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[drlovelife8]

Sexual double standards

Published: 2/09/2010 at 12:00 AM

Newspaper section: News

There are times when it is not just a non-issue, but it becomes your fault if you start to question it.

If you feel offended by your boss' obscene jokes, for example, it is because you lack a sense of humour. If you are uncomfortable with his suggestive look, lewd comment about your appearance, and starting to protest against his creepy touch, you are accused of making things up in your mind or making a mountain out of a molehill.

Now sexual harassment in the workplace is no longer tolerated, legally.

According to the Labour Protection Law, perpetrators are liable to a fine of 20,000 baht for making unwelcome sexual advances, verbally and physically, to subordinates or colleagues.

Take note, however, that sexual harassment carries no criminal punishment in the Labour Protection Law.

Furthermore, it governs the workforce in the private sector only, leaving out the gigantic officialdom and the more gigantic informal sector.

We should therefore welcome the move by the Office of the Civil Service Commission for issuing a set of regulations to punish sexual harassment in the bureaucratic workplace. The proposal received a quick green light from the cabinet without any raised eyebrows.

Little wonder. Why risk being politically incorrect when everyone knows it is so difficult to prove sexual harassment and very few victims are willing to complain for fear of losing their jobs and being the target of office gossip? Besides, why say no when the proposed anti-sexual harassment rules only apply to the 2-million-strong civil service, leaving out the military, the police, the judiciary, and politicians!

Why, why, why?

According to the Friends of Women Foundation, most of their sexual harassment complaints involve those big guys in uniform and in parliament. Front-page scandals tell us the same story. The stories of sexual harassment that surround us in everyday life may not involve big names and big institutions, but they are of the same nature. They are not only the stories of sexual misconduct, but ones of power and gender inequality that allow the predators to hunt with impunity.

Of course, efforts should be made to force the military, the police, the judiciary, and politicians at all levels to be legally accountable for their misconduct. But what we have learned from the impotent anti-sexual harassment clause in the Labour Protection Law and the civil service's half-hearted attempt to curb sexual harassment is that the real enemy is not so much what is written on paper. It is what is in our heads.

Some critics complain about the lack of transparent and fair procedures to deliver justice and to protect the victims. Others complain about the light punishment that fails to rein in the predators.

But we already have many forceful laws to fix gender-based violence, yet the lack of enforcement is glaring. Often, an effort to fix one problem ends up creating a new, unexpected one. Harsh punishment for parents of child sex workers, for example, has forced child prostitution to go deeper underground, making them more vulnerable to sexual exploitation.

Don't deny it. Our culture's sexual double standard endorses womanising as part of male sexual prowess. It also treats women as inferiors and sex objects. It is difficult for men who grow up in this culture of gender inequality to see that making unwelcome sexual advances of any kind is hurting women's human dignity.

Meanwhile, it is very difficult for the victim to fight for justice. More often than not they are fighting not just the predator, for the whole organisation is intent on protecting its institutional reputation. There is the fear of losing one's job for taking the boss to task. There is the fear of social stigma from the cultural tendency to blame women in sex-related crimes. Indeed, who does not fear those staring eyes, that nasty gossip of sexual blackmail...?

We certainly need better laws to weed out sexual harassment. But if our cultural values in favour of the predators remain intact, any anti-sexual harassment rules and laws will end up being just pieces of paper.

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Being how this new law only applies to the private section of business, I can see them doing their token enforcement on some foreign businessman.

Too bad this new law doesn't apply to all business, government, and all, and had some real teeth with criminal consequences for repeat violations, and an increasing fine structure.

That will take some policing, I wonder if we can just pay a little corruption cash and just openly slap their arses..... Never mind love, you go and make a nice cup of tea, there are even some dirty dishes if you get bored! (slaps arse as she leaves)

[English_Bob]

That will take some policing, I wonder if we can just pay a little corruption cash and just openly slap their arses..... Never mind love, you go and make a nice cup of tea, there are even some dirty dishes if you get bored! (slaps arse as she leaves)

Careful... You might get battered by Granpa Ninja.

[drlovelife8]

That will take some policing, I wonder if we can just pay a little corruption cash and just openly slap their arses..... Never mind love, you go and make a nice cup of tea, there are even some dirty dishes if you get bored! (slaps arse as she leaves)

Careful... You might get battered by Granpa Ninja.

