Bomb detectors

They should have known that this wasn't gong to detect any bombs.
It's fucking obvious to me.

Could be made from semtex.

^ Could be..... they cost a bomb

The Czech equivalent to red bull is called semtex.

The Czech equivalent to red bull is called semtex.

NB. The Swedish equivalent of haribo, liquorice black jacks, and dairy milk are spunk, kach, and plopp respectively

The Swedes also call those little mushroom sweets scum

Everyday = Schoolday.

WVM, Ha, explosive in many many ways.

It would be funny if it weren't true !

At the International Aids Conference in Canada Tshabalala-Msimang (the South African minister for Health) set up a stall with Garlic, Lemon and something else which I forget (ginger ?) . . . . this was his government's solution to the AIDs epidemic. While all around him people had displays of anti-retroviral drugs, (barrier) contraception and various other stuff with proven efficacy - this fucker was concentrating on Garlic and Lemon.

Insane.

[EDIT . . . beetroot, not ginger]

I thought it was ginger.

Even worse, there is a widely held belief that the virus can be cured through sex with virgins.... consentual or otherwise.

Its fucking dark. Botswana has an infection rate of somewhere around 30% 0f the population. 30... jesus.

Guilty , it's taken surprisingly long but it finally looks like his time is up.

Given that he isn't going to be sentenced until 2nd May, how does Kim Sengupta of the Independent know that the sentence will be 'paltry'? The maximum sentence for fraud by representation is 10 years, which doesn't seem all that paltry to me.

Slightly off topic but I read an interesting piece in the Fortean Times on dowsing (many claimed the sucess rate/identifications with the 'bomb detectors' were down to dowsing).

I paraphrase a lot but it basically said that dowsing was bollocks but the sucess was down to the individual who woudl involuntarily twitch when they saw the thing they were looking for. For water they would look at a landscape and sub conciously take in the vegetation, the lay of the land and all other visual clues and be able to work out where water was likely to be. A bit like Ray Mears but with a coat hanger.

Same sort of thign applied here. You'd see somethign suss, rocks out of place, big wire leading to a canister saying 'bomb' and you'd signal that recognition with a twitch.

They linked it to studies that demonstrated that asking a person a question they knew but couldn't recall the answer that that person was more likely to answer it using a wijja (sp?) board as their unconcious mind workd better. Somethign liek that. I'm not explainign it well as I'm in a rush. But I'd never heard that take before on dowsing and it kind of made sense.

I smell garlic.

There was an amazing bit of footage on the Channel 4 News last night of a guy at an Iraqi checkpoint marching on the spot as cars drove past to power his magic bomb finding wand.