What do you want to see at our parties? we're always looking for ways we can spice our parties up, weather its gettin some more lighting or cookin a BBQ for everyone we're always open to new ideas. so if there is anything you would like to see at our parties that you dont already, please let us know.
cheers.123
usa gun rights right i have been having a debate with some usa friends, about the shooting in the school a few days ago , i happen to open the conversation with , its hardly surprising in a country where yr aloud to own guns that these sort of things go down,
now there all up in arms so to say , saying its still there right to bear arms, and im liberal for thinking like i do.
I'm not blaming the right to bear arms for incidents like this. I was suggesting that a review of the ease with which they can be obtained might be in order. Or are there gun laws perfect?
whats yr veiws on this
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The Weather Is Awesome! This morning on my way into work i realised that we have been having some lovely weather,
Its that warm i have been riding my motorbike with a sunglasses and an open faced helmet (which i have to say is such an amazing feeling) , sitting outside in the beer garden, taking walks early in the morning. Oh and not to forget stomping to tunes in the sun.
i love this time of year and i am hoping for many more months of this weather!
Roll on summer of 2007! raaa1234
lobotomy party, notts Anyone go to the lobotomy vs psycle party on friday?
Not done one of their parties before but i was worth the trek. Friendly crowd there too. Even the chavs were nice and friendly. Most suprising.
just wondered if they had any hassle off the o.b at the end?
Nice one to all involved and those i chatted to. Will be keeping my ear to the ground for the next outdoor
help needed Not sure, if this is the right area to post this but if not please feel free to move it!
Help needed putting on a small party ie sound system, dj's, decor etc We live by the sea in mid wales.. it is very beautiful but a bit boring, but on plus side no neighbours a few acres of land and barns.
Any help greatfuly recieved as would put a smile on partners face as she misses being up north and partying.
cheers welly
FAO anyone in Bournemouth Hi all, I was wondering if anyone who lives in bournemouth could help me track someone down. I met a guy called Steve at the dragon festival this year when he d.j'd on our rig. He was playing d'n'b and was there with a guy called speedy i think. They are both into the party scene in dorset and i didn't swap numbers before we left. If anyone knows of either of them could you P.M me please. I'm also looking for a fat party this weekend so if anyone wants to pm me a number that would be awesome.
MORE than 100,000 young UK Muslims Islam youths are 'rejecting UK'
MORE than 100,000 young UK Muslimshold extremist or anti-British beliefs, a shock report suggests today.
Tens of thousands think Muslims who switch religions should be punished by death.
More than a third want Taliban-style Sharia law, which regards women rape victims as guilty and says adulterers should be killed by stoning.
And more than one in ten of the 16 to 24-year-olds polled “admire” Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda and other terror groups.
The survey was carried out last month for centre-right think tank Policy Exchange.
Census figures show there are about 320,000 British Muslims in the age group polled — suggesting 100,000 are rejecting British values and culture.
The poll found three-quarters think women should cover their whole face with a veil. Four out of ten plan to send their kids to Islamic-only schools.
The Policy Exchange report says: “There is a growing religiosity amongst the younger generation of Muslims.
“They feel they have less in common with non-Muslims and show a stronger preference for Islamic schools and Sharia law.”
Security chiefs have warned ministers that Britain is almost certainly facing another terror strike by home-grown fanatics.
The poll reveals only six per cent of youngsters believe the Muslim Council of Britain represents their views.
That is a huge blow to Tony Blair who believes the body can play an important part in improving
Taken from: http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007040620,00.html12
What can the Danes teach us about happiness?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6563639.stm
Danes are the happiest people in Europe, a survey suggests. But what is the secret of their contentedness?
Something is markedly unrotten in the state of Denmark. Asked to rate both their happiness and long-term life satisfaction, Danish people trounce their European cousins. Many in Denmark put this regularly-surveyed contentedness down to a dynamic economy and a pleasant work-life balance, with people leaving the office on time, jumping on effective public transport and heading off to pick up their delightful children from a shiny, well-run kindergarten.
But there are others out to savage the myth of the happy Dane, arguing that low expectations of life account for their unusually happy disposition.
Kevin McGwin, from Maine in the US, works on the Copenhagen Post newspaper, and is well-used to surveys suggesting the Danish love of life. It could all be down to a pleasant quality of life, he suggests. "Denmark is very consumer-oriented and very family-oriented. People are sure to leave work at 4.30pm. They work their eight hours and go home. Pressure to work overtime doesn't exist."
Denmark has a 37-hour week. Parents get 52 weeks of maternity/paternity leave to be shared between them - 24 weeks is usually at full pay, with the rest often at as much as 90% pay. Much of it can be spread over the first nine years of the child's life. Childcare is subsidised with no parent being asked to pay more than 25% of the cost.
Danish ambassador to London Birger Riis-Jorgensen says he doesn't find it surprising Danes rate themselves as happy. "In other parts of Europe globalisation is perceived as a threat. For Danes, 78% think globalisation is an opportunity. "We have high taxes but we have generous unemployment benefits, a lot of life-long learning. We feel secure and we feel that we have opportunities. "We have a lot of faith in government as an institution. The authorities are normally competent, uncorrupt and approachable."
