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At the same time, remember what the police did for the last couple of asian/muslim raids, ie called international press conferences & released far more info than was acceptable in the UK for overseas consumption. So much so that the New York Times had to block its reports to UK servers. Another factual innaccuracy is that the claim that one of the suspects is an "ex-BNP" member is wrong. He stood for election in May/June this year & apparently, their memberships run from January to December. So his membership is current. Hmmm!

If you have pus coming out, there is infection in there & you need to seek medical advice ASAP! Especially because it is an unprofessional job & the hygene control dubious.

Innit. Messes you right-up! My sympathies - hope things are better now

Ah-ha! I think I've just found the bastard whom my two-timing ex -2 went-off with. See she didn't change very much then!

Got turfed-out of another pub this weekend. On the Royal Mile in Edinburgh. A few of us who are now spread about the country, try to stay in touch by meeting-up once a month in Edinburgh. We have been using this pub for the last year or so with a regular booking since our previous watering hole was sold & closed, never a problem. Due to some of us now living in places not well served by public transport or having had to give-up the sauce etc, there are a fair few who don't drink or don't drink much at these gatherings. Anyway, we arrived to find a new manager with an absolutely freezing attitude who waited till a good few of us had arrived, bought drinks & sat down. Only then did he bother tell us we were no longer welcome. No reason given of course but I'd hazzard a guess that it might have a fair bit to do with us not buying enough booze. Especially as the particular lack of grace with which he served the non-drinking members of the company was rather obvious. Cunt!

That in the end is the problem. I don't know how many times I've seen a pub or club treat its staff/customers with complete & utter contempt, safely knowing that they will still come running back for more. "Because it is the only place" Plenty of others out there, some are even good. Walk, or tell them to stick it.

Troll alert maybe? Although I might well agree that another Tory government might just be the best thing for Scotland. It could do-in the union once & for all?

I've seen this before, there are a whole load more here: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/backstagetour/index.html Some are utterly brilliant. OTOH eg Korn's request for fast internet connections & big boxes of tissues. The Chilli's chill-out/new-agey space specs & the contents of Stevie Nicks's drinks trolley is a thing to behold. Budding artists take note!

Except that the WLC has been rendered quite irrellevant by the years of english interference in Scottish affairs that goes back right to the days of the act of union & most recently during the last Tory regieme when Scotland became a tory free zone, except when they used their English votes to enact legislation up here. Then there are other things like the recent turning of the border by 90 degrees to put the oilfields in English waters etc. No point at all.

We have yet to see an apology for that other little gaffe of his - when he published a piece advocating extermination for the Scots a couple of years back. His apologists brushed it off as a bit of "harmless Garnetting!"

Don't bank on Altens staying open to 6:30 either. I've been caught by them closing early a few times. Sometimes by 6 - especially on a Friday.

He cycles, which pleases those who want to push the green credentials & it seems that he has significant appeal amongst a certain type of woman. The sort whose buffoon-mothering fantasies they probably want to turn into votes.

That was probably it, the tourer set-up rings a big bell anyway. Probably, I think I recognise you from the photo. We certainly have a few friends in common. Not been up that way for a while, rarely beyond the Sainsbury roundabout much now. I'll have a look tho, I've been making a bit of pest of myself to the roads dept about dangerous surfaces recently.

I think I must have known a different model Mirage, which despite a fantastic engine, was a truly evil-handling thing. Indeed, we always knew there to be something "extra" about Lav owners but most Italian bikes of the day had that special buzz! Yup, a couple of mates had Jotas & the abuse they took & still kept rolling was incredible. Had the same happen on the Ducati at a rather daft speed on Garthdee road once. Completely locked the rear wheel, did-in my back tyre, boots, pants & left a most impressive skidmark all down the hill too! Thank f*ck there was no traffic islands/roundabouts back then!

Please tell me that you had the Jota Chassis! Old Italian bikes never die, my Duke still sits in its shed waiting!

