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That's not such a stupid thing to say. It has the same ability to take 3 days out of your life without you particularly noticing. People are going to learn this.

Agreed, I like stims but tend to have enough of most at some point and get myself to bed either struggling to sleep or knocking myself out with benzos / GBL. Meph however, I did my first all nighter and had to use throughout the next day to keep going. I could have easily kept going on through to the next day too but had a heavy week on so decided to knock myself out.
 
MP Jim Fitzpatrick condemned for 'hijacking' Muslim wedding by bridegroom

Jim Fitzpatrick condemned for 'hijacking' Muslim wedding by bridegroom
A bridegroom has accused Jim Fitzpatrick, the farming minister, of “politically hijacking” his wedding by publicly criticising the traditional Muslim segregation of men and women at the ceremony.


By Caroline Gammell and Martin Beckford
Published: 9:00PM BST 14 Aug 2009

Bodrul Islam said he was “amazed and shocked” that Mr Fitzpatrick had used his wedding to make a political point about radicalisation and social integration.

The 28-year-old said it would have been “common courtesy” for his local MP, who left the ceremony after being told he could not sit with his wife, to respect his religion’s customs.

Mr Islam, who is a Labour supporter, is now calling on Mr Fitzpatrick to apologise for the embarrassment he has caused to his family.

"Please apologise for the fact you have hijacked an innocent wedding,” he said.

Mr Islam married Mahbuba Kamali, a 24 year-old investment banker, in front of 800 guests at a ceremony held in the London Muslim Centre, next to the East London Mosque, on Sunday.

As is common with many Islamic weddings held on mosque premises, the event was segregated with men and women sitting in different rooms.

Mr Fitzpatrick, the MP for Poplar and Canning Town where a third of voters are Muslims, did not know the couple personally but was invited by the bride’s father.

When he and his wife Sheila, a GP, were told by someone outside the couples’ families that they would be separated, they left the event.

The wedding party was keen not to offend Mr Fitzgerald so a local Labour councillor rang him up and invited him to come back, saying there was a table where non-Muslims of different sexes could sit together.

But instead the minister contacted his local newspaper to tell them he was “disappointed” by what had happened.

“We are trying to build social cohesion in a community but this is not the way forward,” he said.

Mr Fitzpatrick blamed a hardline group that has an office at the mosque, the Islamic Forum of Europe, for imposing stricter rules on weddings and claimed he previously had been to many where men and women mixed freely.

But the newlyweds insisted they wanted the wedding ceremony to be split along gender lines.

Mr Islam, the director of a training company, said: “I didn't let the IFE dictate to me or tell me what to do. Neither they, Mr Fitzpatrick, the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia or the Pope has a right to tell me and my wife what to do.

“I am not part of the forum and neither is my wife. We liked the religious service, we paid for it, that's it.”

Speaking after Friday prayers at the mosque in Whitechapel, he went on: “It was my wedding day and if he felt uncomfortable I would have made sure that he sat next to his wife.

“After he left, he was contacted and told he would be able to sit with his wife and apologies were offered if he had taken any offence.

“Completely to my surprise, I woke up to this political quagmire.

“I was amazed and shocked. It was a personal wedding between two families which has been hijacked for political gain.

“What surprised me was that if you have got a personal invite to a wedding then you respect that religious and cultural event. It is common courtesy.”

Mr Fitpatrick said he had never meant to insult Mr Islam and his family and had left the wedding as discreetly as possible to avoid causing a scene.

“It was never my intention to offend Mr Islam and if he thinks that I done so then of course I will apologise to him.

“My beef is not with the family, they are entitled to have a segregated wedding if they want to. My beef is with the IFE and the undue influence they have over the social, cultural and political aspects of the mosque.

“They are the militants of the 21st century, they are religious zealots with their interpretation of the Koran and I think this has now been exposed."

Muhammad Abul Kalam, from the IFE, said they were "baffled" by Mr Fitzpatrick's criticisms.

“The wedding was a private function. The IFE wasn't invited, individual members were asked, but it was nothing to do with us.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...r-hijacking-Muslim-wedding-by-bridegroom.html

What a tool.
 
This is probably the maddest news story I've read in a while

few young people stabbed to death / injured at a house party near dublin last night after a party.. apparently had something to do with a girl / break up thing...


Investigation into fatal Bray stabbing incident continues

CONOR LALLY, Crime Correspondent

Postmortems are to take place today on the bodies of two men found at a house in Bray, Co Wicklow early yesterday.

Gardaí investigating the deaths of the two men in a stabbing incident said two other people who survived are very lucky to be alive.

A source described the sustained knife attack as ¿frenzied¿.

