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http://bristol.indymedia.org/newswire.php?story_id=26251
http://www.envirolink.org/external.html?itemid=200907140639380.740716
If standing outside a restaurant handing out flyers consists of 'aggression', it's clear that the human race is really raising its standards of peacefulness 0.o
I was at some of the demos, but I'm getting slightly annoyed at some protesting methods, particularly when they're based on VIVA and PETA information. I think protests can sometimes become too near to harassment. Then again, if someone's cruel enough to sell foie gras then reason isn't going to help much. Unfortunately I persist in thinking reasoning is enough. If I had the cash, I'd probably redesign a lot of the leaflets, since people aren't quite stupid enough to change their mind based on a picture of a lickle fluffy duckling with manipulative language and NO DAMN EVIDENCE.
If I had any suggestions to make on the campaign, I'd get more research and campaign a bit further away from the shop. Aiming to make Bath a generally foie-gras free zone seems more likely to help than picketing individual places. Why give these people the chance to equate the 'right' to eat foie gras with personal 'freedom?' Doesn't responsibility also come with freedom?
Then again I find the minibar owner contemptible, though I've no wish to harass him, the same for the rich Bath idiots who sniggered that force-fed goose liver was 'tasty' and ranted at us because we 'could be helping the starving children in Africa'. We weren't even campaigning against meat, just against cruelly-produced meat. Gah.
From what I experienced the protests were all extremely polite and peaceful. We were just handing out leaflets when I was there, and trying to patiently reason with unreasonable and fairly stupid people. The few thoughtful people were much appreciated though!
Further information here, both biased in slightly different directions for balance.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foie_gras
http://www.stopgavage.com/en/manifesto.php
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| I'm in London! |
[09 Mar 2009|06:33pm] |
Sort of here for my future reference, really. I'm surprised, you can't fit so much into 3 days!
Kinda scary, IMHO- I've never been anywhere without either friend, boyf. or family, so going to London alone on impulse was slightly insane.
The hostel I'm in is full of scary bitchy types T___T But it's only £12 a night and RIGHT on Piccadilly circus.
Visited the National Gallery and worked out the way to use the tube. I initially hated it but now I find it pretty easy- I like the warm air you get just before the train arrives! I'm going to see the Annette Messager exhibition, and Tate Modern, tomorrow, and the V&A if I have time, so I can go to Kew on Weds, then I meet Hazel on Thursday to go to Bristol.
I REALLY want to go round all the cemetaries- I actually bought a guide to all the London graveyards and I wish they were open later! Everything closes insanely early here- no galleries are open past 6 usually, same with the shops. I also found there is a pelican feeding sesh in the park, *covets* but since there seems to be no lake at the moment I can't imagine where they are! I hope I get to see a raven sometime- I've never seen one but in photos....
PS: No pigies in Trafalgar square, they're banned, as is feeding their greedy beaks- poor pidgies.
PPS: I am totally unimpressed by Buckingham palace, from the outside. Should've given the damn money to the people who were most likely starving when it was built. There are actually a lot of buildings here that are just pompous ostentatious nowt with no real good design.
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Plucked from Yahoo music news: a truly terrifying mental image and a very good argument against immortality. :D
Cowell planning to freeze body after death (Monday February 23, 2009 08:25 AM) Music mogul Simon Cowell is planning to do the world an "invaluable service" - by having his body frozen after his death so he can be brought back to life in the future. The reality TV judge told guests at a private dinner hosted by Prime Minister Gordon Brown that he planned to have his body preserved in liquid nitrogen - in the hope scientists can find a way to bring him back to life. He said, "I have decided to freeze myself when I die. You know, cryonics. You pay a lot of money and you get stuck in a deep freeze once you’ve been declared dead. "Medical science is bound to work out a way of bringing us back to life in the next century or so, and I want to be available when they do. I would be doing the nation an invaluable service."
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| Moral dilemma - help! (x-posted to ratlovers and rattielovers) |
[20 Jan 2009|06:18pm] |
I would REALLY appreciate advice ont his from other rat owners. T___T
My 2-year old rattie girl (a pet shop rat) has a tumour, and I've taken her to the vet, who says she can do an operation. We then found she actualyl has 2 tumours, one near the neck at the mammary gland, and another high on her chest- it's about ping-pong ball size. I'm concerned about the fact the vet admitted the tumour usually grows back.
She seems happy enough, if a bit annoyed by it, and eats and sleeps happily. But it is growing fast, and I can't decide if it's kindest to let her have the op or not, as it's going to be traumatic for her, and possibly she might not survive it, all for some extra time- and it worries me it might be cruel. That maybe I could just give her a nice time in the meantime, for as long as she has left, and not operate. It's also in rather a dodgy place to operate.
But then again it might be worth removing it once and seeing if it doesn't grow back. <>
I know ratties are prone to tumours, but I'd really appreciate advice from otehrs w ho had to make this decision!
Thanks - sorry if it upsets anyone.
