I read the news today oh boy! Page 1,470

Quote: Renegade Carpark @ 19th March 2014, 12:13 AM GMT

I agree, it provides community, comfort and support to many people. But not when they're hacking up wee-wees and flou-flous.

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I wonder why it is that the major religions of the world seem to focus so much on what genitals should look/be used for? Oh - and how to kill animals?

Discuss.

Actually, the point that atheists often miss (understandably, to be fair) is that the issue is not whether or not there is 'a God'. A spirituality or belief in a 'higher power' is quite a fundamental human trait. Religions, however, are Man's interpretation of 'God'. This is where all the f**king trouble starts...

Quote: sootyj @ 19th March 2014, 12:18 AM GMT

oh come on it was a circumcision joke.

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Oh. Of course it was!

Christ!... (whom I only half-believe in) I'm so slow these days.

I suspect its alot to do with religious envy, he is after all a jealous God.

How dare people enjoy sexual pleasure, you should save your happiness for the divine.

Quote: sootyj @ 19th March 2014, 12:22 AM GMT

How dare people enjoy sexual pleasure, you should save your happiness for the divine.

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I've never understood why the Islamic version of paradise includes being lumbered with 72 virgins. In my youthful experience, having to work your charms on 1 virgin is a pain-in-the-f**king-neck.

72 sluts? Now we're talking!

Maybe it's just a really good cable and internet package.

http://www.popsci.com/article/science/cat-bites-are-linked-depression

cats hate depressed people

is there no end to their petty viciousness.

Maybe depressed people are more likely to own cats? What with them being better than humans and all.

Or maybe they need more affection, only too find out when they reach out to their feline companion.

It's a remorseless, sociopath, that despises both humanity and weakness.

The photo of the cat in the article, looks a right bastard.

Following the Budget on BBC website.

Danny Alexender has a most pissonable face !

The cat in that picture is awesome!

I've never been bitten by a cat, but to be fair, I'd rather get depression from a cat bite than a violent savaging followed by death from a dog bite.

Andy Murray an Ivan Lendl are parting ways. That was quite a succesful collaboration.

Quote: sootyj @ 19th March 2014, 12:59 AM GMT

http://www.popsci.com/article/science/cat-bites-are-linked-depression

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'Furthermore, 86 percent of the people that had been both bitten and diagnosed with depression were women.'

Are you seriously telling me that some lonely women with no human friends, the type of women who use animals as baby substitutes, the kind of women who need to buy a friend in the form of a cat because no one will hang out with them, suffer from depression?!

What a load of rubbish.

RCP you are a very cruel and unusual person.

You're like a human George Osbourne.

Quote: T.W. @ 18th March 2014, 11:59 PM GMT

I'm rather with RC on this one. Until there are proper, tough UK sanctions, restrictions and enforcements on FGM applied to immigrant populations then it will continue and continue and continue... Cultural sensitivity is one thing, but FGM is simply a medieval torture practised by backward morons.

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I agree that FGM is barbaric and evil and needs stopping. I'm just not sure that the measures suggested by RC will work.

I was looking at the statistics earlier - out of however many thousands of cases seen by Guys and Tommys each year, only 6 were on girls under 18. So it seems that the children are simply not coming to the attention of the authorities in time.

I have no doubt at all that any parent who puts their child through FGM will have that child taken into care.

But if we can't prove it is happening until the woman has a baby and meets Tim, how can we stop it?

As a matter of interest Tim, how many of the Type III cases do you see?

Education must be the way forward.

I am entirely ambivalent about male circumcision - but I am not keen on adding it to a debate on FGM. In terms of pain, suffering and ongoing health consequences they are as far apart as it is possible to get.

That's exactly what I meant, it's not the same thing and it hopefully confuses the argument to conflate the 2.

But there has to be a precedent that civil law trumps religious law every time.

Male circumcision may not be as bad as FGM, but once you say you can carry out an unnecessary operation on a child for religious reasons then you've opened a door.

Who else is fed up with hearing about an aircraft not being found?