One of the survivors, Dylan Crean, and in whose family home the incident occurred, was stabbed eight times and suffered a punctured lung.

The other survivor was 22-year-old Jennifer Hennigan from Bray, who managed to crawl to a nearby house to raise the alarm despite being stabbed in the back.

When Ms Hennigan was admitted to hospital, staff realised the blade of the knife she had been stabbed with had broken from the handle and was embedded in her back.

The two men who died were both aged 22 years. The Irish Times understands they were both students at Trinity College Dublin.

One of the dead men, Sebastian Crean (22), lived at the house in Cuala Grove, Bray, where the incident took place and is a brother of injured man Dylan Crean.

The other dead man is a 22-year-old with an address in Dalkey, south Dublin.

Senior Garda sources said they were satisfied the Dalkey man had stabbed the three victims, killing Sebastian Crean and injuring his brother Dylan and Ms Hennigan.

The Dalkey man was later found dead in the back garden of the Cuala Grove house.

A knife was found with the body. Gardaí are not looking for anybody else in relation to his death.

Sebastian Crean and the man from Dalkey were out socialising with a group of friends late on Saturday night into yesterday morning.

They were then driven to the Crean family home in the middle-class area of Bray. The men were later joined at the house by Ms Hennigan.

At some point just after 4.30am, the man from Dalkey fatally attacked Sebastian Crean with a knife. He then attacked Ms Hennigan, stabbing her in the back.

Dylan Crean was in bed at the time and ran downstairs when he heard the fatal attack on his brother.

He too was stabbed, eight times, by the 22-year-old Dalkey man.

The man from Dalkey then ran out of the house into the back garden. His body was found during a Garda search yesterday morning.

Ms Hennigan managed to crawl over a wall into a neighbour's house and raised the alarm just before 5am.

She and Dylan Crean were rushed by ambulance to St Vincent's Hospital. They underwent surgery yesterday and are expected to survive.

Gardaí found the remains of Sebastian Crean at the Cuala Grove property, his family home.

The Creans's parents were away on holiday and returned to Ireland yesterday.

They were met off their British flight by a team of gardaí.

The remains of both the deceased men were taken from the scene yesterday for postmortems.

A second woman who was upstairs in the house when the stabbings took place was uninjured.
 
Science ponders a zombie attack...

If zombies actually existed, an attack by them would lead to the collapse of civilisation unless dealt with quickly and aggressively.

That is the conclusion of a mathematical exercise carried out by researchers in Canada.

They say only frequent counter-attacks with increasing force would eradicate the fictional creatures.

The scientific paper is published in a book - Infectious Diseases Modelling Research Progress.

In books, films, video games and folklore, zombies are undead creatures, able to turn the living into other zombies with a bite.

But there is a serious side to the work.

In some respects, a zombie "plague" resembles a lethal rapidly-spreading infection.

My understanding of zombie biology is that if you manage to decapitate a zombie then it's dead forever
Professor Neil Ferguson

In their study, the researchers from the University of Ottawa and Carleton University (also in Ottawa) posed a question: If there was to be a battle between zombies and the living, who would win?

Professor Robert Smith? (the question mark is part of his surname and not a typographical mistake) and colleagues wrote: "We model a zombie attack using biological assumptions based on popular zombie movies.

"We introduce a basic model for zombie infection and illustrate the outcome with numerical solutions."

On his university web page, the mathematics professor at Ottawa University says the question mark distinguishes him from Robert Smith, lead singer of rock band The Cure.

FROM THE TODAY PROGRAMME

More from Today programme

To give the living a fighting chance, the researchers chose "classic" slow-moving zombies as our opponents rather than the nimble, intelligent creatures portrayed in some recent films.

"While we are trying to be as broad as possible in modelling zombies - especially as there are many variables - we have decided not to consider these individuals," the researchers said.

Back for good?

Even so, their analysis revealed that a strategy of capturing or curing the zombies would only put off the inevitable.

In their scientific paper, the authors conclude that humanity's only hope is to "hit them [the undead] hard and hit them often".

They added: "It's imperative that zombies are dealt with quickly or else... we are all in a great deal of trouble."

According to the researchers, the key difference between the zombies and the spread of real infections is that "zombies can come back to life".

But they say that their work has parallels with, for example, the spread of ideas.

The study has been welcomed by one of the world's leading disease specialists, Professor Neil Ferguson, who is one of the UK government's chief advisors on controlling the spread of swine flu.

"The paper considers something that many of us have worried about - particularly in our younger days - of what would be a feasible way of tackling an outbreak of a rapidly spreading zombie infection," said Professor Ferguson, from Imperial College London.

