[Jaspersharpe]

How can this not be a crime?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/sep/11/mg-rover-report-phoenix-four

[slackline]

Who's a pretty boy?

[dave]

poor lass/lad

[galpinos]

poor lass/lad

It's not been handled well has it.

(As wrong as it is, I just can't get the "Oh you sexy hermaphrodite lady-man-ladies, With your sexy lady bits and your sexy man bits too, Even you must be in to you ooo ooo" out of my head.)

[dave]

I'm talking sweet 16s not F16s.

[galpinos]

When will the governments realize it's got to be funky sexy ladies.

(I'll stop now)

[butters]

Not 100% sure that it belongs here but it will have to do - funniest Google Suggestions.

[DaveC]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8252095.stm

Even without seeing the show I suspect the reviewer may have had a point. Mind you, if Chris de Burgh is still out there performing I feel a visit to the room 101 thread coming up!

[Jaspersharpe]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/sep/14/charlie-brooker-damien-hirst

[dave]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8252095.stm

Even without seeing the show I suspect the reviewer may have had a point. Mind you, if Chris de Burgh is still out there performing I feel a visit to the room 101 thread coming up!

there was a clip on the LNOTP show this weekend of CdB "performing" a cover of a Beatles track(long and winding road, was it?). Was utter shite. he performs with the emotion of a the terminator, and sings out of key. TWAT.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/sep/14/charlie-brooker-damien-hirst

read that earlier - dynamite.

[SA Chris]

I like that song - "the Lady in red is giving me head" though.


If you thought your broadband was slow;

SA pigeon 'faster than broadband'

[dave]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8254894.stm

[tomtom]

Very useful sounding web page..http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8253915.stm

[SA Chris]

Interesting. Worth posting seperately.

[tomtom]

Interesting. Worth posting seperately.

Done:  http://ukbouldering.com/board/index.php/topic,12528.0.html

[dave]

this should be hilarious - i hear they're going to have to ship in some actors.

"whatsgoinon?"

"savvacuppatea"

"its bang ow'avowda"

[slackline]

Oh no I'm going to die (again)!

[SA Chris]

US film star Patrick Swayze dies

You reckon Demijohn Moore is staying away from pottery classes, just in case?

[Jaspersharpe]

NO SHIT SHERLOCK!!!!

I remember a tv programme about similar trials being a resounding success about ten years ago but nothing was done about it. It's not exactly complicated is it.

[slackline]

Flip-out

New service from Google (actually called FastFlip) that aggregates and presents news pages very quickly, pretty good. 

[dave]

NO SHIT SHERLOCK!!!!

I remember a tv programme about similar trials being a resounding success about ten years ago but nothing was done about it. It's not exactly complicated is it.

much as I'm down with reducing crime and taking money out of the hands of dealers, does it not wiff a bit of a load of rattling skeletors saying "give us free gear or we rob your shit"? On a similar theme I recon we could cut drink-driving in half by taking pissheads out to government-run pubs, pouring a skinfull of free medical-quality ale down their necks and paying for their taxi home. Where's the incentive not to become a piss/crack/skag head (delete as applicable) in the first place?

[slackline]

Where's the incentive not to become a piss/crack/skag head (delete as applicable) in the first place?

Where's the incentive in the first place?

I doubt most people sit down and make a rational decision and choose to become addicted to whatever drug they happen to be addicted to.

[tomtom]

NO SHIT SHERLOCK!!!!

I remember a tv programme about similar trials being a resounding success about ten years ago but nothing was done about it. It's not exactly complicated is it.

much as I'm down with reducing crime and taking money out of the hands of dealers, does it not wiff a bit of a load of rattling skeletors saying "give us free gear or we rob your shit"? On a similar theme I recon we could cut drink-driving in half by taking pissheads out to government-run pubs, pouring a skinfull of free medical-quality ale down their necks and paying for their taxi home. Where's the incentive not to become a piss/crack/skag head (delete as applicable) in the first place?

Not quite the same... if you made alcohol illegal then it would be a more similar situation. Then would you get an increase in crime driven by people trying to get booze/trading in booze/getting the extra money to get booze as it was 10 times the price?? Prohibition?

That scheme cost £15000 a year per participant.
It costs (IIRC) £2500 a week to keep someone in HMP.
Police estimate that 30-50% of crime is drug related.

 

We (taxpayers) spend a fortune picking up the tab for other 'self inflicted' conditions - such as obesity, heart disease, alcohol related diseases etc.. etc.. etc.. so the 'why should be pay to treat someone who's an addict' approach doesnt wash with me either.. (I know thats not that you were saying that Dave.. I just wanted to say it..)

[Jaspersharpe]

Have you been reading the Daily Mail dave? 

Do you really think you're going to encourage more people to start abusing drugs because there's a better treatment programme for them should they become addicted? I can't imagine there are many people who sit down and make that decision so logically!

Research suggests that between half and two-thirds of all crime in the UK is drug-related.

The costs (both financial and on so many other levels) of the way "the drugs problem" has been mishandled are fucking immense. The cost of this type of project is miniscule in comparison and it's the only logical way of tackling the problem that's been tried (more than once!) and shown to have a massively positive effect.

I don't really give a fuck if it's handing out drugs to scumbags. If it cuts crime, saves money and generally improves society then it's a good thing in my book.

EDIT - Beaten to all those points by slackers / tomtom

[slackline]

UK's largest arms manufacturer to downsize