Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Killer stabbing in prison

With the news that two of the men sentenced to life imprisonment (hah) for the murder of Pc Sharon Beshenivsky have been charged with stabbing a fellow inmate , I continue to wonder if I am the only sane person left in the world.
 
Surely, although these men are clearly both dangerous individually, when together they are especially so? Why are they allowed to have contact with one another that this should happen - in fact, why are they even in the same prison? I know that there's just a tiny bit of overcrowding in our prison system at present (well that's an understatement), but come on. There must be some really simple, but sensible reason for this. No?

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Thursday, August 16, 2007

Why the climate change protestors will fail

It's so shockingly simple, I'm surprised that none of the protestors themselves have worked it out. Well, ok, I'm not, since they're all stoned pisshead hippies. But I digress.
 
Why will they fail then? Well, two reasons really. One, they're pissing off the media by not letting them have access to the campsite (on a field which they have occupied illegally, I gather). If, as they claim, their primary objective is to raise public awareness and concern over the actually rather serious issue of climate change, then it's a really fucking stupid idea to piss off the press (particularly TV journos) - the number one way in which the public become aware of these issues. What's the point in saying something, if you've got no way of getting it across to people?
 
Second is probably even more basic. If you piss people off, particularly by stopping them head away on holiday, they're not going to be pleased in the fucking slightest. In fact, further than that, they're going to be really really pissed and hostile to you, and by association your cause. It's basic human instinct. It'll be more contempt and indignation than sympathy.
 
And aside from that, they're pretty much preaching to the converted.
 
Twats.

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Monday, August 13, 2007

Clothing censorship

 
Whilst waiting for a bus in his adoptive home town of Peterborough, American David Pratt - a forklift truck driver - was stopped by street wardens and threatened with an £80 fine if he was seen wearing the garment, a novelty t-shirt, again whilst in the city.
 
A gift from his wife whilst in Venice Beach, California, the shirt proclaims "Don't piss me off! I'm running out of places to hide the bodies."
 
Council wardens have told him that wearing the shirt could cause offence, or even incite violence, but Mr Pratt has said that many people laugh at it, and some even stop him and ask where they could get one.
 
He continued, "It's a bummer because I like the shirt but I am trying to get citizenship but if I get a fine I can kiss citizenship goodbye. I really don't see how the wording on my T-shirt could incite violence - it's humour, that's all it is."
 
Now, perhaps this story has been blown up a little by the press - it wouldn't be the first time, let's face it - but come on. It's utterly stupid.

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Espresso overdose

Now this is just brilliant: a 17-year old girl from County Durham was admitted to hospital recently after overdosing on caffeine - she had drunk 7 double-espressos whilst at work in her family's sandwich shop.
 
Thinking that she had had single measures, the girl began laughing and crying for no apparent reason whilst serving customers. Soon, she was hyperventilating, 'drenched' in sweat, suffering heart palpatations and had a fever.
 
Couldn't make it up, could you?

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Tuesday, August 07, 2007

McCann family: delusional

The parents of missing toddler Madeleine McCann are said, 3 months after her abduction from a Portugese holiday apartment, to be "confident" that she will be found alive.
 
Can someone please take their other children into care before it's too late, please?

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