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maybe 29% of people who committed suicide were interviewed afterwards and said they did it because of homophobia

I have seen some complete rubbish quoted as statistics, but can anyone top this?

Taken from the BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/6707163.stm

Gay rights campaigner Andrew Muir said the comments were harmful.

"Our research proves that 29% of young people have actually attempted suicide because of homophobia in society and I think these comments are very concerning," he said.

29% of young people have attempted suicide because of homophobia in society? I think perhaps not...
(no Vic Reeves quotes please)

O cinneide and paddy mckeever?
I played with one and against the other. O cinneide played one of the most amazing one man shows for mary immaculata I have ever seen in 30 years of watching football.
Paddy mc keever has one of the best left feet I have ever seen, and is one of a samll number of forwards that actually beats his man to score regularly

Unfortunatly mine was in the Canal Court,

That's when illdecide became you'lldecide

Did the deed at the nuremore, great service. Cousin had reception at darver castle, again excellent

Use your fancy phone...

Which teams are you referring to as "better back door teams"?

i missed the spreads - can i have armagh london and wicklow with an Armagh bonus? No balls kicked in anger yet...

Inspector gadget like you've never heard before:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=59ZX5qdIEB0

Hmmm, oil believe it when I see it

ouch poker kings a losing hand, you dont see that every day..

source:  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6676585.stm


Viagra could aid jetlag recovery

Viagra used in combination with light could help jetlag symptoms
Viagra could be used to help people flying eastwards recover from jetlag, animal research suggests.

A team of Argentine scientists found the drug helped hamsters recover up to 50% faster from forward shifts in their daily time cycles.

However, the drug only worked in conjunction with light therapy, and only in one time direction - the equivalent to flying eastbound.

The study features in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In mammals, the light-dark cycle regulates the body's biological clock, which promotes activity during the daytime, when it is light, and sleep at night.


The researchers from the National University of Quilmes shifted the light-dark cycle of hamsters six hours forwards, by switching on lights six hours earlier than usual.

They then monitored the hamsters' running wheel activity to assess when their body clocks had adjusted to the new time cycle - the hamsters are active in the day but stop running when the lights go out.

Injection of Viagra before the time shift meant the hamsters adjusted to the new time cycle faster, even when low doses of the drug, which did not cause penile erections, were used.

Viagra, the drug sildenafil, was originally developed for the treatment of high blood pressure and angina, and is used to treat erectile dysfunction.

Viagra used in combination with light could help jetlag symptoms

When used without the shifts in light, the drug did not induce changes in the hamsters' activity, so it seems to work by enhancing the light-induced response.

Dr Diego Golumbek, who led the research, said the drug seemed to work via a molecule called cGMP which is known to have a role in setting the body's time clock - it is present at higher levels during the day.

The Viagra blocks the activity of an enzyme which breaks down cGMP, allowing higher levels to build up.

Dr Golumbek said the fact that different mechanisms may be used to slow down and speed up the body clock explains why Viagra only worked when the lights were switched on early, not late.

Professor Robert Lucas, from Manchester University, said although looking for ways adjust biological clocks was important, regulating light exposure was the most widely accepted strategy for doing this.

He said the new research raised the possibility of using Viagra in conjunction with this light treatment, but he added: "We will have to wait for more research to know whether this will work in humans."

Pfizer, the makers of Viagra, said the drug should only be used in accordance with the approved labelling.

maybe you could just mumble it...

The number of times I've heard from Irish people over here (the US) say "I was never a racist until I came here..." or "I'm not a racist but..." cracks me up. There are free loaders of every creed colour shape and size, and for every one of them there's a hard working one to match.
Irish bars in New York- half with illegal staff, and who do they employ to do the heavy lifting, the coking, the cleaning, and the bar prep (from 4am to 10am) Mexicans. There are plenty of Latinos (and Latinas) working their asses off here for feck all money, and still managing to send home a few quid (dollars /pesos). They would happily do it legally and pay the taxes so as not to have to keep looking over their shoulders, and they are contributing to the US economy (which one poster enlisted to protect).
As I said earlier, legal residence in the US is not black and white (or yellow or brown)
There are also people who are here legally, but are only entitled to residency, and not legally allowed to work (even charity work) -how that is helping the US economy is beyond me. The immigration legislation here needs sorted, its a mess. That is why I have sympathy for people working illegally, especially those that are paying taxes, and therefore they should have rights, why else would you pay taxes. They end up paying the salary of those people that are seeking to send them out of the country...
Weird, but thats the good old US of A for you.

Re. your first point, European Law expressly prohibits a member state (in this case the UK) from imposing differing rates of taxation within its own boundaries, for whatever reason

mostly correct- with the exception of areas of Targeted Social Need and a few other loopholes. Would be interesting to see if they could use the same EU legislation/designation that was used for the PEACE and PEACE II initiatives to push the tax or currency change through. If they did want to push in the Euro, I'm pretty sure that the EU would approve it. Big Gordon however- probably not so keen (unless there was something in it for him)