From: SteveH on
ogden <ogden(a)pre.org> wrote:

> Kevin Stone wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > He's about to hit 17 and wants a 125.
> >
> > Which insurance comp will be cheapest?
>
> There's only one way to find out.

'Fight!'
--
SteveH
From: ginge on
On Mon, 17 May 2010 17:02:37 +0100, R C Nesbit <spam(a)ukrm.net> wrote:

>Ginge spoke:
>> >As expected, the Dinkies come screaming out of the woodwork to exclaim
>> >that you don't have to have kids of your own to know how to behave as a
>> >parent!
>>
>> You're forgetting, everyone was once a kid, and knows how their
>> parents behaved.
>
>You're forgetting the gender gap, not to mention shifts in society,
>incomes, expectations overt he years.

Gender gap? But I had a mum and a dad that's one of each gender -
where's this gap you're on about?

>How *your* parents behaved is not necessarily how *you* would behave today
>with your own kids.

Actually I don't reckon I'd change much at all.
From: R C Nesbit on
Ginge spoke:
> >You're forgetting the gender gap, not to mention shifts in society,
> >incomes, expectations overt he years.
>
> Gender gap? But I had a mum and a dad that's one of each gender -
> where's this gap you're on about?

Look, it's *spelled* gender, but it's *pronounced* Generation, what are you,
sydlexic or something?

> >How *your* parents behaved is not necessarily how *you* would behave today
> >with your own kids.
>
> Actually I don't reckon I'd change much at all.

hmmm.... Swot I fort.

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Looks like Rab C Nesbit.

From: Andy Bonwick on
On Mon, 17 May 2010 17:02:37 +0100, R C Nesbit <spam(a)ukrm.net> wrote:

snip>

>How *your* parents behaved is not necessarily how *you* would behave today
>with your own kids.

I tend to use my parents as role models when it comes to how I treat
my kids because I never had a reason to fall out with them over how I
was brought up.
From: Higgins on
Switters wrote:
> On Mon, 17 May 2010 13:45:41 GMT, Beav wrote:
>
>> "ogden" <ogden(a)pre.org> wrote in message
>> news:MPG.265b2c96eedc6a4b98a2ff(a)news.eternal-september.org...
>>> Kevin Stone wrote:
>>>>>> Mine is only �70 fully comp.
>>>>> You're not a 17 year old on a 125, are you?
>>>> Probably not...
>>>>
>>>> I did pay over a grand when I was about 21 though, so it's only fair.
>>> Anyway, why do you care? It's his bike, his insurance, his problem,
>>> right?
>> Don't you have any kids?
>
> Don't tell me: he couldn't possibly understand otherwise?

Au contraire, before I had kids I knew all the answers too.
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