Express – 11/3/09
Posted by Merk
March 11th, 2009
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“Now you can’t swim in the Rain”
To be fair, you can’t swim in a puddle.
Must congratulate the protestors on the clarity of their banners, a marked improvement on previous efforts. Some cracking beards as well, as opposed to the straggly wisps I’d normally associate with such people.
I’ve always found it easier to swim in the sea, a lake or a swimming pool.
I’ll swim in the rain if I WANT, Free country and all……….I hope it’s some “Political Correctness gone mad” story line, I just await the silly old coffin dogder who uses this as an example.
Swim in the rain?
WTF? Im guessing it means public open air pools getting shut when it rains, which makes sense to me.
Found it!
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23660193-details/Sorry,+pool+is+shut+…+it+s+too+wet+to+swim,+says+health+n+safety/article.do
It is indeed a shutting an outdoor pool when it rains. Oh and of course its blamed on “‘elf and safety”
OK, actually the story turns out to be that an open air pool’s got some guidelines saying that if it’s pissing down to such a degree that the lifeguards can’t actually see the other side of the pool, or if the water’s so churned up that they wouldn’t be able to see a corpse at the bottom of the pool then they should close it.
Seems entirely sensible to me.
No mention of the sickening treatment the “McCanns” have had from the scum at the “Express” then”
It’s a “now” story about the swimming so it MUST be true.
Regarding the McCann’s story. The Times did feature Max Mosley’s appearance in front of the committee (including all the lurid details of his private life) but somehow forgot to mention that Gerry McCann was also there, including his very deserved criticism of the press. Funny that!
That ‘PC gone mad’ story is hilarious! Who the fuck would WANT to go swimming in the rain!? How man of their pensioner readership go swimming in the rain regularly!?
Tomorrow – NOW YOU CAN’T GO SCUBA DIVING IN SWAMPS.
Worse: The wretched river authorities where I live won’t let me go scuba diving in the centre of town. Really. If I want to do it I have to sneak out at 7 in the morning.
The trick it turns out is to never ask them for permission, and should they turn up while you’re underwater, ask them where the sign saying diving is forbidden might be seen.
I love how they brand them ‘extremists’, as though being angry at your friends and family being killed in a barely-legal war is an unreasonable way to feel.
Haha another health and safety story (I refuse to spell it like a retard) thought about as much.
And the layout again for a national newspaper is woeful, that layout came from public body newsletters and as such should have stayed there.
“And the layout again for a national newspaper is woeful, that layout came from public body newsletters and as such should have stayed there”
It does look at first glance as though the headline, photo and the side story are interlinked. Being unable to swim in the rain is sickening indeed.
Given some of the comments, I’d like to add that they sound like utter twunts, but it still isn’t shocking, front page news.
The H&S story made me giggle, because I can imagine an angry pensioner going into a frothing tirade before being asked when in his entire life he has swum in the rain.
“I love how they brand them ‘extremists’, as though being angry at your friends and family being killed in a barely-legal war is an unreasonable way to feel.”
Cool. Jailbait with guns.
A lot of the people who are pious about their opposition to the war on the Iraq are probably the same people who think that WW2 was justified, as well as the NATO bombing of Serb men, women, and children in1999.
Umm, World War 2 WAS justified. If there ever was a justified conflict, that was it.
How else would you have dealt with Germany and Japan? Or do you think preventing the total genocide of the Jews and the systematic extermination of the Chinese things not worth fighting for?
@Gordon Clown,
I marched against the war in 2003. And yes, I believed that military action was necessary back in 1939-45. As for Serbia, what we should have done was enforce a no-fly zone, get troops on the ground to clearly separate the various groups and bloody well police the thing. But NATO wanted to be all gung-ho about it.
Now, Saddam was no angel. He was a bloody nasty piece of work. But under the UN sanctions he was controlled and there was relative order in Iraq. I know it’s a pretty miserable choice but to me ordered misery is at least bearable. Chaotic misery? No thanks, and that’s what a lot of people in 2003 feared would happen. And it did. It also encouraged Iran to start rattling its samade the Israelis even more paranoid, the Palestinians more bolshy, and destroyed Western credibility in the Middle East. And we’ve not even really managed to fix the oil situatiion so even as fuel thieves we fucked up out there.
