
El Pibe
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The Cherry Tree official opening Thursday 30th August
El Pibe replied to chrisharvey's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
I shall,take you at your word mr Harvey and give it a go then. -
"Well the majority of violent crime, including murder is not carried out with a firearm in the UK." Well that's rather the point, but your report encourages the reader to infer an inverse proportionality between gun ownership and violent crime which is total nonsense.
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I have been reading it, and as H says it is absolutely ridden with logical fallacies. Firstly you say you shouldn't compare the UK and the USA but that's a much more valid comparison than the study's chosen basis which is to compare it with the Eastern Bloc countries with their high levels of corruption and quasi statified criminal elements. I'd be also interested to see if statistics from Chechnya and Ossetia make it in there. I think I decided to give up on the report after the thoroughly disingenuous ?data on fire‐ arms ownership by constabulary area in England,? like data from the United States, show ?a negative correlation,?10 that is, ?where firearms are most dense violent crime rates are lowest, and where guns are least dense violent crime rates are high‐ est.? In fact firearms incidents are highest in the rural areas with the greatest concentration of guns, but yes, violent crime is way higher in urban areas with lower firearms ownership. That's really only one step short of an outright lie.
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There you go, the old Canada myth again. A gun is an inanimate object. Genius, so is a banana but not one associated with high murder rates. Yes inequality is an important factor but guns let any old Tom dick or Harry point an inanimate object at someone and make them dead.
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here it is
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Jeremy i linked to an incredibly comprehensive PDF on murder and firearm stats the last time we had this discussion. The was a concrete causality between high gun ownership and high murder rates and I think I mentioned how poor blowing your brains out was as cries for help go. Yes gun control countries had a much higher propoortion of killings with pointy things but put very bluntly (baddam tish) low gun ownership = lower murder rate. I'll have a look later, is it in the drawing room somewhere?
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Yeah, like Chairman of the Central Committee;-P
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deaths per 1,000,000 by firearms anually England/Wales homicide = 0.7 suicide = 3.3 unintended = 0.1 Switzerland homicide = 5.8 suicide = 56 unintended = 1.3 USA homicide = 41 suicide = 57 unintended = 2.3
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It's communism in action in tell you!!!
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"it is all to do with the tactics and plays rather than the spectacle itself" Indeed it is but even understanding it can't make it interesting for me, sport needs some spectacle. It's too stop-starty. Cricket may go on for ages, but there's always something going on and when there isn't you get to quaff champagne. I've always found it ironic that a society hooked on it's own myths about indivuslism and heroes has, as its main national sport, a game that is basically the ultimate team game where everybody has an incredibly limited role that fits into a machine. Hell they don't even have proper substitutions but entire different line-ups for different plays and whether you're defending or attacking, or kicking.
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The Cherry Tree official opening Thursday 30th August
El Pibe replied to chrisharvey's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
"can't understand why the old owner is still milling around there" Oh dear, that's enough for me to carry on with my policy of NTV. Pity. -
I'd end it all now if I were you woodrot.
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monday's.......? I get it insofar as I used to play John Madden's NFL 92 alot, but that was just to annoy my uber competitive sports geek flatmate by beating him. I found the game tedious* when playing it in five minute quarters on the megadrive. THe real thing makes me lose the will to live. It's not knee-jerk anti-americanism either, I really like baseball. *weirdly as incarnations have become ever more realistic the entertainment value has dropped off accordingly. THe latest games are unplayably boring.
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I chuckled at the guardian tv review (though I'm sure grace dent would have been funnier) "There's no sign of Pamela, probably for the best. She ? Victoria Principal ? was the first woman I ever really loved, and it might not be the same. But here's Sue Ellen (Linda Gray), looking ? good, though a bit weird. She's not saying much, and when she does her face doesn't move, as if she's been cryogenically frozen from the neck upwards and they don't totally thaw her out for filming in case she wilts, or her face explodes into a cloud of dust. And JR ? Larry Hagman ? himself. Is that really him, sitting in that chair? Or Father Jack? He's clinically depressed, says the nurse in the home. Clinically deceased, I'd say. Well, perhaps there's the tiniest flicker in those eyes, under those magnificent silver bushes, but it hardly looks like the oil-fired furnace that was the driving force of this show for 13 years."
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I actually think artillery is the best deterrent. If anyone is even thinking about stealing from me I'll shell the entire neighberhood they come from.
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I've been burgled by a balaclava clad man. On noticing the occupants stirring he casually left the house before we had a chance to get our wits about us, though I suppose if I'd really wanted a confrontation I could have chased him down the street to try and corner him for a fight, you know, maybe escalated it to life or death for one of us with a kitchen knife. I can't say I felt especially violated or threatened. He got away with a coat and a work laptop. The coat was long in the tooth but cancelling a couple of cards in the wallet was a minor inconvenience. A bloody, painful death would have probably been a bit much as punishments went.
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We've got a handy new player. Andy Carrol, played very well before fulfiling the long west ham tradition of immediately getting crocked. Maybe Liverpool need someone like him?
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THere's a fantastic singing alphabet app that my 2 year old loves and it gently introduces the phonics. Actually I suspect it's really me who loves it http://www.bestkidsapps.com/ages-0-4/the-singing-alphabet/
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I have to admit to really enjoying clay pigeon shooting, but I'd never keep a gun in the house.
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I'm bored of you all now. People who harp on about wanting to shoot intruders tend to be demented types hoping to get away with murder, whereas normal people, even staring death in the face in war tend to shoot to miss rather than kill your fellow man. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.L.A._Marshall#World_War_II_combat_historian So which are you people, spineless bravado or psycopath?
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The Cherry Tree official opening Thursday 30th August
El Pibe replied to chrisharvey's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
It's a world gone mad I tell ya!! -
From beeb freeview checker: Crystal Palace - No problems - Alexandra Palace - No problems - No planned maintenance either, channels being transmitted http://www.digitaluk.co.uk/postcodechecker/main/display/detailed/se229ea/NA/0 Are you in a dip? Could be you're vulnerable to atmospheric interference, THere is high pressure over the uk at the mo http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/surface_pressure.html http://www.stevelarkins.freeuk.com/tv_interference.htm
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The Cherry Tree official opening Thursday 30th August
El Pibe replied to chrisharvey's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
I'm glad I'm not the only one who did a double take at that!! -
Steve Bruce's choice best by a country mile!!
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