OPEN BAR: Tough on bars, tough on the causes of bars

[LMNO]

I just booked flights to NOLA for Jazzfest this spring.


I may not have won the lottery, but I am still incredibly happy.

[Eater of Clowns]

Wait. Pepper spray is banned in the uk?

What are pointy sticks banned too?

If you are thought to be carrying it about with intent to use as a weapon then yes, I think they are...

What's next? no closed fists. You might be preparing to hit someone.

The Brits don't need pepper spray with such an abundance of billiard balls and tube socks.

That and Junkenstein's ancestral crowbar.

[Cain]

So, after the shitfest on FB, I thought I'd share this for some laughs:

http://www.thelocal.de/20160113/crime-rates-different-north-africa-syria-migrants

A study begun by Cologne police in 2014 which looked at which refugees committed a crime within a year of their arrival showed stark variations from between different countries of origin.

Whereas only 0.5 percent of Syrians were suspected of a crime within 12 months of their arrival, 40 percent of those coming from the Maghreb got into trouble with police.

Only asylum seekers from the Balkan region were as likely to have broken the law in equivalent numbers.

As you may remember, the tard was angling for all Muslim (men) to be deported.

[Pæs]

Wait. Pepper spray is banned in the uk?

What are pointy sticks banned too?

If you are thought to be carrying it about with intent to use as a weapon then yes, I think they are...

What's next? no closed fists. You might be preparing to hit someone.

I know its hard to put it in context when you live in a place that cant go three months without a school shooting

Shots fired! Only not, because of sensible policy.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

So, after the shitfest on FB, I thought I'd share this for some laughs:

http://www.thelocal.de/20160113/crime-rates-different-north-africa-syria-migrants

A study begun by Cologne police in 2014 which looked at which refugees committed a crime within a year of their arrival showed stark variations from between different countries of origin.

Whereas only 0.5 percent of Syrians were suspected of a crime within 12 months of their arrival, 40 percent of those coming from the Maghreb got into trouble with police.

Only asylum seekers from the Balkan region were as likely to have broken the law in equivalent numbers.

As you may remember, the tard was angling for all Muslim (men) to be deported.

Thank you, Cain! I'm going to need that link.

I missed the shitfest on your page, I got the bronchitis and have been too drugged up.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I just booked flights to NOLA for Jazzfest this spring.


I may not have won the lottery, but I am still incredibly happy.

That's awesome!

[Cain]

So, after the shitfest on FB, I thought I'd share this for some laughs:

http://www.thelocal.de/20160113/crime-rates-different-north-africa-syria-migrants

A study begun by Cologne police in 2014 which looked at which refugees committed a crime within a year of their arrival showed stark variations from between different countries of origin.

Whereas only 0.5 percent of Syrians were suspected of a crime within 12 months of their arrival, 40 percent of those coming from the Maghreb got into trouble with police.

Only asylum seekers from the Balkan region were as likely to have broken the law in equivalent numbers.

As you may remember, the tard was angling for all Muslim (men) to be deported.

Thank you, Cain! I'm going to need that link.

I missed the shitfest on your page, I got the bronchitis and have been too drugged up.

It was funny, but you didn't really miss out on too much.  It was basically 100+ comments of "no but you're the real Nazi for trivializing the Holocaust" and backpedling/shifting the goalposts about deporting all Muslim men.

I am interested why refugees from those two areas show the most on the police radar.  I can think of a few reasons, mostly relating to the organized crime syndicates in those regions, who likely human traffic people out in return for some drug smuggling on the side.  Once they arrive....well, they're in debt.  Ladies get into the brothels, guys get on the street corners.  But there are likely other causes too.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

So, after the shitfest on FB, I thought I'd share this for some laughs:

http://www.thelocal.de/20160113/crime-rates-different-north-africa-syria-migrants

A study begun by Cologne police in 2014 which looked at which refugees committed a crime within a year of their arrival showed stark variations from between different countries of origin.

Whereas only 0.5 percent of Syrians were suspected of a crime within 12 months of their arrival, 40 percent of those coming from the Maghreb got into trouble with police.

Only asylum seekers from the Balkan region were as likely to have broken the law in equivalent numbers.

As you may remember, the tard was angling for all Muslim (men) to be deported.

Thank you, Cain! I'm going to need that link.

I missed the shitfest on your page, I got the bronchitis and have been too drugged up.

It was funny, but you didn't really miss out on too much.  It was basically 100+ comments of "no but you're the real Nazi for trivializing the Holocaust" and backpedling/shifting the goalposts about deporting all Muslim men.

I am interested why refugees from those two areas show the most on the police radar.  I can think of a few reasons, mostly relating to the organized crime syndicates in those regions, who likely human traffic people out in return for some drug smuggling on the side.  Once they arrive....well, they're in debt.  Ladies get into the brothels, guys get on the street corners.  But there are likely other causes too.

It is definitely interesting, and if you unpack any more about why the crime rates for those refugees is high I'd love to hear it.

Yesterday I had to explain to a guy that saying that all Muslims are horrible to women is as true as saying that all Christians or all Atheists are horrible to women. I know and work with a lot of Muslims, and they are mostly progressive Muslims who are concerned about social justice, by virtue of their participation in academia... there aren't a lot of socially repressive, misogynistic types in the university system. I work with chemists, biologists, social workers, and engineers who wear a hijab. I work with feminist Muslim men. Saying that it's "built into their culture" is not good enough.

[Cain]

Nah, you can totally imply half a billion people share a monolithic culture of rape, irrespective of national origins, political ideology etc and purely based on shared religion.  It just makes sense.

It's why everywhere from Kosovo to Kazakhstan to Indonesia is pretty much the same.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Nah, you can totally imply half a billion people share a monolithic culture of rape, irrespective of national origins, political ideology etc and purely based on shared religion.  It just makes sense.

It's why everywhere from Kosovo to Kazakhstan to Indonesia is pretty much the same.

[Cain]

Also, part 8 is up.

[Cain]

Episode 9 hype

[Trivial]

Has anyone ever stumbled upon a co-worker living at the office?  I mean an office-office, not a home based thing.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Has anyone ever stumbled upon a co-worker living at the office?  I mean an office-office, not a home based thing.

Never a coworker, but I have known it to happen. Usually temporarily.

[Cain]

I've suspected it, but I actually just think my coworkers have no lives and so are happy to come into the office and order kebabs, even when they're on holiday leave.