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But you may use bikes and rollerskates without a driver's licence :-). obAUE - "driver's license" is American English. The UK version is "driving licence" - you've conflated the two to make "driver's
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Here in Connecticut, too, it costs much more to add a son to the insurance than a daughter. I assume ... the discrimination. I just avoid driving past the high school at letting-out time, because all those kids drive like lunatics. Well, after
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Robert Bannister typed thus: Your country must be behind with feminism. Over here, the ... women under 25 driving too fast and out of control. We must be similarly behind in the UK - it cost me three times as much to add 17-year-old Son ... a
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I presume that there have been studies made about the behaviour of young adults in countries which still have conscription, versus those that do not. It would be interesting to know if there's any significant difference. Well, then you'd
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Do you say that strict discipline, housemasters, short trousers and manual labour are against the boys' human rights to-day? In the way that Borstals applied them, yes. Britain is no longer disciplinarian, except perhaps in the armed services,
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I quote from that site. "Borstal was a strange mixture ... completely illegal and contrary to the boys' human rights today. Do you say that strict discipline, housemasters, short trousers and manual labour are against the boys' human
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I quote from that site. "Borstal was a strange mixture of strict discipline, housemasters, short-trousers, corporal-punishment, rock-breaking, manual labour, handcuffs, ... Most of those, apart from the last three, would be completely illegal
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the may His race was Asian, but I don't think that an Oriental would have elicited the same reaction from the white racist. I wanted to point out that the boy was killed because of his colour, which was black or brown. By the way, what do you
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Yeah, OK. Maybe you have some point in mind. You've disguised it well. My point was that your arguments don't make sense at all. Sorry for being too subtle for you, but that's my default mode. OK..let's put the context back in and
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Indeed they do. Yet in some other countries... Amnesty International ... prisoners in the United States have a serious mental illness. I've seen other references to this charge. I never know how to view this. Any condemned prisoner has been
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