Pub in Greenhead in Northumbria for turning-up at a Goldwing owners rally, on a Ducati! Pub in Sladiburn in Lancashire for being covered head-toe in shit after a slurry-truck with a faulty valve had dropped its load on the road in front of me. The Marcliffe for getting a blowjob off one of the staff. The Moorings - Some random drunk guy came & sat beside us, bit later he stood-up, teetered & fell face first on the table, launching a pile of glasses on to the folk at the next table. Later lifted when they accepted we had nowt to do with the guy. Ritzy - Later the Palace: 1: Two bouncers falsely accused my pal of letting people in the fire-door & lamped him. When the rest arrived & found their colleagues flat on the floor, they politely asked us to leave & never come back. 2: It is the Palace now & a few of the old crowd were together out for a rare night-out. This woman had a bit of history with one of us & got her new bunch of young suitors to come over & give my mate the evils. Which was fine till one of them lobbed a glass. Again, the bouncers came steaming-over, saw the company & became most polite & almost apologetic about asking us to leave. Pub on Queens road. Dutch Mill? Barman had seriously pissed-off a mate so we went there with the sole intention of getting him sacked. It worked, we were all kicked-out at the same time. The lot of us singing a spirited version of Great Balls of Fire was the breaking point. O'neills, for pointing-out a blatent abuse of the planning/licencing laws Uni Union for pointing-out to the pompus wanker who had just threatened me that for several reasons, they had completely voided their licence. Shortly after, they got in deep shit for it. Exodus - Dunno why. A guy who looked like a junkie had just tried to pick a fight & I'd walked away. Revolution: Smart lassie sat down beside me & starts gabbling. Turned-out she was having an antidepressants & booze moment. When she started projectile vomiting, the bouncer thought I had something to do with her & kicked us both out. Carrying her up the stairs was a messy experience. Spent the rest of the evening making small-talk with her aunt whilst holding a basin under the poor girl's head. Denmark! Various pubs for not buying an alcoholic drink &/or being one of those nasty biker type guys. Moi? Every pub/club, taxi-firm & buisness owned or connected to a reasonably well-known local settled-traveller family. After a year or so working my arse-off for them, in various capacities (mainly IT/disfunctional family-liason ), the patriarch decided that my job was ideal for one of his unemployable daughters, who could be counted-on to turn-out for any party anywhere but never lasted more than 10 days in any real job. I was working my notice OK till the guy & his daughter drove-up & he sent her in to deliver his instructions & she came-on all lady-muck. The squrming toad couldn't even look me in the eye. After she left, I changed every password on their system, shut it down early, locked the place down solid, posted the keys back through the letterbox. I then ignored the phone for a fortnight ecxept to call a pal who worked for the firm whom they would undoubtedly ask to sort the mess out, who later told me that the job was done disgustingly badly & all-in, cost them many thousands of pounds! I've rarely used a taxi since. I could go on! :O

Interesting to note that neither they or C&E could produce any reliable research to back-up the claims the last time this was made an issue & they also neglected to compare the claimed content with a lot of other supposedly healthy items that turned-out to be even richer in the so-called harmful stuff. All-in, about as reliable as the internet chain-leters about the dangers of Aspartame. BTW, Moldovan fags are probably even cheaper.

I was in Markies on Sunday & they had quite a few on display. No idea if they were any specific ones tho.

There are plenty of employers etc who get very shitty about visible piercings, so they may well be taking the practical-living approach & are miultiply pierced & positively dripping with metalwork on the bits you can't see.

Except that the health issue goes a whole lot deeper than anything that can reasonably be done in schools. IMO, focusing on schools is just going for the softest target. There were! Except they got the belt in Scotland We may well be stuck with the problem of dealing with troubled kids but there is a whole lot more that can be done to see that educators don't compound those problems further - it is not like thay lack the brains/choices to find another way . No child deserves to be on the end of that sort of misconduct. Also, IME health/dietary/dinner-hall issues are amongst the main flashpoints for unprofessional behaviour, which may suggest that schools are already being tasked with a duty they are quite unprepared for/unsupported in? I don't see how they can continue to justify any educational role unless authorities deal fully with outstanding issues around the abuse of/overstepping responsabilities. Until then, they can't be trusted one bit.

It might well encourage some teachers yes. In fact, I've got no shortage of not dissimilar stories from my own schooldays & later from when I worked in schools - As well as being remaindered as one myself, difficult/troubled kids became my stock-in-trade for several years. One of the prime reasons I quit, on very bad terms with my last employers was because of their unwillingness to face-up to & complete inability to deal adequately with this sort of "teacher." Even in situations where serious professional misconduct was proven. So yes, until authorities sort-out their problems with staff discipline & professional-standards/competence monitoring to ensure this can never happen again, I can barely recognise that they have any role in modern education.

Yesterdays conviction of the Middlefield head teacher seems appropriate: http://thisisnorthscotland.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=149212&command=displayContent&sourceNode=200378&home=yes&more_nodeId1=149215&contentPK=15503078 This fine example of "encouragement" to healthy eating, more than anything is a reason why schools/authorities should not get any more powers. I've seen far too much of this sort of abuse, both from my own school days & during the years I spent working in schools.

Tee hee! http://www.randomperspective.com/page.asp?1news/3/023