G20? had plenty...

The media is predicting a busy week for the metropolitan police. The G20 protests are looking like attracting a great deal of protest - and if the journos are right, violence.

Violence wouldn't really be that surprising. The anti-globalisation movement has always had a hard-line element. Just look at the last G8 summit in Britain, at Gleneagles. I find it hard to see the point of smashing starbucks' windows in order to express an opinion. In fact, I find it slightly tragic -  a hark back to the days of 'class war' or the miners' strike. 

The thing is, I understand the violence that surrounded the miners' strike. I don't understand the aggression that plagues anti-globalisation protest. The miners that fought police at Orgreave were attempting to save their livelihoods, culture and communities. I fear that the people who smash up London this week do so for the sake of it.

Ghandi didn't smash coffee shops or beat the police and the achievements and ethics of the movement he spearheaded eclipse 100 fold the actions of these 'anarchist' morons.

Stu

Taxpayers' porno

With all the hubub about Jaqui Smith's husband buying porno on taxpayers' money.... am I the only one wondering:

a) Where he found such cheap blue movies? (2 for a tenner is a bargain)

b) Why he didn't choose internet porn?

Silly man.

stu

Just Watch It 2

can only tell you that you are missing out on something special if you dont watch the wire!

also worth watching is "Dexter" new season starting on FX channel on sky in april, you can also catch him on ITV2. A show about a very likeable serial killer whose victims are other serial killers, basic premise sounds iffy.............but like the wire, the acting, writing and direction all put this show in a diffrent league from your average tv fodder.

great title sequence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej8-Rqo-VT4

The Pope Vs Science

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/28/pope-benedict-xvi-hiv

Just Watch It.

HBO's "The Wire" is starting on BBC 2 on Monday @ 23.20 and continuing every weeknight at pretty much the same time.
There are not enough superlatives in the whole world to describe just how magnificent this show is, if you haven't seen this yet, please watch it, give it a few episodes and you will be hooked for evermore. It is perfectly written, cast and acted. It is nicely shot, if not as beautifully and artistically shot and lit as Six Feet Under, it is still adeptly executed.

It is set around the Baltimore PD and some corner boys mostly in the west side of the city, it is less about the story and more about the characters and the relationships between them. Everybody in it is believably real and you even occasionally understand where the "bad" people are coming from. There are no cardboard cutouts or widely drawn archetypes in this show, they genuinely feel like real people.

Don't take my word for it, I can't express eloquently enough how good it is.
Just watch it.

Spiderman lives!

In Thailand...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7961208.stm

Difficulty with numbers?

If, like me, you have difficulty with numbers in general, you might find the figures in this Guardian article as unnerving...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/mar/23/children-suicide-childline

What I found particularly shocking was the amount of young females who are phoning childline whilst contemplating notions of suicide. I had been led to believe that young males were a group particularly prone to suicidal tendencies, so to see so many girls experiencing such dilemma is distinctly depressing. It begs the question, that if previous study is true to form, many more young people and specifically males are going through such difficult issues alone?

Either way, the number of teenage people experiencing such difficulty makes really uneasy reading.

Stu

Grim up North.

I have almost no time for TV dramas. You might say that’s a little harsh and you’d probably be right, but I just don’t go for them. The BBC is churning out a costume drama with every passing season, slowly etching the spirit of Dickens in our eyeballs in half hour episodes. However, to give credit where credit is due – I’m not the biggest Dickens fan either – the BBC does put a bit of time, money and effort into making their Nineteenth Century dream. On the opposite side of the drama spectrum, I give you; STV. Never before have I seen such complete swill on a television. As a channel, STV is not particularly far evolved from what I imagine Albanian television was like in its teething infant years. STV dramas tend to provide stories that are puddle sized in their depth, with delivery that is so ersatz that it leaves you wondering whether they’ll have a whip-a round at the end to pay for the transmission. I move now to channel 4, and Red Riding. There has been a positive smorgasbord of advertising to promote this trilogy, and I think for the first time in a while it has all come good for channel four. There are so many adverts for shock tactic documentaries and freak show style real life stories that I was prepared for disappointment.
Red Riding is set in 1970’s and 80’s Yorkshire and tells a story of police corruption through a tangled paranoid web of characters. The costumes, locations and sets were utterly outstanding, providing a general mood of grim mistrust that complemented the story to perfection. Whilst the scene setting worked, there were points – especially in the first episode – where it began to get a little laboured. It radiated aspirations to be on the big screen and this is always dangerous when brought to television; the TV is not the cinema. The faults I have tried to tweeze out here are in some respects a little trivial and I really did enjoy the whole thing. They created what I imagined 1970’s Yorkshire would have been like – Grim up North!
I have to apologise for this post as I have been a little short on time recently and planned on writing a little more but, there will be more.

