Prison Bans Books and Disco Pickle Learns a Lesson

[LMNO]

It works due to Chris Grayling being an entirely out of touch toff who has no idea how things get done in reality.

Most drugs are smuggled into prison by prison guards.  Or thrown over the walls.  When they are actually literally smuggled in, it's normally done inside mobile phones.

Does no one still respect the enormous carrying capacity of one's anus, anymore?


Damn shame.

[Faust]

Wow.

Using a hollowed out book to smuggle anything went out of fashion around the same time gas lighting did.

[Cain]

Does no one still respect the enormous carrying capacity of one's anus, anymore?

Sure, but I think that would be better off for smuggling drugs in than books.  Some books, anyway.  Dan Brown would probably be OK.

Wow.

Using a hollowed out book to smuggle anything went out of fashion around the same time gas lighting did.

That's the Tories for you.  Good old-fashioned Victorian values...whether they make sense or not.

[LMNO]

Does no one still respect the enormous carrying capacity of one's anus, anymore?

Sure, but I think that would be better off for smuggling drugs in than books.  Some books, anyway.  Dan Brown would probably be OK.

Oxford English Dictionary or bust.

[Enrico Salazar]

It works due to Chris Grayling being an entirely out of touch toff who has no idea how things get done in reality.

Most drugs are smuggled into prison by prison guards.  Or thrown over the walls.  When they are actually literally smuggled in, it's normally done inside mobile phones.

Does no one still respect the enormous carrying capacity of one's anus, anymore?

Enrico does. 
























Constantly.

[LMNO]

I bow to your... elasticity, mi generalissimo.

[Pergamos]

Prevent drugs?

How does that work, are prisoners grinding up books and snorting them, Burroughs Cities of the red night will get you fucked proper but the latest JK Rowling isn't anywhere near as potent?

Unless it's the physical book size for hollowing out and smuggling purposes. in which case fantasy authors everywhere should stage a protest.

Drugs let you escape reality, so do books.  Can't have prisoners doing any escaping t all.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

what we have now, while flawed, still has checks and balances that help to prevent this sort of thing and is also fluid and able to be changed over time when mistakes are identified.

you're still operating under the false premise that the system, as it currenty exists, is something other than EXACTLY what it was intended to be. Those "checks and balances" are a lie, and nobody who has any degree of control over how the system is shaped has any interest in making changes that you or I would regard as improvements. In fact, they have a heavily vested interest in NOT making any of those sorts of changes.

I'm willing to accept that change in perspective, as fucking bleak as it is. 

I ordinarily HATE this phrase, but...


It is what it is.

In my field, you learn to love that phrase.

In my field, it is what it is, and whatever it is, you have to identify it and explain its reproductive cycle or physical attributes and properties.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

what we have now, while flawed, still has checks and balances that help to prevent this sort of thing and is also fluid and able to be changed over time when mistakes are identified.

you're still operating under the false premise that the system, as it currenty exists, is something other than EXACTLY what it was intended to be. Those "checks and balances" are a lie, and nobody who has any degree of control over how the system is shaped has any interest in making changes that you or I would regard as improvements. In fact, they have a heavily vested interest in NOT making any of those sorts of changes.

I'm willing to accept that change in perspective, as fucking bleak as it is. 

I ordinarily HATE this phrase, but...


It is what it is.

In my field, you learn to love that phrase.

In my field, it is what it is, and whatever it is, you have to identify it and explain its reproductive cycle or physical attributes and properties.

In my field, it's only an issue when you're trying to explain basic thermodynamics to people with advanced degrees that should already know that it is what it is.

[Pæs]

In my field, it is what it is but you better not let external audit find out about it.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

In my field, it is what it is but you better not let external audit find out about it.

And if he does, you nail his feet to the floor.  Or give him to Signora Paesor.

[Junkenstein]

In my field, it is on fire and arguing about that won't fucking change it.

[East Coast Hustle]

In my field, it is what it is until I give it a fancy French name, then it's something else entirely and costs $28.95 per plate.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

In my field, it is what it is until I give it a fancy French name, then it's something else entirely and costs $28.95 per plate.

[LMNO]

In my field, it's potentially fraud until we make an exception for it.