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I use the word “minnow” as a written colloquialism in an informal setting for “me know,” which as you may or not know is West Indian dialect.
I talk properly when @ work although with a London accent, but when in a social setting I have a lazy London accent which is a bit of rhyming slang and colloquialisms, a bit of Jamaican patrois and words of the moment with “munch” being one of them to mean something tasted good.
Do I care?
No, I don’t. People either like me for who I am or they don’t.
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@anc wrote:
awwwww – lobs an orange vit c filled cornetto in ^^^^^^^^^ that direction! Hope ya get better soon! x
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*holds up injured paw :P
@minim wrote:
It wasn’t that “anything went in them days” it was that people were very naive, and you could lose your job very easily on someone’s whim. We didn’t have all the employment laws that we have now, and so people within the BBC who knew what was happening wouldn’t have dared to say anything. This would have prevented the police from getting enough evidence. The children themselves would have been frightened, and again had no understanding of how to deal with the situation.
The idea that people thought this behaviour was the norm is incorrect, the opposite was true if anything, nobody would have thought that someone of his ilk would have done what he so sadly did. People were more innocent and less cynical.
If you say so, but I was just a little kid in the 70s.
However, how do you measure whether ppl in the 70s were more innocent and less cynical? Compared to what age?
I don’t think, that throughout the entire of history, there has ever truly been an innocent age although each era has to be analysed within the political, social, and economic context of the time.
But I do believe the the police were around in the 1970s and they had a duty to investigate such allegations but chose not to, for whatever reasons.
@tinks wrote:
i was quite shocked when i watched the documentary at just how sordid the guy was……..relieving himself on a 14 year old girl behind a curtain across an alcove whilst others were on the other side and could hear……….just how disgusting and sick can you get?
Yes. That is one helluva sad, sick mind.
What a horrible, seedy, sordid world this “man” and his ilk lived in.
It is a shame that the police did not have the balls to do anything at the time but the 70s from what I gather was a totally un PC world. It seems anything went in them days.
@jen_jen wrote:
It’s also a well known fact that once the cheese starts cooling down and solidifying again the calories jump back on board and bring all the lost calories with them so you’d have to be able to prove beyond all reasonable doubt that the cheese was sufficiently melted and hot for the calories to have escaped and not returned and that there was no other contributory food that caused the obesity…you know, like bamboo stuffed with cream cheese, bamboo filled with chocolate mousse, that kind of thing.
Phew – that was a long sentence!
*damn, there goes my meal ticket for life :twisted:
Have you ever considered a career in politics? :D