Fear.

My arse is burning already...

Shaving accident...

I am still working on my post on mental health stigma. There has, however, been a set back completley of my own fault. Whilst shaving in the shower last night I managed to cut my index finger. I have no recollection as to how this scenario came to being, but I like to think I may have noticed I had a hairy finger.....

Stu

superhuman slomo skaters

love unkle, and this video from spike jonze

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8pdue_heaven_music

what to say to an alien

http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/content/news/story.aspx?brand=ENOnline&category=News&tBrand=ENOnline&tCategory=news&itemid=NOED20%20Mar%202009%2015%3A19%3A28%3A140

qoute of the day

"It looked like a great big coconut was inside it. I knew straight away that it had eaten Bindi" - Woman whose dog was swallowed by a python.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/16/snake-eats-pet-dog

to gin or not to gin?

I sit here, after spending my night in the student union, which, forgive me, is not something that I usually make effort to do (but actually it was a mega ace banter), and Sanders has fallen asleep... and im alone with the red red wine. Whilst at the union...some girl was tied to another guy, gotta love the goths!! some other guy made an absolute effort to tell us all his jokes about wanking and shagging mingers! yaaaay! I have an utter urge to listen to this song which I'm posting the below link to on repeat http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_ef2_YbFl0 classic! But my point was going to be... I can't wait until I'm a certified scientist looking back on all the silly things I've done beforehand. Without getting too personal, I've done pretty chuffing well, I'm going to have coffee with the head of molecular genetics (Kevin O'Dell) on Tuesday, He's the freaking boy like! Exciting tae fuck! Sandy's snoring is particularly loud! I wish I was still in Aberdeen a lot of the time, biochemistry is a loner degree! :( Here's the lyrics if you want to sing along to the above song....



Lyrics:Red, red wineGo to my headMake me forget that iStill need her soRed, red wineIt`s up to youAll I can do, i`ve doneBut mem`ries won`t goNo, mem`ries won`t goI`d have thoughtThat with timeThoughts of herWould leave my headI was wrongAnd I findJust one thing makes me forgetRed, red wineStay close to meDon`t let me be aloneIt`s tearin` apartMy blue, blue heart---red red wine rap section---Red red wine you make me feel so fineYou keep me rocking all of the timeRed red wine you make me feel so grandI feel a million dollars when your just in my handRed red wine you make me feel so sadAny time I see you go it makes me feel badRed red wine you make me feel so fineMonkey pack him rizla pon the sweet dep lineRed red wine you give me whole heap of zingWhole heap of zing mek me do me own thingRedred wine you really know how fi loveYour kind of loving like a blessing from aboveRed red wine I love you right from the startRight from the start with all of my heartRed red wine in a 80`s styleRed red wine in a modern beat style, yeah(chorus)Give me little time, help me clear up me mindGive me little time, help me clear up me mindGive me red wine because it make me feel fineMek me feel fine all of the timeRed red wine you make me feel so fineMonkey pack him rizla on the sweet dep lineThe line broke, the monkey get chokeBurn bad rizla pon him little rowing boatRed red wine i`m gonna hold to youHold on to you cause I know you love trueRed red wine i`m gonna love you till I dieLove you till I die and that`s no lieRed red wine can`t get you out my mindWhere ever you maybe i`ll surely findI`ll surely find make no fuss jus` stick with us.(chorus)Red red wine you really know how fi loveYour kind of loving like a blessing from aboveRed red wine I love you right from the startRight from the start with all of my heartRed red wine you really know how fi loveYour kind of loving like a blessing from aboveRed red wine you give me whole heap of zingWhole heap of zing mek me do me own thingRed red wine in a 80`s styleRed red wine in a modern beat style, yeah.

