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@Terry wrote:

@sceptical guy wrote:

@minim wrote:

I guess we should never forget.. lest it happen again, although I suspect it already did!!!!

Boris for President!

Crikey! so – how would the Tory answer to Billy Bunter help us out of the deficit problem???

How would any politician help us out of the deficit problem?

so why have Billy Bunter for…[Read more]

@minim wrote:

I guess we should never forget.. lest it happen again, although I suspect it already did!!!!

Boris for President!

Crikey! so – how would the Tory answer to Billy Bunter help us out of the deficit problem???

@Sgt Pepper wrote:

MY WEEK WITH MARILYN

A well balanced but not too taxing affair that gives us a brief, but knowing snapshot of the deeply troubled yet magnetic Marilyn Monroe on the set of THE PRINCE AND THE SHOWGIRL and the lasting impression she made on a young assistant director.
A study of her heavy insecurities played out against the…

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in fact, the 1914 war has more memorials than any othe war – they’re dotted throughout the country.

Changing the teaching of history may be a better memorial

ouch tinks…that’s what happened to the Rosenbergs, US Communist spies in 1954. Mrs Rosenberg’s head started steaming and her eyes melted..teach them to spy..one commentator looked at his watch and said she would be frying in Hell about now…her two young children were watching..

Brady is sick, very sick, in the head – he’s a clinical psycho.…[Read more]

yw tinks…

no reason why any thread has to keep on track, momes, but you’re heroic in trying to bring arguments together..

Yes, 340 last I saw, tinks, and rising, I think…

but they are a bit mixed..my local news carried headlines of him sexually assaultng a local woman when she was 13, and it turned out to be a French kiss – inappropriate to…[Read more]

@tinks wrote:

@sceptical guy wrote:

why? you think they’re innocent angels??

or that adults don’t use witch hunts?

in all honesty i didnt understand what you said

on children..very young children can pick up on an atmosphere very quickly, especially when they are the centre of it eg pedophile scares. Police have now learned to be very careful in…[Read more]

why? you think they’re innocent angels??

or that adults don’t use witch hunts?

I never liked Sir Jim, but I respect people like Mrs T who have met him and liked him. If she was duped, then she was hardly alone.

The whole case strikes me as bizarre. That doesn’t mean it’s false, but it is bizarre.

@tinks wrote:

in my experience the ‘abused’ are very rarely the one at fault

on that,, tinks, I fully agree…..and I’ve also had experience of abused children, including a court case in which the abuser protested his innocence on teh grounds that the children wanted it.

Those children suffered a long time because they didn’t trust the grown-ups…[Read more]

I read on the BBC website that the Taliban have targeted this girl..they say they’re going to finish the job next time, so she’s had to be moved to a military hospital.

“A 14-year-old Pakistani girl shot in the head by Taliban gunmen has been transferred to a new military hospital with better facilities…

The Taliban, who accuse the young…[Read more]

That sort of authoritarian figure is about the worst thing for this or any country.

What’s needed is an understanding of how this mess arose, or we’ll fall into the usual finger-pointing at the EU or Polish immigrants. Then a politics which can move to a situation where health and education cuts can be avoided.

The saddest thing for me is the…[Read more]

@minim wrote:

momentary loss, you make some excellent points, thank you.

sceptical guy, you are again saying its the girls fault, and they need controlling, when in fact what momentary loss was saying was more likely to be nearer the truth.

They need protecting… not blamed.

Oh and there were patients abused at both Leeds AND Stoke Mandeville.…

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momes,

you make the right points, though to tell you the truth it’s the mudslinging and witch hunting which interest me. It’s amazing that there hasn’t been more on this thread (give it more time, did I hear someone say?).

But have you tried to control 14- and 15-year-old girls??? The hormones are racing round like at Le Mans, they’re as daft as…[Read more]

@minim wrote:

@sceptical guy wrote:

From my memory, underage girls were seen as part of the rewards for pop bands in the 60s. There was certainly plenty of opportunity.

I do hope that any allegations about Sir John Lennon, Sir Paul McCartney, Sir Ringo Starr, Sir Mick Jagger aren’t being covered up!

I’m sure none are made, though, as these…

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@jen_jen wrote:

I would imagine there are quite a few people feeling uneasy right now.

As for censorship, I agree that I wouldn’t want to return to the bad old days. I was simply expressing my personal opinion that I don’t think abuse should be joked about and made light of.

I don’t think anybody was making light of abuse.

But I’m glad you don’t…[Read more]

From my memory, underage girls were seen as part of the rewards for pop bands in the 60s. There was certainly plenty of opportunity.

I do hope that any allegations about Sir John Lennon, Sir Paul McCartney, Sir Ringo Starr, Sir Mick Jagger aren’t being covered up!

I’m sure none are made, though, as these gentlemen were surely saintly when it…[Read more]

Humour is essential when it comes to sex.

Not abuse.

Believe it or not, I don’t support rape or child murder.

But was he guilty? He’s dead, so can’t defend himself.

Maybe he was guilty. But the hypocrisy surrounding this whole case stinks.

I think that if you look at celebrities like the Beatles or the Stones, and what they got up to in their…[Read more]

Yes, I read about that in my paper. One of many atrocities commited by radical Islam. They shoot their oppoents,tto, especially sufi priests. Sufi is a non-violent version of Islam, opposed to the salafis, who are the violent lot who want to impose strict sharia law.

Actually, the parties I went to in the 1960s were quite rowdy too. At the start of the decade, I remember all the grownups dancing in a ring as they sang the hokey-cokey (in, out, in out, shake it all about seemed to get a particularly loud laugh). Was there any groping, then??

Coping with Uncle Bertie may have been a necessity, though, given…[Read more]