I'll hear him coming, he lost stealth ability when his rickets set in!

[eagle]

That will take some policing, I wonder if we can just pay a little corruption cash and just openly slap their arses..... Never mind love, you go and make a nice cup of tea, there are even some dirty dishes if you get bored! (slaps arse as she leaves)

Careful... You might get battered by Granpa Ninja.

I'll hear him coming, he lost stealth ability when his rickets set in!

you 2 are quite the love match

[koolbreez]

That will take some policing, I wonder if we can just pay a little corruption cash and just openly slap their arses..... Never mind love, you go and make a nice cup of tea, there are even some dirty dishes if you get bored! (slaps arse as she leaves)

Careful... You might get battered by Granpa Ninja.

Careful... The token enforcement might involve some overpriced foreign restaurant.

[Stramash]

A powerful car used in a gangland attack was involved in a high-speed police chase after it was stolen from the home of an Edinburgh lawyer.

Thugs in a black Audi S4 tailed victim James Hanlon's Vauxhall Vectra for four miles before ramming him.

His car was hit by a second vehicle before six men chased him, pinned him down at the roadside in Stepps, near Glasgow, and attacked him with power drills, hammers and chisels.

James's twin brother Bryan had his genitals mutilated in a second violent attack on Sunday.

It emerged yesterday the car used in the August 22 attack on James, 26, was stolen weeks earlier.

The Record can reveal the Audi S4 was one of two cars stolen from Edinburgh's Granton after a break-in in the early hours of July 15.

It is understood the lawyer and his wife were not at their home in Boswall Road when raiders seized the keys to the vehicle and those of an Audi A6.

But the powerful cars were spotted by police and chased through Edinburgh at speeds of up to 90mph.

Both vehicles were pursued across the capital but escaped. The S4 was spotted being driven erratically in the west of Edinburgh at 2.30am.

A patrol signalled for the driver to stop but they lost the car after it sped off into residential streets.

The A6 was seen soon afterwards in the city's Drum Brae South, but officers lost it in Broomhouse after it was driven at speeds of up to 90mph.

The S4 has been impounded by police while they continue their probe into the attack on James Hanlon.

The A6 was recovered in a separate incident. Police confirmed both vehicles were stolen from Granton.

The thefts were one of a series in the capital where luxury cars were stolen during break-ins.

Earlier this summer a Mercedes E280, Audi Q5, BMW 5 series and a Range Rover were taken from outside homes in the west of the city.

Lothian and Borders police sources say many of the cars turn up in the west of Scotland, leading to speculation that they are being "stolen to order".

Bryan Hanlon was targeted a week after his brother James had holes bored in his head with a power drill.

As well as having his penis cut off, Bryan was left with multiple fractures and severe head injuries. He is critically ill in hospital.

Bryan was driving on Maryhill Road in Glasgow at 11.30pm on Sunday when he was run off the road by a silver BMW 5 series and a dark-coloured 4x4.

His Audi S4 estate hit a wall and he was hauled out by up to seven thugs armed with chisels and hammers who subjected him to a sustained attack.

The twins were both close pals of feared gangland enforcer Kevin "Gerbil" Carroll, who was shot dead in an Asda car park in Robroyston, Glasgow, in January.

Sources say the attacks on the twins are a result of a feud between them and a rival who we cannot name for legal reasons. But it's not known why the violence has escalated to this level.

It's believed James, who is recovering, only survived because passing drivers called 999.

The gang left their cars scattered across the road and fled the scene.

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2010/09/01/chisel-attack-gang-ditched-police-after-90mph-chase-in-stolen-car-86908-22528379/

:shock: :shock:

[English_Bob]

Careful... You might get battered by Granpa Ninja.

Careful... The token enforcement might involve some overpriced foreign restaurant.

Interesting you assume you are Granpa Ninja... I was thinking of a REAL person.

[koolbreez]

Careful... You might get battered by Granpa Ninja.

Careful... The token enforcement might involve some overpriced foreign restaurant.

Interesting you assume you are Granpa Ninja... I was thinking of a REAL person.

Why would you even think I was talking to you....