Art and mental illness

On the other hand, this makes me feel a lot better:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/mar/18/mental-health-bobby-baker-exhibition

Mental health is something I feel exceptionally passionate about, especially the social stigma that surrounds it. Bobby Baker's exhibition of the art she created during an 11-year journey through severe depression can be held up as a pivotal tool in breaking down stigma. The idealist in me was rejuvenated reading that article.

Mental illness is widespread, varied and destructive. The more we see of how people with mental health issues convey their thoughts, then the more we as a society can release ourselves from stigma. We may not be able to fully understand as mental illness can be a very personal and individual experience, but without stigma we can be more inclusive. Attempting to understand risks patronising people. Inclusion - done the right way and with realistic expectations - can provide positive outcomes.

I will be writing a bigger, more in depth entry of my thoughts on mental health stigma in the next few days. If anyone has any thoughts please get in touch.

Stu

Grr.

My blood boils....

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/foreign/display.var.2496112.0.Condoms_not_the_answer_to_African_HIV_crisis_says_Pope.php

Such a statement from the pontiff exemplifies the very essence of my atheism. I cannot even begin to get my head around the logic of the Pope's argument against condoms. In fact, I'm too angry to even rant.......

Angry.

cease fire

this not the news story i originally wanted to post, it is about the same horrible thing though.

you cant speak English, you are traveling at night through bombed out streets, your car is a beaten up wreck, your family on the back seat, head lights smashed etc. you are approaching a group of men in uniform, armed with automatic weapons. they shout instructions at you, you don't understand. you keep going. the armed men open fire, the car is not armoured.

i will let the BBC do the rest: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/05/middle_east_shooting_in_tal_afar/html/1.stm

update, found the link: http://www.chrishondros.com/images.htm then click on "Iraq", then click on "the tal afar incident"

it will make you angry, sad and give a damn!

each to their own!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturepicturegalleries/5012165/Tokyo-International-Anime-Fair-2009.html

each to their own, a cosplayer at the tokoyo anime festivle, check the link out.

no blade of grass

the year 2030...............that's not too far away. struggling to survive on a planet on the brink of destruction where wars are waged over water and fertile soil. sounds like the plot to one of my xbox games.

jesus matt lighten up will ya! i know i am a doomsayer, it develops with age or more likely realising just what a future your children might have to face, and thats a tough one for the mind to process.

bbc posted the following today: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7951838.stm

i would love to see how fox news would report that story, cue flashy graphic representing the planet, a music score of impending peril, a serious but ultimatly sexy female news reader (because if your going to be told your planet is screwed, why not.........i just realise it might be a new fetish to have a thing about sexy female news readers, reading you the news whilst.........ahha, lets not go there!), you should check out fox news on sky, those yanks sure know how to get the public panicking.

im a bit of a geek at times, the title of this post, no blade of grass comes from a novel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Grass

reading the book right now, but damn it's a bit of a bitch when one us humans goes and thinks / dreams something up.............and somehow it has a way coming true.

Sticking Plasters for Piss Artists

The epidemic, if you will, that is alcoholism is indeed rife in our country. That is not for debate, the binge drinking culture is a problem.

However, I don't believe that minimum alcohol pricing is the way forward, I think this is a much wider problem than that. And as such, it can't be solved with a sticking plaster policy. The Labour government, and indeed the SNP administration in Hollyrood, are big fans of sticking plasters. They like to try to solve problems quickly by playing the numbers game, as seems to happen all across the board these days, whether it be in policing, schools, or health in this instance.

People, the adminstrations believe, want to see the effects of policies right now. We do, we want to see less drunk people on the streets, less people being ill, clogging up the health service, by smoking, or in this case, drinking. Of course we want that, but we understand, or at least we should understand that these things take time. All of the big issues surrounding our health, teenage pregnancy, alcohol, drugs, smoking, need to be dealt with, but not by quick fixes, the only way these things are going to be solved is with the correct education and now is the time to start educating the next generation properly about these things, don't expect a quick fix to solve it, it might show a quick trough in figures, but it won't ultimately solve the problem.

