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Series 1 I just don't get police shows with a murder a week. Why do they keep getting made when columbo is available on dvd?

Got 2 episodes to go. I'm already gutted it's coming to an end. Superb stuff. Been trying to watch dexter too but it's comparatively woeful. No better than bones or the mentalist and all that shite.

Episode 1 of Season 2 of Treme, the HBO television drama set in New Orleans three months after Katrina, will debut at SXSW this week.

Ah, that's alright then. so did fat sam leave rather than being banned? They've got a strict policy against impersonation, and only the impersonated or someone acting legally on their behalf can make a claim against it. http://support.twitter.com/groups/33-repor...sonation-policy So allardyce was protecting the name "fat sam"? JTFC!

Ah, that's alright then. so did fat sam leave rather than being banned?

Getting good reviews... "one of the purest film pleasures I've encountered" http://m.hitfix.com/blogs/motion-captured/...t-genre-classic

Two years old but it's on his new album and it's fucking brilliant... One for Besty and DEADMAN

Just watched despicable me and thought it was gash.

Just got the new Saigon album, The Greatest Story Never Told

http://digitalmusicnews.com/stories/031011ridiculous And here's me thinking the Internet had broadened peoples musical horizons.

Oh dear, you do get into a tiz don't you...and then all the old tropes and swearies come out. The Gateshead case is the ONLY one I know of in the UK of a koran burning...that's all, a lot of what the CPS were saying DID INDEED back up your argument that harsher punishment would be given where there was evidence, but I still wasn't aware of a case it had actually happened. I was interested to read those other examples, that's why I said "Genuinely interested". For a first offense it seems fines are the way, and even the custodial sentence for a second offence was suspended for 2 years. Still, the fines are harsher. I wonder if I can have someone jailed for slagging off star wars on the grounds of my Jedi affiliations. I've never deviated from my opinion, best summed up by you..."universal rights to protest and freely express yourself. This moron crossed that line with his actions and was fined accordingly." Seems to me that you also agree with me that religious boundaries should be similarly adhered to and similarly punished. But you're the one intellectually dishonest enough to try and twist that round to call me a defender of religious extremists, while not levelling the same charge at yourself.

Charlie Gilmour. Don't think he was even charged

Chez asked the question 3 pages back and I said there's no difference. Genuinely interested to see if you can find anything harsher than a fine for blasphemy in the last decade though. Checked for myself as I knew you wouldn't.... Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006: Convictions Sammy Wilson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have been (a) charged and ( convicted under the provisions of the Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006. [16847] The Solicitor-General: I have been asked to reply. The Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006, which came into force on 1 October 2007, inserted into Part III of the Public Order Act 1986 offences relating to stirring up hatred against persons on religious grounds. Prosecutions for this offence require the consent of the Attorney-General. Since 1 October 2007 only one person has been charged with any offence of stirring up religious hatred, and that person (Anthony Bamber) was acquitted on 21 June 2010. http://services.parliament.uk/hansard/Comm...rs/part011.html

Chez asked the question 3 pages back and I said there's no difference. Genuinely interested to see if you can find anything harsher than a fine for blasphemy in the last decade though.

We could always be better than them instead? So rather than get drawn into a petulant tit-for-tat, burning bits and pieces, we could just be better? Thats what i'm saying, we havent done that.. But people saying its a fitting punishment because it means nothing, would be a different story if we burned something sacred to them. Tbh, they are the first to accuse the English of racism or descrimination, trying to stop us flying the English flag etc when they are going to extremes like this. When you say "they", who are you referring to? I honestly think you should stop believing whatever is written in the paper you read or whatever is said on the News Channel you watch. This knobhead burning poppies isn't the radical we need be concerned with. It's the radicals who plot and plan in silent shadows, they're the danger. Not a bellend with a lighter. Easy for you to say, you've never kicked a ball in your life Charlotte raises a fair point where he says that burning a Koran publicly would likely be punished more severely than the poppy burner. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-12253315

Canny for a rainy Saturday without a match

Is Emdadur Choudhury an immigrant? His defence said he has a job.

the security services are professionals who do their jobs to the best of their ability. They are however, hampered to a degree by red tape, lack of resources and manpower, and having to consider too often the protests of the pc brigade and do-gooders. This bloke may be a dunce, but the point is what his actions signify, and this problem is being allowed to grow at an increasingly fast rate So you feel we should change our laws to adapt to people like this?

