The UAFC

apologies folks - next stop (as many of u no doubt r aware) is on saturday @ Nagano, Japan.

updates on http://www.yomiuri.co.jp" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

HWM does anyone outside Tibet other than yourself give 2 flying fecks

well OK then, how about Dr Caroline Lucas MEP for starters.

Suppose you'll claim never to have heard of her!

not forgetting Senator Bob Brown of the Australian Green Party, who has been there.

A useful intro to Tibet is John Cleese's "47 Years in Tibet" - lasts approx 7 minutes on youtube.

For the avoidance of any doubt i wish to make it clear that i have never brought platters of food into CIYMS !!
I purchase the occasional good value hotdog/lovely burger from the kitchen on saturdays - always ask for onions.
I think its official teams who sometimes bring in food - dont know if thats home or away teams as i'm not on any teams,
but anytime i've seen it happen the kitchen is shut and Richard (the Bar Steward/manager?) often hands the remaining food around to us ordinary punters if there is any left - so i don't see a problem!!!!
I would never buy crisps @ CIYMS as they are a ridiculous 50p a packet. I didnt get where i am by buying crisps at 50p a packet. Beer quite reasonable price but always more expensive than Weatherspoons.



NOW back to the main issue - 2 further useful links -

Amnesty International ---------------- http://www.amnesty.org/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

and http://www.savetibet.org" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

and rather than run two different subject threads i do feel that a link here to the Tibet Freedom Torch
is appropriate - http://www.tibet.ca/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

and wud b of particular interest to any of our readers who r in Canada tween 9th & 18th May.

bloody students even gettin in on the act now -- spending their grant (tax payers) monies on flegs next i suppose --

http://www.studentsforafreetibet.org/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Where will it all end?


Confession time --
I ate a mars bar on a tennis court @ CIYMS last week that i hadnt bought in the bar - thank god that weight is off me shoulders now - i cudnt sleep cause of the guilt! Will the powers that be encash my cheque for sub renewal? Find out next week folks.

i cant believe that this thread has got this far without a reference to

http://www.tibet-foundation.org/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

my oversight

ps its now about midnite in Japan so doubt much will happen for an hour or two yet. The folks with
the very dodgy emblem seem 2 b gettin in on the act too - i refer of course to the Falun Gong. Me thinks new flag/symbol/emblem needed if anyone is ever gonna take them seriously.

Unsurprisingly there is not much sign of protests in Pyongyang - but wud u protest about anything if u lived there?

Eejits
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-p ... 370903.stm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

well its Hong Kong next folks - try

http://www.alliance.org.hk" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

and non Chinese speakers/readers shud obviously click on the English version button
just to the left of the wee TV screen.

Did u no that one of the few things that Vietnam and China disagree on is the Spratly Islands -
a facinating wee group of islands that loadsa countries keep building Lighthouses on.

Just thought that all Ulster Lighthouse Lovers had a rite 2 no.

Having taken my loved one for a meal at the excellent Pier 36 in Donaghadirt and afterwards enjoyed a leisurly stroll down to the lighthouse only days ago, this is a bit of lighthouse based trivia i could have done with knowing before now.