Senior Church of England Bishop says gays must "repent and be changed"
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Sarah Brown marches in Pride parade
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Peter Tatchell reminds Sarah Brown gays can't marry
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Gordon and Sarah Brown host Pride reception
Gordon and Sarah Brown hosted an intimate reception in Downing Street's gardens this morning for organisers of London Pride and the pink press.
Gay Tory MP attacks new expenses story
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Gay Foreign Office minister Chris Bryant writes to ambassadors attacked over LGBT rights
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Gay Tory MPs miss London Pride
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Gay charities condemn 'weak-minded' decision to change teachers' code on gay issues
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Gay politicians pitch for your votes
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Lesbian jailed for conning chatroom users out of nearly £100,000
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Jolly decent of you, Mr Ishmael, to broaden our limited horizons in this way.
My favourite bit was the adverts.
STUNNING GAY WEDDINGS
On Golden Gate Bridge, where you're only a small step away from Eternity.
On a remote mountaintop - Mt St Helens - blow that, you bastard.
Or our piece de resistance, down a fucking coal mine, with the lights out.
FREE GAY CHUB CHAT
Are you a fat bastard - and gay to boot? Some people have all the luck. But here's the good news - worry about your weight no longer. HIV, or anally injected death serum, is also known as "slim" in Africa, for obvious reasons. Keep plugging away, you'll be thin in no time!
My own horizons, really; and my favourite bit, Ms Daisy, was the comments, down the bottom. So to speak.
Ah! I hadn't looked, but I do see what you mean.
They make Guido's crowd look like the Mothers Union!
MORE GAY JOBS
Fancy a bit of sunshine? How about mixing with a lot of big, butch, sweaty soldiers? Yes? Then Afghanistan could be just the place for you.
A vacancy has suddenly appeared for a person to clear minefields by walking through them with his fingers in his ears. You don't have to be a bit queer, but it helps, obviously.
No previous experience needed, full training given.
How much did this cost me as a taxpayer and don't divide it by how many of us there are.
You’ll like this, Mr Ishmael, though perhaps not a lot.
According to Lord Bingham, who retired last year from his position as the senior Law Lord:
“Are there, for example, and this goes to conflict, not post-conflict situations, weapons that ought to be outlawed? From time to time in the history of international law various weapons have been thought to be so cruel as to be beyond the pale of human tolerance. I think cluster bombs and land mines are the most recent examples. It may be — it may be, I’m not expressing a view - that unmanned drones that fall on a house full of civilians is a weapon the international community should decide should not be used.”
His Lordship, talking of “unmanned drones that fall on a house full of civilians” is presumably referring, with all his customary clarity, to the Predator and Reaper aircraft armed with laser guided Hellfire missiles. Whilst they are unmanned, they are, of course, under human direction at all times and do not wander about, willy-nilly, crashing into houses as the notion takes them. (Hellfires, as well as being laser guided, are of course programmed to seek out wedding parties, particularly those where, although dress may be optional, the carrying of AK 47’s and RPG’s is de rigeur.)
But his Lordship’s distinction between manned and unmanned bombing escapes me. Last May, a B1 bomber dropped five 500lb bombs and three 2000lb bombs on an Afghan village, killing around 150 people. Why is the B1 presumably a legitimate weapon of war, but a Predator, unmanned but under human control and direction at all times, a weapon which his Lordship considers “so cruel as to be beyond the pale of human tolerance”?
One would have thought that it is the targeting of civilians, by whatever means, that is beyond the pale, but his Lordship who, it should be emphasised, was our most senior judge until his recent retirement, apparently thinks otherwise.
This blog has now, apparently, become the cyberspace equivalent of the Marie Celeste.
The Plumber's van has been found, empty, in the mysterious dark fastnesses of Higher Jockland, its master and crew vanished into thin air. The Plumber’s overalls and customary half rolled down wellies were found lying neatly on the passenger seat along with the trusty adjustable spanner that never left his side and, in accordance with legend, there were rumours of half-drunken mugs of steaming tea, half-eaten sausage sarnies and a strange, shrivelled, woe-begotten creature that answered to “Dog, Buster”, and did nothing but shit all over the fucking place. Some talked of the vehicle’s milometer running backwards, but they were probably thinking of a previous occasion, prior to the Plumber selling his old van on E-bay.
What happened to the Plumber and his motley crew? Were they abducted by aliens? Did he mention the rocking horse once too often? Did he drive too close to Nessie and the monster from the deep consumed him? Or has he again been in communication with the Twilight Zone?
Stay tuned hereabouts, readers, when we discover what terrible fate has befallen our valued and much missed Plumber, you’ll be the first to know - you’ll hear it here first.
My friend, stanislav, the plumber, has a heavy work load; Jock, as you know is an idle bastard and when his toilet goes wrong is happy to piss in the sink and shit in the garden, rather than do some work, our young friend is thus often on call, lest Scotland, best, as he puts it, part of England, be carried away on a tide of effluent. He is ever the optimist.
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