In April 2003, The Royal Society published the results of investigations carried out by the Roslin Institute, a biotechnology research establishment located near Edinburgh, into the perception of pain in fish. The main thrust of the experiments was the injection, under laboratory conditions, of bee venom into the lips of live rainbow trout, followed up by behavioural analyses from which the apparently pre-determined conclusions were drawn.From 2003 onwards, the anti-angling homepage of PETA started quoting the Roslin Institute’s findings to underpin its own long-standing assertion that fish feel pain - this in spite of the fact that PETA was vehemently opposed to the use of animals for any kind of laboratory experimentation. The collective voice of PETA’s worldwide membership championed their cause as righteous and true. What a pity they hadn’t bothered to check the methods used by their ‘friends’ at the Roslin Institute before they gave their wholehearted backing to a clear example of that which they appeared to detest most of all.PETA (UK) was also soon providing a platform for the views of Dr. Lynn Sneddon (by then of Liverpool University) the publicity seeking chief scientist who’d led the original Roslin research. Dr. Sneddon’s rhetoric was hard hitting, as might be expected from someone apparently a political ally of an extremist animal rights group:"Really, it's kind of a moral question,” she stated. “Is your angling more important than the pain to the fish?"A fair point, if just a bit hypocritical, bearing in mind the sort of animal experiments Dr. Sneddon had herself conducted in the furtherment of her career - a point repeatedly missed amid the media furore that followed:Quite apart from the bee venom experiment, in the course of her flagship research project, Dr. Sneddon had also used the technique of DECEREBRATION, a process in which live anaesthetised rainbow trout had had their skulls cut open before the optic and olfactory lobes, together with the cerebellum, were removed from the rest of the brain using a vacuum pump. This was necessary to allow dissection of what was left of the fish’s brain to facilitate some of the neurological analyses required to authenticate Dr. Sneddon’s results - and even someone with only the slightest understanding of biology (a PETA activist perhaps) must realise that this is a terminal procedure.The whole paper can be found here: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi? artid=1691351&blobtype=pdf*For the description of the technique scroll down to the bottom left of PAGE 2 and read – [2.METHODS (a) Electrophysiological recordings from the trigeminal ganglion.]Quite bizarrely - and this just proves how little time these organisations actually take to either read or think these things through - it is also reproduced in full on the anti fishing page of the Animal Liberation Front (NB. so anti-animal experimentation they openly attempt to bomb people they accuse of doing it):http://www.animalliberationfront.com/Practical/ Fishing--Hunting/Fishing/fishfeelpain.pdfPresumably they were too caught-up with sending letter bombs to vivisectionists to realise they were actually publishing the work of one! The simple point is this: the vast, vast majority of people in this country don’t buy into the naïve extremist views of organisations like PETA and those terrorist groups for which they are a front. They represent a minority viewpoint. Their lazy propaganda may fool a few hundred thousand Americans who think Edinburgh is in England, as well as a number of impressionable teenagers over here who have yet to learn how to distinguish between hyperbole and fact, but the British general public tends to be more discerning. Minority and extreme viewpoints don’t get much of a look-in – when was the last time we elected a class war candidate to parliament?Some in PETA UK like to think that, as in the States, they can influence public opinion by recruiting ‘beautiful people’ to spout their poorly thought nonsense. Others seem to think that PETA is like Sinn Fein to the ALF’s Provisional IRA, but what they don’t quite get is a handful of easily led cranks doesn’t amount to the collective aspirations of three quarters of the population of a small country. They lack any credible level of support, so the prospect of any UK government inviting them (or any of their friends) for so much as a round of bu88ering is non-existent. Quite apart from the revenue angling contributes to the EA through rod licences, three to four million anglers in the UK equals 3-4 million votes. PETA don’t have half that many worldwide and Sir Paul McCartney doesn’t even pay UK tax…