[English_Bob]

Careful... You might get battered by Granpa Ninja.

Careful... The token enforcement might involve some overpriced foreign restaurant.

Interesting you assume you are Granpa Ninja... I was thinking of a REAL person.

Why would you even think I was talking to you....

Errr. You quoted me.

[Admin_2]

A powerful car used in a gangland attack was involved in a high-speed police chase after it was stolen from the home of an Edinburgh lawyer.

Thugs in a black Audi S4 tailed victim James Hanlon's Vauxhall Vectra for four miles before ramming him.

His car was hit by a second vehicle before six men chased him, pinned him down at the roadside in Stepps, near Glasgow, and attacked him with power drills, hammers and chisels.

James's twin brother Bryan had his genitals mutilated in a second violent attack on Sunday.

It emerged yesterday the car used in the August 22 attack on James, 26, was stolen weeks earlier.

The Record can reveal the Audi S4 was one of two cars stolen from Edinburgh's Granton after a break-in in the early hours of July 15.

It is understood the lawyer and his wife were not at their home in Boswall Road when raiders seized the keys to the vehicle and those of an Audi A6.

But the powerful cars were spotted by police and chased through Edinburgh at speeds of up to 90mph.

Both vehicles were pursued across the capital but escaped. The S4 was spotted being driven erratically in the west of Edinburgh at 2.30am.

A patrol signalled for the driver to stop but they lost the car after it sped off into residential streets.

The A6 was seen soon afterwards in the city's Drum Brae South, but officers lost it in Broomhouse after it was driven at speeds of up to 90mph.

The S4 has been impounded by police while they continue their probe into the attack on James Hanlon.

The A6 was recovered in a separate incident. Police confirmed both vehicles were stolen from Granton.

The thefts were one of a series in the capital where luxury cars were stolen during break-ins.

Earlier this summer a Mercedes E280, Audi Q5, BMW 5 series and a Range Rover were taken from outside homes in the west of the city.

Lothian and Borders police sources say many of the cars turn up in the west of Scotland, leading to speculation that they are being "stolen to order".

Bryan Hanlon was targeted a week after his brother James had holes bored in his head with a power drill.

As well as having his penis cut off, Bryan was left with multiple fractures and severe head injuries. He is critically ill in hospital.

Bryan was driving on Maryhill Road in Glasgow at 11.30pm on Sunday when he was run off the road by a silver BMW 5 series and a dark-coloured 4x4.

His Audi S4 estate hit a wall and he was hauled out by up to seven thugs armed with chisels and hammers who subjected him to a sustained attack.

The twins were both close pals of feared gangland enforcer Kevin "Gerbil" Carroll, who was shot dead in an Asda car park in Robroyston, Glasgow, in January.

Sources say the attacks on the twins are a result of a feud between them and a rival who we cannot name for legal reasons. But it's not known why the violence has escalated to this level.

It's believed James, who is recovering, only survived because passing drivers called 999.

The gang left their cars scattered across the road and fled the scene.

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2010/09/01/chisel-attack-gang-ditched-police-after-90mph-chase-in-stolen-car-86908-22528379/

:shock: :shock:

That was one of the strangest stories I've ever read...just because of the way they talk about the stolen cars and then are like "oh yeah, he got his balls cut off. Anyway, the Audi chase was at 90 mph..."

[drlovelife8]

That will take some policing, I wonder if we can just pay a little corruption cash and just openly slap their arses..... Never mind love, you go and make a nice cup of tea, there are even some dirty dishes if you get bored! (slaps arse as she leaves)

Careful... You might get battered by Granpa Ninja.

Careful... The token enforcement might involve some overpriced foreign restaurant.

Or a cracking night out at EB's

[drlovelife8]

A powerful car used in a gangland attack was involved in a high-speed police chase after it was stolen from the home of an Edinburgh lawyer.

Thugs in a black Audi S4 tailed victim James Hanlon's Vauxhall Vectra for four miles before ramming him.

His car was hit by a second vehicle before six men chased him, pinned him down at the roadside in Stepps, near Glasgow, and attacked him with power drills, hammers and chisels.

James's twin brother Bryan had his genitals mutilated in a second violent attack on Sunday.

