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19:13 / 23.05.07

There was a time I would have put money on 'huggles' being the first response to TTS's request for a big dose that shit with the magickal make-it-all-better. If I had to lose money, losing it laudanum helps.

21:56 / 23.05.07

I think we need to take this up with the Lab people and see if we can make a viral meme that you know, is a virus.

I just watched 28 Weeks Later, and seeing that link (which I didn't dare click knowing what it would be like) has given me a glimpse of what being infected with the Rage virus must be like. I'd quite like to bite that barrister's face off. Who do we petition to get her disbarred?

Less searchable M0rd4nt

22:01 / 23.05.07

Bar council?

00:12 / 24.05.07

oh yes please make a giant screaming vortex of killing her ability to impact peoples lives in the UK's legal system. Yes please!

Will send chocolate, huggles, and lazer PEW!PEW! to ass-sist.

00:23 / 24.05.07

Switchboard thread on the topic of the UK barrister/rape case.

Please do come particpate over there I think there are a lot of people who don't read this thread for obvious reasons.

00:25 / 24.05.07

http://www.barstandardsboard.org.uk as it turns out, first port of call is her chambers, then them;

"MAKING A COMPLAINT
How do I complain about a barrister?
Before complaining to the Bar Standards Board, you should first try to raise your concerns direct with the barrister by complaining to the “chambers” from which the barrister works. All chambers are required, under the Code of Conduct, to have a complaints procedure and this may be a quicker and more effective way of resolving your concerns. If you feel you need assistance to do this, your solicitor may be able to help or you could get help from a Citizen’s Advice Bureau, or other advice agency.

If you are unable to resolve your complaint with the barrister’s chambers or consider making a complaint to the chambers is not practicable or appropriate, you can contact us by letter, telephone or e-mail. Making a complaint costs nothing. We will ask you to fill in a complaints form and will provide guidance notes about how to do this. You can download the Complaints Form and Guidance Notes here, or you can telephone us on 020 7611 1444 to request a hard copy of the complaints pack.

What can I complain about?
We can investigate your complaint if there is evidence that a barrister has breached the Code of Conduct or has provided inadequate professional service. We will not be able to decide this until we have studied your complaint."

09:02 / 24.05.07

See what we need TtS, is to export your headsick into the noggins of those that don't understand not their indifference/ignorance into yours.

I think we need to take this up with the Lab people and see if we can make a viral meme that you know, is a virus.

The TtS Penance Stare!

21:50 / 24.05.07

I can't believe I live in this state. A quotation:

The execution team stuck Christopher Newton at least 10 times with needles to get in place the shunts used to administer the lethal chemicals. Newton, who had insisted on the death penalty as punishment for killing a cellmate, continued to talk, smile and laugh with the prison staff, and at one point was even given a bathroom break.

When he eventually was moved from his holding cell and strapped to a table in the death chamber, he made this short statement: "Yes, boy, I could sure go for some beef stew and a chicken bone. That's it."

I have no words.

18:21 / 25.05.07

(The biggest problem being that I like this governor ok, he's (finally) a democrat and he's done some good brave things, but I'm confused by his office's stupid reaction to this situation, as described in that article.)

Kirin? Who the heck?

22:46 / 25.05.07

Ugh. This actually makes me feel a little ill. Christian Domestic Discipline. I know that it’s supposedly consensual, but it sickens me that anyone sane could agree to anything like that. I’m also judging a book by its cover and table of contents, but really.

23:55 / 25.05.07

I know that it’s supposedly consensual, but it sickens me that anyone sane could agree to anything like that. I’m also judging a book by its cover and table of contents, but really.

Well yeah we're both looking at a webpage. While you seem to see something sickening I see something a bit strange. I'm hoping it's possibly an attempt to develop healthy communication between loving couples who find themselves trying to cope with religious, sexual, and social issues. They could be examining inherited fmaily behaviors or being tried as experimental options.

It might not be my cup of tea but I see some (hopefully) thoughtful headers. Being human is messy and complex. If an author is making a sincere effort to provide people information that's a good thing in IMO even if what they suggest isn't right for me personally.

00:15 / 26.05.07

I do find 'Uncooperative Wife' a bit suspect. If it's just BDSM with explicit Christiany overtones, fine, let people enjoy themselves. Their delicate clothing seems reasonably priced, and spanking books of most sorts don't seem to do great damage.

However, this scares me. On so many levels. I could pretend it's some roleplaying guidebook, except for the rest of the site, and in particular, the phrasing of the Maintenance Diary description: 'including an area where goals may be listed with daily self-evaluations by the wife and a weekly evaluation by the husband.' Because even in a D/s relationship, the self and all other evaluations ought to be working in both directions, surely? For those of us without natural domina in our lives, anyway.

