Posted 31 March 2004 By mac and has 23 comments.

it’s very good to see gay couples getting the same rights as heterosexual married couples (see Guardian link).

but where are the rights for straight, unmarried couples. I have many friends living in long term unmarried relationships, and this is discrimination, pure and simple.

what’s the justification? The “sanctity of marriage”?

weekend

Posted 29 March 2004 By mac and has 1 comment.

was good in parts.

interested?

Will Single Mothers Destroy the Queen?

Posted 28 March 2004 By mac and has 3 comments.

get yourself a random Daily Mail headline.

lovely :)

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decisions, decisions …

By mac and has 4 comments.

between www.dvd.co.uk and Amazon, we are spoilt for choice as to what to watch this evening.

and so, a poll:

By mac and has 4 comments.

America is a very strange place. This link from timpollard tells how the State of Georgia has banned female genital piercings (but not male).

Amendment sponsor Rep. Bill Heath, R-Bremen, was slack-jawed when told after the vote that some adults seek the piercings.

“What? I’ve never seen such a thing,” Heath said. “I, uh, I wouldn’t approve of anyone doing it. I don’t think that’s an appropriate thing to be doing.”

By mac and has 3 comments.

I don’t often do these long memes, but I spotted this on sheepthief’s journal, and as I have far too much work to do, it looked like an excellent avoidance tactic.

here it is, if you’re interested

Posted 24 March 2004 By mac and has 8 comments.

a few weeks ago I bought a rather linen-y hooded top in a shop in Glastonbury, and I dragged it out to wear yesterday for the first time.

it bore a label (claiming to be printed on handmade paper) stating the following:

I’m made with 100% organic cannabis hemp. Vegetable dyed or natural colour.

Fairtrade product, no child labour, no sweat shops. Our workers work when they want to.

No fertilizers, no pesticides, no chemical dyes, no chemicals at all.

Tree free. The raw materials for this product are plants gathered from the surrounding Himalayan mountains.

Handmade by the peoples of the Kingdom of Nepal.

all of which is really nice.

but I bet they *still* got paid peanuts …

By mac and has 7 comments.

further to yesterday’s unfortunate incident involving spectacles …

I actually broke the arm, rather than the lens. And as they are almost four years old, it was probably just old age that did for them (I can sympathise ..). I did have Vision Express insurance when I got them, but they never reminded me about it, and it wasn’t renewed.

perlmonger has very kindly mended them, in some Heath Robinson-esque manner involving a plastic drinking straw and some red sticky tape. So now I look like a pikey, but at least I can see again – the spex I was wearing were giving me eye strain.

ARSE

Posted 23 March 2004 By mac and has 9 comments.

have broken my glasses. £400 of varifocal, anti reflective, lightweight lenses :(

and I have to go to Sunbury today to see a potential client, wearing glasses through which I can’t see as well as I’d like, and don’t suit me at all.

and then will have to go to Vision Express and spend inordinate amounts of money on new ones.