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Seems like it...

Why would it be you?

Cympil, your avatar bloke hasn't got "boni" tattooed onto his hand has he?

Prisoners will have a choice of cell... smoking or non smoking. So presumably, inmates will be allowed to smoke in their cells.

They'll probably just hang out the windows

In fact let the convicts do without, stopping smoking wont kill them!

Urgh! Thats vile, i'm suprised the place hasnt been closed down! Poor mouse... I bet it was up all night with the s***s.

They'll probably put then in an outside area

Dont you like **** ****? You get free toppings on your food there - MOUSE DROPPINGS!

Exactly! Wait! You forgot Hairdressers!

Er... havent got a clue Pete!

Its just a clarty field in the middle of nowhere.

And watch out for people with more than one account bidding on their own stuff. Theres ways to find that stuff out though, so I check first.

Yes its just a rumor... Whenever somewhere in Bedlington ends up empty, Wetherspoons is supposedly doing it up. I wish people could be a bit more imaginative...

Is this the place? Gallery update!

Hahahaha

Kielder? Wait, what about the circus? I saw they had a zebra and a camel...

Bedlington Market?

Theres quite a few copy-cat sites about now...

A couple of weeks ago I had -1 messages in my inbox. So Mongo is right, it can go 'tits up' from time to time.

Then they jet off halfway around the world on a summer holiday and don't realise that their solar panels and roof-mounted generators wont even have made up for the amount of emissions given off by that one return flight. Well, not in their lifetime anyway.

Yep, there are suddenly a lot of Mongos around lately.

Yes, parents should be allowed to determine the best way of disciplining their child; every parent, and every child is different. But what we are talking about here is physically hurting a child. "Marking, cutting and bruising" is what the government - and any decent person - is against. It's committing these crimes against children that ought to get people in 'trouble'. Studies have been carried out for years regarding the smacking of children. "Ineffective at best, harmful at worst: the drawbacks of smacking even when performed by loving and supportive parents, hundreds of studies spanning several decades and different countries have found smacking to be associated with an abundance of highly damaging affective, cognitive, and behavioural child outcomes. Some examples are: - Aggression (Stoolmiller, Patterson & Snyder, 1997) - Criminality (Straus, Sugarman & Giles-Sims, 1997) - Alcohol abuse (Straus & Yodanis, 1996) - Child-to-parent violence (Ulman & Straus, 2000) - Decreased academic achievement (Straus, 2003) - Depression (Straus, 2000)" I suggest people read up on exactly what smacking a child results in before adopting it as a method of reinforcement. Yes it may have an immediate effect but look at the long term effects. Step out of the box - look at whats happening in society based on facts - not what you assume to be true. By the way, the quoted article can be found here. It presents the pros and cons of smacking. (I've never typed that word so much in my whole life).

The kids we bring up today are the same kids that will have the responsibility of looking after us in years to come. I'd like to think the way we treat kids today reflects on how they return the favour, although judging by the statistics recently released on the amount of abuse elderly people face everyday in their own home - by members of their family - seem to say otherwise.

Happy Birthday to the both of you!