There seems to be enough sense of humor around the site, I'm assuming the seriousness is a facade. I hope it's a facade, because 'Christian men who strive to teach their families sound Biblical values through the use of the rod' or 'misbehaving 19th century women and the no-nonsense husbands who know how to tame them' should always have to sound/read funny or horrific, as generic statements. (Those last to come from explicit fictions, versus what I'm assuming may be implicit (models for) fictions in the above links.)

Less searchable M0rd4nt

00:46 / 26.05.07

I guess my issue with that page is not the femsubness, but the whole "be a femsub because GOD SAYS SO and it's your DUTY/fate/diving thingy!"

I mean, there are lots of Christians who aren't into M-dom f-sub as an expression of their faith, who might find being confronted with this material very stressful and painful. There's nothing on that site to suggest that one might not start out in a relationship structure that included submission up to X point, only to find oneself with a partner who'd changed hir mind and wanted to take things further.

F'rinstance, it might suck rather to be a generally subby sort of person who'd got used to a certain pattern of relationshippage that included eg. doing pretty much what her husband wanted, and then suddenly found herself faced with a relationship that included not just getting the hard word put on her but getting spanked.

Happy Dave Has Left

08:11 / 27.05.07

I become steadily more convinced that our outgoing Prime Minister and Home Secretary are crazy, determined to leave some sort of stamp on British society even if it's the outline of a boot.

So, the police want to know who you are, and why you're in a certain place? In the past, they'd have to have reasonable suspicion that you'd committed a crime.

Under proposed new powers, not anymore.

Short memories?. Except the victimised communities in this instance are unlikely to just burn a few police vans. Cue further alienation, further attacks by disenchanted young men whose heads are turned by radical fundamentalism, yet more restrictive laws to supposedly safeguard the very liberties they're taking away.

I've been screaming at the TV for an hour now. What the FUCK is happening to my country?

Shiny: Well Over Thirty

08:28 / 27.05.07

Yeah, I only turned the TV on for a few minutes the morning and caught that. I was much with the screaming, and then with the whimpering of despair.

MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!

09:14 / 27.05.07

Made the international news here in Canada. The first words I heard upon waking up were "British Prime Minister Tony Blair says that the rights of terror suspects are superseding the rights of regular citizens."

Uh... aren't terror suspects also citizens? What happened to that whole "innocent until proven" dealie?

I'm not headsick or raging yet, but "Holy Orwell!" doesn't get a lazy Sunday off on a good foot.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

11:02 / 27.05.07

Oh dear. And this could be a really nice little island if we tried.

13:11 / 29.05.07

One day's deforestation is equivalent to the carbon footprint of eight million people flying to New York.
"Already 150,000 people are dying every year because of climate change and, within 50 years, one-third of all land-based species could face extinction."
The biodiesel catastrophe which means e.g. Indonesian people burning down rainforests and the peat beneath (killing the orang-utans etc. and releasing colossal amounts of carbon into the atmosphere) to then plant oil palms, then process the oil, fly or ship it to the US/UK where energy companies burn it to make electricity and then call it green energy so they can grab the eco-dollar and people can feel they're saving the planet while in fact doing much, much more harm.
And that fucking Lexus hybrid car ad that says 'high performance, low emissions, zero guilt', ZERO GUILT?! FUCK OFF, LEXUS YOU LYING SACKS OF SHIT YOU ARE KILLING MY UNBORN CHILDREN WITH YOUR POINTLESS STUPID VEHICLES!
My rage knows no limits today.

14:31 / 29.05.07

On my way to work I have to traverse three zebra-crossings in a VERY VERY wealthy financial district and more often than not, the cars that dont stop for me, even though I HAVE THE RIGHT-OF-WAY, are those enormous silver/black lexus/merc twat-mobiles, usually with ONE PERSON IN!!!!!!
But also, what about this: I usually consider myself a fair person, who tries to see things from both sides etc etc, but seriously, what possible reason could any sane, reasonable person have to buy one of these awful cars? what actual, practical, genuine reason? please? anyone?

All Acting Regiment

14:56 / 29.05.07

They make weak people feel strong, sad people feel happy, etc, etc. We've all been weak and sad at some point. Some of us are just lucky enough to get into books instead of shitmobiles. Although the people who are into shitmobiles might get into books, with a bit of luck.

*

16:26 / 29.05.07

Sheer selfish urghfuckery today (although not really because I'm moving out of here in a week, but many of my friends are not):

Dear Mr. Regular Thief,

I am writing to you to express concern about our relations of late. In summers past, you have been accustomed to visiting us regularly and stealing valuable equipment from our home. However, this summer things have changed somewhat. We no longer have anything valuable to steal. Yesterday you received from us one computer in dubious condition with not very saleable parts. Last night you stole our trash can and recycling bin.

I hope you do not think it too intrusive, but may I ask if you are in a fit state of mind? This new behavior seems out of character, considering that you have been more used to stealing $3000 projectors and similarly expensive speakers. I inquire after your health, and wish you to get your stealing motherfucking ass to an institution of some sort as soon as possible so you will stop bothering us.

