The government has made a little video to explain about why ID cards are the way ‘to answer why identity cards are necessary and how the scheme will work’.
The amusing thing is that it doesn’t actually answer why ID cards are necessary. Surely a little bit more data in a passport would do exactly the same thing? We’ll end up with biometric data in those anyway, so why do we need a massively expensive new scheme that actually produces extremely little?
Aww, bless ickle Fox news people. They tried to get Voltaire to talk about Satanism and goths and it really didn’t work.
http://www.mobenloft.com/stuff/Voltaire–Fox_Interview_2005-10-22.mpg
(Thanks to Closetgoths for the link.)
Goth poetry is easy: all you need is rhyming couplets and the words ‘dark’, ‘soul’, ‘night’, and ‘black’. Past that you get bonus points for the inclusion of ‘abyss’ and any classical mythology reference you can think of. Bear in mind that the classical reference doesn’t actually have to make sense, only to fit in the rhyming scheme. Let’s try this:
Oh my soul,
Lost in a hole,
Of darkness and melancholy,
Like the dress on a depressed dolly,
Raging in the abyss,
My anger I miss,
Like Eve’s first kiss,
That is my heart’s wish.
Hurrah for Goth poems!