However he thinks that some of the assumptions made in the paper might be unduly alarmist.

"My understanding of zombie biology is that if you manage to decapitate a zombie then it's dead forever. So perhaps they are being a little over-pessimistic when they conclude that zombies might take over a city in three or four days," he said.

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Even scientist know that real zombies shuffle :D
 
Why do we always get things wrong? I know, it's the Brits, the Brits, the Brits

Why do we always get things wrong? I know, it's the Brits, the Brits, the Brits

By Kevin Myers

Thursday August 20 2009

As this State flounders towards collapse again, let's ask: why do we always get things wrong? Sure, I know three reliable answers: the Brits, the Brits and the Brits again.

Indeed, entire university faculties are given over to discourses on Hibernian victimhood, with self-pity intellectualised through the impenetrable verbal mud of Foucault, Derrida and Fanon.

This whingeing school of thought has an academic brand name, Field Day, and a caste of articulate laureates who specialise in the plaints of our woebegone Irish identity. Yet no one considers the possibility that there might be something genetically askew with too many Irish people for us to create an ordered, predictable society that does not fall apart every 15 years or so.

So, has our still-small population been cursed with some genetic fault from our founding population which came from Spain 4,000 years ago? A baleful genetic legacy need not be very large. Any teacher will testify to the impossibly disruptive influence of a minority of pupils. What if the same were true of an entire society?

The enduring success of Fianna Fail, founded by yet another Spaniard, has been the main story of independent Ireland.

Yet this is the party that did its violent best to destroy the State at its outset, and did so again in the 1930s by waging a ruinous economic war with the world's mightiest empire, and our only trading partner. It did bring the State to its knees in the 1950s, attempting to create a Catholic Gaelic paradise, and courted ruin again in 1970 when it turned a blind eye to the formation of the Provisional IRA.

Lo, come the 1980s, and insane Fianna Fail borrowings took us to the brink of penury. And finally, here we are again in the 2000s, now facing Armageddon.

Yet at this very nadir, the Fianna Fail vote of 25pc in Euro elections suggests that a quarter of the population is clinically insane. We don't need psephologists to explain Irish elections. We need psychiatrists. Take Donegal, where the electorate in the 1990s returned one TD who demanded free, universal British television, and another who demanded Brits out: transfers from one got the other elected.

Irrationality is a defining feature of Irish life, yet even to draw attention to this is to attract comparably irrational cries of "anti-Irish". Thus the mental disorder even has its own antibodies which prevent any enquiry into it. "We are victims: we cannot be authors of our many misfortunes, and anyone who says we are is a bigoted anti-national Hibernophobe".

Fine. But why have outbursts of killing been a consistent characteristic of Irish life down the centuries? Why do we have the highest rates of alcoholism, schizophrenia and mental illness in Europe? Why did Ireland have legislation (1817) for public asylums before France (1838) and England (1845)? Why are we so often incapable of planning anything?

Half-cocked, unorganised rebellions have entered Irish mythology as glorious -- though doomed -- blows for freedom. From Silken Thomas's idiotic insurrection through to 1916, it is as if the iron law of consequence does not exist. Historical events almost become almost like a blight of bungalows littered across the countryside. They are all intellectually disconnected; nothing is learnt.

Translate that pathological disregard for the inevitable into the management of a modern society, and you get Anglo-Irish Bank and Sean FitzPatrick, and tiny terraced cottages in Drimnagh being sold in 2007 for €700,000 each.

It took us 20 years to build a few hundred miles of motorway, but without service stations or rest areas; yet Paddy in Britain in the 1950s was building one mile of motorway, complete with service stations, every eight days. In the 1980s, the main Galway-Clifden bus would leave Galway railway station for Clifden five minutes before the train from Dublin arrived. Conversely, the Clifden-Galway bus arrived back at the railway station five minutes after the Dublin-bound train had departed.

In Cork they managed things just a little better. The bus for West Cork left five minutes after the train from Dublin arrived -- however, not from the railway station, but from a bus-terminus half a mile away.

Eamon Coughlan could catch it. Everyone else, tottering with their bags, would collapse, wheezing in its wake, just as it drew away.

Dysfunctionalism is central to this society. Lateness is not seen for what it is, arrogant selfishness, but as a charming eccentricity.

We have the shortest academic year in the EU, yet still allow teachers annually take a further six weeks uncertificated sick leave. So unsurprisingly, we have the highest rate of illiteracy among school-leavers in Europe.

We give gardai special holiday allowances when they're getting pink in Ibiza, to compensate for the tax-free perks they're missing at work. John Lonergan, the governor of Mountjoy prison, probably the worst and most violent jail in Europe, is a darling of the liberal media.

