crozby

So very true. I lived in Bournemouth and biked to work and was nearly side-swiped most mornings by wrinkleys using all lanes going straight on at roundabouts. The British government need to introduce ski piste ratings (black, blue, green etc) for roads. That way all the shit drivers can stick to the easy routes (pronounced roots of course) and leave the complicated stuff for those of us who can cope with it.

The royals are worth their weight in gold. Not the minor ones though, they're just sponging wankers.

I left England for Sydney 6 years ago because I was fed up to the back teeth of: 1. Tony Bliar 2. Seeing nothing for all my tax 3. The bone numbing cold 4. The never-ending rain 5. Tony bastarding Blair Is it safe to return yet?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8096402.stm Yet another great advert for the land of the free and the home of the brave....

I was going to vote no because it sounded so ridiculous and barbaric. Then I looked at the picture of the woman in the artical and I changed my mind to yes, definitely. Did anyone else get swayed by the visual?

Maybe it wont increase your logistical issues afterall... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7870340.stm

Jesus was a maveric rabbi who would have been seriously pissed off had he known Paul et all would be opening up his sect to non-Jewish members after his death.

... I wonder what became of peacefuljeffrey ...

More fucked-up-ness. The opening ceremony fireworks were faked (bad visibility being the reason the real ones were not shown). Plus one of the stars of the show, a little girl, lip-synched a solo which was actually sung live by a different girl considered too ugly to put in front of the world. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7556058.stm

None. Afghanistan Antigua and Barbuda Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belize Botswana Burundi Cameroon Chad China Comoros Congo Cuba Dominica Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon Ghana Guatemala Guinea Guyana India Indonesia Iran Iraq Jamaica Japan Jordan Korea, North Korea, South Kuwait Laos Lebanon Lesotho Libya Malawi Malaysia Mongolia Nigeria Oman Pakistan Palestinian Authority Qatar St. Kitts and Nevis St. Lucia St. Vincent and the Grenadines Saudi Arabia Sierra Leone Singapore Somalia Sudan Swaziland Syria Taiwan Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Trinidad and Tobago Uganda United Arab Emirates United States Vietnam Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe (http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0777460.html) Nuff said...

Not just the polution. Other weird shit lie the fact that on day 1 the cyclists were complaining that their 6 hour ride was a nightmare because there were no spectators, just police and security guards lining the route. The whole thing is fucked up.

To patronize is to treat someone in a condescending manner. I thought everyone knew that. Back on topic, the problem I have with Dawkins is he behaves like a "fundamentalist" athiest - he's rude and disrespectful to people who don't deserve it. There are plenty (the majority?) of religious people in the world who cause no harm to anyone and benefit greatly from the practice of religion, but Dawkins dispises all believers in all faiths regardless. After reading Dawkins I bought "Misquoting Jesus" by Bart D. Ehrman. It describes how the bible as we know it is very different to the original documents (for example the "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone" passage was not in the original documents at all, it was added by a scribe centuries later). It is a less-rabid, but just as interesting read.

Conversely if there were a bunch more abortions maybe the world would not have had to suffer at the hands of Adolf Hitler or George Bush...

Its a very interesting book but Dawkins is a patronizing bastard.

So how is this comment criticism of Islam dude?