Travel

Paradise???

Well just managed to get an Internet connection at the cement works here in Barbados, but wont really be able to post very much.
Just to say, this place is great! I am staying in my own 2 bed house, have someone come and leave me a cooked meal ready for when I return after work. Have a fully stocked fridge, am 50 yards from the beach, and it's sunny. The Barbadians are mad for the cricket world cup, and even watch it during work! Only thing missing here is my wife and kids, I really wish they were here, as what is the use in been in paradise if you don't have the ones you love with you. Till I can post again Cheers!

Fun and Games

Weekly Quiz: Down Under Mate!

Well at last I have managed to make a bit of time to post the quiz, which is incidently my 100th post! So the theme this week was chosen from Will's list of suggestions, and is all about the lands down under. Think you know your Australian celebrities? Think you know your animals? Do you think you are safe in Australia????

Well try the quiz and find out how much you do know.

Round 1: Movie Link

OK we start of as always with the movie link round, something links all of these films together but what. Give me the name of the main actor/actress, and the film please, and then if you can the link.

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Round 2: Fuzzy Celebs

All these celebrities are regarded as Australiasia's finest exports, just name them please, and for bonus marks there are a number of them that don't fit a point each for the names of those, and 2 points for telling me why they don't fit.

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Round 3: Waxing Lyrical Cobber

This shouldn't be too hard, songs by Aussie bands and singers, just give me the song and the singer.

1) We gotta make ends meet before we get much older
2) Where women glow and men plunder
3) At 57 mt. pleasant st.
4) So slide over here And give me a moment
5) Boy your lovin’ is all I think about
6) At what technology has found Is it what we need
7) Hello, I'm just a fool who's willing to sit around
8) Your arms are warm but they make me feel

9) If you're lookin' for satisfaction I'm satisfaction guaranteed
10) Don't you make me sad Our love could be deep as the ocean
11) I thought I saw a man brought to life
12) When superstars and cannonballs are running through your head

Round 4: Quzzicles - It's dangerous in Oz

The nice and easy quizzicles round now to finish with.

1) It can kill a child in minutes, and has caused more deaths in Australia than snakes, sharks and salt water crocodiles put together. But what is it?

2) It is only 1cm in length yet can kill a human, it is of the jellyfish family and is barely visible in the water, what is this smallest of killers called?

3) Another killer living in the water has beautiful blue rings on its body, but if grabbed will emit a poison strong enough to kill within a few hours, what is this creature?

4) A shell that can kill? This one will another blue spotted or zigzagged patterned creature what is its name?

5) Seems unsafe in Aussie waters doesn’t it? It’s also not safe amongst the coral, this killer fish looks friendly enough but the long spines on its dorsal are enough to kill related to the Lion fish and NOT the stone fish what fish is it?

6) Supposedly found in rest area toilets, this spider has a distinctive red mark and a killer bite, what is it?

7) How many of the worlds 10 most deadly snakes live in Australia?

8) It could kill 100 humans with one bite and is the most poisonous snake in the world but what is its name?

9) Unusually the male of this spider is the one with the dodgy bite but what is the name of the spider with around 40 toxins in its venom?

10) This is a picture of a rather ugly looking snail, now I want to know its name and if it is poisonous or not?

Excuses,Excuses

Well first my mum was up from Cornwall, so I couldn't get on to post anything, then I got ill so I was in bed real early and didn't get to post. Now on Sunday I am off on my travels again, but this time it is somewhere nice .... BARBADOS!!!

I am working on the quiz, so should have it up quite soon, unless of course fate intervenes!

Weekly Question

Who are the real Victims???

Sorry that I haven't posted for a while! I always seem to be saying that these days, but the truth is I have just got back from Costa Rica, my Internet connection has been down, and I have my mum here for a visit. So the quiz is cancelled till next week, when I think I am going to go with the Blue theme of Wills, but there again...

Anyway, on with this weeks question, who are the real victims. Now by that I mean crime ways. Why do I ask? Well, this morning in the UK there has been quite a bit of a kerfuffle over a copper hitting a black woman 5 times, and been caught on CCTV. Now this young woman was 19, drunk as a skunk, resisting arrest and assaulting the copper. I am not condoning the copper for hitting her, but if that was the only way to restrain her then...

But that got me thinking, why is it this woman has been made to look a heroine, and the copper who was only doing his job is now suspended and looks likely to lose his job?

Here is what I think...


..it is what I have always thought, we are too soft on crime, and criminals are treated far better than their victims. Victim support? Pah don't make me laugh, it doesn't work! Lock the guy away who did the crime without the luxuries of TV, computers, 3 square meals a day, access to the gym etc, and may be, just may be he will think about what he has done.

I have had this arguement sort of before, on punishment, but this time I am concentrating more on the victims. In the UK the crime figures have supposed to have fallen, but I think the reported crime has fallen, only because less and less people are reporting it. Why are less people reporting crime? Because they know damn well nothing will get done about it that's why! If the coppers turn up and get an arrest, the accussed's friends make sure that it isn't reported again. But most of all it is what happens after a crime has been committed that really grips me.

A crime is reported and the crime is given a priority, if it is a burglary that has happened during the night or something, and no-one has been hurt, you may see a policeman, that week. On very rare occassions, you may see one on the same day, but like I said that is rare. They take statements and then go away, before going they ask if you want councelling and they may give you a leaflet. Usually that is the last you see of them for weeks on end, so what is the point?
When we had some stuff stolen, we almost got accussed of wasting police time, as they said that it was a waste of time sending anyone as there was nothing they could do! They didn't even know the full details really.

Recently, I heard about a bunch of prisoners who had been awarded a set amount of damages as they had their TV or something taken away, and this infringed on their basic human rights. What a load of CRAP!!! What about the victims of the crime who are scared shitless to go to sleep in their own homes because they have been burgled, do they have any human rights?? Apparently not.

The other thing that grips me is the fact that during court sessions, the criminal is always made to look a victim - Oh he comes from a broken home, Oh he had no father, oh this oh that. WHO GIVES A TOSS!!!!!!! They bloody well committed a crime, they CHOSE to do so, what about all the other kids of the estate that have come from broken homes who HAVEN'T gone that way??
I am sick to the back teeth of criminals been made into so-called victims.

But by far the worst is the fact that if you smack a kid for been abusive and for smashing up your car, or causing criminal damage, or the like. YOU are the one that gets it in the neck from the police, they are not bothered about the good for nothing career teenager that has done the damage. All they care about is the innocent victim that used minimal force to stop it.

The Criminal Justice system needs sorting out big time, until the true victims are treated like victims, criminals of the world are going to carry on as they are.