http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0132502

It was a hell of a film , the type which is on late at night and you had never heard of it before and it was filled with fun and deadpan humour to have you in fits of laughter on the couch and staying up until 3am.

Colin Firth ( also known as Colin Flirt ) had just so many wonderful lines.

“Stop looking like an Oxfam poster and come and have some ice cream.”

” Real men knock the handle off”

“And it is their brains and balls that keep the world turning.”

“Honestly, chivalry, integrity and a high body count.”

” Defy authority
Destroy property
Get Laid. “

Two new sets of numbers released were today.

One stating that for month of July 39 women attended the Sexual Assault and Treatment Unit (SATU) at the city’s Rotunda Hospital
and for the month of June 31 women were examined.

That is 70 women in the space of two months and that is only in Dublin and only those who came forward for treatment.

http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/mhcwkfidojmh/

On average out of those who do go to the Rape crises centre and those who do attend the Sexual Assault and Treatment Unit
only 10% will go to the garda.

So out of those 70 women only 7 will look to file reports and start the long and horrible process of helping to compile a file to be submitted to
the dept of prosecution.

The second set of numbers say that 5% of the cases reported to the garda are taken by the DPP to court.

So not even one of those 7 women may get a court date after all the humiliation telling their friends and family and statements and the physical collection of evidence

And having it known with in their community that they were raped.

Currently from the time a person is charged with rape until there is a day in court there is a waiting time of 118 weeks. Yes, weeks that is over two years.

So by the time a victim (who is treated under law as just a witness) gets to testify in court a lot of them will have healed and dealt with the issue to some degree and find all their wounds ripped open again and many can’t face it and ask for the charges to be dropped rather then put themselves and their family through all of this again.
Also all the resleased data is about sexual assualt and rape of women only and men are not factored in to them.

So boards.ie is being used as a resource in my children’s primary school….
My son came home with a print out of the lyrics of a song to learn
On the top of the page was the following url
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/archive/index.php/t-193397.html
it was also on the bottom of the page with todays date and that time of just after miday.

Weird just doesn’t cover it.
I did question the reason for that ballad and if it was suitable but it is part of getting to know Dublin as it was and as well as learning to sing it they discuss it; from the language to the historical aspects.

Still given the fact the class is pretty mixed I wonder how some of the parents originally from Africa feel about their kids being taught to sing

[quote]And I courted Peggy Dignan, as pretty as you please,
A rogue and child of Mary, from the rebel liberties,
I lost her to a student chap, with skin as black as coal,
When he took her off to Birmingham, she took away my soul. [/quote]

So there I was having some time with my son, both of us sprawled on my bed reading, ( each with our own books, tis cool he gets the companionable quiet ) and he asks me what a double date is.

So I ask him what a date is and he answers it is two people, sometimes a boy and a girl or a boy an a boy or a girl and a girl who sort of like [i]like[/i] each other and they go out and do things like going ot the cinema and they might do kisses.

Grand I think so I then I explain that a double date is two couples who go to the picture together both on dates but doing the same things.
He asked would all do kisses and I explain usually not.

Then cos he is a bright enough kid starts figuring out that a triple date is 6 people, 3 couples, a quadruple date is 8 people and 4 couples and then a quintuple date is 10 people and 5 couples.
Then he asks, ‘is that like an orgy ?’

I look at him and raise an eyebrow coolly ask him what an orgy is.

The reply I get back is that an orgy is a type of party the Romans would have and they would get drunk and kiss everyone.

I told him that dates were usually about two people getting to know each other and even if it was a group date that did not mean people were going to kiss everyone.

‘ah ok’ he replied and then said that orgies didn’t seem very hygienic and that they all must have gotten colds and sick and that is why the roman empire ended and promptly went back to reading his book.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/

Is it just me or is the current Dr awful careless with the T.A.R.D.I.S. ?

This evening I am going to experience the ‘expression of Joy’ in a performance by Dulsori.
Dulsori apparently means „heartbeat of the land“ or also „wild beat“. http://www.dulsori.com/
Won’t be that far to travel as it is on out in Dún Laoghaire.
It is meant to be a very stimulating event where your blood will pound along with the rhythms.

