Quote: zooo @ May 7 2013, 11:49 AM BSTIt is definitely true that everything is women's fault. Just read the Daily Mail! Crammed full of poofs. I read the Express it may be illiterate but it's got no nancies working there. And it usually has photos of cats.
Zooo you is right wing.
nb one of the kidnappers was a school bus driver!
I sense RC just itching to chip in to this debate...c'mon RC there's only so much tongue biting and arse squelching you can take... 
Shandy whats your best chat upline?
Quote: Shandonbelle @ May 7 2013, 11:55 AM BSTc'mon RC there's only so much tongue biting and arse squelching you can take...
You robbed that off Louise Walsh!
Quote: Sinon @ May 7 2013, 11:35 AM BSTYou did, indeed, say 'almost zero' I read your post. Did you read mine?
You also said 'in the news' which doesn't mean to say it doesn't exist.
From reading a few articles on this type of thing over last few years- It seems to be thought that incidence of voilence againts men, particulary in domestic situations is underreported by victims, perhaps because of societies attitude/belief that these things don't happen to men or are weak if they speak out.
I think the under reporting of crimes is becoming less frequent than it has been in the past, thankfully. Though this can follow with more of the usual scare mongering claptrap by some of the news media. It's not the case, necessarily, that an increase in reported crime or prosecutions is any evidence of an increase in crime. All crimes, whatever they may be, tend to be reasonably constant.
Quote: Sinon @ May 7 2013, 12:56 PM BSTI think the under reporting of crimes is becoming less frequent than it has been in the past, thankfully. Though this can follow with more of the usual scare mongering claptrap by some of the news media. It's not the case, necessarily, that an increase in reported crime or prosecutions is any evidence of an increase in crime. All crimes, whatever they may be, tend to be reasonably constant.
Not true.
Computer crimes have rocketed in the past few decades.
Quote: Nogget @ May 7 2013, 1:03 PM BSTNot true.
Computer crimes have rocketed in the past few decades.
What's a 'computer crime'??
Quote: Sinon @ May 7 2013, 12:56 PM BSTI think the under reporting of crimes is becoming less frequent than it has been in the past, thankfully. Though this can follow with more of the usual scare mongering claptrap by some of the news media. It's not the case, necessarily, that an increase in reported crime or prosecutions is any evidence of an increase in crime. All crimes, whatever they may be, tend to be reasonably constant.
That certainly is true and the male victim is more likely to do the time
Quote: Sinon @ May 7 2013, 1:15 PM BSTWhat's a 'computer crime'??
You know, something like being mugged by a zx81.
Quote: Nogget @ May 7 2013, 2:47 PM BSTYou know, something like being mugged by a zx81.
That's the other side of the spectrum though.
Government bureaucracy gone insane
Apparently the EU commission wants to control all seeds and gardeners and make it illegal to develop new varieties of plants and vegetables.
http://www.naturalnews.com/040214_seeds_European_Commission_registration.html
Mind you I do not know if this source of news is reliable.
Bill
Quote: billwill @ May 7 2013, 7:22 PM BSTGovernment bureaucracy gone insane
Apparently the EU commission wants to control all seeds and gardeners and make it illegal to develop new varieties of plants and vegetables.
http://www.naturalnews.com/040214_seeds_European_Commission_registration.html
Mind you I do not know if this source of news is reliable.
Bill
There are already EU laws which mean our shops can only sell just a few varieties of fruit and veg, so this sounds like an extension of that.