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Laws, tattoos, whales, paper planes

February 7th, 2008 Roshan Posted in World |

I was just reading the BBC feed and a couple of articles stuck out. Those highly advanced Japanese are building paper planes that are to be thrown out of the ISS, that’s pretty cool and all, but I would hope that they would spend more money on researching how to study whales without having to kill young calves and their mothers. That is disgusting, have they no respect for life? While everyone else is out attempting to conserve whales and to minimise our impact on them, Japan’s out to get them for ’scientific purposes’. This is like reading Playboy for the articles.

Elsewhere, the Archbishop of Canterbury says that Sharia law in the UK is ‘unavoidable’. I don’t know what he’s smoking but that’s one dangerous track to go down on. A uniform civil code that applies to all people, regardless of their religion, ethnicity, whatever is something that is essential to an equal society. One must not be fooled by false Muslims, the kind who make a fuss and strike when they’re part of the NHS and such bullshit. Fire them, if they don’t want to work like everyone else. Deport them, if they don’t want to accept the laws of the state to which they’ve emigrated. And if they’re homegrown converts then let them live under the same laws as everyone else. This is a slippery slope, after a while everyone will start demanding their own privileges: My religion allows me to snort coke, my ethnic background demands that I play music at high volumes at midnight in a residential area. Please, treat these idiots like what they are, and if they violate laws because these laws are ‘against their custom’ put them in jail. Please don’t encourage such behaviour UK.

In other news, a woman with vertigo isn’t correctly diagnosed until nearly 3 years after first symptoms and the guy who finally got it right was of Indian origin (yay irrational pride, yay). When my aunt came over in December my parents and her were talking about just this, the fact that even hospitals with expensive super-specialists can miss a particular disease for whatever reason and that disease can be diagnosed by small places. This is almost the same story. Fascinating. The fellow in my aunt’s recollection had some disease where the eyelid was drooping and where he would fall down in the evenings.

And to round it up, a girl tattoos ‘Supermarket’ on her stomach trying to get her boyfriend’s name there and the worst bit is they broke up. It’s like one of those old “Bill Gates will pay cancer kid if you forward this” email messages, these stories just keep coming up, there’s always some big guy who’s tattooed “Kitty” on his biceps or some guy who stuck “Depression” on his neck. It’s quite funny. One would think that these people would go get the words checked with the local Chinese take-out before getting permanently needled. Ha ha ha. If I get a tattoo, it’ll be 自由 which hopefully means freedom. Yes, that font isn’t calligraphic. But then, I’m not getting tattooed anyway.