Bah!
My birthday is less than a fortnight away. Guees which one?
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Anonymous Coward writes: "Have you looked at Switzerland? [...] Total number of gun deaths? so low that official statistics are not kept because they know how to use them and be responsible."
Up to a point, Lord Copper. See, for example, http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,480545,00.html The Schnibbles are worried enough about their citizens shooting each other that they have recently banned the keeping of military ammunition at home.
Who said:
"We all suffer crime, the poorest and most vulnerable most of all, it is the duty of the government to protect them. But we can make choices in spending too. And instead of wasting hundreds of millions of pounds on compulsory ID cards as the Tory Right demand, let that money provide thousands of extra police officers on the beat in our local communities."
Time to storm the Winter Palace, comrades.
IIRC 'twas that well-known defender of freedom Vladimir Ilich Lenin who said "The purpose of terrorism is to terrorise". And a dictionary I consulted earlier defines "to terrorise" as "to fill with terror or anxiety; scare". And since the only outcome of this latest spewing of bollocks from the worthless snivellers at the Westminster Gasworks is to scare a few more people, why isn't the Smith woman already locked up in Holloway, married to the person with the most cigarettes?
Grrrr! I really am quite worked up about this.
...and I were discussing this the other week while driving from mid-Wales in the general direction of Londonton (at 61 mpg in my modest-sized diesel estate). I wondered why Toyota hadn't gone the whole hog and fitted the Pious with a diseasel engine instead of a petrol. Pete, who has recently forked out his hard-earned on a Pious, quoted chapter and verse of Toyota's spin, which boiled down to "it wouldn't work properly".
Cynic that I am, I remarked that the /real/ reason was that USAnians don't do diesel.
"A helpline has been set up to address any concerns from Whipps Cross University Hospital patients - this will be open tomorrow from 10am to 3pm (Friday 11 November)."
On an item posted to their website on January 10th. If they don't know when "tomorrow" is, one can hardly expect them to keep track of confidential data, and I hope to $DEITY that I never require hospital treatment while at home
...for the fact that the P.O.S. HP Laserjet 8100 which I am obliged to hit with a hammer a Several of times a day rarely keeps running long enough to fall victim to this.
When I rule the world, I will track down every single HP printer designer who ever lived, forcibly relocate them to Edmonton and feed them only with old toner cartridges and dead dogs.
...would be if the vendor is still allowed access to ebay. A certain person whom I shall not name for legal reasons has been thrown off ebay for all eternity for the heinous crime of attempting to sell two discs containing twenty-five million names and addresses, property of HMRC.
Many years ago I toiled in the service of a bank. One day a mad Irishman and a pile of tape boxes combined to switch off the entire data centre at around five pm on a weekday. It took half a dozen BOFHs, a shedload of support and development bods and a Field Circus bloke all night and half the next day to get things back to where they'd been before Dave had his attack of brain fade.
The next day the Boss issued an edict that tape boxes were not to be stacked more than two high, and arranged for a mollyguard to be fitted to the Big Red Switch...
My current employer has a self-appraisal system. The temptation to make up a load of old toot is this: strong. However, it's been buried at the bottom of my drawer for four months and no-one has yet noticed...
In a previous life, we had a form to fill in. Lots and lots of questions written in USAnian mgt-speak: Has the employee leveraged fully resources to improve customer-directed focus? Answers along the lines of "I'm a BOFH, I've been here five years and I've never even /seen/ a customer" cut no ice with the HR Droids, who ran the Gestapo a close second in their combination of stubbornness and bureaucracy.
Finally I escaped; fittingly the company was Borged by a German outfit.
Surely Heather Mills, who post-Macca has shown herself to be a fruitbat of the first order, should be up there with the likes of Jade Goody? The day I pay any attention to an asymmetric bint lecturing me about the calumny of eating meat from the dubious moral high ground that is a bloody great 4x4 is the day you prise the BACON sandwich from my cold dead hand.
Thank you, I feel better now.
Why?
Assuming it's the Leftpondian wee-wee, it's the only stuff I've ever drunk[1] which gets you from "sober" to "hung-over" without an intermediate phase of "pissed". Will no-one put a stop to this madness?
1 - small-town Leftpondia after Saturday night closing time, and someone else had bought the filthy muck
"so is that why the us army uses console games ? "
Which seems to teach them how to blow up civilians and soldiers on their own side. Ah, what the hell, they can always press "Reset" and start again, er, hang on...
Anyway, foopball is a game for overpaid ponces and the worse England does at it, the less likely we, the populace, are to be confronted at every turn of our newspaper (remember them?) page by the doings of a pack of vacuous oaves with bad haircuts and their moronic squealing wives and girlfriends. This, boys and girls, can only be a Good Thing.
...when I was a small Mr Larrington, this sort of thing went on all the time at my skool. Never did me any $&*()%^** NO CARRIER
I'm sure it wouldn't have been beyond the wit of man to have all present searched, their phones examined and the owner of the one with the "Missed Call" wossname flashing balefully to be taken out behind the bins and given a good kicking, but judges the world over are renowned for their tenuous grip on reality...