Penn & Teller debunk the myth that second smoke kills.
In this video we have Joe Cherner, the rabid antismoking zealot, using every facetious argument in the book as why smokers should be banned from nearly everywhere. It’s almost a religion for him.
He even admits he doesn’t understand the science. Tosspot.
He makes Deborah Arnott from ASH look like a nun, in comparison
I’m glad to see that Olly Cromwell, the Blogger from Bexley has not been incarcerated under section 127 of the communications act.
He has however been sentenced to 80 hours community service, £620 of costs awarded against him, and a watered down restraining order.
On 13 April 2012, Cromwell was convicted under section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 for sending two tweets about Bexley Council, one of which contained a profanity (c***) and a photograph. Previously, Cromwell had been charged with harassment and incitement to commit criminal damage, but those charges were dropped on the basis that there was no evidence and the Prosecution was misconceived.
Despite the Prosecution proposing a custodial sentence, the District Judge decided that Cromwell should receive 80 hours unpaid work. A restraining order was imposed, but vastly reduced from the widely drafted and very restricted order sought by Bexley Council. Notwithstanding his conviction we secured a full costs order for the harassment charge which was thrown out.
That’s what you get when you challenge your council.
George Orwell would be so proud..
The full account is here at Malcolm Knight’s Blog
DAVID CAMERON was visiting a Scottish primary school and he visited one of the classes. They were in the middle of a discussion related to words and their meanings. The teacher asked Mr Cameron if he would like to lead the discussion on the word 'tragedy'. So the illustrious leader asked the class for an example of a 'tragedy'.
A little boy stood up and offered: “If ma best freen, wha lives on a fairm, is playin' in the field an' a tractor rins ower him and kills him, that wid be a tragedy.”
“No,” said David, “that would be an accident.”
A little girl raised her hand: “If a skale bus kerryin' fufty children drove ower a cliff, killing a'b'dy inside, that wid be a tragedy.”
“I'm afraid not”, explained David, “that's what we would call a great loss.”
The room went silent. No other children volunteered. David searched the room. “Isn't there someone here who can give me an example of a tragedy?”
Finally, at the back of the room, wee Johnny raised his hand. In a quiet voice he said: “If a plane kerryin' you and Mr.Clegg wis struck by a freendly fire missile an' blawn tae smithereens, that wid be a tragedy.”
“Fantastic!” exclaimed David, “That's right. And can you tell me why that would be a tragedy?”
“Weel,” says wee Johnny “it his tae be a tragedy, because it certainly widnae be a great loss..... and it probably widnae be a f***ing accident either!”
I was watching the BBC six o’clock news to night and listened to the presenter who covered the story of the grooming and rape of young girls. It was like squeezing blood out of a stone before she would admit that they were of asian origin.
Seems bloody obvious to me.
Nor did the reporter dare say that they would most probably be adherents of the Religion of Peace hate.
After all they don’t appear to follow chinese, buddhist, or sikh, religions by the look of them. (And their names don’t imply it either).
It struck me about the whole piece, that the Beeb’s scared shitless about criticising that particular religious mind-set.
I suspect that these scum who may, or may not be a minority of muslims in the country, probably adhere to this.
Throughout the Muslim world, women are treated as second-class citizens who are inferior to men in terms of intelligence, morals, and faith. This arrangement derives from the Qur'an itself, which states unambiguously: “Men have authority over women because God has made the one superior to the other” (Qur'an 4:34).
The Qur'an likens a woman to a field (tilth), to be used by a man as he wills: “Your women are a tilth for you [to cultivate], so go to your tilth as ye will” (2:223). Such a view is consistent with the teachings of the prophet Muhammad, who emphasized that women were little more than possessions of, and objects of sexual pleasure for, their husbands: “The husband is only obliged to support his wife when she gives herself to him or offers to, meaning she allows him full enjoyment of her person and does not refuse him sex at any time of the night or day.”
Now, to get back to the Beeb’s article they were at great pains to play down that this religious sect was in anyway more prodigious in these crimes than any other group.