And in the morning it will be up early to go to the Showing of Sernity as part of
http://www.cantstoptheserenity.com/ at the hour of 10 am. I wonder If I can bring the duvet with me.

The screening is a fundraiser for http://www.equalitynow.org

Equality Now works to end violence and discrimination against women and girls around the world through the mobilization of public pressure. Issues of concern to Equality Now include:

RAPE
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS
TRAFFICKING
FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION
POLITICAL PARTICIPATION
GENDER DISCRIMINATION

So really it should be a really good weekend if I keep myself topped up with enough paracetamol….

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6697329.stm

Japanese minister ‘kills himself’
Toshikatsu Matsuoka
Toshikatsu Matsuoka was embroiled in a financial scandal
Japan’s Agriculture Minister Toshikatsu Matsuoka has died in hospital after reportedly committing suicide.

The 62-year-old was found hanged in his Tokyo apartment hours before he was to face questions in parliament over his links to a political funding scandal.

Efforts to resuscitate him at hospital failed. Officials said police were still investigating the cause of death.

Opposition MPs had been calling for his resignation over unexplained expenses claimed for a rent-free office.

Scandals and gaffes

“We’ve confirmed that Agriculture Minister Toshikatsu Matsuoka is dead. We are greatly saddened,” said government spokesman Yasuhisa Shiozaki.

Mr Matsuoka had allegedly claimed more than 28m yen ($236,600; £118,300) in utility fees at his parliamentary office, where utility costs are free. He denied any wrong-doing.

He had previously refused to explain the expenses to a parliamentary committee but the Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, defended him, saying he had fulfilled his legal responsibilities.

Mr Abe’s eight-month premiership has been rocked by a series of scandals and gaffes.

Support for Japan’s government has fallen to its lowest level since he took office, a new poll suggests.

28m yes = 118,300 British Pound = 174,716 Euro.

And hurrah for another tribunal section starting up.
http://breakingnews.ie/ireland/mhkfcwgbsney

The Taoiseach’s finances are among the main issues under investigation at the latest phase of the Mahon Tribunal into alleged political corruption.

The long-awaited Quarryvale Two module, which got underway this morning, is examining the development of the Liffey Valley shopping centre in west Dublin in the 1990s.

Property developer Tom Gilmartin claims Bertie Ahern received €80,000 from businessman Owen O’Callaghan to pave the way for the project.

However, both Mr Ahern and Mr O’Callaghan have vehemently denied the accusation.

In the opening statement of the latest module today, the tribunal said it would be examining five substantial lodgements to bank accounts in the name of Mr Ahern and his daughter between 1993 and 1995.

The lodgements total more than €116,000.

Mr Ahern is expected to be called to give evidence in the coming weeks.

Meanwhile, tribunal chairman Alan Mahon used the resumption of public hearings today to condemn the leaking of confidential information from the inquiry about Mr Ahern’s finances.

He said he was carrying out an investigation to try to identify the source of the leaks.

ok it is not 28m yen but surely it should be enough for person with any honour or integrity to consider saving some face. Not necessarily by cutting his own off by certainly by getting it out of politics.

TRUE SLACK / FALSE SLACK by mitchell@interserv.com (Popess Lilith von Fraumench).

False Slack is what people use to cope with “minor aggravations of modern
living” which are in actuality the tentacles of the Conspiracy digging out
one’s brains through the belly button.

True Slack is what SubGeniuses would do in any ordinary situation, witout
prompting, were it not for the Conspiracy tentacles and its encouragement of
False Slack.

False Slack keeps one “sane” long enough to remain profitable; it always costs
money to obtain, and fades away shortly after the money’s gone.

True Slack keeps one INSANE, but in a way which makes good sense and from
which only the slackful can benefit from; yet True Slack propagates and even
increases as more people partake in it.

False Slack is like exchanging the fishhooks in your stomach with bent paper
clips—you’re left with the impression that that’s an improvement on the
situation, even if you are still in a universe of utter despair-ridden agony.

True Slack is like farting out those same fishhooks in a sudden blast of
pyroflatulence, leaving one cleansed and joyous that the buggers are now and
forever GONE.