A few pants never did Tom Jones any harm

I dunno, they don't make despotic military juntas like they used to. Now in my day... (Quasi-nostalgic rant deleted)

Economic funding

Surely we're not supposed to be funding this regime, all those knickers flooding the black market after being resold. Shwe is probably parading around in them as we speak, getting the right sort of scent going.

Cultural offence..

Might send my own pants along, not female, but I'm fairly sure that they'd be interpreted as offensive in any culture.

The embassy in London would be:-

19a Charles St

London, W1J 5DX

Business opportunity for the junta?

I can see their advert already -

Pre-worn underwear, hermetically sealed and delivered in discreet packaging. £50 incl p&p.

So join the Nobel council then

if you really think that the burmese should have got it.

Then again, they were too late to be put in, and fast-tracking them would have been a kick in the teeth for other freedom fighters.

@Mark

The point isn't necessarily that the Burmese should have got it. The point is that Gore shouldn't have got it. What does jetting around the world trying to scare people half to death with hyperbole and rhetoric actually do to achieve peace?

Not much, if you ask me.

And @AC I think you mean "all three". Depending on who you ask, of course.

where's the outcry?

did the UN sanction this? Isn't this another case of Western Society trying to force it's viewpoint onto a smaller nation? Isn't it "torture", as defined by the Associated Press?

Oh, that's right-it's okay here because there's not millions of Soros and Royal Saud money supporting the Burmese, and no pro-Burmese folks own the NYT.

It's amazing how many of these sorts of groups would get together in feminist cloisters in the gardens of expensive Santa Monica homes, talking of mistreatment of women in Iraq and Iran. They'd raise money to send folks in to spread their "dissenting" ideas and work to subvert that "evil culture", while bitching about Bush because he wasn't "doing anything about it" and that the military "should be used" to free oppressed women and children instead of protecting Israel or the American southern border.

The the war comes, and their masters direct them against Bush for doing exactly what they wanted. They scream "what right does America have to force it's cultural values on the Middle East?". Which is *exactly* what they were doing just weeks before.

Same thing here. Media will portray this sort of thing as Heroic. But if a Bush administration member did the same thing, nothing short of deadly riots and universal condemnation for the "culturally insensitive insult", and the "interference in an an older nation."

What's good for the goose, is always good for the goose, and never good for the gander, eh?

Or is it really biological warfare, but instead of blankets with smallpox, it's knickers with....eeeeeeewwwww!

If they really want to challenge them...

they should send them some of the bra's I had to contend with as an amorous teenager!

Britney Spears an active supporter ??

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"Reports that Britney Spears is an active supporter of Panties for Peace are unconfirmed. "

Don't be stooopid. She doesn't wear any. We've all seen the photos.

@Ron Hughes

Ummm...I think you missed the joke. She doesn't wear any because she's sent them all to Panties for Peace

Re: Britney Spears an active supporter ??

Gee Ron, a bit slow, aren't ya?

Peace prize

@Andy Whitell, Graham Dawson, et. al.

Just to spread some light about the reasoning behind why the UN Climate Panel and Al Gore got the peace prize. I got the following from my university's website: http://tinyurl.com/37pwkq (in danish)

For the few of you, who don't read danish, here is a resume:

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Climate changes have resulted in many areas gets a more dry climate, resulting in water becoming a scarce resource. And food production suffers severely if you are not able to irrigate. This increases the risk for conflicts between countries and regions regarding the access to water.

Besides tracking how the climate changes affect growing conditions, the researchers also work on developing new methods which enables the growth of the plants with a reduced water consumption. E.g. we have developed a method which can reduce the water consumption for growing potatoes with 20%.

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So this time (the first?) the peace prize is given to a group, who try to prevent future conflicts.

I don't know about this Al Gore guy, though. Isn't he just dealing in hot air? The researchers are still not certain that the climate changes are gonna be permanent, AFAIK.

Reg, we need a FYI icon - because we need an icon to suit all kinds of comments...

Who are you calling...

... a "sad internet wanker", Laird Cummings?

Surely used female undies are the masturbatory aid of choice in all Help Desk, Tech Support and IT Procurement departments? Long before the advent of the web - probably before the internet itself - computer nerds have taken time out from the command line to have a deep sniff and a good wank. I know I have.

Sod bloody Burmese ambassadors. Send those ripe knickers to your friendly local SysAdmin. Or me.

Personally

I'm quite a happy internet wanker