Qat:

Pros:

- Great for Scrabble.
- Lets you relax knowing that if you get stopped by the police, they can't do anything since it's perfectly legal.

Cons:

- It's a stimulant, so you can't relax any more. :)

Recalling a reply delivered by a young punk, Rabbie Burns, to a over-eager fur-seller:

Næ mere mortal cid afford it,
an ih widnæ gæn dæ somin sordit,
jis sæn I cid gæn an hord it,
wis awe cin tell.
Ih widnæ spend fur jis tæ lord it;
gæn fuck yir sell.

On a choice that makes my stomach turn. You probably realise what I'm talking about.

My opinion was that I'd always support the SNP (Scottish Nationalist Party) until we gain independence, then switch immediately to the SSP (Scottish Socialist Party) the moment we're out of the UK. In light of the recent incident, I have two main thoughts: Firstly, thank holy fucking hell we have the referendum coming up in 2010, before the SNP can be voted out.

Secondly, what the hell kind of an idiot releases someone that was found guilty of a terrorist act to their home country on compassionate leave until they die before the penal system has let him repent?! You realise what this means?! It means we now have a terrorist who only has three months left to live and potentially a nation's worth of weaponry. What the hell, kenny?!*

While I understand that we're still working under laws chosen by westminster (having only been under the SNP for around a year) which say that someone who has three months or less to live should be let free on compassionate grounds, the SNP could still exorcise a little common sense. The Justice Minister should still have the power to over-ride that law in the interests of security and the SNP as a whole should still have the power to mend the law to prevent situations like this. Don't you think people who are more likely to use their last days wreaking havoc than comfort their loved ones should be exempt from this? I mean the least (and I mean the least) that could have been arranged is an armed guard or something.

Jesus fuck...

*Kenny MacAskill, the justice minister who chose to let him go.

EDIT: Whether or not he is believed to be guilty is irrelevant, he was found guilty, and is officially guilty for all purpose - and should be treated as such. If they believe he's innocent, they should have called a re-trial. To free someone that the justice minister thinks was innocent or repentant that was found guilty and hadn't served his time yet is twisting the course of justice. I don't really care if it was compassionate leave - considering that fact that the official position is "he killed 270 people, and emotionall damaged well over a thousand people", do you really think he's worthy of compassionate leave, or of compassion in general?

Due to the recent Goa'uld invasion of earth, you are no longer allowed to call Jaffa Cakes "Jaffa Cakes" any more:- You are now supposed to refer to them as "Freedom Cakes"

°Dons party hat and blows party blower° <.<

I can now buy alcohol <3 ... without having to worry about being ID'd <3

- You can't add or edit anything without someone picking a fight.
- Everyone with an account there that's been there longer than a month feels as though they're better than everyone else - and thus give out unbacked warnings to people they don't like like there's no tomorrow.
- You can't create an article without it being deleted you a pile of people giving you unbacked bogus warnings (see above)
- When writing, making the slightest of implications that something fictional is real gets you banned.
- Unless you're writing in a sci-fi or fiction article, in which case making the slightest implication that the fiction you're writing about isn't real gets you banned.
- World viewpoints are ignored in favour of american viewpoints, disregarding the validity (or lack of).
- America is over-emphasised like mad. (take, for instance, swine flu. When swine flu had taken around 600-700 lives in mexico, the wikipedia listed every single remote suspected case in america, organised by state in alphabetical order (this was before swine flu broke out there), but mexico's hundreds of deaths received nothing more than a "There have been over 600 deaths reported in mexico."
- People try to find any possible reason they can to revert your edits, even if you're just correcting spelling.
- People look through your contributions and try to find a reason to revert all of them.
- The creation of certain articles are banned because of "lack of notability", disregarding the fact that the point of the wikipedia is that it doesn't have the restrictions that physical encyclopædias have.
- They refuse to allow linking to other wikis - which, when combined with the above, leaves a massive irreparable hole in the knowledge accessible from wikipedia.
- You bloody get banned for expanding on articles that are deemed not notable enough. I mean, what the fuck?
- The people that have been put in charge of it by it's founders are ignorant, arrogant, obtuse, and -oddly enough- inconsistently stubborn.

Yes, I just felt like a bit of a rant <.<

I went to Pedro Panucci's Costa De La Pasta restaurant. I started with the Garlic Tortillas, for the main meal I had a Carbonara Taco with Chili and Neapolitan sauces, and for afters I had Tiramisu with Cajeta. As a side dish, I had Nachos with Nutella as the local Occitan Mariachi band was playing and the staff was watching an Italy V Mexico football game where they were cheering no matter what happened. As I was leaving, I was told "Ciao Señor".

To top it off, I was served by a chinese american speaking a mix of english and german in a very strong welsh accent.

I've never experienced quite so much ethnic, culinary, nationalistic, and general confusion in all my puff.

When you enter an ethnic restaurant, you usually find out if that was an Italian flag or a Mexican flag once you see the menu. I left even more confused and full of questions than when I entered. Who'd have thought a green, white, and orange flag could cause so much confusion?

Don't

As can be witnessed this thread, among many other places, people seem to be acting like this was the first face transplant ever, of course forgetting the french woman in -2005- that had dogs rip off her face and had to have a new one donated from a dead woman.

See the news article from the time here.

I mean, it's not even like no-one knew about it and it was an obscure happening, it was plastered all over the papers and it provided talking points for almost all of the quizcoms for weeks to come. It made world-wide news. ffs, it only happened approximately 3½ years ago.

The eternal flame that doth not die through day nor night shall incite the bird of fray from its shame, its sorrowful respite.

... I just made that up off-the-spot, philosophy took me by surprise :P