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not entirely unpredictably, there's a GTA V related outcry. A torture scene, apparently (don't have the game due to poverty and also lacking the time, really).
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/127963-Grand-Theft-Auto-V-Torture-Scene-Causes-Uproar
Has anyone here seen that scene, and also played The Last of Us? It'd need to go some to be more harrowing. Also, the torture scene in MGS3 didn't stop that game being rated 15 (a guy's electrocuted whilst suspended from the ceiling and hooded).
On-topic: nice cartoon. I do think it should be banned in at least some circumstances.
A newly qualified nurse, Umm Sufyaan, 21, wants to be able to wear her niqab at work. She said she always felt "a bit uncomfortable on shift" when she was not wearing the full veil.
"If you're giving someone some medication, as long as they can hear you and understand you, there's no need for them to see your face."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-24158041
EDIT: Darn. That was Boo Boo, not Baloo. *slinks off in shame*
Then again, I was surprised God of War... 2, I think, was an 18 because the violence was so cartoonish and over the top. I think you crush Theseus' head in a door at some point.
Mr. Anorak, that's a legitimate point. The MGS3 scene I referred to and The Last Of Us' more harrowing moments were cutscenes. However, one could argue whether tapping a button to progress is a huge step away from watching Jack Bauer electrocute someone.
I played GTA V for the first time today, I've got a dodgy knee, so was resting up for the day after finishing a busy set a work, my lad was at college, so I figured I'd try it out. Dunno about the torture scene, but I got sidetracked after a few minutes, and ended up in a lap dancing bar, fettling a blonde dancer called Chastity!
"An intriguing lead story tonight, a rare insight into the beginnings of the Ukip leader Nigel Farage, who attended the posh private school Dulwich College as a boy. It transpires that his behaviour was deemed so extreme that there was a question of whether he was fit material to become a prefect. Political Correspondent Michael Crick has obtained a letter from one of the teachers of the time in which she alleges Farage was a racist, a fascist and had sung Hitler Youth songs. All this when the Ukip leader was some 17 years of age. Mr Farage denies the charges in a lively interview with Michael."
I think we're all allowed to be a little foolish @17!
The fact the BBC didn't just confirms its liberal bias.
""Four to five-year-olds have a tendency to copy what they see on TV, whether it's this or Fireman Sam putting out fires," she said. "ATL is not calling for a ban on these games, or censorship at all. What we are asking is for parents to become aware that the little ones are seeing these things."
It's an 18-rated game. And if parents can't work out a GTA game might not be a good thing for a child of 4 to watch then I suspect that child is going to have a problematic upbringing.
A friend of mine was a duty solicitor in a northern town. He got called into the local nick aearly in the morning, to be greeted with a custody sergeant who was in hysterics. The story, if it is to be believed, is as follows:
A farmer had got drunk in town. As he meandered home past the local hospital, he wandered in, took a white gown off a peg and went into an all-women ward. He was on his fourth or fifth intimate examination before a woman wondered 1) Why such examinations were being done early in the morning, 2) why the doctor's breath smelt of alcohol, and 3) why he was wearing muddy wellies.
No idea if the story is true ...
Particularly bad gangstas or particularly bad paramedics?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/10321173/Germany-industry-in-revolt-as-green-dream-causes-cost-spiral.html
"Germany’s top economic adviser has called for a radical rethink of the country’s energy policies, warning that the green dream is going badly wrong as costs spiral out of control."
Instead of raising their salary the political class shouldn't be paid at all. They should have to work for nothing as a penance for all the harm they've done.
IpsosMORI/STV News
Scottish Parliament voting intention
Fieldwork: 9-15 September
Sample size = 1000
Constituency vote (FPTP):
SNP 41%
Lab 37%
Con 13%
LD 7%
Net leader satisfaction:
Patrick Harvie +11
Alex Salmond +8
Johann Lamont +6
Ruth Davidson +/-0
Willie Rennie -5
David Cameron -28
Party supporters' net satisfaction with leaders:
David Cameron (among Con voters) +66
Alex Salmond (among SNP voters) +64
Willie Rennie (among LD voter) +44
Ruth Davidson (among Con voters) +39
Johann Lamont (among Lab voters) +39
http://news.stv.tv/politics/240014-holyrood-voting-poll-snp-on-top-while-labour-makes-gains/
Tune in Turn on and Drop out and get your goose-stepping comrades to join you.
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9ffzwm1pe1rf0vt2o1_500.jpg
With Zero hours contracts and all the rest Labour should be having a field day but they can't because posing as champions of the oppressed can't work while they support unlimited mass immigration for what should be obvious supply and demand reasons.
As Cerise is blocked by that from going down the "Blue Labour" path that pretty much just leaves the Blairite rentboys-for-globalists position but hard to get anyone to vote for that except during a massive credit boom.
So he's stuck in no-man's land leaking support from both ends and has to rely on the Cameroons messing up (in public).
edit: And the "in public" part is something they are controlling better.
"Damian McPrickface" - what Tony Blair aide Benjamin Wegg-Prosser called Gordon Brown aide Damian McBride in email
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/sep/19/tony-blair-gordon-brown
I just watched a snippet of the scene on Youtube. Whilst unpleasant, it's certainly no worse than what's available elsewhere in TV/films/games. The interactivity (which looks pretty limited) would seem to be the greatest difference.
An issue with games, perhaps, is that the level of violence can stay the same, but graphics improving beyond measure from the Mega Drive to the PS4 means that a handful of pixels have become an incredibly accurate depiction of violence.
