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>By way of a malicious prank, the educational disaster area that delivers our
>papers gave us a Daily Express this morning. Nestling beside a special feature
>about Andre Agassi's affair with Barbara Streisand

Balh blah blah about balh blah blah.

>there was a whole page
>devoted to, yes you guessed it, the Z campaign. It appears that this master
>stroke was modelled on a campaign in Canada. Of course one might wonder what a
>pretty pass we've come to when we take our lead from the frozen wastes of the
>51st State, Home of the Humourless ("why do Canadians make love doggy-style?"
>-"so the women can see the hockey game as well").

  I can tell you are trying very hard to make a deep philosophical point here

>lightly - the Canucks spent a mighty 146 million quid on their campaign, whereas
>ours cost a measly 25,000.

   Yeah right, what the fuck is this mega project I've never heard of?

> According to the dimbulb that was interviewed, the

  This one's pretty funny right? you'll have to excuse me, the last time I
had a good laugh was when my sled dogs collided, I realize it's not Benny
Hill or anything paralytically hillarious for a Brit.

>mentioned here in the ensuing discussion. Also touted were the usual
>statistoids - "a woman is raped in Edinburgh every week" - (doesn't she ever get
>sick of it? why doesn't she *move*?) 

   I'm speachless!, almost.  And here we were thinking that England was a
cess-pool filled with reactionary halfwits...  This is stunning analysis,
a real prizewinner of gormlessness.
   I take it that Edinburgh is a city of some size, one rape a week must
be a very low rate of reporting to the police...
   I'll admit that I know nothing of the debate here other than what I can
inferr from your babbling, but I think the defense of this thing you don't
like goes like this:
   Perhaps, women have other considerations in mind when they choose where
to live than simply how likely they are to be raped.  It would be nice, I
think, to perhaps not make the threat of violence the primary concern in
the daily life of citizens.  I'm guessing here that you don't have a mother,
sister, daughter or girlfriend.
 
>===Jeremy Henderson=== =jeremy@castle.ed.ac.uk=  
>"To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere
>in the evening" 

   No fucking doubt!
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