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| Mermaids! |
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| Infinite monkeys! |
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Those who know the daft urban myth that an infinite number of monkeys randomly typing letters would eventually produce the complete works of Shakespeare is now being tried practically. (I lost the site, but am hunting- in the meantime look at a good April fool's version from a while ago...) http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2795
I'm bitterly disappointed by some aspects of the original- it's just a randomly generated series of numbers, but simulated monkey is better than no monkey at all... So far they have had several three-letter matches. There is also a program which checks all generated numbers against the complete works of Shakespeare, so you can visit daily and see how the monkeys are coping. It's just a matter of time! I suppose, practically, it doesn't work, to say nothing for the eventual temper of the monkeys- it's bad enough ghostwriting, let along randomly and eternally ghostwriting something that has already been written and is of little or no interest to the simian mind. If real monkeys continued to do this over a long period of time, it is possible they may eventually evolve until they are able to learn the significance of the letters--- or may interfere and repeatedly type one word they particularly like. Alternatively they may type their own vocalisations or develop a new language. I imagine once they learned fruit names the Tragedies would be blighted by an overabundance of bananas... Or they might just blurt out the sort of emo garbage you read in weblogs. You could as easily take every blog ever written and pick out the complete dictionary from it, but it's neither surprising nor interesting. It isn't that convincing to me, mainly because it's only the complete works of Shakespeare when reassembled because we're disregarding anything that does not fit. So it could work after the complete works were written but not before. Unless some clever cheeky little literary monkey could write the whole thing out in order, and then invent a time-machine to assassinate Shakespeare, in which case future Booker prizes could be more interesting in the future... And another point I just found:
"The sun is scheduled to burn out within a few billion years, which will put an end to the monkey typists."
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| Meme thing robbed from Robyn XD |
[14 Jul 2008|10:58am] |
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)
I'm appalled by my lack of taste in the classics XDD
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| 'That' list in full |
[14 Mar 2008|01:04pm] |
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...thought some people might find it amusing. As most of you will know, the UK government seems to have had allowances for MPs (who already pay no tax and have huge incomes, as well as £300 a week food allowance.They also have the entire summer off, paid, and most aren't legally required to be present in Parliament, except for major events.
To put this into context, people unemployed or on benefits get about £55 a week, with which you must pay for EVERYTHING.
If I sell even one picture a fortnight, I get it all deducted from any benefits. Now if I were to go into parliament, I'd get the following for upkeep on a second 'London' home.
The list in full, (from www.bbc.co.uk)
Air conditioning unit - £299.99
Bed - £1,000.00
Bedside cabinet - £100.00
Bookcase/shelf - £200.00
Bookcase/cabinet - £500.00
Carpet - £35.00 per square metre
Carpet fitting - £6.50 per square metre
Coffee maker/machine - £100.00
Coffee table - £250.00
Dining armchairs (each) - £150.00
Dining chairs (each) - £90.00
Dining table - £600.00
Dishwasher - £375.00
Drawer chest (five) - £500.00
Dressing table - £500.00
Dry cleaning - both personal and household [items] are allowable within reasonable limits
Food mixer - £200.00
Freestanding mirror - £300.00
Fridge/freezer combi - £550.00
Gas cooker - £650.00
Hi-fi/stereo - £750.00
Installation of new bathroom - £6,335.00
Installation of new kitchen - £10,000.00
Lamp table - £200.00
Nest of tables - £200.00
Recordable DVD - £270.00
Rugs (each) - £300.00
Shredder - £50.00
Sideboard - £795.00
Suite of furniture - £2,000.00
Television set - £750.00
Tumble dryer - £250.00
Underlay (basic) - £6.99 per square metre
Wardrobe - £700.00
Washer dryer - £500.00
Washing machine - £350.00
Wooden flooring/carpets - £35.00 per square metre
Workstation - £150.00
Wasn't this what WAGES were invented for?
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THIS JOURNAL IS FRIENDS ONLY
Sometimes things posted as a favour (such as picture scans) will remain public. ^.^
I removed the BJD tutorial, as I only have very slow web access- it takes about an hour to upload an A4 picture. I also found it rude when people kept bugging me for emails. ><
If you want to be added, we can talk about it here. ^.^
I am a very easygoing person, but please don't ask to be added to bump up your ranks.
(I tend to delete people that don't read entries) :P
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| Edwardian postcard scans |
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I used to have a fondness for the top floor junkshop of Affleck's Palace in Manchester. The only thing they ever sold cheap was postcards...I found a few of them in an old box a few weeks ago and decided to scan them.
Some of them have been touched up over paint specks and such like.
They're all English by the way. ^.^ Just anticipating questions in advance. I suppose they're all music hall actresses, but I don't know who any of them are.
Four more under the cut ( Read more... )
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George, language is (or was) a good and noble thing and it should not be punished in this way. T___T
"I think we are welcomed. But it was not a peaceful welcome."
—George W. Bush, defending Vice President Dick Cheney's pre-war
assertion that the United States would be welcomed in Iraq as liberators,
NBC Nightly News interview, Dec. 12, 2005
"Because he's hiding."
—George W. Bush, responding to a reporter who asked why Osama bin Laden
had not been caught, aboard Air Force One, Jan. 14, 2005
"I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5 pound largemouth bass in my lake."
—George W. Bush, on his best moment in office, interview with the German newspaper Bild am Sonntag, May 7, 2006
"Justice ought to be fair." —George W. Bush, speaking at the White House Economic Conference, Washington, D.C., Dec. 15, 2004
"We stand for things." —George W. Bush, Davenport, Iowa, Aug. 5, 2004
I give up. I'll be going out to find a different planet as soon as my next dole cheque comes through. Mars is supposed to be nice this time of year.
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