Austin: I guess he really lost his head. I suppose he’ll never be the head of a large corporation. It’s a shame, he really had a good head on his shoulders.
A 37-year-old Birmingham man has pleaded guilty to plotting to kidnap and kill a British soldier.
Parviz Khan, an unemployed charity worker, intended to seize and behead the unnamed Muslim serviceman “like a pig”, Leicester Crown Court was told.
He wasted a good supervillain name.
He should register his name at
http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Superhero_20and_20Supervillain_20Name_20Registration_20Office#1197526777
forthwith.
And he should probably check out http://evil-guide.tripod.com/ as well.
In fact with such extreme views I’m surprised they don’t make him Director General of the BBC
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Thin, what amazes me is that the BBC referred to him as being at the center of “a terrorist ‘cell.'”
They put scare quotes around “cell” instead of “terrorist.”
My whole concept of the Beeb has been shaken. I need to go lie down.
McGhee
Presumably it’s some PC notion to avoid offending prison buildings or something.
I predict in the near future, that “BBC” “news” “items” will become more “heavily” “invested” in “scare quotes” as more and more “BBC” “employees” buy “shares” in the “burgeoning” “internet” “punctuation” “market”.
Speaking of the BBC, someone commenting on David Thompsons Blog http://davidthompson.typepad.com called Radio 4 “The broadcasting Arm of Social Services”…
Don’t go lie down, rather lets go shake the BBC. Shake it like a British Nanny.
“You pull that crap one more time and I’m gonna give you Shaken Reporter Syndrome!”
Here’s a religionist question. Why are such a large proportion of muslims unemployed?
I’ve been putting my money in exclamation points, myself.
McGehee
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Thats an 18 caret blog comment
How does one become an “unemployed charity worker?” It’s not very charitable to lay somebody off. Pardon me, I believe that’s “make someone redundant” in English.
Was he laid off because nobody needs charity in the UK? Has National Health done all the old people in, putting Parviz Khan on the street to fend for himself? If so, why wasn’t he hired to prove aid and comfort to homicidal adherents of the ROP?
That’s the trouble, MarkD, the market for voluntary decapitation just never really got going in the UK. (A bit like the Apple MAC market).
We treat our old people with respect, like you Americans do, by sticking them all in depressing homes from which there is only a feet first exit – but the neckbones connected to the headbones, thats a sort of minimum standard that we insist on.