Today I'm angry about.....

[TANGODANCER]

http://news.uk.msn.com/articles.aspx?cp ... =154683288

Go to hell you smug bastards!!!! Another bunch of tools wanting us to part with money we ain't got, hosepipe bans, dry winters/summers just who the feck are they trying to kid? Sack the swines or withdraw any government funding imeadiatly, tell the water companies the gaffers will face prison if they drain the res for maintainance then bull shit about "dry winters" when we have record snows etc the type of water that soak in not runs off the land thus putting down a decent water table. Watch the flooding this winter!

Seems sensible enough to me Hoby?

[ohjimmyjimmy]

'potentially halving the cost of Global Warming'

[BWFC_Insane]

Whats always best in these situations is to bury our heads in the sand and pretend that the overwhelming weight of scientific evidence is wrong because we don't really like what the science tells us.

So lets try and find silly little holes in the evidence, even though we don't really understand the first thing about it and then cling onto the one or two nutters who walk round telling us global warming isn't really happening and that its really just some multi-national plot to let governments raise extra taxes and that none of the greatest scientific minds across the world will possibly speak up and admit they've made it all up because you know, there is a shadowy organisation below them who will kill them should they speak out. After all we know that these science bods don't have minds of their own. Sheep, is all they are I tells you.

And anyone who suggests we plan for any sort of disaster or eventuality where the country is in trouble due to this non-existent change in weather patterns should just be locked up. That way we won't have to listen to them and we can all carry on regardless pretending nothing is happening and that our biggest problem is really those brown people who moved in next door.

[ratbert]

Over 100 years of mass industrialisation and still people claim that global warming isn't man-made. I despair.

And even if by the slimmest of chances it turns out to be natural, we still need to tackle it, folks.

[thebish]

I don't give much of a crap about the pope being here - either for or against - I can understand and sypmathise with both sides of the rather tedious argument...

BUT...

it is repeated headline news on the radio today that:

50 "prominent celebrities" have written a letter to the guardian opposing the pope's visit.

1. I'd challenge anyone to recognise more than about 5 of the names

2 - and this is what irritates me... ALL of the 50 have significant links to the British Humanist Society and/or the National Secular Society.

now - they have their view - and that's all fine and dandy - but no report I have heard mentions this fact at all - it is made to sound as if it is a random collection of concerned celebrities - it isn't!


so what angers me?

simply this...

if 50 catholic priests wrote to the Guardian supporting the pope's visit - it would (rightly) NOT be deemed nationally newsworthy - so why is a letter from 50 largely unknown National Secularists deemed to be News?


if anyone is interested - here is the list of entirely unconnected concerned celebrities who signed this not at all a round-robin campaign letter:

Stephen Fry - BHA Distinguished Supporter
Professor Richard Dawkins - do I really need to ....
Professor Susan Blackmore - BHA Distinguished Supporter
Terry Pratchett - NSS Honorary Associate, BHA Distinguished Supporter
Philip Pullman - NSS Honorary Associate, BHA Distinguished Supporter
Ed Byrne - BHA Distinguished Supporter
Baroness Blackstone - VP British Humanist Association
Ken Follett - BHA Distinguished Supporter
Professor AC Grayling - Vice President British Humanist Association, NSS Honorary Associate
Stewart Lee - BHA Distinguished Supporter, NSS Honorary Associate
Baroness Massey - BHA Distinguished Supporter
Claire Rayner - Vice President British Humanist Association, NSS Honorary Associate
Adele Anderson - BHA Distinguished Supporter
John Austin MP - BHA Distinguished Supporter
Lord Avebury - BHA Distinguished Supporter
Sian Berry - BHA Distinguished Supporter
Professor Simon Blackburn - Vice President British Humanist Association
Sir David Blatherwick - BHA Distinguished Supporter
Sir Tom Blundell - BHA Distinguished Supporter
Dr Helena Cronin - BHA Distinguished Supporter
Dylan Evans - BHA Distinguished Supporter
Hermione Eyre - BHA Distinguished Supporter
Lord Foulkes- Unknown
Professor Chris French - BHA Distinguished Supporter
Natalie Haynes -BHA Distinguished Supporter
Johann Hari - Board of National Secular Society
Jon Holmes - BHA Distinguished Supporter
Lord Hughes - Vice President British Humanist Association
Robin Ince - BHA Distinguished Supporter
Dr Michael Irwin - BHA Distinguished Supporter
Professor Steve Jones - BHA Distinguished Supporter
Sir Harold Kroto - BHA Distinguished Supporter
Professor John Lee - BHA Distinguished Supporter
Zoe Margolis - BHA Distinguished Supporter
Jonathan Meades - BHA Distinguished Supporter, NSS Honorary Associate
Sir Jonathan Miller - BHA Distinguished Supporter, NSS Honorary Associate
Diane Munday - BHA Distinguished Supporter
Maryam Namazie - BHA Distinguished Supporter, NSS Honorary Associate
David Nobbs - BHA Distinguished Supporter
Professor Richard Norman - BHA Distinguished Supporter
Lord O'Neill - BHA Distinguished Supporter, NSS Honorary Associate
Simon Price - BHA Distinguished Supporter
Paul Rose - BHA Distinguished Supporter
Martin Rowson - BHA Distinguished Supporter, NSS Honorary Associate
Michael Rubenstein - BHA Distinguished Supporter
Joan Smith - NSS Honorary Associate
Dr Harry Stopes-Roe - Vice President British Humanist Association
Professor Raymond Tallis - BHA Distinguished Supporter
Lord Taverne - NSS Honorary Associate
Peter Tatchell - Protest the Pope founder
Baroness Turner - NSS Honorary Associate
Professor Lord Wedderburn of Charlton QC FBA - NSS Honorary Associate
Ann Marie Waters - unknown
Professor Wolpert - BHA Distinguished Supporter
Jane Wynne Willson - Vice President British Humanist Association

