Published: Wednesday, 11th November, 2009 1:12pm

Oh the banter, the banter!

by From the Editors chair

This week I was going to tackle the local issues of under-age drinking and soup kitchens for addicts but then I realised I didn't have to.

A quick look at the comments from our legion of readers on the www.largsandmillportnews website showed that the subject was already covered.

However, in case you miss the pearls of wisdeom from our anonymous correspondents every week I will dip into them occasionally, especially when this column has the production staff perspiring because it is already half an hour late.

Folk feel free to post an opinion on the News site when they see something of interest in this weekly blatt (and let's face it there's always so much).

For example fed up pupil from Largs Academy noted that some of his peers had returned from an October field trip to South America.

"Eh - excuse me, but how come this lot got to Costa Rica when our biology trip was a wet weekend on the Holy Isle with Mr Scott - not fair!"

Mind you, the bugs weren't so big.

Then on the story of the American evangelists coming to sing and pray for us, John Dale wrote:

"We've got more than enough religious nutters of our own thanks. We don't need any more importing from the US."

Regarding our front page story of Brisbane Evangelical Church setting up a soup kitchen for drug and drink addicts (I would go but Tuesday's my late night) Mrs Angry writes: "Handy for The Oak. Chucking out time is midnight on Tuesdays. This should save the walk to Curry King. This town just keeps getting better. Any chance of a lift home? Thank God for religious zealots."

Cazza commented: "Being a resident in Gateside Street I am totally outraged by this - I personally, as a single female, feel unsafe enough walking home at night without numerous junkies in the car park next to my house!

"What is the world coming to exactly? We all work hard and pay taxes and struggle to pay for gas and electric and have gone without food a lot in the past two months yet these addicts are given stuff for free - what a great way to encourage them to stay on drugs! Well done Largs - you never fail to please!"

On the subject of youths loitering and drinking booze in Douglas Park someone called Flatty suggested:

"Simply open Fiddlers a couple of hours earlier....Problem Solved! (They do like their exlamation marks these bloggers).

Buckfast drinker wrote: "If you shut Anderson Park, the youths will go to Douglas Park. problem not solved!"

Big Blue said: "I get the feeling he wants all the public parks closed. That's one fix. The other, more police patrols would be better. If you shut the parks they will only go somewhere else."

Jakey Rollin (good name) reminisced: "On one occasion youths were found drinking alcohol. This was seized and appropriate action taken in respect of the youths. Why are the parks open anyway? Who got the seized booze? In Oor Wullie and The Broons there was always a 'parkie' who would chase Wullie, Soapy and co and 'gie them a skelp'. Also, PC Murdoch was never off duty and woe betide anyone he caught in the park after dark! Maybe if the youths of today read more annuals that would keep them in."

Robert Baxter stood up for youth claiming: "There's little enough sense of freedom about these days, that's the purpose of a park, to not lose our sense of nature as a physical species. If we deprive people of the use of a park during the night it's a huge great chunk of "freedom" gone. There has to be a stand against it,"

That's what I like to see. My readers making a stand.

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