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Braden wrote:lemur68 wrote:Braden wrote:an aural assault by a has-never-was canadian mtvpunk band.
Sum 41?
Gob
garble wrote:Today I bought the most incredible book for my brother: Seeing Beyond Sight.
Its a chronicle of photographs from a photography course for blind and near-blind people. It is one of the best books about sight and the relationship between different senses I've seen in a long time. Highly recommended.
garble wrote:Braden wrote:lemur68 wrote:Braden wrote:an aural assault by a has-never-was canadian mtvpunk band.
Sum 41?
Gob
Are they named after the arrested development character?
Braden wrote:garble wrote:Braden wrote:lemur68 wrote:Braden wrote:an aural assault by a has-never-was canadian mtvpunk band.
Sum 41?
Gob
Are they named after the arrested development character?
No, but I'm sure that would make a better story.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gob_%28band%29
Gob's friendship with several Canadian bands has come up often in the past few years. Cone of Sum 41 has filled in on bass for some Gob live shows since Craig's departure. During Gob's downtime, Tom has played guitar for Sum 41 live since the departure of their guitarist, Dave Baksh.
The roots of Gob trace back to Theo Goutzinakis (guitars, vocals)
tocharian wrote:Cheese fries vs nonexistence. Duh.
lemur68 wrote:Didn't we learn from Art Alexakis that Greeks can't rock?
sparky wrote:I went to Oxford today to meet some friends and ended up discovering that I am not quite as useless at pool as I remember. Still bad, though.
Earlier, we bumped into a couple of old acquaintances in an ice cream bar and after some chat, came to the realisation that out of the five of us, only one of us had not been stopped and searched by the police under s.44 of the Terrorism Act. The only one of us who has not been stopped yet is Howard, who was the only white guy out of the five of us. Funny that.
Some comic stories came out of this:-
- A couple of days after July 7, Prashant managed to empty a train carriage to Wimbledon by the crazy method of entering it;
- Around the same time on the Tube, Raj sat down next to a man in a suit, who immediately started acting nervous. After a couple of stops the man moved two places away, at which point my exasperated friend said, unwisely as he admits:
"Right, that's really going to make a difference if there is ten kilos of Semtex in my satchel!"
To their credit, other passengers laughed.
- Around the same time, Pablo was on the Tube when he saw two British Transport Police run from the adjacent carriage to his one, charge through the adjoining door, sit either side of him, and demand to search him under s.44. Of course, every one else in the carriage panicked and moved to the other end. Searched, Pablo got off at Embankment, then, going through the ticket barriers to exit, he was stopped by another transport cop. Again, people panicked and rushed away. Pablo explained that he had already been searched and showed her the little pink form that they gave him (my favourite section is the "Intimate parts exposed" box). To her credit, the cop was apologetic - "This is just a random search..." Pablo politely asked how many white people she had stopped that day; she politely ignored him.
- When Raj and I were stopped when he was dropping me off at Manchester Piccadilly station last July, as the policemen were filling in our forms, Raj turned to me and asked "What build has he put you down as?"
"Medium." Raj smirked. "Ok, what has he put down for you?"
"Slim." Vain git. As professional as ever, our protectors paid no attention to our banter.
Gawd Bless Our Royal Constabulary!
In other British cop news, two days ago in Liverpool the singer in my youngest brother's band was detained in a police van for twenty minutes and fined £85 for "Threatening Behaviour" after approaching six of them standing against the wall and making the comment "Takes six of you to prop up a wall then?"
last year, I wrote:Yesterday, the weather here in the UK finally lived up to its reputation- it pissed down rain most of the day. Just the sort of miserable cold drizzle that London is famous for. I took the train to Waterloo Station, caught the North Line to Camden Town, and got off the train on Mars, I think. I have never seen anything like Camden. First of all, though, when I did get off the train, the police were EVERYWHERE, randomly stopping people and asking to see their documentation. I heard them asking a guy who spoke only Russian or Polish “How long have you been in this country?” [translator speaks other language, guy answers] “What is your business here?”
I have to say, there’s an element of authoritarianism to life in London these days. I just have to put that out there. Random stop-and-harrass questionings are kind of a bad precedent for personal freedom. Couple this with the thousands and thousands of closed circuit television cameras in the UK, and there’s a disturbing anti-privacy trend at work here. Discuss.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes??
I briefly thought about being the sort of person that cops hate- and stopping and asking them “HAS THIS MAN DONE ANYTHING THAT MAKES YOU THINK HE IS GUILTY OF A CRIME? IS HE FREE TO GO?” I would do it in a heartbeat in the US. I don’t think the police should be able to randomly stop people, but then, I grew up with a thing called the 4th Amendment. The British don’t really have one of those. PLUS, I wasn’t carrying any documentation of my own, except my US drivers license. I didn’t have my work permit or my passport with me, because I like to leave those somewhere safe when I am out wandering around.
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