It emerged yesterday the car used in the August 22 attack on James, 26, was stolen weeks earlier.

The Record can reveal the Audi S4 was one of two cars stolen from Edinburgh's Granton after a break-in in the early hours of July 15.

It is understood the lawyer and his wife were not at their home in Boswall Road when raiders seized the keys to the vehicle and those of an Audi A6.

But the powerful cars were spotted by police and chased through Edinburgh at speeds of up to 90mph.

Both vehicles were pursued across the capital but escaped. The S4 was spotted being driven erratically in the west of Edinburgh at 2.30am.

A patrol signalled for the driver to stop but they lost the car after it sped off into residential streets.

The A6 was seen soon afterwards in the city's Drum Brae South, but officers lost it in Broomhouse after it was driven at speeds of up to 90mph.

The S4 has been impounded by police while they continue their probe into the attack on James Hanlon.

The A6 was recovered in a separate incident. Police confirmed both vehicles were stolen from Granton.

The thefts were one of a series in the capital where luxury cars were stolen during break-ins.

Earlier this summer a Mercedes E280, Audi Q5, BMW 5 series and a Range Rover were taken from outside homes in the west of the city.

Lothian and Borders police sources say many of the cars turn up in the west of Scotland, leading to speculation that they are being "stolen to order".

Bryan Hanlon was targeted a week after his brother James had holes bored in his head with a power drill.

As well as having his penis cut off, Bryan was left with multiple fractures and severe head injuries. He is critically ill in hospital.

Bryan was driving on Maryhill Road in Glasgow at 11.30pm on Sunday when he was run off the road by a silver BMW 5 series and a dark-coloured 4x4.

His Audi S4 estate hit a wall and he was hauled out by up to seven thugs armed with chisels and hammers who subjected him to a sustained attack.

The twins were both close pals of feared gangland enforcer Kevin "Gerbil" Carroll, who was shot dead in an Asda car park in Robroyston, Glasgow, in January.

Sources say the attacks on the twins are a result of a feud between them and a rival who we cannot name for legal reasons. But it's not known why the violence has escalated to this level.

It's believed James, who is recovering, only survived because passing drivers called 999.

The gang left their cars scattered across the road and fled the scene.

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2010/09/01/chisel-attack-gang-ditched-police-after-90mph-chase-in-stolen-car-86908-22528379/

:shock: :shock:

That was one of the strangest stories I've ever read...just because of the way they talk about the stolen cars and then are like "oh yeah, he got his balls cut off. Anyway, the Audi chase was at 90 mph..."

they mutilated his genitals!!! Heavy ****

[koolbreez]

Careful... You might get battered by Granpa Ninja.

Careful... The token enforcement might involve some overpriced foreign restaurant.

Interesting you assume you are Granpa Ninja... I was thinking of a REAL person.

Why would you even think I was talking to you....

Errr. You quoted me.

I was just getting the topic back on track. quite many people quote what someone else posts without it meaning they are talking to them directly, especially in this thread.......geeeez.

[English_Bob]

I was just getting the topic back on track. quite many people quote what someone else posts without it meaning they are talking to them directly, especially in this thread.......geeeez.

Back on topic... Yeah, right. :roll:

Here's a WTF............ "Quite many people"

Now we're back on topic...

[koolbreez]

Thai labour recruiters indicted in US

Published: 3/09/2010 at 11:51 AM

Online news: Local News

The Justice Department announced Thursday that a federal grand jury in Honolulu indicted Mordechai Orian, an Israeli national; Pranee Tubchumpol, Shane Germann and Sam Wongsesanit of Global Horizons Manpower Inc., located in Los Angeles; and Thai labor recruiters Ratawan Chunharutai and Podjanee Sinchai for engaging in a conspiracy to commit forced labor and document servitude.

The charges arise from the defendants’ alleged scheme to coerce the labor and services of approximately 400 Thai nationals brought by the defendants to the U. S. from Thailand from May 2004 through September 2005 to work on farms across the country under the U.S. federal agricultural guest worker program, according to the justice department.

Orian, Tubchumpol and Chunharutai are also charged with three substantive counts of compelling the labor of three Thai guest workers.

