Debians "handy" fstab entries

Having just installed Debian (XFCE) on my "new" SSD (and boy does it fly! AND I get an extra hour out of the battery!) I hit a rather irritating puzzle. Whenever I mounted a USB stick is was mounted without write permissions (rather infuriating as it kind of defeats the purpose of *convenient* portable storage) - Well as you do, I fiddled, googled, swore and then by chance happened to plug in a second USB stick and low and behold that had proper permissions, with a little experimentation I also discovered if I inserted them in a different order the original stick could get proper permissions (providing another had broken permissions) eventually noticed that some where mounted in

/media/usb0

and some where in

/media/<username>/<uuid>

Well what’s going on here two automount deamons fighting? what? Eventually I tracked it down to entries for /media/usb0 etc. in /etc/fstab, now I always thought that fstab was really only for fixed none removable devices that *needed* to be mounted at boot time. Frankly I'd expect better of people from Debian I mean the person who wrote the line to mount /media/usb0 in fstab what, oh what, were they thinking - simply not the place to do it! Fortunately like most issues in Linux once you know what the issue is, fixing it is trivial - in this case simply removing the misconfigured lines in fstab made the issue go away, now everything is happily mounted in

/media/<username>/<uuid>

where it should be and with the permissions it should have....