posted January 18th 2010, 10:13pm by Steve in Random Guff
A man was arrested under the Terrorism Act and issued with a life ban from Doncaster’s airport after joking on Twitter that he would blow it “sky high” if his flight was delayed.
Now, excuse me for being rational here for a second, but is that not the most absurd thing to have happened in years? Actually, it strikes me as being pretty equal on the scale of Batshit Insane as the guy who wasn’t allowed on a flight due to his t-shirt having a print of a Transformer on it.
The gist of it is that he posted the following due to being concerned about missing a flight because of a snow-related airport closure (I’d link to the tweet itself, but it’s been deleted):
Robin Hood airport is closed. You’ve got a week and a bit to get your shit together, otherwise I’m blowing the airport sky high!!
A hearty “Well done!” to whichever Daily Mail-reading shitpipe phoned that into the police. Really, it’s making me fear for my life even reading it now, after I knowingly pasted it in to this box myself, it’s just so obviously threatening. Oh wait: no it isn’t.
Part of me is thinking;
If you don’t want to get arrested for hoax bomb plots, don’t post things like that anywhere in the first place
and that’s all well and good. Sure, he was a bit silly, or perhaps, a tad careless, given that we should all be familiar with how encroached upon our civil liberties have become in recent years. To focus on that, though, is to miss a much more crucial part of this story, which is what another part of me is thinking about;
If things keep going along this sort of track, am I going to end up with the fuzz at my door for calling whoever phoned this in a shitpipe? Or even for posting about how dumb I think the police’s actions were? Or for calling them ‘the fuzz’? Where’s the line? Does one even exist?
A guy has been arrested for, essentially, a thought crime. It’s pretty major. Or at least, one step away from pretty major. Indicative of potential pretty major-ness, for certain.
yet here we have a stark warning that, hey, it’s actually not. It’s actually pretty serious business, and you need to think pretty carefully about what you say, lest the government decide to use anti-terror laws to teach you a lesson.
Anti-terror laws. Actually used to actually arrest a guy over something which was clearly harmless.
Doesn’t that concern you?
A man was arrested under the Terrorism Act and issued with a life ban from Doncaster’s airport after joking on Twitter that he would blow it “sky high” if his flight was delayed.
posted December 27th 2009, 10:31am by Steve in Random Guff
Irrelevant bygone bastion of closed-mindedness and unquestioning-loyalty-to-cosmic-Jewish-zombies-with-misplaced-sense-of-justice-and-who-have-fuck-all-understanding-of-the-meaning-of-the-word-’sacrifice’ “The Church of England” has decided to try and combat its irrelevance and… bygone-ness by forcing itself upon school kids and attempting to entice them into its insane doctrine.
Just what we need!
An article in Teh Grauniad (spotted thanks to D. Brown) has all the literally-frightening details. It fails to touch on something important, however, arising out of a quote from the CoE’s chief education officer:
We do not endorse high-pressure techniques, we would not endorse anything that places psychological pressure on someone. We would endorse ways of interesting children in the Christian faith and the Christian story.
If you translate that into Japanese and then back into English via one of those New Fangled Internet Translation Internets Websites, you’ll see that it actually says the following:
We know that what we are slanging is batshit insane. We know that if we actually educated children on the actual facts and contradictions they wouldn’t buy it, precisely as they’re not buying it at the minute. Thus, we will present to them a distanced, fluffier, altogether nicer version of things which they will like, to entice them in. Then, when there’s a vested psychological interest, it won’t matter if they learn the truth of the matter. The dawn of the second dark age is nigh!
That’s literally actually an actual fact. It really does come back out as that. Honest. Literally actually honest. Actually actually honest.
Second place on the Leaderboard Of Worryingness goes to something raised by this, one of the stated aspects of the campaign:
An information campaign to supply schools with materials to fulfil their legal duty to conduct a daily act of worship amid reports that many schools have dropped it.
A legally mandated daily act of worship in schools. Are we really still that backwards? Oh, yes, it seems we are. My bad.
I’m actually literally looking forward to the hot water and furore that trying to reinstate such practices in many of our multi-cultural schools will create. Perhaps it will lead to the realisation that such a law is outmoded and dangerous and will result in it being repealed? Actually I just remembered that single faith schools have become all the rage under Labour, so, perhaps I won’t hold my breath on that.
To close; I have religious friends, quite a few. Oftentimes thoroughly lovely sorts, and I don’t go out of my way to stuff anti-religious rants down their faces. That said, when it comes to publicly funded campaigns to trick kids, who can’t know any better, into buying into this stuff, I gots to say something.
posted December 22nd 2009, 9:25pm by Steve in Random Guff
Obviously, it’s a while away yet, but, check this out: yesterday, 21st December, was officially the shortest day of the year. We’re through the deepest point of the trough and the curve only climbs upwards from here on out!
Days are getting longer!
Summer is coming!
This may well be the lamest post I’ve ever made but I’m literally overjoyed that we’re on the up-side so GTFO, guy!!!
posted December 19th 2009, 11:23am by Steve in Random Guff
Ever since the ads at the footer of msn messenger’s main window started doing the shit “become really massive annoying fuckstains when you mouse over them” thing, they’ve been a bit too intrusive. Sure, stick adverts down there, be my guest, but when they suddenly jump out at you as you’re just going about your daily mouse cursor-based business, it’s all a bit much.
Today I decided enough was enough, and found how to block them:
Go to Control Panel (from the Start Menu)
Click on Internet Options
Click into the Security tab, along the top
Click the Restricted Sites icon
Clickthe Sites button just below that
Enter rad.msn.com in the box at the top*, click Add
Click Close
Click OK
Hoorah! Ads should now be gone*. May need to logout and back in to msn to clear out the current ad, mind.
*O hi again. If there are still ads coming through, try adding these in to the Restricted Sites too:
global.msads.net
rss.video.msn.com
ads1.msn.com
rad.live.com
specials.uk.msn.com
Information discovered on, and borrowed from, this place.
posted December 13th 2009, 4:38pm by Steve in Random Guff
If there’s one thing this global network of interconnected computer-connected network connections we lovingly call Teh Intarnets is good for, it’s giving retards ever-easier means of displaying their retardationedness to the world, and everyone else ever-easier means of being amused by them.
Why, you’re reading some words written by a retard right now!
But no, really. Just look at some of these. They were found on facebook and posted to Lamebook, a place where you can lose yourself in amusement for literally minutes:
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Now, excuse me for being rational here for a second, but is that not the most absurd thing to have happened in years? Actually, it strikes me as being pretty equal on the scale of Batshit Insane as the guy who wasn’t allowed on a flight due to his t-shirt having a print of a Transformer on it.
Irrelevant bygone bastion of closed-mindedness and unquestioning-loyalty-to-cosmic-Jewish-zombies-with-misplaced-sense-of-justice-and-who-have-fuck-all-understanding-of-the-meaning-of-the-word-’sacrifice’ “The Church of England” has decided to try and combat its irrelevance and… bygone-ness by forcing itself upon school kids and attempting to entice them into its insane doctrine.
Obviously, it’s a while away yet, but, check this out: yesterday, 21st December, was officially the shortest day of the year. We’re through the deepest point of the trough and the curve only climbs upwards from here on out!
Ever since the ads at the footer of msn messenger’s main window started doing the shit “become really massive annoying fuckstains when you mouse over them” thing, they’ve been a bit too intrusive. Sure, stick adverts down there, be my guest, but when they suddenly jump out at you as you’re just going about your daily mouse cursor-based business, it’s all a bit much.
