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Sleepless in Fulham: Rambling and gambling by David Young
Friday, 12 August 2005
Odds and Ends.
Topic: Misc.
Humbug about sex, part one.

This story baffles me. The popular computer game "Grand Theft Auto, San Andreas" was banned from shops in Australia and re-rated to 'adults only' in the US after it was discovered that it was possible to see graphic sex scenes by downloading a special patch from the internet.

This might seem understandable were it not for the fact that the game permits players to kill civilians, steal property and take drugs for amusement. I watched a friend of mine play an earlier version of the game (Vice City) and in the first minute he sliced a defenceless female character to death with a samurai sword for no reason whatsoever, before robbing a drug store and driving off in a stolen car. All part of the fun.

Yet it's only when players learn how to make their characters give pleasure to others instead of killing, robbing or mutilating them that it causes offence!

Humbug about sex, part two.

I bought Private Eye today and was amused to see that page five made fun of the number of female columnists writing about nannies. I called Vicky Coren about it, as she had noticed the same thing.

One of the pieces derided in the Eye was from a woman who said that nannies, like children and pets, needed to be set clear limits. She went on to complain about a lesbian nanny she hired who downloaded pornography onto her computer. This, the writer noted, was a clear cry for help and a sign that the nanny needed boundaries set for her.

"No", said Vicky. "She was looking for pictures of minge".

Quite right. It reminds me of the drivel people talk when they say that teenagers who have sex are suffering from low self-esteem. Utter bollocks. They have discovered that their genitals have nerve endings. Sometimes the simplest explanation is the best.

What is the point of W.H.Smith?

Growing up in the 1980s, I recall going to W.H.Smith's on a Saturday morning and seeing the place absolutely packed with customers. It was the Times Square of High Wycombe. If you stayed there long enough, you'd see everyone.

Recent visits to one in Fulham have left me stunned at how dead it is. It doesn't have anything like the stock of books that the local Borders has. It is competing with Rymans (about 100 yards down the same road) in the all-important market for plastic folders and hole-punchers and its music section is pitiful compared to what is available in Virgin and HMV.

All of this is so sad. Not because I'm a shareholder, but because as a teenager in a packed branch I could read substantial portions of the books and magazines I liked for free without being noticed. Now I would stand out a mile. Bah!

Friday, 12 August 2005 - 11:11 AM BST

Name: JayBee

"as a teenager in a packed branch I could read substantial portions of the books and magazines I liked for free without being noticed"

Nipping since a teenager?

One word describes your future and that of many others, PEDRO.

Do you have any investments? You certainly have no pension. You'd do better for yourself working the minimum wage for some company then at least you can get on their pension scheme. Try McDonalds. A job and a source of "sustainance".

Let's use the HendonMob database to look at the stats of a young lad from Essex. This year he earnt a massive 34K. Oh sorry, dollars. Not that much then. A university place pissed down the drain. What a future.

"But I don't do any work, James."

"That's the point of a degree, Grasshopper. You get one and sit in the City of London, eating, drinking champers and doing fug all else. Like I, you retire at 36 and move to Kerry. No nipping thereafter. Just raise a family and a few crops."

Online poker is going to leave the world with two legacies. Mega rich Internet entrepreneurs and men in their 50s renting alone, with no wife or children, nothing in the bank and nothing to show for their lives.

The main fault of poker players is that they think they have a money making machine for life. How many of the poker old timers were creaming it in their dotage?

Come friendly air liners....

Watched an interesting TV program about Salafism, last night. You know, the ones that want to reinstate the Caliphate. Greater Arabia plus the Ottoman Empire, Spain, Iran, all the 'stans and any ex-Soviet Islamic Republics I missed out. As the oil runs out and the dictators lose their heads the ordinary people will join together and reform the caliphate.

Salifis have fully infiltrated our society. Deliberately shave, dress well, even drink alcohol and eat pork to fit in. You may even be sitting next to one in the casino tonight. Goal, to destroy the west and its decadence. Sometimes I wish it upon us.

By the way, how are the nerve endings DY? Keep your pecker up, things can only get better.

Get it any way you can. Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

Friday, 12 August 2005 - 1:46 PM BST

Name: David Young

I've just realised that in saying 'Not because I'm a shareholder', I've made it look like I own shares in WH Smith.

I don't.

DY

Friday, 12 August 2005 - 2:23 PM BST

Name: JayBee

Maybe you had better start owning shares for when the old card skills leave you. Nobody wants to see you a'la Pedro sitting on a inflatable ring with your teeth on top of your hole cards.

Just been thinking about what amuses me so about your website.

Half of it is anti-Islamist and the other half is ammunition for them to hate you. :-D

Friday, 12 August 2005 - 4:36 PM BST

Name: David Young

"Half of it is anti-Islamist and the other half is ammunition for them to hate you. :-D"

Well it's not exactly a contradiction, is it? It's precisely because I

o - value mankind above non-existent deities
o - believe that man should create his laws without reference to ancient superstitions and
o - cherish my freedom to gamble and drink etc

that I'm not keen on Islam.

Makes sense, doesn't it?

DY

Friday, 12 August 2005 - 6:38 PM BST

Name: JayBee

Yeeeeesssss but...

1) Islamism is only one small part of the challenges facing Western Civilisation.

2) Many of these other challenges are more pressing.

3) You should discuss the bigger picture. It's not just Islamists that are fed-up with the West. Many westerners are too. I live amongst a growing band.

4) You are quite dogmatic in saying that Islamists are wrong and that you should continue as is.

5) Continuing as is will endanger mankind more than the Islamists could.

6) Your laws might be construed as being based on modern superstitions. Example, free market - devil take the hindmost.

7) Your lifestyle is rather anti-humananist. Quite selfish in fact. I wouldn't want to live in a world based on your view of it. I doubt that you could function in a Europe that is to change radically.

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