They're not homophobic. They don't hate gay people they just hate the fact that gay people engage in consentual acts with other adults that cause no harm to any other individuals.

Erm, dogs DO "do it", they'll "do it" to anything until you castrate them, then they just want to sleep all day.

Its not a bad life.

Some of us could quite happily sleep all day without feeling the need to hump your leg first or being castrated.

I think it's my age.

What? You [idon't[/i want to hump Mr Field's leg?

Not again, no.

Look, just because you forgot the KY last time ...

Yeah, I never did get an address to send that dry cleaning bill to...


Age is a great castrator though, apparently.

I've heard 'they should be put on a island and shot' (apparently that will stop it) a few times, although my grandmother has started defending the rights of homosexuals to her bigoted brother I can't help thinking she wouldn't have if my cousin hadn't have told her she was gay or if my grandfather was still alive.

Sounds like an idea for a TV show.

"Day four in the Bigoted Brother house and Nick Griffin is spitroasting Gillian Duffy with Nigel Farage..."

The pope would win it!

Why did your grandmother need your cousin to tell her she was gay, didn't she know herself?

It was a awkward conversation.

[url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/may/15/michael-gove-king-james-bibleAt least business has come in to rescue Gove's school bible plan[/url

Good to see that the Education Secretary has got his priorities right, his plan to send each primary and secondary school in the country a copy of the St James bible, has been rescued thanks to tory donors chipping in. Even better that these bibles are written in 17th century English, I bet the kids can hardly wait to start reading them.

I wonder when the first one will appear on eBay?

Few, I thought they'd waste peoples time and money.

Anyone got the stats on how many schools didn't have a [iBible[/i and thus desperately needed one?

You're missing the point: this one has a foreward written by Gove himself. I'm frankly amazed that our schools have coped without such a literary gem as long as they have.

Apparently, it's been printed on the spine too, that's it's from the secretary of state.

Usually, people fund their vanity projects themselves ...

At a guess and discounting Muslim, Jewish and other non-christian schools, I'd say none. But you can bet your life they never had a leather-bound, 4th centenary special edition, written in gobbledegook.

Pity these philanthropists can't throw some dosh at providing adequate nutrition to pupils, in the form of [url=http://neverseconds.blogspot.co.uk/school dinners[/url

Food-o-meter- 9/10
Mouthfuls- 33, I took a pad and my pen ran out but I remembered!
Courses- main/dessert
Health Rating- 6/10
Price- £2
Pieces of hair- 0

Health rating 6/10? - How can that meal be healthy cosisting of nothing but two servings of carbohydrate (potato & pasta) bit of water (cucumber) and a blob of gelatinous sugar (jelly)?

Certainly not worth £2. Mind you the average price per day for school meals in france is around £4.

I'd first seen the blog last week.

It is absolutely extraordinary – in a really rather frightening sort of way. And I do think think that what you say here about the cost of school dinners in France says a great deal.

As Joanna Blythman asserts in [iShopped: The shocking power of Britain's supermarkets[/i, Britons spend 10% less on food per household than any other country in western Europe. And yet we still complain about the cost. You get what you pay for. So perhaps it really is a case of many in this country not really valuing food.

Not wishing to stray too far off topic but I know for a fact that I can provide a nutritious meal for an adult for less than £2, so if I was providing meals for primary school children, in volume, I'd be quids in.

It is scientific fact that, once a child has been weaned, it could then get all vitamins, nutrients, minerals etc it would ever need, all its life, by eating nothing but potatoes and drinking nothing but real ale.

If you don't grow your own, potatoes at Morrisons are often available at £2 for a huge sack, and for coppers you can of course brew your own real ale in gallons.

You have to make a tidy profit too, remember.

Thinking back, I really don't remember having fried food at school. And you'd certainly never have got to have something as ridiculous as portion of one starchy carb with a portion of another.

You got what you were given, and it was prepared and freshly cooked on the premises every day.

The overheads are high - equipment, labour, H & S, HACCP, etc. You'd need to be doing a lot of fishing to keep your food costs down.

In he quantities firms like Cordia knock out, labour and equipment are a small proportion of their costs, H&S and HACCP a tiny fraction. Food costs are by far the biggest cost to an operation like that.