Have you seen all the people over at the Guardian claiming it was a false flag because Salisbury is close to Porten Down?

You’re not wrong.

To be fair, it’s not just the DUP. The SDLP and most of the UUP are anti-abortion, and while SF are trying to relax their own stance it’s still more restrictive than the law in the rest of the UK.

Just a pedantic point, but the image at the top references a case where a woman undergoing a spontaneous miscarriage died in the Republic of Ireland due to its equally backward abortion laws, so I think the photo is of a protest in RoI. Yes, we’re all Irish (don’t tell the DUP), but in terms of legislature it’s a…

Although I approve of the Game of Thrones theme, I feel that use of any version of Wonderwall should result in disqualification on principle. So I’m torn about the German chap.

As long as the Stormont Assembly is out of action, none.

I’m Northern Irish. We HAD an assembly...

Yes, I was referencing the fact that same sex marriage is not legal in NI - so why would the law in Bermuda affect international perception of the UK?

Same sex marriage isn’t even legal in all of the UK itself, Chris.

Yeah, I struggle to see how you can do effective public health in the US. I think this advice is pointless because the people it’s targeted at (who by definition aren’t trying to conceive) won’t follow it (given how alcohol is used in our cultures). It’s giving advice so that you can say “I told you so”, it’s not…

There were also the Suffragists, who pursued non-violent campaigning.

Uhh... somewhere Gerry Adams is clutching a balaclava and weeping.

No, public health advice isn’t given so that you can say “I told you so” when people inevitably don’t follow it. Public health is about introducing advice and measures to actually attempt to improve health outcomes. Granted, I’ve always been a bit confused as to how you actually do that in the American system.

Ok but that’s still ridiculous. There’s no point in putting out public health advice that people clearly aren’t going to follow.

The advice for all women of child bearing age not to drink is clearly stupid (not being American, this is the first I’m hearing of it) and I’m kind of floored that the CDC would get the length of publishing it without realising how ridiculous it is.

You misunderstand. A two packet limit on one medication is reasonable, although still enough to OD on in the case of paracetamol. Not allowing me to buy a single packet of a completely different, non-interacting medication at the same time is nonsense.

The rules on how many over the counter drugs you can buy are nonsense. I tried to buy two packets of paracetamol and one of ibuprofen in a supermarket and I wasn’t allowed to. I was allowed to have the two packets of paracetamol without the ibuprofen, even though those drugs don’t interact and are completely safe to…

That’s true, although zombies and vampires seem to have the most endurance (which makes sense, I suppose).

Zombieland was a bit Scream-esque with the “rules” and everything.

Didn’t Shaun of the Dead do that?