The best-paid presenter on RTE television, Pat Kenny, attempted to obtain, by "adverse possession", a neighbour's land for free, but ended up in court. The state broadcaster is now giving him a TV weekly special on politics, no doubt with searing insights into ethical improbity in high places.

So -- is this what the aboriginal Iberian gene pool did to us? Gratias España - but let's bring on the Poles.

- Kevin Myers

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/c...ts-the-brits-the-brits-the-brits-1864598.html

I like the rantings of Kevin Myers:)
 
David Shayler evicted from National Trust property

The eight squatters either left Hackhurst Farm at Abinger Hammer of their own accord or were dragged away. One male was arrested and taken to Reigate police station.

They were ordered to vacate the farm by Guildford County Court on August 12 and were later issued with an eviction notice giving them until 4pm on Wednesday to leave by themselves.

The court order was ignored and security guards, supported by two police vans filled with officers arrived in Hackhurst Lane at about 10.30am on Thursday to clear the squatters from the site.

Two county court bailiffs dressed in black blocked the way towards the farm at the end of the road.

The first three squatters to be hauled down Hackhurst Lane included Mr Shayler, 43, who now dresses as a woman, calls himself Dolores, and claims on his personal website that he is the Messiah.

"Being the leader they wanted to get me out first. We are now homeless," he said. "We don't have a roof over our heads, but I am Jesus Christ so I don't mind. Basically we will just go and squat somewhere else."

Two women were carried off the site, one other person walked away from the farm and a third woman drove out in a car packed with items the squatters had kept with them.

None of the squatters had attended the court hearing last Wednesday when Judge Robert Reid said he would make an order for the National Trust-owned property to be taken back.

Mr Shayler and the other activists from the Rainbow Gathering said they had a right to stay there under common law.

A National Trust spokeswoman said: "They [the bailiffs] will evict any unknown persons, that's what the warrant says. We're hoping that it goes as smoothly as possible and we are looking forward to getting the property back."

A Surrey Police spokeswoman said officers were there "in a support capacity for any breaches of the peace".

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...ler-evicted-from-National-Trust-property.html

lol:D
 
"Everyone knows about this place," says Jonas, a backpacker who arrived two days earlier. "My mate came to Bolivia last year and he said, 'Route 36 is the best lounge in all of South America.'" It is certainly the most bizarre and brazen. Though cocaine is illegal in Bolivia, Route 36 is fast becoming an essential stop for thousands of tourists who come here every year and happily sample the country's cocaine, which is famous for both its availability, price (around €15 a gram) and purity.

The scene here is peaceful; there seems no fear that anyone will be caught. ("The owner has paid off all the right people," one waiter says with a smile.) A female backpacker from Newcastle slips on to one of the four couches arranged around the table. "We've brought some [cocaine] virgins here. This will be their first time, so we are just rubbing it on their lips.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/19/bolivia-cocaine-bar-route-36
 
Good articles jude :) The Irish ones is very funny =D
I think I may have read about the same place in DITM Ismene, maybe anyway. Sounds like a nice place ;)

I have this to share, which is a bit fucked:

Slimewatch UK: 8inch-thick carpet of algae is clogging South Coast
A vast slick of seaweed is choking the South Coast - threatening wildlife and playing havoc with boats, according to the Environment Agency.

The hot June and washout July created perfect conditions for the floating algae which has grown up to 8in thick in some harbours and estuaries.

Algal blooms are also hitting beaches along the French coast, where rotting seaweed above the high tide mark has released a potentially deadly toxic gas.

Clogged: The algal bloom on the shore of Langstone harbour in Hampshire

While the huge mats of weed on the coastline of Sussex, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight are unlikely to harm people, they pose a serious threat to plants and animals.

One of the worst affected areas is Langstone harbour, between Chichester and Portsmouth.

Locals describe it as one of the worst blooms since the algae began building up back in the 1960s. This summer, the thick slime covers an estimated 926 acres of British harbour.

Other areas badly hit include harbours at Portsmouth, Chichester, and Poole, the Hamble estuary near Southampton and the Medina estuary on the Isle of Wight.

The weed thrives on nutrients released from sewage works and the nitrate-rich fertilisers washed off farmland during heavy rain.

Hundreds of acres of mudflats along estuaries and harbours have now been taken over including Langstone Harbour, Portsmouth (above)

The unnatural level of algae growth is caused by nutrients released by farmland fertilisers and sewerage which cause the seaweed to thrive

The Environment Agency said it is unlikely to be dangerous to humans. Twice-daily tides mean the algae does not have time to dry out and bake - and so does not release toxic gas.

