snafu…I saw an article last week about some ex druggy type who had taken to internet vigilantism….he and his junkie mates would film them and give the evidence to police…the ex scag-heads can claim they were ‘turning their lives around’…take their minds off their own immorality for five minutes…
Um, that isn’t how the Daily Mail described them! You’d think they’d have mentioned it…
snafuCareful Bob, you could end up being ignored by John if you continue being ‘wrong’!
snafuYes as Leninists who loathed the Russian church showed.
One example, not recent, whereas we can point to ISIS in Iraq, the Rwanda genocides or anything involving Israel and the Palestinians as better contemporary illustrations of religions in conflict.
snafuIf my pax don’t want to wear seatbelts then I tell them to get out and walk or call a cab, as I will not drive them…
Is it still the case that passengers in taxis are not required to wear seatbelts?
I find it strange that although children are required to sit in a child seat or on a booster seat in a private vehicle, that is not the case in taxis or cabs…
Or buses!
snafuI acknowledge that there was some chatter about legal compulsion but it was quietly shelved. Education did the trick.
Did it? Not everywhere though…
Children under the age of 14 will have to wear a helmet when cycling after a new law came into force in Jersey.
The legislation was originally approved in July but the Transport and Technical Services Department decided to delay its introduction until October.
The department says this was to give parents time to buy helmets that met international standards…
‘Spect the bit about international standards will grate on you a bit…;o)
And most of you act like sheep !
You might find that useful when you make your attempt at getting into power.
For the umpteenth time, the seatbelt law affects only the individual.
It didn’t in that road safety advert Julie knew her killer – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKHY69AFstE
How about a law that means you can get fined if you don’t tie your shoelaces? I tie my laces so that I don’t fall and break my nose….
Don’t believe there is a statistic to qualify any requirement here.
Mind you, it would have been amusing to have continued the whole clunk, click, every trip thing with Jimmy Saville – the punishment being the threat of being locked up with him if you didn’t: such a shame he snuffed it when he did…
And I was always amused with having to wear a hard hat on site – most of the time, if anything heavy being demolished or built was to fall on you, its only purpose would be to preserve enough of your skull for a quick identification to be made.
snafuI’m not aware of any concerted move by atheists to kill believers.
…Believers of one credo killing believers of another, though, that is utterly commonplace.
snafuUnfortunately there is a form of segregation involved – the people who watch daytime reality ‘horror’ tend to be younger than what appears to be the usual phone-in audience on local radio (other than those who appear to phone from work). This might be shown by a caller I heard recently mentioning Rhodesia and Nyasaland as though they were current countries (Rhodesia became Zimbabwe in 1980, and Nyasaland became Malawi in 1964), in a chat about safari holidays.
snafuYet another non-story…
Yep, whatever you say Edgar. Move along, nothing to see here…(!)
While i have no sympathy for him it doesn’t sit well with me the way it happened.
Thank you for showing that others don’t have to agree with the likes of the haters (above) – the story was created by that journalist purely to be reported by him for money, there has been no indication that the MP had any previous history in this ‘field’.
It’s easy to point the finger at journalists or papers, but idiot MPs like this guy leave themselves open to blackmail, subversion or “persuasion”, no sympathy whatsoever.
Yet you would agree that if a man tried to convince a young teenager to send them a naked ‘selfie’ then that would be abuse, yes? Why should a man, journalist or not, pretending to be a woman, get away with leading another man on in a sexual fashion, MP or not?
No journalist should be allowed to set up a ‘honey trap’. Report facts by all means but do not create falsehoods.
Totally! Just the facts, as Joe Friday used to say (on Dragnet).
My own belief is that the journalist has made a grave mistake with his so called freedom and may force the government to enact its politically draconian measures. For this we will all pay dearly as no one will be able to hold our masters to account. Beware what you wish for and be ready for any unintended consequences that flow from those decisions.
