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andrewducker) wrote2012-04-17 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2012-04-17 12:00 pm
Entry tags:
- alcohol,
- annwiddecombe,
- bbc,
- brains,
- charity,
- conservatives,
- debt,
- diet,
- drugs,
- drwho,
- email,
- england,
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- health,
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- iraq,
- law,
- lgbt,
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- mathematics,
- money,
- nanotech,
- northkorea,
- patents,
- patterns,
- portugal,
- rape,
- religion,
- replication,
- scepticism,
- sexuality,
- society,
- spain,
- spam,
- stroke,
- sugar,
- tax,
- technology,
- uk,
- volcano,
- war,
- water,
- wmd
Interesting Links for 17-04-2012
- Sceptic debunks "miracle", is arrested for blasphemy
- Majority of England now declared to be in drought - may last until Christmas
- When your non-patented drugs are spontaneously converted into patents ones. I love nanotech.
- The conviction rate for rape is 58%, higher than the average. Reporting it as 6% just puts people off reporting it.
- Greece,Portugal and Spain all fucked. They can't devalue, and they can't be competitive _and_ pay debts off.
- When Eton and Goldman Sachs run charities, the system needs reform
- Volcano eruptions follow Benford's Law
- North Korean Press Bus Takes a Wrong Turn, Gets Some Unauthorised Pictures
- Man whose WMD lies led to 100,000 deaths confesses all
- Abuse At Scale: How GMail deals with outgoing spam.
- Most people not aware how much sugar there is in "healthy" drinks (like fruit juice).
- Can a stroke change someone's sexuality?
- The Official Doctor Who Fan Club - the story of how the BBC handed Who fandom to a 13-year-old
- Ann Widdecombe can fuck off. "Bring back the concept of shame" my arse. (Tories trying to clamp down on drunk people)
no subject
You need to feel like you don't need to be drunk to have a good time.
You need to feel like you could choose to get up and dance - or not dance, if you prefer - based not on how hammered you are but whether you enjoy it.
You need to feel like if you saw a fit bloke, it didn't make you a slut if you went home with him, just for fun, if you were sober.
You need to feel like it's not going to be a mark of pride for you to tell your mates how many pints you kept down before the last one that broke the camel's back.
You need to feel like you're not a poof if you only fancy two pints, enjoyed slowly over the course of the evening, instead of seven or eight crammed into a two or three hour period.
You probably also need to be immune to the idiocy of your mates' behaviour when they're all hammered and you're not - you need to be able to walk down the street with them at kicking-out time wincing at their rendition of O Flower of Scotland at the top of their lungs and not be thinking "What a shower of wankers... this is the last time I stay sober with this lot."
It would probably also help if you were sure you could afford next month's mortgage/car insurance/council tax, you hadn't just had your working tax credits cut and you knew you'd still be in a job come the summer. But we can't expect miracles.
(This isn't an attack of any kind on you btw, it's more an extended commentary on the current State of the Nation.)