In reply to, er, myself, I just thought of a dramatic difference with The Last Of Us, namely that TLOU is damned harrowing throughout and deadly serious, whereas GTA is a generally fun series. So, brutality in TLOU fits the world, whereas it could jar in GTA V (not played it so can't be sure) .
CSU 47%
SPD 22%
Green 8%
FDP 5%
AfD 4%
FW 3%
Linke 2%
Pirates 2%
http://www.wahlrecht.de/umfragen/laender.htm#by
•Rand Paul 20% {28%} [4%] (10%)
•Chris Christie 19% {14%} [21%] (24%)
•Jeb Bush 14% {7%} [11%] (15%)
•Kelly Ayotte 12%
•Ted Cruz 10%
•Paul Ryan 7% {7%} [10%] (8%)
•Marco Rubio 7% {25%} [14%] (12%)
•Bobby Jindal 3% {1%}
•Rick Santorum 2% {4%} [5%] (7%)
•Someone else/Not sure 6% {11%} [10%] (2%)
•Hillary Clinton (D) 43%
•Chris Christie (R) 39%
•Hillary Clinton (D) 50%
•Kelly Ayotte (R) 42%
•Hillary Clinton (D) 49%
•Jeb Bush (R) 40%
•Hillary Clinton (D) 50%
•Paul Ryan (R) 41%
•Hillary Clinton (D) 51% (52%)
•Rand Paul (R) 41% (41%)
•Hillary Clinton (D) 50%
•Ted Cruz (R) 38%
•Chris Christie (R) 39%
•Joe Biden (D) 35%
•Joe Biden (D) 44%
•Rand Paul (R) 36%
•Joe Biden (D) 44%
•Marco Rubio (R) 34%
•Joe Biden (D) 43%
•Ted Cruz (R) 32%
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_German_federal_election,_2013
I do think though that the full burka should be banned in some places - nudist beaches, for example. I mean, for all we know, it could be JackW fiddling away with himself under that lot.
Perish the thought.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-24157161
LOL
Lib Dem voters NEVER switch to the tories. They either vote Lib dem or switch to labour. Isn't that one of PB's rules?
PS. Marf's cartoon appears to show a mixed sex ward. Are there still any inte NHS, or only in the Torygraphs imagination?
You've put me off.
Didn't EdM get this one right, SeanT, by asking for restraint, evidence and UN backing, as appropriate?
Just asking.
I still get the impression that the leadership of the party are broadly libertarian and small state believers. As I say the announcement today about the change in policy on banning the burqa is very welcome. Trouble is I think they have seen the recent jump in membership off the back of the gay marriage issue as just too good to miss and so have put popularity first in this case. I know some feel that is sensible even if they do not agree with the underlying view. I just feel it is something that will very quickly come back to bite them unless they are able to manage a transition back to a more laisse faire attitude very carefully.
The mood in the Greek capital is at the boiling point":
http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21586574-mood-greek-capital-boiling-point-edge
Surgical masks are worn in operating theatres of course, but not in public areas.
It was a little bit scary.
I was also impressed by one cyclist talking into the car window to his team, at about 50mph, an inch away from the car. Cool as you like.
And there's me thinking rugby is a tough sport. Surely those cyclists risk death if they fall off? Surely.
50mph being an exaggeration, but if felt like it!
The same rules apply to medical students etc.
Only five of the top eight though. No crack, or smack or crystal meth for me. I was a social druggy, not a lifestyle one like your good self.
And I'd be impressed if someone has done none of them. Now that would be far out.
Tyndall is right in one respect in that UKIP represents various shades of opinion and thats healthy. We are not a party of automations or robots; our councillors have no whip telling them what to say, unlike the Lab/Lib/Cons that are always made to toe the current line, even if it's against their own philosophy.
So have a go, put your dainty toe in UKIP waters, you'll end up feeling refreshed.
How I miss smoking tobacco! but it really is rather stupid.
I did have a week sniffing glue for a toxicology practical once, the department was trying to devise a breathalyser for glue sniffers. It gave me a stinker of a headache all week. Not much fun at all>
However, I was more or less addicted to Codeine for a good while, which was only a marginally more pleasant experience than the pain. I guess it was an addiction as it was blooming hard to stop taking it once the pain had stopped, and I felt both elated (no more pain) and awful (I wanted some Codeine).
Strange times ...
"I just feel it is something that will very quickly come back to bite them unless they are able to manage a transition back to a more laisse faire attitude very carefully."
These are your lines, Richard, from an earler post talking about UKIP. Which proves to me that when you talk of UKIP as 'THEM' and not 'US', where your true feelings are. Give Cleggie a bell; he'll welcome you.
Incidentally, I love the "harm to others" bit: zero on mushrooms. Lol!
Freedom.
Not for the faint hearted though!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ineCyWAOvqA
You would suppose incorrectly, obviously.
It was very very rare (mainly worn by whack jobs in the desert) until the 19th century, when the Brits occupied Egypt. Being good Liberals they promptly banned the burqa as representing the subjugation of women. Naturally, this lead to nationalists adopting the burqa as a symbol of rejection of Western values...
It's this history that makes me so nervous about permitting it in the UK. It is, very simply, an expression of 'apartness' and a rejection of everything out society stands for.
Adrenaline was always my fave.
I'm not a libertarian so I wouldn't ban them completely personally but they make a good issue for arguing over the principle that should apply when considering the rights and wrongs of restricting freedom when it comes to clothing, in particular (imo) that it should be considered on a case by case basis dependent on context i.e. court rooms.
Also useful for trying to force multicultists to state a single principle explicitly rather thanlet them have one principle in theory but in reality two because they ignore it when it conflicts with the multicult e.g. FGM, gender-based abortion etc.