The Dutch are gradually shrinking their prostitution industry, puting it down to a failed experiment.
That said their sex surrogacy industry is growing.
That's a whole diferent kettle of fish.
Spurious complaints. Page 2
Quote: Marc P @ November 4 2008, 11:18 PM GMTNo being a prostitute isn't illegal. Soliciting is against the law on the street.
Ohhhhhh.
One of them technicality things.
Quote: Marc P @ November 4 2008, 11:18 PM GMTNProstitution itself isn't illegal.
Damn, I was about to report the missus to the police for only having sex with me on payday.
Quote: Marc P @ November 4 2008, 11:20 PM GMTMake your point or don't. What you said is the most fatuous comment I have ever heard on here.
That's rather damning if I'm fatuos I'm sincerley fatuos.
Actually I used to work and volunteer in rough sleeping projects for a few years.
I can't bear the sentimalisation of this most cruel area of criminality.
This is one of the areas that political correctness is wrong.
n.b. in what way am I fatuos?
But anyway. The Clarkson joke, mildly amusing or crap, I'm sick of people complaining about flipping jokes on telly.
Whether prostitutes or no.
They do, absolutely have a right to representation.
The reflexive respect our society hands out is dangerous.
But not as a beleagured profession deserving of respect.
As victims of crime and malinfluences yes.
And we have yet again gone wildly off topic.
I'd repeat Clarkson's joke on the Community Channel as a public ervice broadcast.
Quote: Griff @ November 4 2008, 11:23 PM GMTWhat day does she get paid, then, Lee? I hope it's weekly not monthly.
Half a crown a month and for that she has to do bumgames.
Quote: Griff @ November 4 2008, 11:30 PM GMTSophistry won't help you now, Richard Littlejohn. We know what you really think.
How can we be off topic when we're discussing your comment in the first post of the thread?
The initial point was to try and find the silliest TV complaint one could make.
Hence my one on being made paranoid by laser vision adverts.
And I know exactly what I meant and I still mean it.
A society that allows criminal behaviour to be a positive role valorisation dooms it's self.
Quote: sootyj @ November 4 2008, 11:23 PM GMTThat's rather damning if I'm fatuos I'm sincerley fatuos.
Actually I used to work and volunteer in rough sleeping projects for a few years.
I can't bear the sentimalisation of this most cruel area of criminality.
This is one of the areas that political correctness is wrong.
n.b. in what way am I fatuos?
If you think it is streetwalking prostitutes that create drug dealing and that they are not themselves victims of domestic abuse/child abuse and drug addiction because of it.. then I am not surprised in this area you are a volunteer. Prostitution this ' most cruel area of criminality'. ???????????
Nighty night 
Quote: sootyj @ November 4 2008, 11:05 PM GMTIn essence the group that complained about Clarkson (national trewasure that he is) is a union of prostitutes.
Funny you didn't mention the truck drivers who complained about the inference that they are all prostitute murderers.
Did they?
I thought the point was they didn't I'll google that.
Quote: Marc P @ November 4 2008, 11:39 PM GMTIf you think it is streetwalking prostitutes that create drug dealing and that they are not themselves victims of domestic abuse/child abuse and drug addiction because of it.. then I am not surprised in this area you are a volunteer. Prostitution this ' most cruel area of criminality'. ???????????
There's no such thing as a "professional criminal," prisons are places of the mentally unwell, the disabled and the products of broken homes.
All criminals deserve help and sympathy.
To valorise their criminal behaviour as a life style or a character role choice is wrong.
Prostitutes need help as victims of iniquitous system. Not a pesudo union to define them as a pseudo profession.
Quote: Griff @ November 5 2008, 12:21 AM GMT"Roger King, of the Road Haulage Association, wrote to the BBC: 'Whilst this could be interpreted as being 'humorous', it certainly is not seen that way by over half a million lorry drivers. "
"Roger King, of the Road Haulage Association, wrote to the BBC: 'Whilst this could be interpreted as being 'humorous', it certainly is not seen that way by over half a million lorry drivers. "
Roger King has been phoning an awful lot of lorry drivers in one day.
Fair play road haulage is a more noble profession than prostitution
Also the Sun found some of Roger Kings 500,000 who thought it was funny.
Let's hope he's not going to murder them.
Quote: sootyj @ November 5 2008, 12:23 AM GMTThere's no such thing as a "professional criminal," prisons are places of the mentally unwell, the disabled and the products of broken homes.
All criminals deserve help and sympathy.
Yeah, I'm going to volunteer at a jail asap to help some sponging c**t who would be out thieving today if he hadn't had the misfortune of getting caught. I don't think all criminals do deserve help and sympathy, they had the choice of working for a living and chose not to do it.
Quote: sootyj @ November 4 2008, 11:05 PM GMTAs such the BBC accepting a complaint from such a sordid organisation.
Is like a union of armed robbers complaining about Resevoir Dogs.
Sooty, there should have been a comma there, not a new sentence, let alone paragraph. Sort yourself out before I have to ban you. I'm sick of having to decipher your posts.
Quote: Griff @ November 4 2008, 11:18 PM GMTCan I just point out I've watched Billie Piper's documentary on prostitution and it is not at all sordid. Prostitutes live in expensive apartments and wear designer clothes and are a bit like celebrities.
Took me a moment there. 
Quote: sootyj @ November 5 2008, 12:23 AM GMTThere's no such thing as a "professional criminal,"
Someone's never seen Watchdog.