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if she had been a muslim she would have been married by now and no one bats an eyelid to it as its the culture..

Presumably not in UK or other western countries where the same laws apply to muslims as anyone else about the age of consent!

Communism might have a lot of blood on its hands from the past but communism is hardly a major problem facing the world now! Putin might be ex-KGB and flexing his muscles but Russia is basically a flawed captitalist democracy now while China is a capitalist-commie totalitarian country. If they have any hostility towards us the sentiment is far…[Read more]

I found the original post interesting, but there is another side. As well as the Emotional Manipulator there has to be a type of person who is particularly susceptable to their tactics – the emotional manipulatee, shall we say.

Emotional manipulatees tend to internalise all the things that happen to them. They make excuses for other peoples’…[Read more]

Even if the logo was good grahic design, it gives off the wrong message.

It is jagged, it is disjointed – it says disharmony, edginess, discord, disorganisation…. all the things the Olympics are trying not to be! The traditional interlocking rings somehow signify unity, which is much more to do with the Olympian ideal. I also think that the…[Read more]

Today the government has announced that it will fund the teaching of moderate islam in universities.

Will political science students soon be taught about moderate communism and moderate fascism?

It was a very, very small nuclear attack. Very small indeed!

Meanwhile the Americans decide to bomb Antarctica while the real terrorists in the Middle East decide that, because the Westerners are so scared, it would be more fun if they bombed one another!

Anyway, ‘gay’ is changing its meaning again, from the word originally pinched by some trendy homosexuals to describe their sexuality, to meaning something like naff/wimpish/pathetic/sissy. Hence an 9 year old boy might be heard to say “It’s so ga-ay to fancy girls”!!!!!

I’m all for recyclng in principle but where I live (Mendip area of Somerset) we have the dreaded waste food recycling. The food in the special bin often goes mouldy and the recyclers don’t empty it properly so we get half the waste food back. Either they do waste food recycling, in which case they should empty the bin out including mouldy stuff…[Read more]

A good way to annoy a multi-generational group of people is to put 2 music systems in the room and play the Arctic Monkeys on one and Emmerson, Lake and Palmer on the other, then there is no escape for anyone!!!!! I like a lot of the latest rock bands and also a lot from the 70’s but the two I mentioned above share a particular quality, namely…[Read more]

I get that feeling when my heart seems to miss a beat quite often – I have done since childhood. I had a time a few years ago when I was getting panic attacks and the doctor explained that the missed beats (or extrasystolic beats) are very common and are rarely anything to worry about in themselves, although it is wise to check them out just in…[Read more]

WE might or might not be experiencing a trend of climate change – each ‘hotter than average’ year lends support to this claim.

Human activity adds a small amount to the overall level of CO2 in our atmosphere and more CO2 would lead to global warming.

What we don’t know for sure yet is to what extent human activity is causing global warming (if…[Read more]

I think Sharia ‘law’ should be allowed in Britain only within the following limitations:

-It is not in contravention of our national laws.
– It is not imposed on people who are not willing to accept it.
-The greatest penalty it can impose is expulsion of a culprit from islam.

Clearly my idea would indicate that I have a poor knowledge of islam,…[Read more]

People who join the military must surely be aware that they might have to go on active service. Before the Iraq invasion there had been Northern Ireland, the Balkans, Afghanistan, the previous Iraq trouble and, of course, the Falklands.

Whether we agree with the Iraq war or not and whether we approve of the royal family or not, I think it’s…[Read more]

Assuming we’re talking about LEGAL immigrants, then I’d say yes and no. For very minor offences they shouldn’t necessarily be deported. More serious offenders should be deported after serving their sentences unless it can be shown that they face persecution.

Imagine a situation where an Iranian national who has lived in this country with a…[Read more]

Noisy eaters, especially as they tend to be the sort of people who come ands sit or stand next to you while they eat!

Also people who keep putting on accents or silly voices.

But No.1 on my list is people with ‘singing tourettes’ who sing along to every bit of music or jingle they hear and don’t realise they are doing it!

My own most annoying…[Read more]

our decent and pure Anglo-Saxon bloodlines

No such thing! I read somewhere that the British population (other than relatively recent immigrant groups) is genetically 30% Celtic / pre-Celtic and this is roughly the same throughout the British Isles, surprisingly. Romans, Saxons, Danes, Normans etc. have had a smaller influence on our genetic…[Read more]

I didn’t bother to read the link above but my reply to the thread’s title is that all drivers are one conviction away from a ban. If the driving offence is serious – e.g. drink driving, dangerous driving or gross speeding, the driver will probably get a ban straight off, even for a first offence.

There is a widespread taboo about eating pork that goes beyond islam. It is well known that Jews do not eat pork for the same reason – i.e. it is considered ‘unclean’. Also some Christians do not eat it and there was always the old country saying: ‘it’s only safe to eat pork during the months with and ‘R’ in them’.

I am an atheist-humanist and…[Read more]

It is right that some recognition of the evils of slavery be marked 200 years after the slave trade was abolished.

What we are recognising is that a terrible wrong was perpetrated by some humans against others. Slavery has had a lasting effect on world demographics.

But the wrongs were committed by and against people who all died over a century…[Read more]