Tayside Police’s new non-emergency phone number has prompted complaints from members of the Islamic community.

The choice of image on the Tayside Police cards - a black dog sitting in a police officer’s hat - has now been raised with Chief Constable John Vine.

The advert has upset Muslims because dogs are considered ritually unclean and has sparked such anger that some shopkeepers in Dundee have refused to display the advert.

Dundee councillor Mohammed Asif said: ‘My concern was that it’s not welcomed by all communities, with the dog on the cards.

‘It was probably a waste of resources going to these communities.

‘They (the police) should have understood. Since then, the police have explained that it was an oversight on their part, and that if they’d seen it was going to cause upset they wouldn’t have done it.’

I’ve got no tolerance for this kind of shit. And of course the police caved. They need to take a lesson from Australia: Conform or get out.

Creepy…

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Interesting distinction. I like it.

The front is no problem. Typically it lasts 50% longer than the rear.

The irony has not escaped me. This is the first time I’ve had anyone close (family, romantic interest, whatever) live with me under a roof I pay for. Last time I lived with anyone it was with her, over 10 years ago when I first moved back to Helena (that was only for two months, hint, hint). I’m resisting the urge to create a bunch of rules, but there will definitely be boundaries.

She got a job in Helena and is in the process of moving back here from Great Falls. TEMPORARILY she will be staying with me, while she finds an apartment. I offered up my place because I feel the need to facilitate this change, for her sanity and mine. The job she just left was shit. Most of the people are shit (lawyers, duh). The upper level management is shit (bureaucrats, duh). The stress was insane. The new job should be stress free and is a little more money to boot. As a bonus, the new job is with a State organization so her pension and vacation surplus stay intact.

So, anybody know of a nice little 2 bedroom house or apartment in a quiet neighborhood?

Sarcasm, then, is a verbal hammer that connects people in both a negative and positive way. We know that sense of humor is important to relationships; if someone doesn’t get your jokes, they aren’t likely to be your friend (or at least that’s my bottom line about friendship). Sarcasm is simply humor’s dark side, and it would be just as disconcerting if a friend didn’t get your snide remarks.

It’s also easy to imagine how sarcasm might be selected over time as evolutionarily crucial. Imagine two ancient humans running across the savannah with a hungry lion in pursuit. One guy says to the other, “Are we having fun yet?” and the other just looks blank and stops to figure out what in the world his pal meant by that remark. End of friendship, end of one guy’s contribution to the future of the human gene pool.

That’s right. I’m leaving y’all behind…

Known for his edgy, provocative material, Carlin achieved status as an anti-Establishment icon in the 1970s with stand-up bits full of drug references and a routine called “Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television.”

Carlin’s comedic sensibility often came back to a central theme: humanity is doomed.

“I don’t have any beliefs or allegiances. I don’t believe in this country, I don’t believe in religion, or a god, and I don’t believe in all these man-made institutional ideas,” he told Reuters in a 2001 interview.

Psychologist William Szlemko of Colorado State University has been studying the aggressive-driving tendencies of those who personalize their cars with stickers, vanity plates, etc., and he claims that his study shows that the more personalized “territorial markers” on a car, the more aggressive its driver is likely to be.

In another news article they said it doesn’t matter if the stickers are peaceful (”Visualize World Peace,” “Free Tibet,” et al), the results were the same.

I have a Triumph sticker that has seen the ice scraper one too many times, and an embossed fish with “N’CHIPS” in the center.

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