Wednesday, 26 November 2008

Manic Preaching

Happy Thanksgiving American friends.
And any of you fiends out there too.

One of the Sikh temples in Surrey, has been taken by coup. I'm not entirely sure how this works, but it seems like they have leadership elections of some description. So now the young bucks are in and the young 'uns are fundies. Oh yes. Who said that conservatism comes with advancing age? Not the older Sikhs, that's for sure. They want to carry on eating at tables and sitting on chairs, whilst the fundies want everyone to sit on the floor.
Same as it ever was, same as it ever was.

I was kind of surprised to see an obit for Manic Street Preachers' guitarist Richey Edwards.
Surprised in that I thought this must mean he's been found, but no, he has just been declared dead as it has now been so long since his disappearance in 1995. That must be so hard for his parents, not knowing, just not knowing.

It seems that owning a gun is eight times as likely to incline you to suicide than not owning one if your are a woman, and four times as likely if you are not. I'm really not sure if that's a good thing, a bad thing, or morally neutral. After all, the stats aren't saying you're more likely to kill someone else - although that is probably true too.

3 comments:

Sleepy said...

I want an Air Rifle.
I'm not allowed an Air Rifle.
Housemates have 'concerns'.

Schneewittchen said...

Well, not all housemates are equal, but the ones who are are probably right.
On t'other hand, you'd only be doing your civic duty to off some of the tosspots who come to your door.

Sleepy said...

My thoughts precisely!
I do get some tossers.