If convicted, Orian and Tubchumpol each face maximum sentences of 70 years in prison, Chunharutai faces a maximum sentence of 65 years in prison, Germann and Wongsesanit each face a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, and Sinchai, who was recently charged in Thailand with multiple counts of recruitment fraud, faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison if convicted in the United States.

The indictment alleges that the defendants conspired and devised a scheme to obtain the labor of approximately 400 Thai nationals by enticing them to come to the U.S. with false promises of lucrative jobs, and then maintaining their labor at farms in Washington and Hawaii through threats of serious economic harm.

The defendants arranged for the Thai workers to pay high recruitment fees, which were financed by debts secured with the workers’ family property and homes. Significant portions of these fees went to the defendants themselves.

After arrival in the United States, the defendants confiscated the Thai nationals’ passports and failed to honor the employment contracts. The defendants maintained the Thai nationals’ labor by threatening to send them back to Thailand, knowing they would face serious economic harms created by the debts.

The indictment also alleges that the defendants confined a group of Thai guest workers at Maui Pineapple Farm and demanded an additional fee of US$3,750 to keep their jobs with Global Horizons. Those workers who refused to pay the additional fee were sent back home to Thailand with unpaid debts, subjecting them to the high risk of losing their family homes and land.

This case has been investigated by the FBI’s Honolulu Division. Services to victims have been provided by the Thai Community Development Center in Los Angeles. The charges, in a five-count indictment, are merely accusations, and the defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.

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EB, could you please do a syntax check on this. I'm sure you'll find some mistakes. You're getting very good at it finally. Thanks in advance.

[English_Bob]

http://www.livescience.com/culture/090110-illiterate-adults.html

14 Percent of U.S. Adults Can't Read

About 14 percent of U.S. adults won't be reading this article. Well, okay, most people won't read it, given all the words that are published these days to help us understand and navigate the increasingly complex world.

But about 1 in 7 can't read it. They're illiterate.

Statistics released by the U.S. Education Department this week show that some 32 million U.S. adults lack basic prose literacy skill. That means they can't read a newspaper or the instruction on a bottle of pills.

"The crisis of adult literacy is getting worse, and investment in education and support programs is critical," said David C. Harvey, president and CEO of ProLiteracy, in response to the finding.

This is about jobs and the economy, Harvey said.

"More than 1 million people lost their jobs in 2008 and the new unemployment figures are the highest in 16 years," Harvey said. "A large number of the unemployed are low-skilled individuals who struggle with everyday reading, writing and math tasks. The administration wants to create new jobs with the stimulus packages, but to take advantage of those new positions, these adults need basic literacy skills."

A separate study released last month named Minneapolis and Seattle as the most literate cities.

ProLiteracy, which promotes reading programs for the disadvantaged and encourages more government funding, estimates that illiteracy costs American businesses more than $60 billion each year in lost productivity and health and safety issues. Lack of funding at the federal, state and local levels prevents about 90 percent of the illiterate from getting help, the organization claims.

ProLiteracy also estimates:

* 63 percent of prison inmates can't read

* 774 million people worldwide are illiterate

* Two-thirds of the world's illiterate are women

If parents can't read, there's a good chance children will be poor readers, the organization notes.

[English_Bob]

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EB, could you please do a syntax check on this. I'm sure you'll find some mistakes. You're getting very good at it finally. Thanks in advance.

OK...

You missed a question mark in the first sentence.

The adverb 'finally' is in the wrong place. It goes between the auxiliary verb and the main verb.

But two mistakes in four sentences is an improvement. Well done.

[Stramash]

A powerful car used in a gangland attack was involved in a high-speed police chase after it was stolen from the home of an Edinburgh lawyer.

Thugs in a black Audi S4 tailed victim James Hanlon's Vauxhall Vectra for four miles before ramming him.

His car was hit by a second vehicle before six men chased him, pinned him down at the roadside in Stepps, near Glasgow, and attacked him with power drills, hammers and chisels.

James's twin brother Bryan had his genitals mutilated in a second violent attack on Sunday.

It emerged yesterday the car used in the August 22 attack on James, 26, was stolen weeks earlier.

The Record can reveal the Audi S4 was one of two cars stolen from Edinburgh's Granton after a break-in in the early hours of July 15.

