Jesus speaks through the Republicans

This letter is just so redneck, it’s amazing. It all reads like so much god-bothering hyperbole until you get to the end of the last sentence. Judging by the rest of the site, it’s a genuine letter, too.

I just asked a guy in the office who’s very much a churchgoer and he assures me that Jesus was never a registered member of the NRA.

**** this. I’m moving

Scotland will be no-smoking in “enclosed public spaces” by Spring of 2006.

So, not only can I get pissed in a pub any time of the day, any day of the week… I can do it while only damaging my liver and not my lungs courtesy of all the selfish, nicotine-addicted *******. Add to that the fact that I can wander over to Asda any time of the day or night – again, on any day of the week – and a shift north is looking very enticing.

Unless England follow suit? Mind, we’re still in the dark ages on all three fronts. How shameful that the country in the UK which houses the major seat of political power for the entire of the British Isles isn’t the one leading the way.

The tobacco companies as usual are crying that only 50% of people want a total ban. Well, the poll on this page doesn’t agree (73% of over 10,000 votes when I looked). Thing is, one poll will be fudged one way, one another and so on.

Publicans as well are whimpering about it destroying their businesses. I have no figures, but has this happened in Ireland or New York? Surely that’s a simple way to get an idea.

Well done Scotland. What are your house prices and IT employment opportunities like up there?

As if speed cameras weren’t loony enough

Boy, 13, gets 6 points for driving a battery-powered scooter on the pavement. They even mention that the points will expire by the time he gets a license anyway. So what’s the bloody point?

How much did this cost the taxpayer? How much inconvenience was there for his parents to attend court? All to give him penalty points on a license he doesn’t ******* have. I think his dad was somewhat lenient by only describing this farce as “bonkers”.

Where I have been in the world

A few of these are “passed through” rather than actually “visited”, but hey ho. There’s no point in me bothering with one for the states in the US I’ve been to as it’s only two! Click the images to enlarge.

Create your own “visited country” maps or check which counties in the UK I’ve visited.

Terrorist admits stupidity

OK, well, not admit as such. But near as dammit. I vaguely overheard a comment on the radio news this morning. Apparently that **** who kidnaps people off the streets in Iraq and holds them to “ransom” then beheads them issued a warning to someone today. I think it’s one of the guys in the new temporary government or whatever.

Anyways, he was warning him about being the subject of assassination attempts, about the fact that he’s not safe walking the streets and – the best bit – that he “had so far been lucky to escape many well-planned ambushes”.

OK, call me picky… but if they were so ******* well-planned, how come he’s escaped so many of them? Doesn’t that make them really badly planned? The only example they gave was a car bomb outside his house – which went off when he was out.

Well, I can’t remember the name of this particular odorous streak of rancid **** but my message to him is to just give up. If he’s only capable of kidnapping defenseless civilians and prodding them with sticks, he’s about the most cowardly, pathetic, stupid, arrogant **** I’ve ever heard of. Frankly, he makes the IRA look almost disciplined and that is some achievement.

If you’ve not got the bollocks to confront your enemy head on, roll your sleeves up and wade in with your fists flying, then piss the **** off. It amazes me how other people are actually even more stupid as they martyr themselves because he says so. Have none of them paused to think for one second that if the afterlife is so ******* wonderful, how come he isn’t the one strapping a semtex waistcoat to himself?

*******. And then some. I’ve always wanted to issue a challenge to ***** like that. You. Me. A room. No weapons. Winner takes all. I know I’m soft as ****. I know I’m crap in fights. But somehow I just have the feeling I’d still be able to beat them because I don’t rely on other people to fight my fights for me. Chickenshit ********.