Onto the demo – a handful of people expressing a point of view better aimed at politicians, many of whom are no longer in office, responsible for the mess.
Anyway, don’t call me pious. I opposed the war on practical grounds (it was unwinnable) rather than ethical. I’ve friends out in both of the sandpits at the moment and want to see them all home alive and intact.
How could the DE resist following the DM line?
i’m going to give mr clown the benefit of the doubt and assume he actually meant to type 1 and not 2 there.
Sure, if it weren’t for WWI, how would I know not to join the army?
In all seriousness; the protest was poorly planned. Idiots rather than extremists, i’d say…
Also: If they were white ppl doing that, they’d have been labelled “anti-war protesters” rather than extremists.
Pope – If they were white people they would be called anti-war protesters because that’s what they would be. They call Muslim protesters extremists because generally that’s what they are.
They aren’t ‘anti-war’ because many of the Muslim protesters seen here are of the type also calling for war against Israel and the West and don’t give a shit about any non-Muslim war, whereas anti-war protesters would.
Therefore I think the descriptions are accurate here (unlike say the Hurricane Katrina crap where White = Stockpilers and Black = Looters)
Were you in Louisiana at the time, Steven? No.
Blacks weren’t just thieving – they were kidnapping, robbing, murdering, and setting up paedophile rings.
Just look at Africa too – an AIDS-riddled basketcase.
South African ex-Deputy President Jacob Zuma said he showered after sex with an HIV-positive woman, thinking this would reduce his risk of being infected.
your benefit of the doubt is here by revoked.
twat
Gordon Clown, I pity you.
“Blacks weren’t just thieving – they were kidnapping, robbing, murdering, and setting up paedophile rings.”
Hahahaha! How did they get the time to do all that?! They must have been a very organised bunch.
Seriously, where did you hear that rubbish? Actually, I think I might be able to guess…
NOW YOU CAN’T SWIM IN THE RAIN!!
W…..T….F!!
lolololololol
‘Sickening’.Well that’s ‘The Express’ dealt with,anything else?
Gerry McCann had some very valid points. I wonder how much they liked the press after she went missing and made publicity stunts like visiting the pope? I mean, its not nice when the Portugesse police start finding, y’know, evidence in the backs of rental cars that possibly implicates you and then suddenly its all so horrible that the press is turning against you badly and intruding into your life. You invited them to your party, dont get upset and try to kick them when they start eating the party favours.
Gordon Clown-
I’m sure that was the first thought of every black person in new orleans
“I don’t have a house or any food… I know I’ll set up a paedophile ring”
I’m black and I regularly set up paedophile rings- sometimes three or four in a day!
Joe – your work ethic is to be applauded!
It gets me how people go on about killing ‘women and children’ as if killing the men doesn’t matter quite as much. It’s clearly an attempt to gain the moral high ground. I’m pretty sure any British forces member who thought he had killed a civilian would be mortified by it.
Joe,
How do you fit that in with all the murdering, kidnapping and robbing that you do!?!
“It gets me how people go on about killing ‘women and children’ as if killing the men doesn’t matter quite as much. It’s clearly an attempt to gain the moral high ground. ”
That is becuase human beings tend to see war as a man’s game. Historically men went to war with rival bands over women and they were the ones who benefited from it by gaining extra wives and having extra children. The women however didn’t get any benefit at all.
Ah, that’s it. We’re out to defile ‘their’ women!
“I love how they brand them ‘extremists’, as though being angry at your friends and family being killed in a barely-legal war is an unreasonable way to feel.”
Do you really believe that is why they are demonstrating? As far as I know, the only ones who are being killed are the ones that seem to be terrorizing the local population.
Gordon Clown – what planet are you on? Peadophile rings? LMAO!
Otherwise, it’s nice to see some well balanced debate on these boards people