He doesn't say they aren't sexual, he says there is no sexual activity.

The Mail seems to display a lot of hypocrisy on the subject of CCTV.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2061394/Council-accused-staggering-invasion-privacy-plans-record-CCTV-conversation-takes-place-taxi-cabs.html

So one minute it's a staggering invasion of privacy then again it also provides plenty of crime related stories for the paper which can be written without the journalist having to leave the office.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2061397/CCTV-catches-man-stealing-poppy-tin--starts-collecting-charity-money-HIMSELF.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2061319/Crazed-axeman-Glynn-Spiller-bursts-Bristol-shop-Jacks-Off-Sales-terrifies-family.html

_________________
www.newshuddlines.blogspot.com

It's simple. CCTV should be used to watch criminals, not me.

It shouldn't be too difficult to calibrate the software only to start recording if the facial-recognition algorithms spot someone acting a bit shifty. Or if their eyes are too close together. Of if they're a bit, you know, foreign-looking.

Recording taxi conversations is a bit off though.

Poor old Sales!

_________________
Blog on books and book-related matters | Common English Errors For Bloggers | Things that mildly irritate me

Crap excuse of the week.

Not something you expect to read in the Mail. Something good about a Romanian.

_________________
Sick Left-wing Zealot.

Shit.. I'd better delete the picture of my nine month old grinning at me in the bath, too!

The classic Steve McQueen movie immortalised three tunnels at Stalag Luft III PoW camp, now astonished archaeologists have discovered a fourth called George
As we know the Mailites are very keen on historical accuracy in films, especially war films. Changing the name of a dog renders an entire film unwatchable.

This classic "Steve McQueen movie" is mostly fairly accurate, apart from Steve McQueen's character and the film's most famous scene, the motorcycle chase.

-No Americans took part in the escape
-McQueen's character never wears uniform, if he had been captured like that he would have almost certainly been shot as a spy. Even if he wasn't shot the first thing the Germans would have done is put him in uniform. A large part of the film is the construction of escape kits, yet one prisoner is allowed to wander about in civilian clothes?
-If anyone had assaulted German soldiers like he did, worn a German uniform, and done many of the other things he did (like walking over the Warning Wire), he would have been shot. Many times over.
-The motorcycle scene was entirely fictional, added at McQueen's own insistence. The bike used is a post war British Triumph, not a BMW or Zundapp as used by the German army.

Do these inaccuracies attract fury? Are the comments all about how they refuse to watch it?
Not a peep.
Mostly they seem to be about how Britain isn't worth escaping to today.
Hypocritical cunts.



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1eGNHDu8o

_________________
That subtle admixture of the absurd and the surreally plausible...

Parents who let girls dress in sexy outfits and wear make-up 'can't tell right from wrong'
Headmistress says letting youngsters dress in sexy clothing is a sign of society’s eroded moral values
Near-pornographic images on shows such as x Factor partly to blame

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1eKJ33vBh

So she's saying that the parents know no better because they were poorly educated.

Parents who -given their average age- would have been schooled in the seventies or earlier?

I wonder if that's what she actualy meant, because that's certainly how it reads.

Plus, I maintain (via the constant media and online coverage the show gets - I certainly don't watch it) that I've yet to see anything you could class as borderline "pornographic".

Perhaps pornographic intent is subjective. Some people have a high heel fetish - doesn't mean you should ban people on television from wearing shoes.

I hate shows like X Factor. Yet even I am sick of this -along with various other Mail hate figures- been seen as reasons for behaviour that would happen anyway regardless.

If they're basing this claim of X Factor is porn purely on flesh shown (which seems to be the idea), then by that logic my current avatar is more fully pornographic than anything that's passed as an outfit so far on the show. Yet you can see that on store shelves at child height all over the place...no one's complaining about that.

Well...I'm not anyway.

_________________
"Now get those trousers off before someone dies!"

Or possibly the Eighties. But obviously that can't be right, because Thatcher was in charge then.

Anyone who thinks the X Factor is in any way pornographic needs to watch a better quality of pornography.

_________________
"Even when you're a super-computer with an IQ of 2000 it's brown trousers time."

Reclaiming "methinks" for the nation

Latest blog post - 2011 - a review (updated 07/10)

There are plenty of tits on the X-Factor though.

Well Chris, the Mk2 Cavalry Twill, military issue trousers for the use of, could hold up to 50 pounds of soil in each leg. The photograph in the article clearly shows 'Bunty' Fotherington, (far right) releasing some waste material from the tunnel.

I've submitted a comment that they dug a hole and buried it. I'm not holding my breath though.

_________________
Sick Left-wing Zealot.