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Afghan on trial for Christianity screams the headline. Basically, some Afghan who dropped Islam in preference for Christianity is up on trial at the moment.

If he repents, and reconverts then that’s OK because: “We will invite him again because the religion of Islam is one of tolerance. We will ask him if he has changed his mind. If so we will forgive him.”

Which is all nice and dandy. However, if he doesn’t reconvert then first of all they’re check his mental state. Now, in my view anyone who believes someone could really change water in to wine and walk on water without using mirrors is a bit loopy so he should be alright there as well.

Religious matters, though, are never that simple.

If he fails that test and they reckon he’s sane, then they’ll kill him. I’m not sure how – perhaps stoning or shooting. Maybe in this more modern society of theirs they’ll have moved on to the much more pleasant lethal injection.

Regardless, how many people would class that as even remotely “tolerant” because I ******* don’t.

Isaac Hayes has quit his role as Chef in South Park. A year ago he joked that nobody should be offended by the program’s jokes about Jews, Mormons, Christians, Muslims, etc etc etc. And he’s right. They don’t pick on anyone in particular. It’s not a vendetta.

Only they recently picked on Scientology. And Hayes has been a Scientologist for 13 years. So he’s thrown a hissy fit and quit.

Voice of chef – cool.
Theme from Shaft – cool.
Getting all upset because someone points out that Scientology is a pile of **** aimed at the stupid and rich – decidedly uncool.

Today for lunch I had a fresh pear, a Shape low-fat yoghurt and… erm… 3 pints of beer.

Bollocks. It’s my last day. Apparently this is the first “last day lunch” anyone’s been to where the “leav-ee” hasn’t had to dig into their own pocket for beverages. I assume one of two things:

a) they love me, or
b) they’re trying to poison me with beer

Either’s fine with me.

It’s when I hear things like this that I’m glad I’m getting out of tech support (for a while, at least). One of our trainers is on site and having a lot of fun and games with some of the… less advanced users.

Quote of the year so far, from someone who has been using a computer for quite some time: “Where’s the ‘space’ key?”

One working day to go…

Plans are being put forward that men must make sure they obtain consent from a partner before having sex with them. This is in response to a low prosecution rate for rape cases over the last couple of years.

Now, rape’s a terrible crime so I’m not going to get on a soapbox and try and defend anyone guilty of it. However, being accused of rape when you’ve done nothing other than shag someone who’s woken up the next morning and changed their mind must be almost as bad.

There are many things that bother me about this. First off, it’s the man’s responsibility to get permission. What happened to sex being an act between two people? Cases of men being raped have been reported, but there’s no push for women to have to obtain “permission”.

What are you meant to do? Get someone to sign something? If it’s a verbal “Yes, OK” then it becomes one person’s word against another in court – the situation is hardly improved. Even a written agreement can be co-erced. Look at the case at the bottom of the article. The girl readily admitted she couldn’t remember anything, so she could just as easily have signed something as led the guy on.

The changes want to ensure that the woman is in a fit enough state to give permission, which also makes sense. Aside from, again, where’s the proof of how drunk she was or wasn’t 3 months later at trial? Once more, it’s her word against his.

A quick question for all the married couples out there – how many times have you and your partner verbally said something along the lines of “Do you want to have sex? Yes?” before doing it? Technically, if you haven’t, by the proposed rules, that’s an awful lot of husbands who could be up on charges.

All in all, it’s a mess. It always will be a mess. Without having uncorruptible chaperones, there’s simply no way to avoid it.