Educating the next generation of our country to not be piss artists, or not be piss artists too often, is the only realistic way this can be solved. Things do need to be down now, but I don't believe making it more expensive is really going to change much, or indeed anything.

The governments need to be bold and not just think about tomorrow's poll ratings and stick to their guns and try to solve these issues in the long term, not just for right now and no amount of raising the age for buying alcohol from an off license to 21, or charging more for beer is going to change that.

We need to plan for the future, not try and cover up the problems we have already caused.

L

Piss Artist.

I have a million and one words for being drunk. Pished, pissed, steamboats, boozey or hammered, wasted, wankered and fucked. I could go on - I seem to come up with a new term every time I have a few too many. I enjoy a drink and on nights out at the weekend probably drink a wee bit more than I should. This usually results in a two-day hangover during which feelings of tremendous guilt and general suffering are the theme of the show. 

Now, although I enjoy a pint and probably 'binge', my reasons for doing so are different from that of an alcoholic. This is why I think Gordon Brown was wrong today, a minimum price on alcohol would not be an unfair punishment on occasional piss artists like myself. I can choose whether or not I wish to get myself into a heavily inebriated mess or have one pint, I don't drink everyday, I don't drink illegally in the street and my drinking hasn't effected my ability to function in a socially accepted way. In other words, I'm not alcohol dependent.

There is a difference between binge drinking and real alcohol abuse. The 'Daily Mail' might try and tell you otherwise but it's a terrible paper anyway and deep down you know it speaks an admirable amount of total bollocks. Alcoholism in the most destructive form takes place out with pubs and clubs on a Friday/Saturday night. Instead, walk to work / university / college on a Monday morning and look out for the chap with the tin of Special Brew or bottle of cheap white cider. Although he* might appear happy enough, unless you are too intimidated to walk near him, he represents alcoholism in its most dehumanising, self-destructive form.

Street drinkers do their drinking on the street as their alcohol consumption takes on such an intensity that pubs and clubs can't handle them. They are likely to exhibit behaviour that is liable to get them banned from drinking dens and instead the city centre becomes one big pub. The problem is that this big pub doesn't serve pints, instead its many bars (newsagents / off licences) serve disgusting beverages at a low-low price. Sounds great? Hold your horses Mr or Mrs 'mad for a session'. The cheaper the better? No, the cheaper the nastier, less pure and higher the chance of you headbutting your best mate. But if you are an alcoholic confined to street drinking, chances are the taste of tipple is second to getting heavily intoxicated.

Alcoholics who are street drinkers or similar destructive consumers drink cheap alcohol because they tend not to have the disposable income you or I do. They drink for different reasons and their behaviour isn't as manageable as we generally will be when we are drunk. People who drink with a serious reason - a vendetta - usually do so because they are escaping from something. Not the weekly grind that we escape, but past instances that most people don't have the misfortune to experience. This is the case whether they are escaping actions carried out by themselves or brought on by others. The wider the availability of cheap alcohol they can access, the more damage they can do and the harder it is for others to help them positively address their issues. 

Cheap alcohol is killing these people. If a minimum price on alcohol was introduced, we would still be able to go out to the pub on a Friday, get hammered and fall over. It really wouldn't affect us too adversely. But the serious drinkers of the nasty cheap stuff would find it much harder. Although that would be understandably difficult for them, a limit might be one of the only workable measures the government can introduce to aid services helping alcohol dependent people at the very bottom rungs of the social ladder. There is a thin line between draconian action and worthwhile intervention and in the case of the poor sods at the bottom, as much help as possible is needed.

Stu 

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article5916887.ece

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7945357.stm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/mar/16/gordon-brown-alcohol-pricing

* I don't mean to use 'he' in a sexist sense - proportionally it is more likely that a street drinker will be male.

Meerkats...

Do they meow?

Down and out in Aberdeen city...

