Anti Social Behavior Orders

[Statikk HDM]

Read an article about how they were put in place in Great Britain but they were being broken by over 60 percent of teenagers. No cursing, no racist language, no motorcycle riding, bans on certain numbers of people on the street, no heckling, early curfew. Sounds pretty shitty to me.

[Bullet Magnet]

Asbos, we call them. A shame to the family of the person who receives them, but a badge of honour for the "yobs". Not exacly effective, but hey will come to regret them on their record late in life.

The people who give them are idiots. One was given to a rooster.

[Hobo]

I have one

[Munch's Master]

I've heard stories of ASBOs being given to pensioners, but a rooster? That's just plain....retarded. A guy I know is a total chav, we always joke about him having electronic tags and ASBOs, but he sees the funny side of it. I wouldn't be surprised if he did have/has had one though.

[Nate]

Hang on. How do you get given one and what does it mean if it happens?

[Rich]

They're given by courts I believe, they restrict what an individual can do, and if they break these restrictions, there are tougher consequences.

[Nate]

Okay, rephrasing my question: what does one have to do to be given one and what do they restrict?

[magic9mushroom]

Um...read the first post for your second answer NDW.

[Al the Vykker]

Sounds like something out of 1984. Not that it's a very new concept...

[Nate]

Um...read the first post for your second answer NDW.

Um...would I have asked the question if I thought the first post gave me enough information?





Just to confirm: the answer is "No".

[Bullet Magnet]

I hereby award Nate with an ASBO!

[Rich]

ASBOWN3D!

Seriously, it ain't hard to understand. If people are constantly anti-social; ie: smashing windows on a street, they are given an ASBO to stop them from indulging in the chosen anti-social pastime; ie: the ASBO will prevent them from entering the street.

[AquaticAmbi]

Oh, they give out little tags here too. For crimes that aren't even that serious too. Just do enough of something small and you'll get your ankle slapped with a little tracking device. My friend's boyfriend had one of those for a while; he'd been caught with some drugs a few times and possibly did a few other minor stupid things. He was only allowed to go to work and make quick runs to grocery stores and whatnot. Anytime she wanted to see him, she had to drive to his house.

[Statikk HDM]

So this is essentially probation but with a name that makes me snicker?
/Ass bow, would that be a bow that shoots asses or a bow that you shoot with your ass?
//What the hell is with Britain? British people speak English, but they don't speak English.

[Bullet Magnet]

It's pronounced Azz-bow.

And I hardly think you're in any position to criticise English

What we speak in England is the definitive English language.

[Rich]

If you're pronouncing the world 'as' as 'ass', you have serious problems. Get your vest and pants on, get yourself down to townsville in your automobile and go back to kindergarten.

[Munch's Master]

Indeed. It is pronounced azz-boe. and England invented the English language, which is why it's called [b]English[b]. America are the ones who say words wrong, not us. . We invented it therefore our speech method is correct, and America have intentionally or inadvertently warped it into different spelling methods and pronunciations.

[Statikk HDM]

Ah-typical.
As-ocial.
Thats how it is said around these parts, Silly Sallys.
"Azz bow". Nobody would say it like that in Real English(tm).

[Bullet Magnet]

This sums up all possible responses from the British forumites:

[Statikk HDM]

That brings up a good flame retardant and insulator, as-bes-tos.
Not Azz-bezz-toz.

[Bullet Magnet]

No one said it was. You might as well complain about the respective pronunciations of arse and ass, or Aluminium and Aluminum, or the spellings of surprise and surprize. Zebra is pronounced zeh-brah here, not zee-brah. The letter Z is spoken "Zed".

Then you get whole words that are different. Your jelly is exclusively jam in Britain, whilst jello is called jelly. Cookies are usually biscuits, which is American for scone. Rock, stone, pebble, boulder, in America all but rock are rarely used for the individual object. Soccer is football, football is American football, Imperial measurements are frequently ridiculed by the youngest generation, fries are chips, chips are crisps, jawbeakers are gobstoppers, capularies are capiliaries...

The list is endless.

[Facsimile]

I always thought 'jawbreakers' was just a brand of gobstopper, I didn't know it was the actual word they used.

THAT SHIT IS CRAZY!

[Hobo]

Wait who calls all gobstoppers jawbreakers?

Well it isn't me for sure.

[Bullet Magnet]

Okay, that particular confectionary is becoming rather Americanised here.

[Hobo]

It's nasty anyway, who likes choking on a big hard thing...

Other than Peter.

[Statikk HDM]

You bite jawbreakers. That is why they are jawbreakers.

[Munch's Master]

^ Why do you bite something as hard as rock candy? It'll break your teeth!

[Statikk HDM]

To show that you can take it like a man. They are a manly candy.

[Bullet Magnet]

manly candy

And that is an oxymoron

[OANST]

Either that or it's pure poetry.