Korea's a strange old place. Up in the north you've got Kim Jong-il playing around with Nukes and generally annoying the fuck out of America. While in the south you seem to be able to rent inflatable women by the hour!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/13/korean_legal_poser/
The world has officially gone mad. A 14 year old girl, Codie Stott, has been arrested for asking to sit with English speaking pupils rather than a bunch of non-English speaking Asian pupils. What has the world come to when a child is arrested for making such a simple request as to ask to sit with people who she can communicate with. The teacher that called the police should be fired and charged with wasting police time, it's ridiculous.
This is ENGLAND, where we speak ENGLISH... what are non-English speakers doing in English schools anyway? Slowing down the learning of the majority of pupils that's what! I'm all for the passing of a law making speaking English a mandatory requirement for entry in the publicly funded school system. In fact, speaking English should be mandatory for anyone wanting to come and settle in this country.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=410150&in_page_id=1770
http://www.metro.co.uk/home/article.html?in_article_id=21147&in_page_id=1
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23370623-details/Schoolgirl+arrested+for+refusing+to+study+with+non-English+pupils/article.do
http://www.itv.com/news/britain_e9065a5ba412b11d557d3f49f3b233f7.html
http://www.bnp.org.uk/news_detail.php?newsId=1181
I'm beginning the think that Muslims are very insecure and spend most of their lives looking for things that they could be insulted by. Not a day goes by in the UK without some religous nut coming out and saying that the Muslim community is being picked on. Well, that maybe is true... it's because (and listen very carefully) YOU'RE BEING ASKED TO CONFORM TO TRADITIONAL BRITISH VALUES AND STANDARDS. The Muslim community in the UK is a very small percentage of the British population (about 2.7%), and the other 97.3% is getting pretty pissed off with your complaining... don't like the British way of life? Well, fuck off to a country that operates according to your beliefs. The British people are very tolerant of other cultures, but when a particular group seems to take offence at almost everything we lose our patience.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5411954.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6036377.stm
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/11/apple_ny_store/
http://www.mcb.org.uk/media/presstext.php?ann_id=223
http://www.mcb.org.uk/media/presstext.php?ann_id=226
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyllands-Posten_Muhammad_cartoons_controversy
So here I am, sitting down going through my email, when I spot a bit of spam that didn't get filtered in the same way hundreds of other items do every day. This item came directly from Sun's network (btmx1.sun.com) - not normally a place where I'd expect to get spam from. Upon further examination, it looks like the source machine is 150.143.60.6 - an address owned by "Syntegra (USA), Inc." - who are (as a quick trip to http://www.syntegra.com/ will tell you) BT. What's more embarrasing for Sun is that it looks to have come from a Windows machine... something that I thought was highly discouraged within Sun.
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Following revelations that the Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany admitted telling a bunch of lies, there has been violent protests in Budapest. So for once I'm kinda glad that Tony Blair doesn't admit to lying about:
- WMD in Iraq
- NHS statistics
- School results
- "Cash for honours"
- Party funding
- ...and everything else that comes out when his lips move.
So Tony, for the sake of our country, please keep quiet about all of your lies. Our cities are in a bad enough state as it is.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5359250.stm
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-13543161,00.html
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1115803,00.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/03/31/nblair131.xml
http://education.guardian.co.uk/alevels2003/story/0,,1019084,00.html
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/funding/comment/0,,1776464,00.html
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/michael_white/2006/07/levygate_what_are_the_cops_up.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/931708.stm
How big's you lap? More to the point, what's the ideal size for a laptop? I've got a 17" Powerbook which is wonderful when sitting on a desk, but just a little too big to carry around all day. But those crazy people at Dell have gone completely mad... a 20" laptop!
http://laptopmag.com/Features/Attack-of-the-20-inch-Notebook.htm
Couple of days ago the Pope quoted some 14th century emperor saying that everything the Prophet Muhammad brought was evil "such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached".
Well, this pissed off a whole bunch of Muslims... who then went and firebombed a bunch of churches in the West Bank.
The Pope appeared at mass on Sunday saying "See, told you so!"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5353208.stm
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/09/17/somalia.nun.reut/index.html
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Mujahedeen_Army_issues_threat_of_attack_on_Vatican_City
We are so lucky that George Clooney exists in this world, if it was not for his protesting about genocide in Darfur, who knows, thousands of people would have died. Hold on, wait a minute, thousands of people have died... that must mean... yes, folks, it's hard to admit, but nobody cares about the opinions of actors!
When more than 100 celebrities sent a letter to George Bush in 2002 protesting against the Iraq war, did he take much notice? No, of course he didn't, he probably laughed so hard his cowboy hat fell off and he accidentally invaded another (oil rich) country.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/showbiz/2561133.stm
When Sean Penn visited Baghdad to highlight the suffering of the Iraqi people, did it change the opinions of the world's polititians? No, of course if didn't... but it got him in the press (wonder what film he was about to star in).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2577981.stm
But wait a minute, surely someone with as much respect as the UK's Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion, can change things through the medium of poetry... don't make me piss myself laughing!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/2641477.stm
I just wish movie stars, musicians, and other so called celebrities just shut up and get on with what they're good at, rather than trying to change the world... Most of the world doesn't care what you think, and the parts of the world you're talking about have never heard of you. In an effort to cut down on this in the future, there should be a law passed that for a celebrity to have an opinion on a subject, they must experience whatever it is they're complaining about first hand. So, for Clooney to complain about Darfur, we should send him out there for a couple of months... just George, a camera, and a notepad... then when, or rather if, he comes back, maybe I'd listen to him.
The very real problem in Darfur is that the likes of China, Russia, Belarus, and even France are supplying them with arms. Genocides are a little harder to pull off with no weapons.
http://www.axisglobe.com/article.asp?article=230
http://www.hrw.org/reports/2003/sudan1103/26.htm
http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAFR541392004
http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.do?id=28923B364DFF998B85256F4E005C3649
Great news for David Walliams and Matt Lucas - looks like they're off to Hollywood to make a "Little Britain" film. The two of them have also signed a deal to produce a US version of Little Britain for HBO.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5348188.stm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/littlebritain/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/breakfast/5175712.stm
  
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