What had me pricking my ears up was when the journo stated that only 25% of these crimes were committed by “asians” (I’m not ruling out chinese, indians, etc, completely), but it appears to me every time one of these cases comes up, they are always of the same sub group.
So this group which makes up 5% of the population, in my mind carries out a disproportionate number of attacks on women.
When I look elsewhere I find this.
Of 68 recent convictions for on-street grooming, 59 were of British Pakistani men.
Doesn’t look like 25%, does it?
Make up your own mind. Who’s telling the truth? And why are we kowtowing to a religion that hates us.
Production Notes from the land of "Nothing is too much trouble for those with too much time!":
11,008 photographs were taken for the film.
3,184 photographs made the final cut.
80 Rubik’s Cubes were hired for the shoot.
10 hours to animate 18 frames of the Rubik’s Cube equaliser.
148 Subbuteo men hired for the shoot.
99 Red Balloons by Nena is the vinyl record in the opening sequence.
7 Hungry Hippos were harmed during the making of the film.
160 pick-up sticks are equalised.
1 John Hunt Little Champion Pie Machine was used as the record press.
4 hours to shoot the hungry hippos being minced.
12 photographs per second appear in the film.
6 hours to plan and shoot the camera dolly in on the minced Subbuteo.
32 days were spent animating.
I wouldn’t have the patience or the dexterity. Mind you the chopping bits looked fun.
In April 2012 Copenhagen Phil (Sjællands Symfoniorkester) surprised the passengers in the Copenhagen Metro by playing Griegs Peer Gynt. The flash mob was created in collaboration with Radio Klassisk http://radioklassisk.dk/. All music was performed and recorded in the metro.
However I’m contributing more CO2 to the atmosphere, (As if I care) by not having one of those new fangled condensing boilers (NFCB). Now my old fashioned boiler (Nearly new, due to getting it fitted before the diktat came in from the government, that you had to fit condensing crap), works by heating my water and storing it in an insulated tank. Works for me, as throughout the day I have hot water on tap. (Boiler on for one hour morning and early evening, with half hour top up at midday). (From what I’ve read and heard, most new installations do not have hot water cylinders. Why not?)
If you have a NFCB system that’s fitted now it’s akin to having one of those old fashioned Ascot boilers that just supplied hot water on demand.
Remember them? From turning on the tap it took forever to get a decent temperature hot water.
Well the new condensing boilers as fitted to my son’s and eldest daughter’s houses are modern day clones.
To do the washing up just now in my abode it only took about a fifth of a gallon at the most in order for me to have piping hot water entering my washing up bowl. (I do the washing up, her indoors knows her place and does the ironing)
At my son’s house it takes for ever and at least three gallons before just tepid water issues from the tap. Five minutes later if you need to refill the washing up bowl, you have to go through the whole rigmarole again, FFS.
Did TPTB envisage this when they decided to meddle in things they don’t understand, all in the name of preventing the utter twaddle of man made global warming?
No wonder we have a water shortage if we use at least fifteen times as much water before it is hot enough to usefully use.
Wankers. (In my time as an engineer they were known as “non technical terrorists”)
1 - I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.
2 - Borrow money from pessimists -- they don't expect it back.
3 - Half the people you know are below average.
4 - 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
5 - 82.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
6 - A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.
7 - A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
8 - If you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain.
9 - All those who believe in psycho kinesis, raise my hand.
10 - The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
11 - I almost had a psychic girlfriend... But she left me before we met.
12 - OK, so what's the speed of dark?
13 - How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink?
14 - If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
15 - Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
16 - When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
17 - Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.
18 - Hard work pays off in the future; laziness pays off now.
19 - I intend to live forever... So far, so good.
20 - If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?
21 - Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
22 - What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
23 - My mechanic told me, "I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder."
24 - Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?
25 - If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
26 - A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
27 - Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
28 - The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.
29 - To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
30 - The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.
31 - The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.
32 - The colder the x-ray table, the more of your body is required to be on it.
33 - Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film.
And an all time favorite-
34 - If your car could travel at the speed of light, would your headlights work?
H/T to Theo
