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📢 CURMUDGEONS' CORNER XVI 📢

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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Indeed @raisingirl. Shocking.
    As usual, the onus is being put on women to defend themselves.
    As for the 'advice' being touted [by the police force] about asking to use their [police officer] radio to check if they're legit,  or flag down a bus....
    Flag down a bus.  WTF?  >:)

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    What bus?  Other than a school bus I've seen 3 go thru our village in the 5 years we've been here and that's 8 minutes' drive from our house.

    I'm with @Fairygirl.  Women should not feel vulnerable or be unsafe because some stupid male can't control his urges.  Equality and respect for everyone regardless of sex or ethnicity need teaching from an early age both in the home and at school and it needs reinforcing at every stage of life.  It needs extra reinforcement when training police officers, NHS staff at all grades, teachers, social care at all levels and public services too.

    Such training from the ground up would also do a lot to reduce bullying and exclusions at school and be an all round winner for society..
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    I know there's a saying "No such thing as a stupid question, just stupid answers" but I'm starting to dispute that.  I was on a travel site earlier and somebody asked what the fuel situation will be in November.  You don't need a travel site you need a clairvoyant!
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    So this is Christmas dinner sorted.

    Now Available. Very Limited Stock. Order before they go!

    8 x The Christmas Dinner Pasty

    This beautiful Christmas pasty is filled with hand picked ham hock, succulent turkey breast, combined with traditional sausage stuffing and all the trimmings.

    Embossed with a rosemary infused Christmas tree to get you in the Christmas spirit. 

    Developed by Cornish Chef ( Craig Small, as seen on Masterchef ). This pasty is one of a kind and a true taste of a Cornish Christmas. 

    The Christmas Dinner Pasty, brought to you by Cornish Chef. Exclusive to Cornwall Hamper Store.
    Get them now before they get gobbled up!

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Is there one with Christmas pudding in one bit, dinner in the other and a vegetarian option in the third.?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Fairygirl said:
    When will this stupid woman ever learn to shut her mouth? Furious doesn't even begin to cover it   >:)
    https://uk.yahoo.com/news/kirstie-allsopp-tweet-fury-sarah-everard-death-coronavirus-lockdown-100643125.html
    😆 So funny in an inappropriate way. No lone females been victims of murderers without an international pandemic right? Violence against and murder of women often has pandemic as a cause,  right! Someone take her foot out of her mouth before it gets too far down she asphyxiates! Or second thoughts that's a judgement call,  nobody would blame you if you didn't! 
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    @Obelixx - it's the same principle as pregnancy. It's still seen as the woman's responsibility to be careful.
    I've often said that when 'they' talk about mothers having the conversation about precautions with their daughters, it's also a conversation they should be having with their sons. Fathers should be doing it as well. 
    Parents should be having some very serious conversations with their sons about how to behave. Full stop. 
    Sadly, there are parents out there who think it's everyone else's responsibility to raise their children too. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    edited October 2021
    @B3 😀 not as yet😀
    Their pasties are gorgeous though, I buy them for the freezer. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Minds are a very funny thing though,  we could teach our sons but there are certain minds that whatever we say, doesn’t register. 
    I really can understand that bloke though,  he could have retired at 55 I think in the police force (could be wrong). He’d have had a good pension, now what’s he got,  his poor family must be in torment as well,  he took his kids to play on the place where the poor girl lay.  That’s one sick mind. 
    Did you watch Manhunt?   He tried to pin it on his son,  I don’t think he felt any remorse for what he done for years.  

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    The Manhunt series has been superb @Lyn. Martin Clunes is excellent.
    The real life documentaries have been terrific too.
    The hideous consequences of all the errors need to be learned from, but sadly, humans will continue to make them.
    I feel for the family too. Beyond sick. Those poor children. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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