The beaver is a proud and noble animal
Notes from a bemused canuck
Having Halloween displays in September? Early, but acceptable.
Having xmas displays at the same time???
Don’t get me wrong, I love xmas. I really, really do. But it really gets my goat when the displays start creeping in earlier and earlier every year. September??? I mean, come on!
Source: The Telegraph
Mickey Mouse is a corrupting influence and must die, a Muslim cleric has declared.
Sheikh Muhammad Munajid claimed the mouse is “one of Satan’s soldiers” and makes everything it touches impure. But he warned that depictions of the creature in cartoons such as Tom and Jerry, and Disney’s Mickey Mouse, had taught children that it was in fact loveable. The cleric, a former diplomat at the Saudi embassy in Washington DC, said that under Sharia, both household mice and their cartoon counterparts must be killed. Mr Munajid was asked to give Islam’s teaching on mice during a religious affairs programme broadcast on al-Majd TV, an Arab television network.
According to a translation prepared by the Middle East Media Research Institute, an American press monitoring service, he said: “The mouse is one of Satan’s soldiers and is steered by him. According to Islamic law, the mouse is a repulsive, corrupting creature. How do you think children view mice today – after Tom and Jerry? Even creatures that are repulsive by nature, by logic, and according to Islamic law have become wonderful and are loved by children. Even mice. Mickey Mouse has become an awesome character, even though according to Islamic law, Mickey Mouse should be killed in all cases.”
Last month Mr Munajid condemned the Beijing Olympics as the “bikini Olympics”, claiming that nothing made Satan happier than seeing females athletes dressed in skimpy outfits.
People like this piss me off. There are fanatics on both sides of the debates, and it’s ruining everything for people stuck in the middle. There is more talk this year about banning Santa Claus and Christmas because it could be offensive for Muslims in Britain.
It would seem that it’s not possible to be a moderate anymore. I never was this annoyed by PC-ism, but the whole moralistic outrage culture is giving me a knee-jerk reaction of “let them be offended!”.
For more than two years, Sydney Davis’s house has been under siege from youths throwing stones. After two hours of bombardment in the latest attack and no sign of the police, the 65-year-old retired builder decided enough was enough. As a particularly large missile landed in his kitchen, he grabbed a plank of wood from the garden and ran towards the gang to scare them away. The police arrived just in time – to arrest Mr Davis for possession of an offensive weapon. He now faces up to six months in prison. Yesterday Mr Davis said he was bewildered by the decision to prosecute him. He claims objects have been thrown at his house on 700 separate occasions. His windows have been smashed five times in eight months.
It’s not the first time I see articles like this in UK news services. It really bothers me and it means that we’ll really need to look carefully where we decide to buy a house.
People suck.
Source: The Daily Mail
I'm peeved from a very gross experience in the showers just now. i walked in to a shower cubicle and was getting ready to shower after my workout when I noticed a large runny white glob on the shower door that looked suspiciously too gloopy to be shampoo, if you know what I mean.
I mean, jesus people, show some common fucking decency.