PETA and their lame excuses

We'll say this much for PETA's leaders: they've got an answer for everything. If you write to PETA and ask them about our "PETA Kills Animals" website, they'll send back a form letter including some of the lame excuses below:
"Thank you for contacting PETA about the 'PETA Kills Animals' billboard and the accompanying promotions for it … PETA can't afford billboards in Times Square, so we're grateful for the opportunity that this one provides to discuss the animal overpopulation crisis."
PETA's lying. The organization has erected not one but two Times Square billboards (one in 1997 and another in 2003), both featuring silicone beauty Pamela Anderson. Click here and here to see PETA's own promotional materials about these advertisements. And PETA's annual budget is over $25 million. That's about seven times what the Center for Consumer Freedom spends.
"We do not run a traditional shelter. In fact, we refer every healthy, cute, young animal we can to shelters."
Uh oh. There they go again. In 2003 PETA reported transferring exactly one animal to another shelter. In 2002 PETA transferred just two animals. Click here to see the documents PETA filed with the state of Virginia. Since 1998, PETA has transferred a total of 130 animals to other shelters, and 21 of them were chickens. By comparison, it killed over 10,000 animals.
"[M]ost of the animals we receive are broken beings for whom euthanasia is, without a doubt, the most humane option."
PETA kills 85 percent of the animals it takes in, and finds adoptive homes for just 14 percent. By contrast, the Norfolk SPCA, whose shelter is located less than 4 miles from PETA's headquarters, found adoptive homes for 73 percent of its animals in 2003. It’s rather hard to believe that the animals entrusted to PETA are any more likely to be “broken beings.” Dana Cheek, the former (and most recent) director of the Norfolk SPCA, wrote to us recently:
I often receive phone calls from frantic people who have surrendered their pets to PETA with the understanding that PETA will "find them a good home." Many of them are led to believe that the animals will be taken to a nearby shelter. Little do they know that the pets are killed in the PETA van before they even pull away from the pet owner's home … PETA refuses to surrender animals they obtain to area shelters for rehoming. If only the celebrity "deep-pocket" donors on the west coast knew that their donations were going to kill adoptable cats and dogs here in Norfolk.
PETA talks a good game about caring for animals, but seems uninterested in saving the only creatures it actually has contact with. If PETA were sincere, it could use its incredible wealth to buy a huge plot of land where its thousands of victims could live out their natural lives. Instead, these animals meet PETA's hypocrisy head-on, in the form of "tough love."

Whatever happened too......

All of the Heroes

here's a few!!...and they're just tiny!
We can learn a lot from Children

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3571742.ece

http://www.secamb.nhs.uk/latest-news/july-december-2006/november-2006/a-six-year-old-folkestone-girl-saves-mum

http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=69590

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/12yearold-saves-mum-kills-attacker/2008/04/03/1206851088596.html?s_cid=rss_news

Blogging...any point?

Just asked my Brother if he has ever done a blog...He replied "No...Cant really see the point"
Fair Comment.

I will ponder as to whether I can see the point or not too

Shock, Horror!

My son (10) has now posted a picture of Keira Knightley as his Desktop Wallpaper.
He said, he wants her on, as she is a Real "Babe!!"
WTF!... He is only 10!
I know they grow up quickly these days. but Jeez!...I dont know where he get's it from!?

(actually, he has just gone Riding with his Mum...So... I may well switch on his Computer, and have a good, long, hard look at the Picture, to make sure it is suitable!!)

Let Diana rest in Peace

That's all any of us ever wanted to do!
Personally, I never cared about her when she was alive....and care even less now she's dead.
Al-Fayad should just settle down, live what's left of his life, and prepare to see his son again (or not)

The Media (wankers that they are) wont let it rest, nor will the Leeches in the Legal profession.
Thank Fuck, the Jury reached the correct verdict, and now hopefully, we can let the whole sorry thing drop!
(As for the grown men, who were filmed crying openly at her funeral?..... How embarrasing!... You must be feeling a right bunch of c*nts! :-) )

Forums....A double-edged Sword

Sopwith Camel over The Western Front 1917

(Click on Image for better quality eye candy)

Much as I love Forums, they can have a negative effect on your opinions at times.
This of course depends on the type of Forum.
I belong to a local one http://www.neforum2.co.uk/ which is fun, has a vast array of topics, and has just hit the 800 members mark.


