What makes you happy ?

Where would you absolutely not want your email address to be?
What would be the place which really would guarantee spam - and lots of it?
If you really wanted to dump on someone’s mailbox, how you you do it?

The above is asked out of curiosity. As you would expect :)

I am informed that this is supremely cool.

http://www.pocoyo.com
Loula rules :)

I have two daughters. I also have a view :) BBC Story

The High Court was told that Mrs Axon, 50, regretted undergoing a termination herself 20 years ago which caused her “guilt, shame and depression”.

Never ever impose your guilt and negative feelings on others. You will make out that it is for their benefit - you lie. It is trying to make you feel better about you. It’s ego. Don’t.

“It is incongruous to me that I am required to have to consent to my daughter having her belly button pierced while she can have an abortion without me even knowing.”

If a girl under 16 has not only got pregnant (which would indicate some sort of parental failure already) but has also then taken herself to the GP or an Advisory Clinic, and then discussed and agreed to a termination, then maybe they do not want you to know ? They will have been scared - yet not turned to you. That says a lot more about you than it does them.

“Her contention is much more modest. She merely says that as a matter of law she has the right to be notified - in shorthand, the case is about ‘the right to know’.”

Crap crap crap - she’d then run screaming to the courts to stop it saying that the daughter did not know what she had consented to. How about “Telling you after” - but that wouldn’t be good enough would it ?

Why is it that when parents say JUMP kids should do as they are told but when kids say LOOK they know nothing and must be told the error of their ways ?

The current guidelines infringed her parental rights under the European Convention on Human Rights, he told the judge.

I am sick and tired of this Human Rights rubbish. Aren’t you ??

Mrs Axon said she believed parents should be involved because “difficult discussions strengthen family life”.

I shall reveal the real meaning: “Mrs Axon said she thought her children should do as she said, not as she did and there would be hell to pay if they disagreed”.

The guidance deprived parents of the opportunity to advise their children and the child herself of the benefit of such advice, he added.

See that word in there ? advise. Implies discussion, agreeing to disagree. So the girl listens, talks and says “I’m keeping the child” - Mother agrees because child has seen the error of their ways and has consented to the pregnancy. But if the girl listens, talks and says “It’s going” then all of a sudden the child is incapable of rational thought and the full weight of the Law would be brought to bear by the mother. Can’t win can she - you really are determined to wreck her life even more aren’t you ?

From The Telegraph:

Mrs Axon stresses that her own teenage daughters Joy, 15, and Amber, 13, have not sought abortions and that she is bringing the case “as a matter of principle”.

Ahh……. this is one of those “I wannabe in the papers” things isn’t it ?

Mrs Axon - do not impose your views on me and mine. I won’t accept it from Tom “improving the Human Condition with every shiny-white smile” Cruise, so I’ll be damned if I’m taking it from you.

This is hilarious: http://www.fat-pie.com/chavs.htm (src: linkbunnies)

Over at LifeHut, a bit of a debate was started by the post entitled How to NOT cheat on your partner, and I’ve commented but not on the main issue. It’s a bit long for a comment.

The point I would criticise concerns the assumption I see running through that post that sex is the cheating part - it isn’t. But before I leap into a flawed post, the issue - as is rightly pointed out in that article, is talking. And I don’t mean after the fact either - speaking as a bloke, you will only ever find out what a woman thinks cheating is AFTER you have done something which you probably do NOT think is cheating - and your same-sex mates would agree with you and possibly even some opposite sex mates as well.. Read on…and what follows is the views of a 41 yo bloke who is still with the woman he met over 22 years ago and married in 1986. This neither entitles me to a “I’m better than you” opinion, nor does mean I’m telling you anything else.
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“You don’t know the history of psychiatry. I do,” says the shortarse. What utter garbage. Tom Cruise knows no more about the history of psychiatry than I do the personal history of a penguin living in a zoo anywhere. That guy is full of crap on this issue and people like him should just STFU about things which in their cossetted bloody lives they have not come across or had to endure. Scientology is garbage, trash, useless and a complete fiction dreamt up by a bloke who needed psychiatric medication ffs. Tom Cruise ? bullshit merchant.

They even link to IE5.5 suggesting that this will be a “Customer Upgrade”. Yes I could get a new card and sell it but now it’s the principle. Hunting for their Head Office phone number……..

Some time later……
I had to ring the generic phone number and hassle for Customer Services. This is what I told the guy who answered:

• that I had tried to return the fault Network Card yesterday but was told I needed a box so that the faulty item could be returned to the manufacturers
• that I called the helpline yesterday and was eventually assured that I could return the card to the original store and that as a Goodwill gesture, they would let me off having no box
• finding myself on the opposite side of the city this morning but close to a PC World, I went in and enquired if I could return an item I purchased elsewhere. The girl said I could. I showed her the card and the receipt. I explained the situation. She repeated the “No box, no go” mantra. I insisted, pointed out the phone number on the receipt. She wandered off to talk to someone, returning only to say again the PC World Company Mantra - “No box, no go”. I pointed out the telephone number on the receipt - she dismissed that as a “Branch number - doesn’t mean anything”. (I was livid at her attitude)
• I rang the helpline again. And AGAIN was told the box rule. I asked for the call to be escalated and that person also said “No box, no go”. I explained that there was something called a “law” which gave me lots of rights and that this stupid box thing could not overrule a “law”. Amazingly, she repeated the mantra.
• I rang Netgear. I explained what was going on and asked if they care about boxes. He said No. I was really clear about what PC World staff were telling me (remember this is 2 shop staff and at least 4 people on the phone) about the way Netgear insisted on faulty products coming back in their original box and the guy who worked at Netgear said that was false - they really do not care. Now I KNOW that PC World staff are lying.
• So I’ve rung Muppets Inc back and insist my call is escalated straight away. I get through to “Customer Services” (neat that when you call the only number you have it is not this dept) and I’m back in the present.

I say “Why do your staff lie to customers ?” I explain the situation fully. The guy I’m talking to says that it’s probably just a mistake by the staff. I insist that it is much more than a mistake given 6 staff in different locations have trotted out the same lie. He is insistent - and he was really decent on the phone - that there is no need for a box. He agreed that everything that had happened so far was unacceptable and that he would note this for the Area Manager.
Outcome: I send the card back to him, I get a refund+costs.

PC World - bunch of lying f*cking muppets. There is some nasty rip-off corporate culture going on in there