
>>context doesn't support the joke idea. Let's just hypothesise that someone
>>outside climbing, possibly from a parks service, happens to read this
>thread?
>>How would they read it? I don't believe that it would be seen as a joke.
>>And then to see people actually defending this, they would be thinking
>>that we've struck a bunch of loonies.
>>
>>The irony would have me laughing if I didn't feel like crying. A thread
>>to discuss self-regulation and climbers just dive in feet-first to show
>>that they don't have a friggin clue.
>
>You may have forgotten/left out the context that ww&s is a NSWelshman,
>and that NSW recently did a deal with the Shooters Party to allow hunting
>in NSW NP's...
>~> That could change the flavour of the comment, as I'd expect NSW Rangers
>to be rather toey about that issue!
>?

M9 is right on the money. Guns in national parks is quite a big issue in NSW and WW&S's comments should be read in light of that.

But it's good to know that you can write just about anything here and as long as you end each comment with a raucous "BOOM BOOM!", it's OK by kieranl.

BOOM BOOM!