Re: Very naive people
With - well, with a currently undefined level of respect, but a level I hold sincerely, er - may I disagree?
"no one really cares about your worthless arse unless you are a crim"
OK. Again, if I may, even assuming I _am_ in fact a 'crim', and not one whose only crime is against the English language (now watch the gremlins make me put errors all over this post) - someone was interested in my worthless arse before I was one. Because to _be_ one I had to be convicted in a court of law. And to find myself in that court, there had to be some form of investigation. Of, um, my worthless arse. And since I hadn't been found guilty at the time, I wasn't actually a crim then.
Second, but sticking with said investigation, either some gentle-person of the law got extremely lucky, or more worthless arses than mine were at least looked at (stop sniggering at the back, Jones Minor) prior to someone becoming convinced it woz me wot done it. So all those other worthless arses, who weren't crims, were at least of interest for a while. And that's ignoring the idea that someone @$*^#^ up, and it actually wasn't me wot done it, but I got _done_ for it.
Third, we can consider all the insurance companies wanting to know how they can get out of paying me, the marketing companies who want to tell people with things I don't want that I really, really want to buy them, and politicians and the like who want to find out if I'm going to vote for them at the next election. Because obviously, if I'm not, I must be a crim, right?
Of course, I'm probably talking rubbish. After all, I'm an Idiot...