Danes fundamentally believe their state is well run, Mr Riis-Jorgensen says, but citizens are still capable of complaining when there are problems with public services. "If 5% of trains are running late it is a political problem."
And the safe streets of Copenhagen can be a surprise to foreign visitors.
"When foreigners are finding out they can safely let their children bike to school in the suburbs of Copenhagen they get pretty amazed." But a study by the University of Southern Denmark earlier this year found success in happiness surveys might be down to low expectations.
Fears not realised
Researcher Kaare Christensen looked back over three decades of surveys that had created the legend of the "happy Dane". "In countries such as Italy and Spain, people have much higher expectations for what the coming year will bring, but they're not especially happy or satisfied with their existence."
But Danes take a more realistic view of life, he suggested at the time.
"Year after year we're just happy that things didn't go as badly as we'd feared." And even McGwin, who is married to a Dane, is sceptical that Danes' happiness is all its cracked up to be. "The weather here is pretty lousy and half the year it's dark. They are as depressed as Hamlet some days."
Could this be? i am pretty happy with my life as it is, could be better could be worse, it think its what you make of it. :bounce_fl
Norman Finkelstein & Shlomo Ben-Ami on the the Israeli-Palestinian conflict Listen: http://www.archive.org/download/dn-finkelstein-benami/dn-finkelstein-benami_64kb.mp3
Quote:
A discussion with two of the world's leading experts on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Both of them have new books on the subject. We're joined by Shlomo Ben-Ami, both an insider and a scholar. As Foreign Minister under Ehud Barak, he was a key participant in years of Israel-Palestinian peace talks, including the Camp David and Taba talks in 2000 and 2001. An Oxford-trained historian, he is currently Vice President of the Toledo Peace Centre in Madrid. His new book is called Scars of War, Wounds of Peace: The Israeli-Arab Tragedy. President Bill Clinton says, quote, “Shlomo Ben-Ami worked tirelessly and courageously for peace. His account of what he did and failed to do and where we go from here should be read by everyone who wants a just and lasting resolution.
We're also joined by Norman Finkelstein. He's a professor of political science at DePaul University. His books include A Nation on Trial, which he coauthored with Ruth Bettina Birn, named as a New York Times notable book for 1998. He's also the author of Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict and The Holocaust Industry. His latest book is Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History. His website is NormanFinkelstein.com. Avi Shlaim of Oxford University calls Beyond Chutzpah “Brilliantly illuminating… On display are all the sterling qualities for which Finkelstein has become famous: erudition, originality, spark, meticulous attention to detail, intellectual integrity, courage, and formidable forensic skills.”
http://democracynow.org/
right i was wondering why folk get well upset in this polticial section i cant understand why you do , if its of no interest to you why do you read the topics, never mind having a go at the member who placed the topic, without even inputting to the debate,
Cause that seems to be the way with some of the treads on here, the member is slagged and made out hes in some sort of support of the issue, when it was placed as open discussion even to the point where there accused of being racist, or where its something you yr self is maybe bored with, that don't mean that everyone else is.
like we don't live in a world of mushrooms and rainbows , i have been involved in free parties for about 12ys now putting them on and attending them throughout Europe and uk,
but that don't mean that i don't like to talk openly about stuff going on around me, and finding out what other folk think of it, and yes some of it is polticial and some of it is about the actually state of this country. regarding laws, race, police, religion, after all these things are going on in real life
so maybe if its of no interest to you , and you don't have anything to offer to it , that you leave it to those who do want to talk about it, rather than it getting into a slagging members off
end of rant ......goodnight................12
Too cool to do drugs! Has anyone heard that funny story?
You know how anti-drugs campaigns actually get you interested in drugs? (the thought of doing drugs had never crossed my mind til those pesky Grange Hill School kids forced their "Just Say No" message up my nostrils.) Well here's a funny story of how an anti-drugs campaign backfired.
Some UK secondary school issued their kids with pencils, etched with the logo "TOO COOL TO DO DRUGS". Unfortunately, the text started at the writing side of the pencil, so that as the lead wore down, the message went from:
TOO COOL TO DO DRUGS
to:
COOL TO DO DRUGS
to:
DO DRUGS
to:
DRUGS
lolz
AUSTRALIA denying entry to……………
AUSTRALIA should deny entry to refugees and migrants who carry the HIV virus, Prime Minister John Howard said Friday.Howard, who has tightened immigration rules since taking office more than a decade ago, said he would like more advice on the matter but his initial response was that such applicants should be refused.
"My initial reaction is no (they should not be allowed in)," he told commercial radio.
"There may be some humanitarian considerations that could temper that in certain cases, but, prima facie - no."
Howard said people infected with another illness, tuberculosis, were already prevented from coming to Australia.
His comments follow questions about the rigour of HIV testing among migrants.
Official figures showed the number of people with the AIDS-causing virus moving to Victoria state had quadrupled in the past two years and that some of these people were migrants.
The prime minister said he would consider changing the law to prevent people infected with the virus settling in Australia.
"I think we should have the most stringent possible conditions in relation to that nationwide and I know the health minister is concerned about that and is examining ways of tightening things up," he said.
Australia ran successful HIV/AIDS education campaigns in the 1980s which have kept the disease in check here, but the disease is spreading rapidly in neighbouring Pacific countries such as Papua New Guinea.
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