Or overuse...like people with car alarms that go off whenever a fly farts...it just become redundant and ignored.

But no less obnoxious.

I mean if one doesn't know that Al Qa'ida is plotting to do as much damage that it can manage to America (and everyone else it feels like) twitter isn't going to change that, and you're a hopeless maroon.

So, if the warning levels aren't meant to cause certain behaviors/actions, then what is their purpose? Clearly to engender fear and anger, and obedience to authority.

Sorry for the sidetrack Bones, but Starkers brought up an interesting item.  Back when I was in school, administrators and rules were a lot more relaxed than before my time and since.  Our dress code was "You must wear shoes".  That was it.  Skip class?  No one called your parents.  Your teacher gave you a nasty look, and if you missed too much, you failed.  Don't like cafeteria food for lunch?  No sweat - head over to the DQ (Yes they had them in Germany as well) for a burger.

To hear my parents talk, they went to concentration camps, and having raised 4 children, I know that schools are very strict now.  I used to carry a hunting knife all the time (because I could - I did not hunt).  Now?  Prison term.

So when Starker Tee Hees about sneaking a peak at the fairer sex, we were streaking and not breaking any rules (as long as we did not skip class).  All of us wore shoes after all!

I would say yes dad DOB 32 mom DOB 42  that's 1932 and 1942

that's way way back then..

so far back my day at age 10 could and would go to the store with a pail to buy BEER

damn I am glade we don't let kids buy BEER now days

but then again they could go to the movies with $0.50  see a News rell, Cartoon, and the main feature plus a pop (soda pop), pop corn, and a candy bar

and if they wanted they could stay and watch them all over again for free.. in color and in AC....

You probably put it better.  If you are always on alert - it becomes a way of life.  And you are no longer looking out, just a normal day.

I heard they changed the drinking law in Germany too!  When I was there, if you were old enough to put money on the counter, you were old enough to buy it.

just a theory

maybe it;s a stepping stone for the Government to puss the net to a censorship 

so they can block this site (not saying WC) but like YouTube  or other sites they feel that will let you know to much info

EDIT

oops  not puss  PUSH 

     Slowly but surely by the time our grand kids are old enough to be where we're at most western countries would have gone the way of Big Brother, i.e. a police state. Don't think so. Read the OP. Or become like the terrorist states. Export our own brand of terrorism to them. Bomb trains, blow up the market places with suicide bombers, do it to planes carrying innocent people. You know ...... be just like them. Problem is ... being just like them is defeating the purpose. They say payback is a bitch. True.

I plan on showing up at work in a diaper with a bottle of Jack in one hand and a joint in the other. I'll plant myself in my bosses chair and wait for him. When he asks me 'What the hell do you think you're doing?!',  I'm gonna tell him I just called all of our customers and canceled their contracts because the 'end is nigh'. Then I will announce that I just 'made in my diaper' and ask him if he wants a toke.

And that's different from any other Monday just how, Smedley? 

EEEwwwww! Too early in the a.m.

Depending on who you are.

Some will:

- put on their tin foil hat

- ignore the stuff and continue with their lives

- make sure to vote for the great people that warn them so often

You're not in your usual dress singing 'Sunshine, Lollipops, and Rainbows, Lemon Drops..."  on a mini trampoline while Jack lobs balloons filled with lime jello at you.

* f*cking smart ass moderator with a phd..there oughta be a law or something....

This is why WC is so much fun. Everybody's nuts. My kind of people.

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