I’ll be honest - I love a swipe at Aberdeen City Council and, it seems, I’m not alone in this sordid pursuit. Lots of people enjoy a good dig at ACC. Taxi drivers, local comedians, pished old blokes in pubs, people who write in letters to the Evening Express and Press and Journal. A ranting tear into the council is very much in vogue for all sorts of Aberdonians. However, the problem that the ACC have is that, through a seemingly unrivalled and exceptionally gifted ability to appear fantastically incompetent*, ammunition for such criticism is provided on a completely consistent basis. For instance, whilst bored waiting for a tumble dryer delivery this morning, I typed ‘Aberdeen City Council’ into the Press and Journal’s search engine. It took me about 5 minutes to find a few gems...

There is a bit of discontinuity between the Scottish Government and Aberdeen City Council regarding housing. The Scottish Government have just pledged £6.7 million to Aberdeen to build new affordable housing in the city (http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1115777). This £6.7 million is taken out of an available £644 million plan to build 6,700 new houses in Scotland and a wider initiative to house all unintentionally homeless people by 2012. This initially sounds tip-top, but a bit below the surface there are some issues. My misgivings about the 2012 plan are pretty obvious and explained in an older post – the bar is set too high in what is such a complex issue. However, the real problems with the apparent attempts to address Aberdeen’s housing problem lie elsewhere. Considering the state of affordable housing in Aberdeen, the £6.7 million offered by the Scottish Government is an inadequate fraction of the entire figure allocated to Scottish housing – but when I think about putting such an amount of cash into the hands of Aberdeen City Council my knees begin to knock uncontrollably. ACC are not exactly helping Aberdeen’s housing situation in anything resembling an effective way. Despite more money coming in from above, the City Council is currently in the process of selling £100 million worth of sites previously earmarked for housing (http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1106406). At the same time ACC policy aims to build 36,000 new houses in the city by 2030. Confused? Me too. Aberdeen is one of a minority of areas that has seen the number homelessness houses rise in recent years – up 3% in 2007/08 (http://www.aberdeen-cyrenians.org/assets/files/pdf/COMMS%20-%20Newsletter%20Issue%2059.pdf). Ask anyone presently trying to get a council flat, housing association accommodation or an affordable private let property and an its apparent how difficult it is to find a decent property in Aberdeen. The City Council isn’t exactly helping.

If you got that council property you wanted, then the P and J had more interesting reading for your lucky self... (http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1110044). The statistics regarding ACC and council house evictions show a level of incompetence and wastage that is bordering on plain daft. In 2007/08 the City Council issued 718 eviction orders to be perused through the Scottish criminal justice system. Despite this, only 22 evictions were actually carried through by the Court. Overall, Citizens Advice representing approximately 20 more council housing cases, in January 2009, than they did in the same month last year. Comparing these numbers with the local authorities in Angus, the Highlands, Dundee and elsewhere and it becomes quite clear that something isn’t right. In fact, I get a headache trying to figure out what exactly the City Council is trying to achieve with such a high number of court cases against council tenants. Each case costs public money and considering the financial state that ACC is in and my lack of personal wealth, the waste of cash makes me choke a bit.

Aberdeen City Council's dire financial situation is well-documented. However, this doesn’t make it any less disgusting. Presently, the council is in the middle of a plan to bring about £60 million worth of budget cuts over a period of two years. Organisations such as Aberdeen Cyrenians felt the brunt of these cuts last year, with a number of front-line homelessness projects closing – in complete contrast to the council’s endorsement of the 2012 target. This year, the situation is much the same. The Aberdeen Learning and Disability Action Group are currently campaigning to halt the council’s planned closure of the Burnside Day Centre (http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1112592). The City Council wish to amalgamate the Burnside and Rosehill day centres, where 80 adults with learning difficulties are presently catered for over the two sites. ACC cite a combination of cost-cutting and the restructuring of the city’s Social Work. However, with the issue of the City Council’s debt, it is questionable as to how much the latter of these two reasons actually accounts for anything. There is a similar situation regarding the city’s refuge collectors, whose budget is being cut by £800,000 (http://www.pressandjournal.co,uk/Article.aspx/1108261). Although recycling as well as debt is cited by the council as a reason, the true motives of ACC again have to be questioned.