However, when it decays in winter it releases hydrogen sulphide into the water, killing marine life.

As it grows during the summer, the algae uses up vital oxygen in the water, killing shrimp, eel grasses and worms and depleting food for other wildlife such as fish and birds.

Walkers are being advised to avoid badly-affected areas as a precaution if they smell an odour of rotting eggs, since this would indicate poisonous gas is being released from the weed.
Seaweed

Picturesque: The harbour just two months ago before it was taken over by the algae

The Agency's marine expert Dave Lowthion said: 'We haven't been measuring the seaweed from year to year so we can't say how much the amount has gone up, but we had a fairly hot and sunny April and May which is when the stuff starts growing, and we've not had the storms needed to wash the weed away.

'The river flows are high after the wet July so nutrients are likely to have been entering the harbour.' Two species of floating seaweed are clogging up the South Coast - the spaghetti-like enteromorpha and sea lettuce, which has rufflelike fronds.

The Agency is taking samples of the weed and is using aerial mapping to see how it is spreading.

It said water quality is improving in the Solent - thanks to millions of pounds spent improving sewage treatment - and it expects weed levels to decline in the future.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...s-caused-hot-rainy-weather.html#ixzz0Ouz18HRR
 
Fears over new police taser gun

Police could be equipped with a new wireless Taser "shotgun" with a range of more than three times that of current models.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20090824/tuk-fears-over-new-police-taser-gun-dba1618.html

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The Guardian reports the eXtended Range Electronic Projectile (XREP) could be employed by forces in the fight against crime.

The gun is said to fire a series of barbed electrodes delivering a 20-second, 500-volt shock up to 98ft away. Traditional Taser weapons fire two darts attached to wires and have a range of around 25ft.

Taser International, which makes both weapons, said the new model is a "revolutionary" step that will help police immobilise suspects from much further away.

But critics said the weapon could cause "serious injury" to the target's head and face.

Amnesty International UK's arms programme director Oliver Sprague said: ""We're seriously concerned about this latest weapon by Taser. This is effectively a shotgun that fires electric-shock bullets."
 
Yea that could really fuck somebody up if it's not used by an absolute professional and even then it could get fucked up :\
 
Cockney rhyming at cash machines

A cash machine operator has introduced Cockney rhyming slang to a number of its ATMs in east London.

People using Bank Machine's ATMs can opt to have their prompts and options given to them in rhyming slang.

As a result they will be asked to enter their Huckleberry Finn, rather than their Pin, and will have to select how much sausage and mash (cash) they want.

The rhyming slang prompts will be available from five cash machines in east London for three months.

Other rhyming slang prompts people can expect include a speckled hen (£10), while the machine may inform users that it is contacting their rattle and tank, rather than bank.

Ron Delnevo, managing director of Bank Machine, said: "We wanted to introduce something fun and of local interest to our London machines.

"Whilst we expect some residents will visit the machine to just have a butcher's (look), most will be genuinely pleased as this is the first time a financial services provider will have recognised the Cockney language in such a manner."

The ATMs displaying prompts in Cockney are all free to use, although the majority of the group's cash machines charge a £1.50 fee.

How very strange. :D
 
cockney cash machines is pretty cool. it's good to see something a bit light hearted like that, it would do your fucking nut in if you accidentally came across one while steaming tho.

that taser shottie is definitely not cool :(

My understanding was that the cash machines only went into cockney mode if you selected it at the begining, and since there are only 5 of them anyway it seems like it's more of a publicity stunt for the bank to get it's name in the papers. Still an interesting idea though.

Tasers and taser shotguns would be good if they were used instead of guns by specially trained firearm units. Unfortunately they are being used instead of batons and hand to hand by every day police officers who see them as magic work saving 'phaser on stun' type devices. Tasers can do a lot more damage than the fictional star trek phaser set to stun despite the (i suspect intentional) similarity of the name.

Generally the properly trained firearm officers are trained to aim at the centre of mass and not go for fancy headshots like you see in the movies.
 
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4,000 at illegal rave, officer hurt

Wiltshire police were called on Saturday night to farmland near Warminster, in Wiltshire, where ravers had set up sound stages.
Officers were deployed throughout the night to clear the site of up to 4,000 ravers in what is thought to be the biggest rave the force has had to deal with.
A 46-year-old male officer was hit by a car at the site, off the B390 between Knook and Chitterne, and suffered a suspected fractured ankle. He was taken to Salisbury District Hospital where he will undergo surgery.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5hd_hvv2ofR0lCgxjELPIrH2zlvbA

Those crazy druggies are running over cops now!
 
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