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Rusty2009

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  1. Probably Endure can give the best overall picture of 'being British, out, and gay before and after legality'. The short answer is that until a recent number of years ago, it was entirely illegal, and then it had a prejudicial age of consent rule. Now things are equal all around, though without full marriage rights (yet) for gays (and that's not inviting JT to restart flogging *that* old horse, either!)

    AHA so that is his kinky thing, but i am sure there is a law against flogging old horses

  2. It will probably be like contentious social issues in the US for some time- people struggling to change the law back and forth. But it's nice to have it get on the radar.

    Yes, but the potential for a huge country like India to go from decriminalized to criminalized again instantly for the entire country is about as dramatic as it gets. It makes the news that the small U.S. of Maryland will soon legalize same sex marriage (with no nationally recognized marriage rights) for that state look very trivial in comparison.

    BTW, imagine if Thailand HAD been colonized by the British. Then, they would have been saddled with the same kind of severely anti-gay laws that India only recently rejected.

    without running of to google this, is it a crime to be gay in Britain?

    are you saying, to be gay

    or to say you like the same sex

    or is it a crime to have anal intercourse with somebody of the same sex, confussed, so now it is a crime to have a sexual thought

    but please watch the video in this link, this is the problem why the UK cannot move on,

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/mar/24/david-cameron-stumbles-gay-rights

  3. Personally i see anything surrounded by high walls barbed wire, guns, dogs and soldiers or police, and limits the free movment of human beings as a prison, but thats my own personal view sorry wai.gif

    You think they should be able to pass into Israel or Egypt without legally crossing a border? Its a tough neighborhood. BTW, speaking of the west bank wall(s) most Israelis are happy the walls were built because terrorist suicide bombings have dropped dramatically, largely attributable to the wall.

    Like you have said " a can of worms " my friend, lets just agree to disagree on this topic, before the radicals jump on our backs again, and use this as a slagging match

  4. Is that the new Israel demonization talking point, that Jews are keeping Arabs as slaves? Interesting.coffee1.gif

    Maybe not as slaves more as inmates

    So what percentage of Palestinian residents of Gaza and the west bank are incarcerated in Israeli prisons? Surely it can't be higher than the incarceration rate in the U.S., not that anyone would want to model after that.

    so you do not see the Ghetto called Gaza city as a prison
  5. Wonderful wishes for the Palestinian nationalist movement:

    1. Give up antisemitism; it may have been in the roots of the movement but it doesn't have to be destiny

    2. Give up the idea of unconditional right of return (you can't get everything you dream of)

    3. Embrace the idea of the two state solution (so much better than no state)

    4. Accept the existence of the Jewish state of Israel (who knows, in peace time they may be wonderful partners, they already love falafel)

    5. Forget violent resistance. Embrace non-violent resistance.

    6. Prepare to celebrate a fully official new state of Palestine within a year

    you are so funny sometimes, i laughed so hard i nearly swallowed my tongue cheesy.gif anything else you would like, what if they killed every new born son for a year?

    Your reference to the killing of the first born by extension compares Jing's list to the plagues God inflicted on the Egyptians. It is quite funny if you consider for instance giving up violence or accept your neighbors existence is similar punishment to the biblical plagues.

    Sadly this appears to be the case with the Palestinians making your amusement tragi-comic in it's own right.

    yes it was meant as a payment offering to bow down and pay sacrifice to their masters
  6. Wonderful wishes for the Palestinian nationalist movement:

    1. Give up antisemitism; it may have been in the roots of the movement but it doesn't have to be destiny

    2. Give up the idea of unconditional right of return (you can't get everything you dream of)

    3. Embrace the idea of the two state solution (so much better than no state)

    4. Accept the existence of the Jewish state of Israel (who knows, in peace time they may be wonderful partners, they already love falafel)

    5. Forget violent resistance. Embrace non-violent resistance.

    6. Prepare to celebrate a fully official new state of Palestine within a year

    you are so funny sometimes, i laughed so hard i nearly swallowed my tongue cheesy.gif anything else you would like, what if they killed every new born son for a year?

  7. The title in the Nation: 'Couples Lock Lips for the Day of Love'

    is ridiculous if looked at in a reasonable perspective.

    Kissing contests have as much to do with love, as forcing oneself to stand at a security guard job for 48 hours. Kissing contests are about being able to endure extreme discomfort. Pattaya and the Ripley's Museum should be ashamed to be publisizing the toil, and the Nation newspaper should be embarassed for publishing it.

    lighten up, its just a little bit of fun, makes people smile, or do you suggest we all live a strict Sharia life style??

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  8. Does anybody read anything into the fact that two Iranian warships passed through the Suez canal into the Med and have now docked in Syria,

    I'd be more worried for 40000 rockets iran / Hezbollah directed at Israel.

    I'm sure they are there to try out new techniques to beat down the opposition.

    does Hezbollah have a rocket that can reach Tel Aviv, or surface to air missiles

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