Quote: zooo @ 21st January 2014, 3:16 PM GMTWell, no salute is racist on the face of it! Even the traditional Nazi salute.
No, I think that is racist. I wouldn't recommend doing it outside a synagogue.
I read the news today oh boy! Page 1,418
What about inside?
Quote: zooo @ 21st January 2014, 3:29 PM GMTWhat about inside?
Police were called to calm angry shoppers at the 99p Stores in Wrexham, when it knocked 49p of its prices.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-25823177
Quote: Nogget @ 21st January 2014, 5:00 PM GMTPolice were called to calm angry shoppers at the 99p Stores in Wrexham, when it knocked 49p of its prices.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-25823177
That's a goody, I'm putting it up on Facebook.
Nb - I haven't put this in the wrong thread - this isn't made up!
'Experts who advise the Government on sugar consumption were under fire last night after it was revealed they receive funding from confectionery giants.
Five out of eight members of a committee tasked with helping to tackle Britain's obesity epidemic have 'worryingly close' ties with the food industry, it was claimed.
They include chairman Professor Ian Macdonald - one of the country's leading nutritionists - who works as a paid advisor for Coca-Cola and Mars.
Yesterday critics said those who sat on the so-called 'sugar committee' could not be trusted because many of them are 'in bed' with food manufacturers.'
What a sweet sticky mess
Refined sugar appears to be massively addictive and hugely destructive. Far better to sprinkle heroin on your cereal.
Is it just me or does the bar for sexual assault seem to be being set rather low in the DLT case?
If every middle-aged bloke who touched a girl's bum in the 1970s is going to be arrested, the courts are going to be awful busy.
Can't we just say that the world has moved on and leave it at that? It seems to me that there is a risk that juries are going to baulk at convicting in these historical cases, making the CPS reluctant to bring charges where a similar offence occurs in the present.
Anyway, it is a good job that the streets are so safe the police do not have any better uses for their time...
I can see what you're getting at. Late 60's I was in my early 20's and we'd a middle 40's man ( ancient to us!) who was a bit of a groper. The nature of the building was such that we'd to pass through his office to get out. We used to treat it as a joke and go through his room in a gang. HOWEVER he was a novice compared to DLT. if witnesses are telling the truth, I'd say he's gone much too far and there was the added fact that he was in such a position of power over them.
Doesn't this just wrench at your heart?
Quote: Tursiops @ 21st January 2014, 6:40 PM GMTIf every middle-aged bloke who touched a girl's bum in the 1970s is going to be arrested, the courts are going to be awful busy.
Although he is accused of more than that, I saw that one of the allegations was literally just that, and so yes, I think you've got a point. Moreover, while overseas news is littered with genuine atrocities, ours seems to be involved in no end of these sort of rather small affairs.
Quote: Nogget @ 22nd January 2014, 9:50 AM GMTAlthough he is accused of more than that, I saw that one of the allegations was literally just that, and so yes, I think you've got a point. Moreover, while overseas news is littered with genuine atrocities, ours seems to be involved in no end of these sort of rather small affairs.
I think in the BBC's case, they're so scared of being accused of 'protecting their own' that they are more than happy to deliver a few ageing star's heads on plates, just to quell the braying mob.
Having your arse pinched was a staple of British comedy and as such was a reflection life at the time.
I have been goosed by both girls and boys, and on one occasion by a six-foot six transexual with a hand like a mechanical grab. It was disconcerting, but I cannot claim to have been mentally scarred for life.
Quote: Tursiops @ 21st January 2014, 6:40 PM GMTIs it just me or does the bar for sexual assault seem to be being set rather low in the DLT case?
If every middle-aged bloke who touched a girl's bum in the 1970s is going to be arrested, the courts are going to be awful busy.
Can't we just say that the world has moved on and leave it at that? It seems to me that there is a risk that juries are going to baulk at convicting in these historical cases, making the CPS reluctant to bring charges where a similar offence occurs in the present.
Anyway, it is a good job that the streets are so safe the police do not have any better uses for their time...
Well if it's someone doing it out of a sense of power and authority over someone else.
Then that's a whole other area of what frankly is assault.
And this dragged on into the 90s and was more than just a quick grope.
I suspect there's quite a few DJs who pinched the odd bottom who've been dropped by Yewtree as not being worth the fuss.
I do the compensation culture encourages a lot of bullshit. Pinching your bum is unprofessional and offensive, and should be punished and this is why Lord Renard makes the Liberals look so unelectable.
It did not ruin your life, most likely.
You do have a point that there is a culture change that can't be just ignored.
If the law wasn't enforced, made clear or to use a crap excuse part of the culture.
Then there is something disturbing about retroactive justice. As the expression goes, the past is a foreign country they do things differently there.