Clock is Ticking Mighty Fast

That is it. I'm finishing up my stay here. God, please help me focus on these last few papers so I can go enjoy myself

Also, let me expand on why London Met sucks. For any Government run institution, can expect there to be some corruption and fraud. In London Metropolitan's case, there is 50 million pounds worth of it.

apparently London Met earns government money and funds by reporting how many students take the final assessments. However the past decade or so, London Met had inflated their numbers to garner more funds. Now corruption and fraud is all nice and well, but when the recession happened, the government wanted their money back. Sadly, the Met could not pay back the tremendous bill and had to lay off a large number of staff.

That certainly did not help much because staffers started protesting. There is a current petition floating around to fire members of the Board of Governors because it's mostly their fault. That's UK style University for you

And what would my blog be without some reference to firearms?

Since this post is largely about the UK, why no discuss UK gun crime. Over in Manchester, there was a daylight shooting incident. This happened back in May and the culprit just got convicted. There is CCTV footage of the incident. There are several things that I should note:

• The criminal is 19 years old. Even in the states, it's illegal for someone to own a handgun under the age of 21. In the States, there are already laws that make this kind of activity illegal. Not to mention it's illegal to murder people also.
• The whole thing is on CCTV, yet did it freaking stop the incident? While CCTV is largely preventative and nature, one must really question if it stops crime, or it simply just makes indentifying the suspects easier once the chalk lines are drawn on the sidewalk.
• That fat man is really ballsy and the perp is an idiot.
• Great Britain is a freaking island with a universal gun ban. Where are these guns coming from and why do you think all these laws and regulations on firearms are not working here? Mull over that for a second

Suspicious

Cop: "Occifer! We got an accidental shooting case here."

AFO: "Oh really, my faithful Padawan? Did y'all get the story from them witnesses?"

Cop: "Yeash siree. The gun apparently was loaded on a shelf and was knocked down. It then went off and shot a woman six times!"

AFO:"...the hell? The gun must be made o' rubber or somethin'. That or it was a Glock" *rimshot*

Anyways, Glock hate aside, Coppers figured something was up and called the homicide squad despite the accidental discharge claims by the four (4) people present.

Hat tip to SayUncle

9 Days

It might be worth to note that within nine (9) days, i will be leaving the UK; London, if you want me to be a bit more specific. It has been an eventful threeish (3ish) months over here, across the pond. Silly how much I miss having a room that I can call my own. Likewise it's silly how I love America more than any other country I have set foot on thus far (though Edinburgh is mighty pretty!).

The cost of living without parental funding is very dear; the size of my bank account has shrunk incredibly. However through this loss of monetary value has not been fruitless. It has shown me that i can be frugal and can survive on one meal a day for a couple of months. I'm a survivor.

Now I'm left with a fairly dissatisfied feeling of restlessness. I have around five (5) papers I need to quickly get out of the way, but I don't feel like doing them. I want to go look at the Christmas scenery that surrounds me (it doesn't snow in London however), go ice skating and venture out on random stints at shopping malls.

So much to do, so little time.

Blog Layout

Actually, the more I look at my blog and it's slightly different colour scheme, the more I like it. I guess I'll be sticking with the current CSS for now. I need to update my friends list on the side though. I've found some more blogs as of late. We can potentially create an entire cabal of bloggers. It would be nice, being ablet to run between blogs and seeing each other's rants.

Tis the Season to be Shot

Well since I'm living in this bloody country for the time being (the UK), I thought I would try and follow the news a bit. But knowing me, it will usually involve gun crime and such. However there have been some fun things going on over here apparently with the police force over here. Coppers seem happy to carry their automatic MP5s around amongst the public (HK, because you suck and we hate you), and I got a notice on what I shouldn't buy for children for this season.

I shouldn't buy toy guns here because I might get shot

Nothing says I love you more than a toy gun and an armed police response.

Interesting, that the first thing they do when there is a gun sighting is to call the coppers and the entire UK SWAT team. Never mind the idea of reasonable force because when there's something that might be a gun, we'll all act the same way and act as if it were a hostage situation. Never mind the fact that the child holding the suspected gun might be a young girl or whatever. But really, what scares me the most about this is that there is no personal judgment anymore. It's a black and white issue.

“If a child is waving a toy gun around in the street police have no choice but to turn up with an armed response unit.”

Yes, I'm sure that's the appropriate response no matter what. Sometimes I just wonder why the Britons won't all just do themselves a favor and ban individual choice and issue government mandated shopping lists.

EDIT

Oh snap, forgot to link the source. Thank you to Snowflakes in Hell. It's a good blog also if you have any interest in 2nd Amendment issues