Nanny State here we come!

Great news for all you conservative people out there: depiction of violent porn is banned!
While I type this I'm in a bit of a red-mist rage so I'm likely to rant. Here's the brief story...

A woman called Liz Longhurst had her 31 year old daughter killed by a man called Graham Coutts. He liked his strangulation porn apparently.
So now, thanks to a 3 year long campaign by Liz Longhurst and the "evidence" that "linked" her daughters killer to violent porn images, it's banned.

Obviously, if the stuff is real ban it. It's wrong, plain and simple.
But also in the ban is staged stuff: consenting adults acting out roles for the benefit of the camera is now illegal, and if I watch it I could find myself in prison for three years.

My civil liberties have just been stomped on a bit more.
If I choose to look at staged images of rape scenes or masochism, who cares? It doesn't make me want to go out and do it in real life, or kill someone.
By all means question my taste in entertainment, but don't brand me a potential killer.

Graham Coutts was clearly a bit unstable in the first place to murder someone. What he did in his spare time shouldn't have a knock on effect to all the innocent people out there that enjoy the same pass time.

If I killed someone with my pen, and in court evidence was brought forward about my fanatical obsession with pens, would they be banned? Would my mother going on a 3 year campaign about the dangers of pens and my brutal slaying of an innocent person using such an item be enough to get them outlawed?
Probably not, because it'd be obsurd. Yet viewing acted violent porn is about to be illegal because of the very same circumstances.

So what next?
Watching consenting adults in violent sex acts is going to be illegal.
What about watching films featuring murders? Gun crime? Car chases? Drug using?
All these things happen all the time every day. They feature in films all the time, and have done for decades. They're all illegal in real life yet portrayed by actors for entertainment.
Because gun crime takes place in real life, are we going to see stories about such events in film being outlawed? Are old episodes of Piorot going to be burned because some of them feature actors being murdered so that the mustacheod detective can solve the crime?

It's pathetic.

Villain

It was the first home game of the season for Aston Villa against newcomers to the premiership, Reading.
The last football match I went to was in the press box at Rotherham United when I was about 18, so being in the crowd at a premiership game was going to be something else.

My mate and boss Tony invited me along and I'm glad I went. It was an awesome experience and I'm definitely going again.
The traffic sucked so bad thanks to M6 roadworks and pricks who don't know how to drive crashing their cars and making everyone late. It wasn't helped by torrential rain.
We got to the ground a few minutes late even though we both ran, so we missed the moment when the team first comes onto the pitch. I really wanted to see that.
We were only jogging my heart felt like it was going to explode out of my chest. I don't run.

Anyways, Villa won 2-1. There was even a penalty and a sending off of a Reading player. The game had it all!
Tony was right about the seats as well: they were amazing. Cracking view of the pitch, but still far enough back to get the full force of the atmosphere from the noisy chanting fans at the back.

I just need to get my up to date shirt now.

Cure for HIV/AIDS!

It'll take a few years, but I've found a cure for this nasty disease. I dare say that my cure could even wipe it out in South Africa and could easily be used around the world.

It's estimated that about 30% of the population of South Africa has HIV, a figure that's been increasing steadily over the years; it was 24.5% at the turn of the century and the figure has been on an upward climb ever since.
In the UK, the figure is almost 79,000 living with HIV.


What my cure needs is based upon a huge conspiracy to fool the world. No small feat. But the outcome will save every world economy billions every year.
It goes a little something like this...

A new wonder drug is unleashed onto an unsuspecting world claiming to cure HIV within 2 years. The drug is an implant in the base of the skull.
Patients are shown a small implant which is said to release HIV killing super-drugs over the course of two years, in which time they'll be cured.
When their back is turned for the implant, they're actually injected with a small explosive device.
The two year time scale is needed to be able to convince as many people with the disease as possible into getting the implant. That way, every HIV carrier has a small explosive device in their brain.
When the two years is up, they are all detonated and everyone with HIV dies instantly.
Of course that'll mean approximately 38.6 million people will die instantaneously, but they'll die eventually anyway. It's just that this way they don't drain the healthcare resources of developing countries, and governments worldwide no longer have to plough taxpayers money into keeping people alive who are doomed to die.

In ten years the worldwide figure for HIV infection has almost quadrupled. If the figure is 38.6 million now and we use the laws of exponentialism, it'll be around 308 million in 2016.
Because I love numbers, by 2026 the figure is about 4.9 billion.

So I say we execute the reletively small number of people now before the disease becomes uncontrollable.
Tell me I'm wrong.