Brendan

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Because.

word.

Snorky is this just convoluted way of asking the age old question of, ?Why does such a high percentage of the human race go through life with their heads stuck firmly up their own arses.??

If you want to get technical about it St Patrick?s Day is a Catholic feast day and therefore can be celebrated by anyone who so chooses. It just has special significance in Ireland as he is their Patron. But seriously who cares who wants to celebrate it and why? Does it somehow cause offence to Irish people? Well not to any that I know. Bemusement maybe but not offence.

Is this reserved for reporting annoying little gobshites or can it also be used every time you stand aside for a lady or older person and some self-consumed, titcocking city boy thinks that?s it is his right to push in? Not that I have a personal bugbear about this or anything.

And here's another, http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/business/britain-to-become-bucket%11based-economy-200902171582/

Here is the article quids mentioned. http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/politics-headlines/brown-refuses-to-hand-back-pension-200902271606/

I don?t know so much Tony (Although I wouldn?t claim to be an expert). It may seem that way in London surrounded by cosmopolitan uber liberals but if you head out into the Home Counties you certainly start to encounter higher levels of homophobia.

Yeah the term, hysterical springs to mind doesn?t it.

HeidiHi Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Do you not think it might possibly have stemmed > from religion since the Bible, the Koran and other > holy books usually do state that homosexuality is > wrong and from day one, most countries have been > ruled and still are ruled according to the faith > they follow? So hence why even today though > probably in the modern world we might not be as > religious as we were, it is still innate from > childhood and our churches/mosques that > homosexuality is wrong? No. Go travel around Africa and you will see that homophobia is deeply entrenched in cultures that make no use of the Bible or Koran. It is more of a common human prejudice that existed prior to it ever being formalised for us in the Abrahamic scriptures.

Religion does conveniently give people?s prejudices vindication and serves to further entrench ideologies, yes. But discrimination of all sorts including homophobia are alive and well in communities of all sorts all over the world sans the benefit of Christianity, Islam or whatever other religion to champion their cause.

SeanMacGabhann Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Never mind that the homophobic attitudes ascribed > to that part of the world are largely the result > of the fundamentalist white settlers, Bullshit. Sorry Sean but the rest of your post was all fair enough but suggesting that homophobia is some kind of white invention forced upon people of other races is complete and utter bullshit.

One more for the S.A.S me thinks.

HonaloochieB Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Brendan Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > The tequila, rum, and beer you can have straight > away. The rest we'll have to 'send out' for. > Dermot, if you'd be so kind as to send Sean down > to the Loughborough Junction area for the rest of > the list it'll be taken care of. > Now in case you're thinking I'm indulging Brendan > too much then know that any reference to a person > with the name 'Hunter' I will always associate > with Ian Hunter of (reforming this October) Mott > The Hoople and distinguished solo artist fame. > From me to you Brendan. Enjoy. You are a gentleman sir! And I may be able to sort you out for the Mott the Hoople thing. I?ve got a mate who has a cousin whose brother is in the music business. Ticket distribution specifically. Gav or Baz or Mic or something. Geezer operates out of the West End. No fixed place of business as such, more of a ?take the business to the customers? operation. It?s what punters want these days, convenience. It?s all very cutting-edge. I even heard him say something about diversifying into the internet with some foreign business concerns. Anyway when gig time comes around maybe you scratch my back, I scratch his and he scratches yours as it were. Which is all hopefully more hygienic than it sounds. Now can I smoke one of these Marlboros in here or do I have to go to the beer garden? You know that clutch of white plastic chairs the brewery came and deposited out back between the bins and the window to the men?s bogs.

Fucking hippies.

May I please have two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... Also, a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether, two dozen amyls and an angry looking woman in leather to act as minder/driver for the evening. If it's not too much trouble, cheers mate.

They do after you've kicked them in the shins. As for the obsession with intimidating women in leather, well that is an entirely different set of psychopathologies that I hope don?t have anything to do with having been beaten by men in batman capes.

A black t-shirt and a white scarf, Hazzah you?re a pint of Guinness.

Another point is that one of the reasons we employ a government is to regulate the behaviour of large corporations to make sure they don?t do things like use our data to exploit us. It is not for the government to regulate individuals.

Well it did me plenty of harm thank you very much, mostly in the form of big red and purple welts across my tender teenage arse.

Surely that's just a joke from an Only Fools and Horses episode.

Maggie - The Exploited

Sorry I was 2 posts too late. Ya bastards. Never heard of that song before Jah.

Chelsea Dagger - The Fratellis