authority noun (authorities) 1 a the power or right to control or judge others, or to have the final say in something;
Why do people have such an issue with the above?
Either they hate the people with it or they go crazy when they're given it.
You can never find a good inbetween. Cops - notoriously on a perma-trip. A few guys messing about with each other last night and out pulls a under-cover police car and they begin searching them. All this stuff about them wanting to fight crime is rubbish. they have only ever turned up once a crime is done and dusted. they're more crime investigation than crime prevention. so they catch a lucky break once a while but in truth they've fully isolated themselves from society. the criminals didnt want to know them in the first place and now good honest citizens are turning their backs on them too.
increasingly they choose to go for the statistics to make them look good rather than going after people they know are doing the crime. we all know so and so is a well known drug dealer, that so and so sells stolen items but for the sake of due process they are left alone.
admins. they also get the power trip award. very rarely do you get admins on message boards who allow something to flow. you'll be having a nice debate about something - maybe controversial but nothing will be offensive. then all of a sudden ugghhhhhhh i'm an admin this is not acceptable. delete delete delete warning warning warning.
people sometimes need to chill out and let things just flow. stop being so big brother, we dont need supervision. we just want to live - dont want to bug anyone else dont want to rob anyone.
Saturday 20 September 2008
Permanent Education?
At what point do we stop educating people?
not kids - but people, adults, fully grown.
Some people are just so ignorant its shocking. A woman in a full niqab set-up walked past the bar i was doing security at, a local hoodie who was drinking there came up "hey yo, bro, your muslim arent you?" yeah why? "well can i ask you something that dress she's wearing. why she wearing it? cause i heard that the man makes her wear it like her husband or boyfriend." no no mate its islamic. a woman in islam is meant to be covered from head to toe and that is what they use to do that. "but mate i know plenty of asian girls they dont" some girls are religious and some arent. its a choice thing.
so he carried on and on - then i walked away leaving him talkin to my protestant collegue who was still trying to get through to him that it was a religious choice. some people who strictly observe religion will wear it and those that arent strict wont. "but you know what i still think its her man that makes her wear it. if it was me i'd be like yo check this i've got a fit wife. you might want her but she's mine"
my collegue again pointed out that its for that reason - to stop the sin of lust she wears that. "na man thats just wrong. i can understand if she wore it in afganistan pakistan or iraq but she can wear what she wants in the uk"
cue the head slamming into the table motion.
some people just are incredibly ignorant. kudos for actually asking but whats the point of asking if your not actually going to listen and learn from the answer.
no doubt he went away none the wiser and one day he's going to go to a girl wearin a niqab and ask her the same question. or worse still. actually take it off and find its actually a ninja.
sometimes we all have to accept that there will be people that no matter how much you talk to them, how much you explain to them - they still wont understand.
not kids - but people, adults, fully grown.
Some people are just so ignorant its shocking. A woman in a full niqab set-up walked past the bar i was doing security at, a local hoodie who was drinking there came up "hey yo, bro, your muslim arent you?" yeah why? "well can i ask you something that dress she's wearing. why she wearing it? cause i heard that the man makes her wear it like her husband or boyfriend." no no mate its islamic. a woman in islam is meant to be covered from head to toe and that is what they use to do that. "but mate i know plenty of asian girls they dont" some girls are religious and some arent. its a choice thing.
so he carried on and on - then i walked away leaving him talkin to my protestant collegue who was still trying to get through to him that it was a religious choice. some people who strictly observe religion will wear it and those that arent strict wont. "but you know what i still think its her man that makes her wear it. if it was me i'd be like yo check this i've got a fit wife. you might want her but she's mine"
my collegue again pointed out that its for that reason - to stop the sin of lust she wears that. "na man thats just wrong. i can understand if she wore it in afganistan pakistan or iraq but she can wear what she wants in the uk"
cue the head slamming into the table motion.
some people just are incredibly ignorant. kudos for actually asking but whats the point of asking if your not actually going to listen and learn from the answer.
no doubt he went away none the wiser and one day he's going to go to a girl wearin a niqab and ask her the same question. or worse still. actually take it off and find its actually a ninja.
sometimes we all have to accept that there will be people that no matter how much you talk to them, how much you explain to them - they still wont understand.
