Another classic design from Tobias Wong. Mittens with a metal eyelet to perfectly fit your cigarette. Helps you keep your hands warm when you are smoking outside. And you are going to be smoking outside a lot now the ban has been introduced! Remember kids smoking is not big or clever and it WILL kill you, but if you want to die you may as well die with warm hands!

suck

Uni offers degree in northernness

fuck. I hope you get better squapple!

I thought my boyfriend was also using this forum. That would've been annoying.

Sheesh!

But it's ok, he's been told to stay away. My domain.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6913310.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/business/6938364.stm

Fine threat over T-shirt slogan

A man spotted wearing a T-shirt bearing an "offensive" slogan in a city centre has been warned he risks an £80 fine if he is caught again.

Forklift driver David Pratt was told by street wardens in Peterborough he could cause offence or incite violence.

The slogan on the garment read: "Don't piss me off! I am running out of places to hide the bodies."

Peterborough City Council said using insulting or offensive language was an offence, even if it appeared in print.

Serious sheesh there urbansurgeon.

What were J&J thinking. To sue a very well known and respected charity over trademark infringment when all profits go into disaster relief. Bad publicity anyone?

indeed Mick.

Back on Prednisolone which I'm not happy about. They are bringing me off the Pred and starting me on another immune system suppressant. Cant remember what it is called but its supposed to do the same thing but without the side effects. Still ruins your liver though. Been on the Pred for over two years now so its time to move on ! I will miss the daily high

chris:

Fine threat over T-shirt slogan

A man spotted wearing a T-shirt bearing an "offensive" slogan in a city centre has been warned he risks an £80 fine if he is caught again.

Aren't there even some twats in your nanny state that want to put a stop to "FCUK"?

German government condemns weekend attack on 8 Indians

A weekend attack in an east German town on eight Indian men chased by a mob as onlookers shouted slurs was intolerable, the government said Tuesday, vowing a full investigation.

About 50 Germans chased the men across a market square early Sunday in Muegeln, near Leipzig, following a scuffle at a dance party, officials said. Onlookers — some shouting slurs such as "Foreigners out!" — did nothing to help the men, police said.

Two of the Indians were hospitalized after being beaten by the attackers.

"It is not acceptable that our foreign fellow residents have to fear for their health and lives," Wolfgang Tiefensee, the Cabinet minister responsible for rebuilding the formerly communist east, told reporters in Berlin. "This excess of violence is intolerable."

"It simply must not happen that people shout slogans in Germany that remind us of the time from 1939 to 1945," Tiefensee said, referring to the racial persecution of the Nazi era. He promised a full investigation.

The Indian government has asked Germany to "take action to address this issue and prevent future incidents of the kind," Navtej Sarna, spokesman for India's External Affairs Ministry, said in New Delhi.

The Indian men sought shelter in a pizza parlor run by an Indian but were beaten up by some of the pursuing Germans who kicked in the doors of the building, police said.

Seventy police officers were needed to restore order after the incident. Four assailants and two police officers also were injured; two suspects were detained after the attack but later released, police said.

The Indian men live in eastern Germany and are mostly merchants who sell goods at open markets in the region.

The incident revived concerns about levels of racist violence in the depressed, formerly communist east. Before last year's soccer World Cup, similar worries were aroused by an attack on an Ethiopian-born German in Potsdam.

Muegeln is located in Saxony, one of two eastern states where the far-right National Democratic Party has capitalized on economic discontent to win seats in the regional legislature over recent years.

Muegeln's mayor insisted that citizens of his town of 5,000 were not involved, and that the attack likely did not have a far-right motive.

"Our town of Muegeln is not far-right," Gotthard Deuse said on N24 television Tuesday.

Tiefensee rebuked Deuse for appearing to rule out a far-right motive.

"We must avoid everything that looks like the intention is to play down or trivialize anything," he said. "We know that in eastern Germany, the number of crimes with a far-right background is higher than elsewhere."

Hans-Christian Stroebele, deputy parliamentary leader for the Greens, also warned against playing down possible far-right motives.

"People deny for days that this is far-right violence at all," Stroebele told N24. "Only when it is inescapable, when the swastika flag is nearly raised, are they inclined to see that."

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I live in this country.

~hangs head in shame

the goat and sheep always suffer first...

hmmn, i think tao posted that in chat the other day, i thought that someone would have mentioned it here by now too!

chris:hmmn, i think tao posted that in chat the other day, i thought that someone would have mentioned it here by now too!

what is this 'chat' everyone speaks of?

there is no chat

aim chatroom - baseboard

More guns found here in Liverpool today near where the 11 year old Rhys Jones was shot.

Gun crime is getting out seriously out of hand here now. Sheesh

Eastern suburbs cat high on cocaine

linky link

swansea based sheesh

Spy laws track mobile phones

SECURITY agencies would be able to secretly track people via their mobile phones and monitor their internet browsing for up to three months without obtaining a warrant under new laws due to go before the Senate this week.

The powers could be used in a range of even relatively minor criminal investigations, not just terrorism cases.

sheesh

Australia navy in breast op row

Australia's opposition Labor Party has questioned the need for female sailors to be given breast enlargements paid for with public money.

An armed forces spokesman defended the operations, saying they were carried out for psychological reasons, not to make sailors "look sexy".

Sheesh

Woman tries to hide iguana in bra

An iguana which was smuggled into Blackpool Airport in a woman's bra has found a new home at the resort's zoo.

She was stopped and after a security guard found the iguana peeking out of her bra, she admitted it was hers.



He he, "hey nice tits. OMFG what is that?"

Russian woman's 12th baby weighs in at 17lbs

lol

ha ha, I saw that one earlier today Chris - sheesh