Let 'em have it

ON the BBC this morning there's a story I'd like you all to read.

Put simply, methadone is worse for you than Heroin and has long term health implications where clean smack (diamorphine) does not. It is also more economical to give people diamorphine and the issue of brown-related crime disappears immediately in many cases. I've worked with over a hundred heroin addicts in the last eleven months and I'm convinced this is the way to go. We don't ply those hooked on white cider with white spirit, do we, so why meth up these folk when we don't have to? Answer - it is cheaper than other, better drugs, such as subutex. Well, if money is the issue, precribe diamorphine, then see a much larger amount of money saved in crime and harm reduction budgets nationwide.

Not that anyone really gives a damn, of course.

More Wales please, We're British (Broadcasting Corporation)

According to this article, there's an England bias in the news and that, nevermind that there's a bunch more people in England than the other countries in the UK and that the monarch lives there and Parliament is there and so on. Anyhow, icWales, the Welsh news website thingy, quotes in their article:

"The council acknowledged that Torchwood had provided a starting point for the improvement of the representation of Wales on network television."

OK, so, according to Torchwood, those living in Wales can be divided into two groups - handsome promiscuous self obsessed middle class wankers who act irrationally and consider themselves above the law... and bizzarre ugly violent freaks from beyond nature who rampage the streets of Cardiff looking for someone to eat or rape to death.

I'm saying nowt.

Reasons Britain should tremble, #1,2543

This woman is why.

So - a maths mistake, or being crap at it, I can handle. I've made a few numerical gaffes of my own in my time. Running to the bloody paper when the lottery board have explained it to you over the phone already is too much for me to bear. For the love of god, the mouth breather behind the till even made the same error. I'm quitting my job and going to work in that shop - I'll just help myself to whatever salary I fancy from the till and they'll never notice.

The fear really sets in though when you realise that it is considered too risky to have a lottery ticket out in public where people might have to read a number that isn't between one and, what, fourty is it they usually go up to? They've withdrawn this ticket from sale, but I'll bet this evolutionary cul-de-sac of a person is still allowed to vote, isn't she? How come her doing that isn't considered to be problematic?

All of which serves to remind me that however much I miss Manchester (which is lots), there's still a good few mongs living there.

Social Networking Sites

Yes, they are crap. People invite me to join facebook now every day. Often the same people who complain we live in a surveillance society, and now they are voluntarily adding all their movements, thoughts and desires to one big, American, members only database of everything everyone ever does. I will confess, FB does make for easier organisation of evenings out in some cases, but you CAN'T EVER DELETE YOUR PROFILE - you have to go from thing to thing removing each item individually, even when these are things added to your account by others - messages and such.

To my mind, if I open an account I should be able to close it with even fewer clicks. There's too many sites requiring passwords today - this is why I use Google, Google mail, pages, reader, Blogger, Picasa and so on - one account and one password for all the things I need. Now, I might consider an Orkut account, as Orkut is the same as facebook but there's apparently no ninja pirate zombie spam arriving in your inbox daily, and it is compatible with other competing services nowadays as well - unlike Facebook, which talks to nothing but Facebook and makes it rather hard for you to get rid of things you don't want.

As a useful tool in some respects, I might have kept my facebook account, but I figured what the hell - just get rid of it and check other's pages occasionally to keep abreast of things. What's this? You need an account to view accounts? Why? Can't be for security as anyone can make up a new account. A simple numbers-growing exercise at the expense of convenience is all that is. Well bollocks to inconvenient things designed to make your life simpler, say I.

In other news, passed my driving test. It was unpleasant.