http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1214351/Muslim-lovers-caned-tryingsex-car.html#ixzzORUs3msMK

This is a story about another women in Malaysia who has been sentenced to 6 of the best. Whether this will be carried out is another matter.

Plus, for the benefit of A_L the city centre yesterday was awash with girls from NGHS. I think they were attending a food festival. Most wore the short pleated skirts but some were in tight conventional minis in light blue.

Hi Declan. Yes, the imposition of Syariah law seems to be proceeding apace. I think that is 5 men and 3 women sentenced to be caned so far, of whom only one woman, well documented in other threads here, has not appealed and is therefore potentially likely to be caned in the forseeable future.

In my heart of hearts I know that what Malaysian Muslims do is a matter for Malaysian Muslims. However there are implications of this trend, and what it seems to say about Syariah or Sharia law, which reverberate far beyond Malaysia. You only have to read the comments following the newspaper article you link above to to see the potential effect on British Muslims, who would like to be able to have their own version of Sharia law for certain aspects of their communal affairs. As it happens I don't support that wish, but it is clearly unfair and unfortunate that their case should be damaged by a once liberal and democratic Nation implementing Sharia law in a way which attracts worldwide attention.

On a lighter note, also regarding the comments following the article linked above, I can empathise with the person who said:

They were trying to have sex in a car.
If the car was a 1962 Austin A 40, try would be the word.

Though I never attempted the activity stated in an Austin A40 I did spend many turbulent and uncomfortable hours jammed in the back seat of one of that vintage navigating on rallies, an experience not improved by the fact that the power output from the completely non-standard engine was about 4 times what Austin intended, but the suspension (what suspension?) and brakes (what brakes?) were standard. Still, I did have the consolation that I was slightly further from the ever impending collisions with trees, walls, field gates etc. than the lunatic driver!

You say:

Plus, for the benefit of A_L the city centre yesterday was awash with girls from NGHS. I think they were attending a food festival. Most wore the short pleated skirts but some were in tight conventional minis in light blue.

Have a care, please! You'll be getting me a bad reputation! In fact I don't think I've seen other than the occasional NGHS girl since I left school. When I was at school the NGHS girls, and indeed those from Brincliffe, just over the wall, were by and large a fairly studious lot not given to pushing uniform regulations. Now the Manning Grammar School girls from across the forest, they were quite another matter! Brincliffe is I think long gone now, and Manning is an 11-16 girls comprehensive in Aspley apparently.

As for the city centre, I can quite literally count the times I've been on Slab Square in the last 10 years on the fingers of one hand. The last time was a few days before the end of the last visit of the Nottingham Eye. I gave someone a lift to an appointment in Broadmarsh and wandered up to the square and had a ride on the Eye on impulse while I waited, greatly regretting that I hadn't got a camera with me.

Hmm, I do hope that one wasn't included in the additional traditional poetry you were trying to get included in the English curriculum back at the beginning of September 2008 Doctor Dominum!

If it was I'm not surprised that your colleagues felt that you should stick to Science!

CARS CAN BE SEXY

A_L

I think Doc's poetry goes to show he's not just a dry academic; which also may account for his clear success as a Chemistry teacher. You must need something more than intimate knowledge of the subject to make it come alive, because there's a mass of theory there.

Never underestimate a man who can blow a fume cupboard apart, I say:)

My Army friends from the CSA tell me that even a controlled and therefore deliberate explosion on that scale is ruddy difficult to achieve. To do it by accident shows an amazing natural talent in their opinion.

I'm sure Doc's imminent retirement will be the moment for many many memories, but I'd have to say, if he'd taught at MGS, that fume cupboard affair would have been sitting on FR for at least 7 years already!

This has naff-all to do with the post, for which I apologise, but Doc is too modest to blow his own trumpet about some of his talents!


Steve

Home Ministers Wife

Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother's eye.

Amen to that, American Way.

The whole thing is riddled with so much hypocrisy on both sides that it would be a total joke - if it wasn't for the fact that they might actually cane the poor woman!