Kindly yours,
id entity and 38 angry queers and queerfriends

18:17 / 29.05.07

For the past two months, local officials in the southwestern Chinese province of Guangxi have pursued a harsh campaign aimed at enforcing China's population planning laws

In order to meet targets for allowable births, they forced pregnant women to have abortions. They threatened to demolish homes to make residents cough up fines demanded for excess children.

I'd like some third party verification before I get out the smackdowns but yeesh.

20:09 / 29.05.07

Jesus that's horrible. Other news from China, Noah's ark of 5000 rare animals found abandoned which were on their way to the dinner table in posh restaurants. People eat flying squirrel FFS. Headsick.

20:30 / 29.05.07

Unsurprisingly, it's not a story being carried by Xinhua or any of the state-controlled media. (Well, not reallly). It shows up on the usual suspects (Radio Free Asia and the Falun Gong-controlled Epoch Times), but also in a PR-friendly story from Kaiser, which cites an L.A. Times article which uses some cautious prose, saying, "Expectant mothers are said to have faced mandatory abortions," but then quotes a villager:

"I know a young woman who was six or seven months pregnant with twins," said a woman villager interviewed by phone who was only willing to give her surname, Wang. "She did not have a permit to give birth. So she had to have an abortion. It was such a tragedy."

and

Villagers in Bobai County talk of a reign of terror that has forced many into hiding to avoid forced abortions or sterilization.

"A woman working in the sugarcane fields got caught and was told to get her tubes tied, even though her husband had already been sterilized," said a 50-year-old middle school teacher surnamed Peng. "Another woman I know was six months pregnant. But they forced her to have an abortion because it was her second child and she already had a son. She was so sad she cried for a long time."

Weird thing about that story -- even though it's the LA Times, there are spelling errors in the picture captions, and the captions themselves say the photos are of a labor protest in Macau, not a villagers' riot in Guangxi.

That's pretty strange.

The Kaiser PR thing also links to a New York Times story on the riots.

Anyway, yes, China, not so hep to the concept of "rights" as you and I know them.

They've also just sentenced their equivalent to the FDA chief to death for receiving bribes and allowing tainted drugs and food to be released. He'd actually left the job before the latest business with the melamine in the pet food (over 3,000 dead American pets) and antifreeze in the kids' cough syrup (over 300 dead Pananamian people), but not before 13 babies in Anhui died after being fed fake formula that didn't actually contain any nutrients.

20:32 / 29.05.07

That last before the Noah's ark story was posted.

Thank goodness they like their meat fresh in Guangdong, eh? At least some survived....

Our Lady Has Left the Building

20:37 / 29.05.07

AAAAARGHHH! Hazel Blears! I turned the channel on the TV and caught several seconds of pure unfiltered Blears! I've been scarred for life! Fuck!

All Acting Regiment

14:45 / 30.05.07

FacebOOOOOOOOOOOK!

Why?

Why?

Why do the people criticizing religious government have to be vicious, Islamophobic toss-pots? Why?

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

19:38 / 31.05.07

People who do not care for the health of others and travel when they are aware they have a potentially fatal contractable disease should just go ahead and perish.

20:00 / 31.05.07

Oh, dear.

18:51 / 02.06.07

http://www.witchpages.com/wisdom/BOS/Gardnerian/old_laws.htm

This. makes. me. very. cross.

Basically, and we all knew this, Gerald Gardener is a patriarchal idiot. I.D.I.O.T.

I forget these things occasionally.

Ok. Back to essay.

19:34 / 02.06.07

Seeing ROFLADY's post right after grant's one about dying babies.

You have to laugh, I suppose.

12:57 / 04.06.07

One dolphin dies every 53 minutes as a result of entanglement in fishing gear. (www.marineconnection.org)

Christ. We've known about it for 15 years. I found a postcard at work with the preprinted thing on it;

TO: Commissioner Joe Borg
I (your name here) want the European Commission to ACT NOW and prevent any further Dolphin deaths in bass pelagic pair trawls

..and a URL on the bottom for fish-4-ever.com, "the home of sustainable fishing. Fish 4 Ever is a range of tinned fish that you can trust. We have the best and most comprehensive policy in the world of tinned fish but we also pack a better product, superior in taste and better for your health."

I don't eat fish, but if I did I'd eat fish that definitely didn't drown a dolphin on it's way to my tuna mayonnaise sandwich.

09:14 / 12.06.07

Gavin fucking Newsham's bit about an advert for Asda in a recent copy of the Guardians Guide. It's the Platonic ideal of snotty, self-satisfied Brooker-aping Guide SHIT on a silver fucking plate.

"...wouldn't be seen dead in..."

"...zombies at customer services..."

Wanker.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

09:29 / 12.06.07

But poor people shop there! Lol!

19:35 / 12.06.07

Marri has been held in solitary confinement in the navy brig in South Carolina since June 2003.

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