True. For the sake of a few quid and an unseated Tory MP he has created trouble for the industry which could strengthen the governments hand.
snafuMy grandmother, to the end of her driving career (she died with Alzheimer’s disease, which took away her beloved license), refused to wear a seatbelt when a strapped-in friend burned to death after an accident. Believing that cars don’t behave as they do in Hollywood movies I prefer to take my chances with a seatbelt…
Anyone not want to wear a crash helmet on a motorbike?
snafuResult- only the 1st bomb of the stick hit centre of the runway so as was mentioned 1/2 second later and it would all have been for nothing.
I’ve had at least three copies of Don’t cry for me, Sergeant-Major by Robert McGowan and Jeremy Hands. So popular is it that one copy was stolen (maybe by one of my brothers) and another loaned to a work mate but never returned; luckily I have two copies at the moment, although I’d better warn my father that he’d better not consider nicking the copy he’s borrowed…
Anyway, it is a fantastic view of the Falklands operation by two reporters who travelled with the troops there and back again. One story from it involved a squaddie receiving a letter from home: apparently his younger brother went to an airshow where a Vulcan imitated a Black Buck raid on Port Stanley. The squaddie, having become aware that only one bomb had actually hit the runway, writes back asking how many spectators were killed…
A really good read and one I can heartily recommend, as is the follow up – Try Not To Laugh, Sergeant Major, which does a similar job with an exercise in Europe involving the British Army Of the Rhine (again full of funny stories, like a convoy held up by a Gurkha, on guard, who had been dropped off in the middle of a road and and took it literally when told not to move by his officer…) and their families.
snafuListening to local radio phone-ins is fantastic for those who want a laugh.
Apparently anyone who takes their tax disc off display, from their windscreen, has something to hide and needs to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law!
(In the same show: “I’m not saying that all Muslims should be locked away in prison camps, but…” and “prepaid benefits cards should only be allowed to be used for the purpose of basic foodstuffs and any attempt to purchase a luxury item should see a percentage reduction deducted from the following weeks allowance so that they understand the value of money…“. I tell you, local radio phone-ins are an excellent way to hear the base fears and xenophobic tendencies of your generic Little Englanders!)
snafuCan someone explain why the wailing wall has a segregated area for women?
Because women wailing is something men don’t want to hear? Something for the Westboro Baptists to protest about, I imagine…
What does it matter? The wall won’t care one way or another, and any passing deity that exists – which they don’t ;o) – in the locality will have better things to do than take the cries of wall visitors into account when wondering what to do that day.
snafuMost here know my opinions on Clarkson.
Indeed, me too, yet while I hate to drag myself into a Top Gear thread…for what reason did they feel the need to ship three old cars (presumably) from Britain to South America? Are there no old cars in Argentina, which would have been cheaper to buy and dispose of after filming was finished?
I have to say that Clarkson and co have brought it upon themselves: their previous actions (I’m guessing that Top Gear is broadcast in Argentina) cause people to believe the kind of stupidity that makes coincidence seem unlikely. Is it actually possible that, for example, the whole episode would have gone off without some quip about the Falklands war because that is the sort of thing that you can imagine them joking about, complete with knowing glances to the camera and their trademark schoolboy smirks…
snafuAtheism was formerly the province of humanity’s finest minds. Today it is the province of intellectual thugs, short-sighted reactionaries, and many of the other dimmer lights of our species.
You’ve never heard of the Westboro Baptist Church then? A thoroughly disagreeable bunch of all-American reprobates you couldn’t hope to meet that aren’t murderous Middle Eastern religious extremists.
Their objectionable qualities are manifested through their atheism, however: their militancy, intolerance, and short-sightedness bordering on wilful incomprehension.
And you cannot prove the existence of any deity whilst insisting that atheists are militant, intolerant and short sighted…
And yet, atheists instead spend their time trawling through holy texts in order to attack them with modern physics and evolutionary theory…
Personally I spend quite a bit of time reading non fiction, and a little fiction as well – but nothing as crazy as…’holy texts’. Maybe some practise the Sun Tzu theory of know your enemy.
snafuGod cannot be proven to exist or not exist.
How fortunate for you; you can display fanatical devotion to something that will never respond, never tell you that what you are doing is right or wrong, and still claim that those who do not follow the ‘teachings’ of your deity’s representatives are misguided and deserve death. Or is that Islamic State?
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