And linking poppy burning to suicide bombers is wrong too if you ask me. If this fella has any tendency toward creating widespread carnage, then drawing attention to himself with a pathetic act like this is the worst thing he could possibly do. Terrorist cells tend to prefer a low profile I think...it allows their evil plans to go undetected. If you think this dunce is any kind of danger to us you have a low opinion of our security services.

...and ignored the reponse. I'll not waste my time again. Have a canny day mate. no, I don't consider our laws to be more "muslimesque". I don't get why you think looking after our own is "muslimesque" at all. They don't fit, it's up to them to adapt to us not the other way round. They have no right to abuse our troops and the memory of millions who have gave their lives for the UK past and present. They are fucking scum HF, scum who celebrate the blowing up of buses and the flying of aeroplanes into buildings. Think you've missed the point. I'm not saying our laws are 'muslimesque', but that you seem to want to change our laws to be more muslimesque. I don't. You said a koran burner in a muslim country would do so at their peril. You also said this mans "fate should be decided by the relatives of everybody who has lost a son in Afghanistan and Iraq" So you endorse the muslimesque approach of making it perilous to offend people. Seems to me these people accept our laws and have been punished according to it. You can't accept that's the end of it. my comment that the relatives should decide on his fate is obviously tongue in cheek, you can see this I suspect, you're not exactly Skidmarks or some other clueless cunt I simply don't agree that having a view on a punishment makes that particular view "muslimesque" in any way, its quite simply stating the obvious which is that these people alienate themselves from our cultures and way of life and bring about their own confrontations through their own actions. They are not suited to life in the west, so they should go and live where their chosen cultures aren't confrontational with the majority and the ways of that state. I find it hard to believe that you, an intelligent bloke who's opinion I respect by the way even if I don't agree with it, can't see what they are doing. Do you really not see that insulting the memory of men and women who died for the UK to be the despicable and cowardly act that it is ? Or blowing up buses and aeroplanes ? Why do you think that we should adapt to suit them, you do notice that everywhere on this planet that these wankers settle are being forced to adapt to their cultures and ways under the threat of violence and destruction don't you ? Don't say "its only a minority" because they have a considerable amount of silent supporters too, and even this "minority" are capable of a lot of destruction, and cuts in the security services aren't going to help matters either. I can see exactly what they're doing. I just choose to embrace the freedom that allows them to do it with an appropriate level of punishment, while agreeing with you that they're cocks. This is not me siding with the muslims, my reaction to the Koran burner story last year was exactly the same....I said on here it shouldn't have even been a story. You're reacting EXACTLY as they're manipulating you to though. You're assuming this is wider spread than it is. You're reacting with intolerance on a par with them, and whether seriously or not....pushing for further retribution against the wider community. I'm not saying we need to adapt to anything. Do you see you have it the wrong way round, while suggesting we extend punishments to cater to these imbeciles, you accuse me of wanting to adapt to them. I say show them what makes Britain great....our freedom and our tolerance.

Brilliant!

...and ignored the reponse. I'll not waste my time again. Have a canny day mate. no, I don't consider our laws to be more "muslimesque". I don't get why you think looking after our own is "muslimesque" at all. They don't fit, it's up to them to adapt to us not the other way round. They have no right to abuse our troops and the memory of millions who have gave their lives for the UK past and present. They are fucking scum HF, scum who celebrate the blowing up of buses and the flying of aeroplanes into buildings. Think you've missed the point. I'm not saying our laws are 'muslimesque', but that you seem to want to change our laws to be more muslimesque. I don't. You said a koran burner in a muslim country would do so at their peril. You also said this mans "fate should be decided by the relatives of everybody who has lost a son in Afghanistan and Iraq" So you endorse the muslimesque approach of making it perilous to offend people. Seems to me these people accept our laws and have been punished according to it. You can't accept that's the end of it.

...and ignored the reponse. I'll not waste my time again. Have a canny day mate.

a dance, a bit of card and a scraped one all. Nee wonder they can only half fill it if that's the highlights of the season.