OMFG!!!

It is my birthday today.

The bad news is I really think I passed a &%#&@! kidney stone this morning. For a while there I didn't know if I could make it... pain enough to make ya sweat but not quite enough to make ya puke... though the thought did cross my mind... it started on the way to work and then subsided after I made the decision to leave work and try to make it home... so I went back to work.

More on the Death of England

From the BBC Quote of the Day:

"It's absolutely ludicrous - Thomas Crapper would be turning in his grave" - Philip Davies, Tory MP for Shipley, greets the news that a shopping centre is installing Turkish-style lavatories.

No longer will the sight of "squatting toilets" be confined to holidays abroad, if you shop in Rochdale. The Exchange shopping centre is having two squatting toilets plumbed in, after staff attended a cultural awareness course.

I served a tour in the Air Force in eastern Turkey and I can attest to the putridity of these things. Here's a clean one on the right. You put your feet on front part, drop your drawers and do your business. They're not very sanitary. The ones I encountered were usually filled with flies. Obviously it's not a place you want to drop your keys. As far as I know there was no difference in the plumbing (or lack thereof) between the men's and women's facilities.

Here's another that's even less pleasant. Why the good folks of Rochdale would willingly disregard a thousand years or so of plumbing progress is beyond me, but it certainly shows their desire to be assimilated into the the caliphate of Eurabia.