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This is where you stick random tidbits of information about yourself.
Age 23, living in sin in Twickenham with Cheesy
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Scrabble (mostly beating Cheesy's butt)
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
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Rabbits-Bambi, Fern, Sooty, Pippa-all deceased
Dog-Sammy-deceased :(
Fish-CatFlap-recently (and finally!) deceased
Cat-Tiggy-still scratching
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Technically Rachel
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Thursday, July 14, 2005
The moral superiority in our papers has taken a slight downturn since they discovered the bombers were home grown. Not that it’s gone completely – after all, they may be british, but at least they weren’t white Christians. Moral superiority safe then. Arses. The attacks on the Muslim community by right-wing fuckheads is also despicable, and not at all surprising. Since when were we so much better anyway? Sure, what these bombers did was atrocious, horrific and frankly, fucking selfish. But this isn’t the first time we’ve punished a community for the actions of a few. We’ve done far worse things and brought in far higher death tolls to Afghanistan and Iraq, based on the actions of a small group of Fundy nut-jobs. Iraq didn’t even do anything, anyway. But still we take the moral high-ground – after all, how dare anyone bomb us? We would never do something like that. Ah, but we're not nutty suicide bombers, so surely that's something? Er, no. Three guesses who the first suicide bombers in history were - Christians. In the crusades. Trying to kill more Muslims.
We are an advanced race, after all. And race is the key word here, not religion. We dress it up as religion, but it isn’t. Back in the IRA days, did we all shift uneasily when we realised we were sat next to an Irish Catholic? No. (Although Greg has always looked shifty to me-must be the beard ;) ). We didn’t, because then we recognised that the actions of a few do not represent the actions of the whole Irish Catholic community. And neither did we go bombing our way into Ireland to root them out. Because no country deserves that.
Oh, and if idiotic simpletons could please STOP leaving their bloody bags unattended, causing a complete sodding nightmare for everyone concerned, that would be nice.
Right, I’m off to go and observe the 2 minute silence in Piccadilly.
10:47 am
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