It is understood the lawyer and his wife were not at their home in Boswall Road when raiders seized the keys to the vehicle and those of an Audi A6.

But the powerful cars were spotted by police and chased through Edinburgh at speeds of up to 90mph.

Both vehicles were pursued across the capital but escaped. The S4 was spotted being driven erratically in the west of Edinburgh at 2.30am.

A patrol signalled for the driver to stop but they lost the car after it sped off into residential streets.

The A6 was seen soon afterwards in the city's Drum Brae South, but officers lost it in Broomhouse after it was driven at speeds of up to 90mph.

The S4 has been impounded by police while they continue their probe into the attack on James Hanlon.

The A6 was recovered in a separate incident. Police confirmed both vehicles were stolen from Granton.

The thefts were one of a series in the capital where luxury cars were stolen during break-ins.

Earlier this summer a Mercedes E280, Audi Q5, BMW 5 series and a Range Rover were taken from outside homes in the west of the city.

Lothian and Borders police sources say many of the cars turn up in the west of Scotland, leading to speculation that they are being "stolen to order".

Bryan Hanlon was targeted a week after his brother James had holes bored in his head with a power drill.

As well as having his penis cut off, Bryan was left with multiple fractures and severe head injuries. He is critically ill in hospital.

Bryan was driving on Maryhill Road in Glasgow at 11.30pm on Sunday when he was run off the road by a silver BMW 5 series and a dark-coloured 4x4.

His Audi S4 estate hit a wall and he was hauled out by up to seven thugs armed with chisels and hammers who subjected him to a sustained attack.

The twins were both close pals of feared gangland enforcer Kevin "Gerbil" Carroll, who was shot dead in an Asda car park in Robroyston, Glasgow, in January.

Sources say the attacks on the twins are a result of a feud between them and a rival who we cannot name for legal reasons. But it's not known why the violence has escalated to this level.

It's believed James, who is recovering, only survived because passing drivers called 999.

The gang left their cars scattered across the road and fled the scene.

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2010/09/01/chisel-attack-gang-ditched-police-after-90mph-chase-in-stolen-car-86908-22528379/

:shock: :shock:

That was one of the strangest stories I've ever read...just because of the way they talk about the stolen cars and then are like "oh yeah, he got his balls cut off. Anyway, the Audi chase was at 90 mph..."

they mutilated his genitals!!! Heavy sh*t

One of my mates is a press photographer; says this is the heaviest story he has covered. They not only cut off his c*ck, but used the chisel to rape him. Guy is now in an induced coma and they reckon permanent vegetative state.

Not pleasant.

[koolbreez]

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EB, could you please do a syntax check on this. I'm sure you'll find some mistakes. You're getting very good at it finally. Thanks in advance.

OK...

You missed a question mark in the first sentence.

The adverb 'finally' is in the wrong place. It goes between the auxiliary verb and the main verb.

But two mistakes in four sentences is an improvement. Well done.

You're right about the ? mark, but the "finally would work if I'd just put a coma before it too.

Thanks

[eagle]

now that was pleasant even if an illusion... :shock:

[English_Bob]

You're right about the ? mark, but the "finally would work if I'd just put a coma before it too.

Thanks

Yes... but you didn't.

(You missed a pair of inverted commas in this one. And a full stop.)

I'm beginning to think you have a masochistic streak.

[koolbreez]

You're right about the ? mark, but the "finally would work if I'd just put a coma before it too.

Thanks

Yes... but you didn't.

(You missed a pair of inverted commas in this one. And a full stop.)

I'm beginning to think you have a masochistic streak.

Well, once an English teacher, always an English teacher.

Your inference just doesn't make any sense though, and that is what is so laughable about you.

You always provide a good laugh. Nice job.

[English_Bob]

You're right about the ? mark, but the "finally would work if I'd just put a coma before it too.

Thanks

Yes... but you didn't.

(You missed a pair of inverted commas in this one. And a full stop.)

I'm beginning to think you have a masochistic streak.

Well, once an English teacher, always an English teacher.

Your inference just doesn't make any sense though, and that is what is so laughable about you.

You always provide a good laugh. Nice job.

The errors you make don't require an English teacher to identify.

Just because YOU don't get it, doesn't mean everyone else doesn't.

