With regard to the couple released without charge, it could be somewhat embarrassing the next time that they meet some of their neighbours. While most had only good things to say, things such as the fact he had a child with his boss (apparently) are now in the public domain. Everyone seems to want their four penn'orth given to the press. I await their exclusive interview with a newspaper. Personally l would shut the front door, pour a stiff drink or two and wait for the "next big story" to move the spotlight along.....
@wild edges thank you. I now have tea all over my computer
He did that to me earlier, r'girl. He's a very naughty boy I'd pay good money to see cage fighting toddlers though....
There's no doubt that some things in the old days were dire, as already described, and some things today are also dire, but it's whether we learn from them and progress that makes the difference. I won't mention Br**it....
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Isn’t it funny how words like PC and do-gooder have perjorative overtones? Personally I would rather be correct than incorrect and do good rather than do bad.
There can be a big difference between behaving 'correctly' and 'Political Correctness'. The former is conforming to broad acceptance of what the majority of people would take to be normal behaviour. Political correctness however has allowed the lunatics to take over the asylum (although I dare say that's not an acceptable term to use these days). There was a discussion on another site recently about 'hate crime' where it was explained that basically anybody can report any incident as a hate crime and the police have no option but to investigate. I put forward the hypothetical situation where a person of a different ethnic group walked into me, didn't apologise, and walked on. I asked could I report that as a hate crime and the ridiculous answer, ridiculous to me at least, was 'Yes' if I felt it to be so. In fact it doesn't even need to be a different ethnic group. An elderly person could accuse youngsters of hating old people, and vice versa. If that isn't PC gone mad what is?
pc gone mad?? I heard someone the other day saying that lead being stolen from a church roof should be considered a "hate crime" in the same way as swastikas being painted on synagogues , or pigs' heads being left on the doorsteps of mosques.
Strange as it may seem being hit on the head was normality to us, Choir Masters, Teachers men and women, the local Bobby with his white glove full of dry beans and even my Mother when I was cheeky and me being cheeky was normal. I fell off my Bike Roller skates Ice skates played Rugby and got hit by cricket balls, no hard hats and face masks then. On the other hand my best Pal Peter got hit on the head with a football, the old leather case and laced type he died six months later before his sixteenth birthday. Two pals were killed on bikes one under a tanker and one a bus, a girlfriend Alwen died of Leukaemia no cure back then she was fifteen. Then we came into the enlightened age and the Thalidomide scandal and the Pop group drug era now the speed and drugs on sale at Raves, (what are those), I sometimes wonder how we manage to live this long often thinking I was safer in the Army. We can all name people who should still be here only as medication improves we find more things to kill us or some do. PC is a normal feeling in its true meaning though it has been taken over by people banging their own drum, who think everybody should toe the line they think is right, minorities trying to take over the world. OK dressed in my flack jacket wearing full face mask I will go and join in the conker completion on the Green, of course I could then cut my finger on the string, is nothing safe I ask? Frank.
pc gone mad?? I heard someone the other day saying that lead being stolen from a church roof should be considered a "hate crime" in the same way as swastikas being painted on synagogues , or pigs' heads being left on the doorsteps of mosques.
Obviously it's a hate crime. Somebody who loved the church wouldn't nick the lead!!
pc gone mad?? I heard someone the other day saying that lead being stolen from a church roof should be considered a "hate crime" in the same way as swastikas being painted on synagogues , or pigs' heads being left on the doorsteps of mosques.
Obviously it's a hate crime. Somebody who loved the church wouldn't nick the lead!!
IMHO, it's more about the monetary value of the lead, rather than a hatred of Christianity , or Christians?
pc gone mad?? I heard someone the other day saying that lead being stolen from a church roof should be considered a "hate crime" in the same way as swastikas being painted on synagogues , or pigs' heads being left on the doorsteps of mosques.
Obviously it's a hate crime. Somebody who loved the church wouldn't nick the lead!!
IMHO, it's more about the monetary value of the lead, rather than a hatred of Christianity , or Christians?
Of course it's all about the monetary value, but a hate crime is a hate crime if the victim claims that's what they think. No initial evidence is required at the time they report it. The police have to investigate to see if there is any basis for the claim.
They nick lead from wherever they can get it and a church roof just happens to have a lot of it. I'll probably get shouted down for this but I suspect many of the perpetrators attend church to confess their sins each week.
pc gone mad?? I heard someone the other day saying that lead being stolen from a church roof should be considered a "hate crime" in the same way as swastikas being painted on synagogues , or pigs' heads being left on the doorsteps of mosques.
Obviously it's a hate crime. Somebody who loved the church wouldn't nick the lead!!
IMHO, it's more about the monetary value of the lead, rather than a hatred of Christianity , or Christians?
Of course it's all about the monetary value, but a hate crime is a hate crime if the victim claims that's what they think. No initial evidence is required at the time they report it. The police have to investigate to see if there is any basis for the claim.
They nick lead from wherever they can get it and a church roof just happens to have a lot of it. I'll probably get shouted down for this but I suspect many of the perpetrators attend church to confess their sins each week.
I'm kinda with you. My point is that many of those who steal lead from church roofs probably describe themselves as Christians. Not many Jews paint swastikas on synagogues.
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I'd pay good money to see cage fighting toddlers though....
There's no doubt that some things in the old days were dire, as already described, and some things today are also dire, but it's whether we learn from them and progress that makes the difference.
I won't mention Br**it....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I heard someone the other day saying that lead being stolen from a church roof should be considered a "hate crime" in the same way as swastikas being painted on synagogues , or pigs' heads being left on the doorsteps of mosques.
Then we came into the enlightened age and the Thalidomide scandal and the Pop group drug era now the speed and drugs on sale at Raves, (what are those), I sometimes wonder how we manage to live this long often thinking I was safer in the Army.
We can all name people who should still be here only as medication improves we find more things to kill us or some do.
PC is a normal feeling in its true meaning though it has been taken over by people banging their own drum, who think everybody should toe the line they think is right, minorities trying to take over the world.
OK dressed in my flack jacket wearing full face mask I will go and join in the conker completion on the Green, of course I could then cut my finger on the string, is nothing safe I ask?
Frank.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.