For a bit of light relief . .
Council welcomes imprisonment of cowboy builder
During the hearing, the court was told B had suffered memory loss after falling from a roof last year and that he had no recollection of carrying out poor quality work.
cue jurors stuffing handkerchiefs in mouths !
Quote: sootyj @ March 29 2012, 10:07 AM BSTWell statistically you're more likely to be executed on bad evidence if you're black.
And your murderer let off on poor evidence if you're black.
So it's kinda significant.
But just as we shouldn't suspect a black guy is guilty just because statistically blacks are more likely to be involved in crime, so we shouldn't suspect this is a racist killing just because of the stats you mention.
Taken from The Guardian web site . .
Downing Street said that ministers were not embarking on a political operation. However, Conservative party officials distributed leaflets showing that tanker drivers earn up to £47,500, considerably more than a staff sergeant bomb disposal expert in Afghanistan, who earns £35,00
If the Tories did do that then it must be one of the lowest things done in politics for a long, long while.
Yet another reminder to take care when hanging curtains in the nude:
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/382493-vicar-hospitalised-with-potato-up-his-bum#ixzz1qTLCJxGp
Hee. I shall never get tired of stories like that!
It's always the "fell on to it" story.
Must have been Smashed at the time.
Quote: Nogget @ March 29 2012, 8:17 AM BSTI can't see why it matters that the dead guy was black, what matters is if it was a lawful or an unlawful killing. The only racist thing I see here is the fact that the black community are making an issue about race.
I kind of agree with you. I'm not saying racism doesn't exist. Just that it often seems that when there is a incident involving someone of a different/ minority race that is automaticaly the reason for it.
To give an example, a few years ago in Australia there were some physical attacks on Indian students. Sadly in most of these cases the students were attacked because of their race. However it has since been revealed that in at least one of these cases it was random. The attackers had basically decided to attack the next the person who came along and it happened to be a person who came from India.
As I said I'm not saying racism doesn't exist, I just seems that often the media or members of the community that the victim belongs to are quick to blame it as a reason. In my opinion this doesn't help anyone and in the end can make the problem worse.
Quote: Shandonbelle @ March 29 2012, 12:52 PM BSTMust have been Smashed at the time.
Bah! Along with panic buying, we're being given panic news.
'I'm stood outside a forecourt in Chelmsford and I can literally see drivers queueing up to buy petrol.'
No shit, what were the drivers doing last week or the week before or the week before that?
I am convinced that everyone is either a robot or from outer space and I'm the only human left on Earth as some sort of bizarre experiment.
At the moment, the Neptunian Robotoids are determing how many phone calls and text messages about mis-sold Payment Protection Insurance I can take before I go on a murder spree.
I have a dilemma. I need to put diesel in the car because the tank empty light is on, the indicator is on E and the bloody annoying beeper goes off every time I start the car. I can't get to the garage to do so because of all the lemmings who are following the goverment's 'advice' to keep their cars topped up. Can't these morons see that they are doing exactly what the Tories want and will make a fuel shortage happen because of panic buying.
Go at midnight?
Quote: KLRiley @ March 29 2012, 1:33 PM BSTI have a dilemma. I need to put diesel in the car because the tank empty light is on, the indicator is on E and the bloody annoying beeper goes off every time I start the car.
So you want to go and panic-buy some fuel? It's people like you who are causing the problem!
Quote: zooo @ March 29 2012, 1:35 PM BSTGo at midnight?
To a nunnery?
Quote: Nogget @ March 29 2012, 8:17 AM BSTI can't see why it matters that the dead guy was black, what matters is if it was a lawful or an unlawful killing. The only racist thing I see here is the fact that the black community are making an issue about race.
I agree 100% and I'm appalled by the media's fanning of the racial flames. They refer to the shooter as a "white Hispanic" because one of his parents is white. President Obama has a white parent but when's the last time you heard the media refer to him as a white African-American?