[ohjimmyjimmy]

Stick a few Colleens, Peter Andres, Jordans and Fearne Cottons on that list, and people might take notice !

[Little Green Man]

50 "prominent celebrities" have written a letter to the guardian opposing the pope's visit.

1. I'd challenge anyone to recognise more than about 5 of the names

I recognised about 30 of them. Do I win a prize?

[thebish]

50 "prominent celebrities" have written a letter to the guardian opposing the pope's visit.

1. I'd challenge anyone to recognise more than about 5 of the names

I recognised about 30 of them. Do I win a prize?

yes! you win this pope soap on a rope... (you celeb sucker!)

[Little Green Man]

yes! you win this pope soap on a rope... (you celeb sucker!)

I suspected that might be the prize on offer (though I was hoping for one of those Benedictaphones.) I suppose I could pop up the road and get His Holiness to sign it.

[thebish]

yes! you win this pope soap on a rope... (you celeb sucker!)

I suspected that might be the prize on offer (though I was hoping for one of those Benedictaphones.) I suppose I could pop up the road and get His Holiness to sign it.

oooh - can I use your dick to phone?

[Il Pirate]

Whilst I don't give a pope's cock about the pope, or his visit; I would like to know who's paying for it all?

[thebish]

Whilst I don't give a pope's cock about the pope, or his vist; I would like to know who's paying for it all?

UK gov - roughly £10mill

Catholic Church - roughly £10mill

[ohjimmyjimmy]

Oh well, we've gone halvsies, whats all the fuss about!

[Il Pirate]

Whilst I don't give a pope's cock about the pope, or his vist; I would like to know who's paying for it all?

UK gov - roughly £10mill

Catholic Church - roughly £10mill

Cheers Bish.

.................................and I've still got to put me own bins out......................................

[Lord Kangana]

We're paying ten million quid for a bloke in a dress to tell fairy stories to a large crowd? Why not just get Eddie Izzard on Jackanory for a grand or two?

[thebish]

Whilst I don't give a pope's cock about the pope, or his vist; I would like to know who's paying for it all?

UK gov - roughly £10mill

Catholic Church - roughly £10mill

Cheers Bish.

.................................and I've still got to put me own bins out......................................

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[ohjimmyjimmy]

We're paying ten million quid for a bloke in a dress to tell fairy stories to a large crowd? Why not just get Eddie Izzard on Jackanory for a grand or two?

Or go see Christopher Biggins in panto.

[thebish]

We're paying ten million quid for a bloke in a dress to tell fairy stories to a large crowd? Why not just get Eddie Izzard on Jackanory for a grand or two?

no... I think that's the bit the catholics are paying for.

we're paying for the state bit - meeting the queen (who is not allowed to be catholic), talking at Westminster Hall to invited "members of British Society" on Friday evening, and meeting Davey C, Nicky C, and hobo's nanny on Saturday morning...

[Lord Kangana]

That first sentence really needs a fnar fnar after it bish.

Still, the queen could stay at home watching Eddie Izzard on telly reading fairy stories. Ten million saved. This deficit would last about ten minutes if they let me at it....

[ohjimmyjimmy]

That first sentence really needs a fnar fnar after it bish.

Still, the queen could stay at home watching Eddie Izzard on telly reading fairy stories. Ten million saved. This deficit would last about ten minutes if they let me at it....

so would worldwide diplomacy

'Can your Queen come to greet President Obama during his visit?'

'sorry cock, she's at home watching Lost DVD boxset'