Friday 19 September 2008
A big hello from the small basement
Wahay!
My first blog. i'm not actually gonnna give the link to anyone till i've reached 3/4 blogs. That way they'll know what kinda blog it will be and actually check it again and again. People make a mistake of trying to promote it when its one two day old but you need to do it a few weeks before there's anything of any decent substance. plus by then you know if your gonna stick at it. chances are no one will ever read this.
So democracy. Dont know about you guys but when i think of that i think America. probably the most shady country in the world where the word conspiracy has enough followers to. But in all honesty I think alot of people are jealous of America. Not everything but somethings.
The elections. In the uk we have a general election and it lasts two weeks including the promo. In the US its goin past a year!! ok it feels like it with all the announcing of the candidates - Obama announced his in 02/2007!
But its all great. the HUGE hype that surrounds it is amazing. Everyone picks on every little word, action, movement the candidates make.
Like today Sarah Palin's personal Yahoo email was hacked, which is a shame partially cause it does show how ill-prepared she was for this, how "normal" she was leading her life. Never would you expect Joe Biden or any other senior candidate to use a Yahoo email for business and personal reasons. Also, if they did, the password would've been alot more difficult to hack than just the postcode of Palin's home address. She's been so inadquetly prepared for the hype and the responsibility - its showing how out of depth she is.
They can prepare her for as many lightweight interviews possible but even then last week she failed to show what the bush doctrine was. Gibson had to explain it to her. No doubt her first of many deer-infront-of-headlights moment with many more to come. I'm sure she'll make a great Republican one day, but this, now, is bordering on cruelty. All her family affairs scrutinised to such a degree that they're blatantly not ready. The daughter that was pregnant and is now "marrying" the fella. COME ON WHY ISNT ANYONE CRYING FORCED MARRIAGE OUT?!
I still cant understand the judgement of asking Palin to be the number 2. It clearly wasnt just to get the disenchanted Hillary supporters to come over. The only thing I can maybe consider is maybe McCain thought she'll be scandal free, a fresh face something new.
Train wreck waiting to happen i think.
My first blog. i'm not actually gonnna give the link to anyone till i've reached 3/4 blogs. That way they'll know what kinda blog it will be and actually check it again and again. People make a mistake of trying to promote it when its one two day old but you need to do it a few weeks before there's anything of any decent substance. plus by then you know if your gonna stick at it. chances are no one will ever read this.
So democracy. Dont know about you guys but when i think of that i think America. probably the most shady country in the world where the word conspiracy has enough followers to. But in all honesty I think alot of people are jealous of America. Not everything but somethings.
The elections. In the uk we have a general election and it lasts two weeks including the promo. In the US its goin past a year!! ok it feels like it with all the announcing of the candidates - Obama announced his in 02/2007!
But its all great. the HUGE hype that surrounds it is amazing. Everyone picks on every little word, action, movement the candidates make.
Like today Sarah Palin's personal Yahoo email was hacked, which is a shame partially cause it does show how ill-prepared she was for this, how "normal" she was leading her life. Never would you expect Joe Biden or any other senior candidate to use a Yahoo email for business and personal reasons. Also, if they did, the password would've been alot more difficult to hack than just the postcode of Palin's home address. She's been so inadquetly prepared for the hype and the responsibility - its showing how out of depth she is.
They can prepare her for as many lightweight interviews possible but even then last week she failed to show what the bush doctrine was. Gibson had to explain it to her. No doubt her first of many deer-infront-of-headlights moment with many more to come. I'm sure she'll make a great Republican one day, but this, now, is bordering on cruelty. All her family affairs scrutinised to such a degree that they're blatantly not ready. The daughter that was pregnant and is now "marrying" the fella. COME ON WHY ISNT ANYONE CRYING FORCED MARRIAGE OUT?!
I still cant understand the judgement of asking Palin to be the number 2. It clearly wasnt just to get the disenchanted Hillary supporters to come over. The only thing I can maybe consider is maybe McCain thought she'll be scandal free, a fresh face something new.
Train wreck waiting to happen i think.
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