The 'masochistic' inference (and I'll explain slowly so you understand), is that you enjoy being humiliated and made to look stupid so you deliberately continue to post basic errors.

Actually, it's you that's providing the laugh... I'm just enjoying pointing it out to you.

[SoBeIt]

Damn it.. I run out of popcorns..

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Norway pair face death in Congo

Two Norwegian men have been sentenced to death in the Democratic Republic of Congo after being convicted of murder.

Joshua French, 27, and Tjostolv Moland, 28, were also accused of arms smuggling and espionage. They denied all charges.

They were held after their Congolese driver was found shot dead in May this year in the north-east of the country.

The two were ordered to pay $60m (£36m) damages. There was reportedly applause when the sentence was handed down at a military tribunal in Kisangani city.

Diplomatic sources confirmed French had dual British-Norwegian citizenship, but UK officials had so far not played a role in the case.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8244630.stm

[drlovelife8]

A powerful car used in a gangland attack was involved in a high-speed police chase after it was stolen from the home of an Edinburgh lawyer.

Thugs in a black Audi S4 tailed victim James Hanlon's Vauxhall Vectra for four miles before ramming him.

His car was hit by a second vehicle before six men chased him, pinned him down at the roadside in Stepps, near Glasgow, and attacked him with power drills, hammers and chisels.

James's twin brother Bryan had his genitals mutilated in a second violent attack on Sunday.

It emerged yesterday the car used in the August 22 attack on James, 26, was stolen weeks earlier.

The Record can reveal the Audi S4 was one of two cars stolen from Edinburgh's Granton after a break-in in the early hours of July 15.

It is understood the lawyer and his wife were not at their home in Boswall Road when raiders seized the keys to the vehicle and those of an Audi A6.

But the powerful cars were spotted by police and chased through Edinburgh at speeds of up to 90mph.

Both vehicles were pursued across the capital but escaped. The S4 was spotted being driven erratically in the west of Edinburgh at 2.30am.

A patrol signalled for the driver to stop but they lost the car after it sped off into residential streets.

The A6 was seen soon afterwards in the city's Drum Brae South, but officers lost it in Broomhouse after it was driven at speeds of up to 90mph.

The S4 has been impounded by police while they continue their probe into the attack on James Hanlon.

The A6 was recovered in a separate incident. Police confirmed both vehicles were stolen from Granton.

The thefts were one of a series in the capital where luxury cars were stolen during break-ins.

Earlier this summer a Mercedes E280, Audi Q5, BMW 5 series and a Range Rover were taken from outside homes in the west of the city.

Lothian and Borders police sources say many of the cars turn up in the west of Scotland, leading to speculation that they are being "stolen to order".

Bryan Hanlon was targeted a week after his brother James had holes bored in his head with a power drill.

As well as having his penis cut off, Bryan was left with multiple fractures and severe head injuries. He is critically ill in hospital.

Bryan was driving on Maryhill Road in Glasgow at 11.30pm on Sunday when he was run off the road by a silver BMW 5 series and a dark-coloured 4x4.

His Audi S4 estate hit a wall and he was hauled out by up to seven thugs armed with chisels and hammers who subjected him to a sustained attack.

The twins were both close pals of feared gangland enforcer Kevin "Gerbil" Carroll, who was shot dead in an Asda car park in Robroyston, Glasgow, in January.

Sources say the attacks on the twins are a result of a feud between them and a rival who we cannot name for legal reasons. But it's not known why the violence has escalated to this level.

It's believed James, who is recovering, only survived because passing drivers called 999.

The gang left their cars scattered across the road and fled the scene.

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2010/09/01/chisel-attack-gang-ditched-police-after-90mph-chase-in-stolen-car-86908-22528379/

:shock: :shock:

That was one of the strangest stories I've ever read...just because of the way they talk about the stolen cars and then are like "oh yeah, he got his balls cut off. Anyway, the Audi chase was at 90 mph..."

they mutilated his genitals!!! Heavy sh*t

One of my mates is a press photographer; says this is the heaviest story he has covered. They not only cut off his c*ck, but used the chisel to rape him. Guy is now in an induced coma and they reckon permanent vegetative state.

Not pleasant.

British gangsters or some of our lovely new arrivals. Seems heavy for the Brits.