Tuesday, July 07, 2009
Wikiunreliability
Monday, July 06, 2009
Monday, it must be Monday
Sunday, July 05, 2009
Little comment on a non-story
nigga
1. The spelling, pronounciation, meaning and usage of the word has been changed to convey a sense of pride and defiance, thereby removing the racial distinctness of the original term. Although similar in spelling and pronounciation to the original, its meaning is completely different. The word "nigga", when used between close friends, is as positive as the word "nigger" is negative. In general, whites should avoid use of the term, even in a positive sense, unless they are absolutely certain it will not be taken as derogatory.
Saturday, July 04, 2009
God is Love, and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God
"Our stand has always been very clear. The church has no serious objection to decriminalising homosexuality between consenting adults, the church has never considered homosexuals as criminals," said Father Emanuel.
"But the church does not approve of this behaviour. It doesn't consider it natural, ethical, or moral," he said.
Okay - I can live with that. The traditional interpretation of Christianity does not accept homosexuality but this appears to be a case of "love the sinner, hate the sin" - a perfectly rational position to take (even though I personally disagree with it - but then I am not a traditionalist Catholic, or any sort of Roman Catholic for that matter.) But here:
"This is absolutely wrong. We will not accept any such law," Ahmed Bukhari told the AFP news agency
Thursday, July 02, 2009
Why's this so hard?
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Adopts sinister voice: "I'm Back"
MSN: As such, the chase became a textbook 'where-were-you?' moment.
Where was I? Haven't a fucking clue.
Death of Diana, August 31st, 1997
MSN: It being a Sunday, virtually the entire nation was having a lie-in.
S-E : Ah, yes, this could actually individually identify me (if there is a copy of the Duty Officer list still knocking around.) So let's just settle for "by an Aroflex terminal, having opened the safe, wondering how much trouble being really fucking useless at drill was going to get me in to during the planning of the state funeral". Which, thankfully, never happened.
MSN: It being a Tuesday, this meant that the first report of it on British television occurred at 5pm in an edition of the BBC weekday children’s programme Newsround.
S-E: Britannia Royal Naval College. Basic Training. Far, far too busy to worry about anything else.
Resignation of Thatcher, November 22nd, 1990
MSN: Even so, for those at work or school during the day, word of mouth had to make do until a television set could be found.
England v West Germany, July 4th, 1990
MSN: It was said even Princess Diana, attending a social function in London, was being kept in touch of the score by telephone.
S-E: Professional football? Does anybody seriously give a fuck? Anyway, I thought she was the Princess of Wales?
Queen Elizabeth's Coronation, June 2nd, 1953
MSN: The coronation was the first event in British history to be seen by a mass audience on the small screen.
Iranian Embassy siege, May 5th, 1980
MSN: Their dramatic rescue attempt took place in full view of the ITN cameras. Footage, however, was not broadcast live.
S-E: I probably did watch this. Can't really remember though.
September 11th, 2001
MSN: It was a weekday afternoon, so most people didn’t see pictures of the attacks until they got home from school or work.
Assassination of JFK, November 22nd, 1963
MSN: It wasn’t until 11pm that the BBC was sufficiently organised to broadcast a proper tribute programme.
So, not really 'The whole world turning on the TV' at all. Or is it just me?
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Mummy, When I Grow Up, I Want to be a Stasi Informer.
So perhaps the occasional outing is just the level of control that the blogging community needs.
SO where does Murdoch get these stuck in a rut cunts from?
Three summers ago, while on work experience at The Sunday Times, I wrote a story outing a sex blogger, Zoe Margolis, who had just turned her online collection of back-alley exploits into a book titled Girl with a One Track Mind. The writer’s anonymity was used as a marketing gimmick and the piece was the first high-profile “exposé” of an online writer’s anonymity; I promptly became public enemy No 1 in the blogosphere.
Hmm, investigative
Nothing much here, just lots of shit about too expensive houses and scummy ex-Soviets. But, here, we have it. What the fuck is wrong with Oxford these days?
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Musings of a late evening
Friday, June 05, 2009
Voting
Thursday, June 04, 2009
BBC: Utter Cunts
Sunday, May 31, 2009
There is a reason the law was written that way!
Under the new rules universities are expected to monitor whether overseas students really attend their courses.
The Home Office said such things were part of their normal duty of care.
Indeed and undoubtedly. In fact:
Educational institutions have a duty of care to all their students and checking that they are attending and making progress in their studies is part of that responsibility.
The records we expect education providers to keep are those which most will keep for their own purposes anyway.
Which is exactly why the Data Protection Act 1998 states (Schedule 1, s2):
Personal data shall be obtained only for one or more specified and lawful purposes, and shall not be further processed in any manner incompatible with that purpose or those purposes.
So uni's can check whether you are attending lectures for the purposes of laughing at you when you fail your exams. I'll even allow them using the attendance register to check on people who are claiming grants, student allowances or loans.
So would you just fuck off and watch your boss's hubby's p0rn collection, you bunch of fascist cunts.
Gordon Brown is a sanctimonious, hypocritical cunt.
The event was intended for prime ministers and presidents rather than royals, Mr Brown added.
"But if the queen wanted to attend these events or if any member of the royal family wanted to attend these events, I would make that possible," he said.
So what the fuckup meant was that the event was intended for Heads of State and Heads of Government. Oh, and I wonder who the Head of State is in Brown's Britain. Actually, I'm scared to ask, just in case the answer comes back "Peter Mandelson".
French officials said the Queen was welcome and the UK government was responsible for deciding who should attend what was "primarily a Franco-American ceremony".
Friday, May 29, 2009
An Utterly Stupid BBC News Headline
Mosquitoes 'resist malaria drugs'
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Oi, Hang on a Minute
The demonstration at The Mound in Edinburgh on Saturday was led by Pastor Jack Bell of the Zion Baptist Church in Glasgow.
"We are absolutely opposed to that on the basis of what God has to say about homosexuality in the Bible," he said.
On Saturday night the 8th December, Zion Baptist Church lead by their Assistant Pastor Mr Bell, conducted a protest against the satanic influence and music of Marilyn Manson at the Braehead Arena, Glasgow."
Smirks!