While all this cutting of budgets is going on, the council is taking conflicting action. The Press and Journal also had an article regarding ACC writing off ‘bad debt’ (www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1107235). £3.5 million of debt is being written off by the council at the moment. Council Tax, business rate, housing benefit overpayments and council house arrears are all being defined as ‘bad’ and therefore written off. Surely, with how far Aberdeen City Council is in the red and with cuts taking place that effect the most vulnerable people in Aberdeen, the whole debt is ‘bad’. Defining some areas as 'bad', discounts the plight of the people affected in other sectors. Such a definition is counter-effective, insulting and pretentious.

I just can’t understand the method in the madness of the city council. There is no local authority in Scotland as completely useless and utterly incompetent. I worry about the psychological well-being of people who can sleep at night whilst spending the day acting in such a hypocritical, erratic and disgusting manner. It is never right that the chances of the least fortunate and most vulnerable are damaged by group of people who appear aloof and incapable of taking direct action. If I was as bad as this rogues gallery at my job – www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/xac_Councillor.asp - I’d be fired.

Get them out.

* I’ve replaced swear words with elaborate adverbs to convey my utter exasperation and dismay, don’t judge me on this...

Darwin...

... would have enjoyed a journey on the humanist bus.

But then he would probably have been a bit dismayed by these cases...

http://www.darwinawards.com/

Do Exactly What it Says on the Tin

Change of focus, or is that the gain of focus?

I started writing a blog out of a combination of boredom and mindless self-indulgence. Over the last few weeks I've been thinking of ways to try and make the whole thing a bit more interesting!

What I thought would be interesting is to have a number of contributors (a totally unspecified number) writing in 'Dear Prudence'. The idea being that any contributor can write about any particular subject they like. There is no editor, there is no set focus and every contributor is equal in publishing and administration rights. 

Because of the lack of focus there can be so many different directions that 'Dear Prudence' can take. It could become an interesting weblog, or a forum or a complete mess. The end product is not set in stone.

Get in touch with me if you fancy getting involved!

The point is, there is no point....

Stu

Is this for real?

http://scottishbritishandproud.blogspot.com/

I'm still trying to get to grips with this blogger thing and I've been searching for blogs that might interest me. I googled 'Aberdeen' and 'blogger' this morning - wanting to see If I could find any blogs based in Aberdeen that might be pretty interesting. I was pretty shocked with the first blog I found.

Scottishbritishandproud is a blog written by a man in Aberdeen, with quite clear cut far-right sentiment and a solid link with the BNP in Scotland. It is a well-written blog and is kept up to date - much better than my own and in places it is very articulate. However, this discounts the racism, xenophobia, ignorance and disturbing opinions displayed in Scottishbritishandproud. The vitriol and venom in the tone of the articles is nauseating, the grasp of historical fact is loose at best and the lines of arguments so overtly far-right that at times I wondered if this was for real.

The far-right can flourish in times of economic trouble. When the going is hard it is easy to blame the 'other'. Our history cannot be hijacked for the gain of racism and xenophobia. The threat of the BNP is very real and by hiding behind a banner of 'free speech' they spit venomous opinion and distorted world-view. Education, realisation, knowledge and ethics can show up these people for the very wrong and very dangerous individuals that they are.

When Scottishbritishandproud explains 'that our Fathers fought for Britain' it might do him well to remember what they fought against. Alongside people of many colours and ethnicity, they fought fascism.  Neo-nationalism is fascism. It is up to us to make sure that fascists such as Scottishbritishandproud don't discredit the sacrifice that so many men of different ethnicity made.

Golden Anniversary...

It is 50 years since the failed uprising that led to the Dalai Lama's exile from the country. 50 years Tibet has been subject to oppression, attack on it's culture, it's people and it's spiritual existence. 14 years since the Panchen Lama disappeared. 

This list could go on...

http://www.studentsforafreetibet.org/

http://www.freetibet.org/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/10/dalai-lama-tibet-china

Hot sauce

My friend and I have got involved in a silly macho bet to see who can eat a burger covered 'in mega death hot sauce'. The date has been set as the 2nd of April, so I've got a bit of time to prepare.

It's very hot sauce so it is...

... I had a terrible experience once before with said sauce and I am going into this stupid male dare with some trepidation.

Breathing Earth

http://www.breathingearth.net/

Mental!