"Any of you sheilas give us cool, colourful, and courageous men cheek and we'll send ya's over 'ere.... An Afghan woman and her daughter have been stoned and then shot dead by the Taliban in the central province of Ghazni."




Stoning - an invention of men to keep women under control. The wonderful ways of patriarchy...

Is it any wonder Goff wants to bring our tropps home from there. Shame John has suppressed his decision on redeploying tropps back there.

No wonder at all.
We went in when it was a UN project. We got out when our obligation, time and contribution was done.
We went back in when our Government changed and it was then decided that we should please the US government to help achieve a FTA with them.
What do they say of Afghanistan? Something along the lines of 'make sure you have an exit plan before you even begin to plan an entry...?'

We never seem to hear about what happens to the men involved in this "adultery."

Nothing.

It's very old testament isn't it?

I believe he gets to die in his own good time and go to Paradise, with seven virgins to keep him company.

I stand to be corrected of course.

I wonder what he does with them when they become un-virgin?

trade them in

Oi,

Wotdoya expect....the sky pilot's a joker too ya'no, he just keeps a lengthy que at us jokers front door. Gotta keep in practice ya'no....I could be more descriptive but might frighten wee Kari back to Canada and it's coming on ta winter an it gets a bit chilly over there and I'm too busy here servicing all the eligible chicks to go to that den of inequity....maybe Kari could slip up 'ere and we could enter into a lengthy discussion on the finer points...."how's ya father"

Beer o'clock.

Hullo, ullo Squirter, whatchoo up to?
The famille over in the great white north are gearing up for Christmas now -- chilly outside but oh, so cosy inside (thanks to central heating which I wish we had more of here)... in my NZ patch I'm just waiting for a bit of decent sunshine to bare my pale legs (Ooh, sorry Squirter, didn't mean to inflame your manly passions with discussion of flesh!)