There are many interesting people on there...and one or two arseholes.... so an accurate portrayal of British Life in 2008 methinks.

My other favourite is my Over Flanders Fields forum!...this one is totally dedicated to a Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator Modification, called (not Surprisingly) Over Flanders Fields
http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/forumdisplay.php?f=8
This is, without doubt imho...the most incredible piece of Modding I have yet seen!
The Dev Team have taken a 'mediocre' simulator, and transformed it into a true rendition of the First World War in the Air!...Stunning work!!... And deserving of mention.
(see the above screenshot)

A great quote!

"I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporarily out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience."

I just Loved this...

Just started this Blogging lark!

Well.... It's 2008 (April)... And it's been bloody Snowing!!
Matthew (my 10 yr old son) is currently off school on his Easter Break.... My Wifey is off too...which means I have to look like I am working, and not spend half the day on my Flight Simulator!
Recently confirmed that we are going to have a weeks holiday in Lincolnshire, at a holiday/fishing type place, with my friends, Paul & Sandy Maltby, and their son Adam...Whom Matthew has also previously had a holiday with!
Matt is looking forward to sharing a room with Adam, and showing him the entire 3 series of 'Bottom' which he has on DVD..... I have been accused of introducing my son to innapropriate, sexist, and vulgar humour since he was young.
This is true, I admit it...and I appologise to Lesbians everywhere, for turning yet another Male, into a Crude, Toilet humour loving, Binge drinker!

Been a quiet sorta week last week...but the Computer fixing side of things has perked up today.
Was all over the place....Tynemouth, High Spen, Lemington to name but a few. (well...all of them actually)...... Sorting out Bill Gates's Cock ups, with his pathetic Windows Vista!...What a pile of Fucking crap it is!!..... Still.. Keeps me in business, so thanks Bill.. I still love ya (even though you're a Twat)

Max (my adorable Collie) has been a little 'off colour' today...... Not his usual self, and been a bit quiet.
I think he is pissed off with this weather too...He likes nothing better than playing with his 'Hoff' in the Garden, on a warm, sunny day.... But it's too cold for him. because, unlike most Collie-Dogs...he is a big, soft shite!..... Reckon he is a Southerner at heart!...No wonder the Geordie dogs growl at him!.... Still, he fucking OWNS Hasslehoff!!

Actually had Him and Jack (our Silly old Cat) on the bed together, for at least five minutes the other day!... I was stroking Jack, and then patting Max.
Jack liked it, but Max was very uneasy about the whole thing...he looked quite worried by the fact that he is only a mere 16 times bigger than Jack, with a facefull of sharp teeth!...still, they say that Cats always end up ruling the roost! (which explains why Female Humans relate so well to them!)

Max actually left a small chug-nut turd on my bed the other day, when he got over excited!
(which explains why Male Humans relate so well to them!)

Which actually, brings me neatly back to ..... Bottom!
My friend Helen is the only Girlie type person I have met...who actually Likes Bottom! (the series, as well as the Floppy bit you sit on)...We went to see the Live show when I lived in Guildford.
I really must give her a call... Havent seen her since Matthew's christening.

I suppose it is just too crude, and 'Boyish'...... But I love the way it is written.... it just makes you feel like a 12 yr old lad again when you watch it!... You just want to go and put Clingfilm over the toilet!....or maybe it's just me!?

I have enjoyed writing this first blog entry...I am sure it will be a good way to write all the silly stuff that usually gets forgotten!
(Shall have to put an entry after my next 'Hussah' night with My Bro - in - Law Chris!)
We have been having a few good nights out, seeing bands and stuff....I am really pleased he came back to Newcastle...not least because he is the other half of Badgeboysinc...But he has been great fun to hang out with! (but that's another story!) ;-)