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Well, yeah. But these people weren't leaving or just getting clear or even going to fetch help. They were taking photos of people in distress.

Physio today with my extra cute physio. Slightly more compos mentis this, and kept my cool. But i'd swear there's a natural thing going on. I just don't know how to proposition someone who's your doctor. As if to mock my emotional state I have this afternoon developed a spot on my nose.

Do you know how it is to get blood out? Actually yes. And it's nothing compared with all the other icky stuff which leaks out of people when they get hurt.

If there's a half million civil servants leaving to find work then I blame the last government for building such a wantonly huge civil service. However, by saying this I don't blame the hiring and firing. It's a question of all the mindless rules and regulations we saw generated. Standards, guidelines, targets, fifteen different flavours of assault charge. Madness. Not to mention all the bull from Europe. The bureaucrats simply existed to process all the crap. And the crap existed so that noone felt obliged to make decisions. It was a machine to dodge responsibility. You barely need to graze the surface of defence to see this in action. Aircraft carriers years behind schedule. A medium weight vehicle which isn't even built after hundreds of millions spent on it. Not the slightest coherence anywhere in the capability assessment process. What wars will wwe fight and against whom? Even the legal process surrounding combatants got crazier under Labour. BUt we had masses of forms and new IT systems, and new rigmaroles. Basically so no-one had to sign on the line and say "I say we go with this". Half a million unemployed is going to be ****ing painful. But the alternative is what? There isn't any. The best thing we can do is focus a bit of brain power on what the hell these folks do instead. Anyone need a civil service?

If you're worried about getting sued, then frankly that's acceptable, if not for me. Hell, we got told as much on my first aid training. That if we tried to use army first aid on a civilian then we could be sued. But no-one seemed inclined to let some sod bleed to death on the offchance. But this isn't about that. These people blithely stroll up and take photos? The smallest human feeling or even fear or disgust would drive you away, surely? Meaning to me that these people had none of it.

Don't people also use videos to teach things in the same way as Army? Point.

7/7 inquest People nearby approached the wreckage of the bomb blast, not to offer help as others did, but just to take photos. What the **** is wrong with some people?

Devil's advocate here, but are games just speech? Games are more than just speech. They are immersive and are widely accepted in industry and the military as teaching key skills and drills. Viz America's Army. If they are not just speech, but a powerful influencer, does this lay them open to additional control? Especially if the effects of that influence are not immediately obvious to the user, as with subliminal messages in visual media?

It could be all that Agent Orange I drank at the battle of Mboto Gorge, but I can't remember how we are supposed to get dates.

I figured I had to be those two, plus the madly besotted Victorian war veteran. One arm missing, gets the shakesm sticks it to the Bosh etc.

It's a lot easier than it looks. Can you recommend a good general psych textbook? I need to catch up on all the basic stuff I've missed. There really is no such thing beyond introductory psychology textbooks because the field is so vast. But you're looking for a good general psychology textbook on the basics and the one I read was the Australian and New Zealand 2nd edition of Introduction to Psychology by Burton, Westen and Kowalski published in 2008, so it's pretty up to date. Or just go to a good library and ask, old fella, I mean you're English, you're supposed to have good libraries. Are you high? Our public libraries are just glorified internet cafe/DVD rental shops.

Meh. This may sound off coming from me, but you can fight cancer. You can't fight some halfwit stabbing you for no reason. You can't shoot cancer in the face. I can bloody try.

Meh. This may sound off coming from me, but you can fight cancer. You can't fight some halfwit stabbing you for no reason.

That might have been your brain. Finally!

Curry is an english word which we label all Indian cuisine where stuff is in a runny spiced sauce. In my book curry involves a powerful punch of chilli, married to spices like turmeric, ginger, tamarind, cardamom, and coriander. I almost always eat mine with brown rice, which is not authentic, but I think it gives a rounded flavour. I also employ a fair whack of garlic and onions if I'm basing the sauce on tomato. EDIT: In what is probably one of the most revolting episodes of a fairly icky life I went to make my coffee and about a cupful of sunny delight coloured fluid decanted from my nose in one long and very liquid stream. Never seen anything like it.

It's a lot easier than it looks. Can you recommend a good general psych textbook? I need to catch up on all the basic stuff I've missed.

They should replace that parking sign with a strength testing machine. However high you can send the indicator, that's when you can park. RAAAAAAAAAGH SMASH!

I need to reconnoitre the local environs to establish fallback positions and rally points if a date goes bad. I also need to assess potential mates, and plan phase lines about their persons. I shall do all this by limping across rooftops, then peering down through two holes cut into a newspaper.

I KNEW it! You ARE a filthy hippy!

Sure why not? Let's give him the peace prize for making people laugh.

I think mentioned that I was talking to a guy who worked in a private security firm hereabouts. They have a contract to handle people loose in the community who are considered too violent for the cops. When I met him he had a massive gash right across the top of his head, all bandaged. He'd decided to move away because he couldn't handle the thought of his family being around such violent nutters. Back on topic, if you're posting this a lot... keep taking the meds.

Just as I was serving said curry part of the shelf above collapsed and dropped into the wok, catapulting the second best curry I've ever made across the kitchen. You know how you sometimes say you can't believe something has happened? It actually was like that. I literally couldn't believe it.

I have a Thai style curry on the stove right now, along with a huge chicken soup for tomorrow. The Thai style has naga chillis and bird pepper chillis in it. Hot enough to burn the skin on the back of your hand. And plenty of ginger and coconut and lime.

@Illuminator It's clear you are concerned about these actions being taken as the actions of Islam. But I don't think we were saying that. I certainly wasn't thinking it. Hope that allays your fears.

I'm not trying to pick a fight with you over this, Hurlshot. I didn't make myself clear, in that I see surface dissimilarities, but IMO the architecture of the problem is the same. Like the difference between a horse and a pony. Gfted1. Your answer is in my point that this is like an insurgency. Division sweeps don't work if the enemy hide among the innocent. The best you can hope for is to attrit some of them if tey are stupid enough to try and potshot you as you go through.