Wordsworth60

@anc wrote:

I don’t understand that teacher – as I have been led to believe, large toy manufacturers are purposefully making dolls etc with dark skin to be politically correct! :?

The teacher fell into the trap of thinking that any mention/portrayal of a ‘minority’ ethnicity is or racist. She was wrong, it’s a trap into which a lot of people…[Read more]

The Gollywog on the jam jar? Why on earth would a large corporation selling a sugar based product want to promote the idea that it’s main ingredient was associated with cuteness and inoffensiveness rather than a history of barbaric slavery and (then) present of harsh inhumane employment? (Compare with the images of beautiful, poised adult…[Read more]

Not that much has changed. Paedophile rings still operate, individual paedophiles still prey on children. They work their way into positions where they have access to children, can escape detection and can intimidate their victims. They can be found hiding in plain sight as parents, carers, workers in education, the police, in highly respected…[Read more]

Have any of the women who have accused Saville of the child molestation offered any explanation why they didn’t come forward earlier?

It’s relatively easy to say one way or the other what we ‘would’ or ‘wouldn’t’ do one way or the other if it was us, but unless we have been a victim, we actually don’t know. However I wonder if we found out that…[Read more]

@anc wrote:

I’m might stuff a marrow, and I ain’t saying where or if/what with! :lol:

. . . . or where . . . . . :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Why didn’t the women say anything before? Let’s not forget abuse and sexualisation of ‘precocious’ young girls was winked at publicly in those days (it would have been the 70s).

In 1989 Bill Wyman married an 18 year old he had been “dating” since she was 13. The most the papers said at the time was that she was a “wild child” and the only fuss…[Read more]

@panda12 wrote:

He’s dead ffs! He can’t defend himself!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-19777542

I’ve been told he’s already talked about it in his autobiography. Which would mean no defence thought necessary. I haven’t read it but a sense of untouchability is common amongst celebrities.

@anc wrote:

@Wordsworth60 wrote:

@anc wrote:

Being a farmer’s daughter, I have a very strong view on this………..

…………..YES, they should be culled, in this organised way, and vaccinated to stop this horrid disease. Farmer’s shoot them anyhow, even though it is against the law.

It makes me mad when ‘do-gooders’ don’t give their babies…

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@anc wrote:

Being a farmer’s daughter, I have a very strong view on this………..

…………..YES, they should be culled, in this organised way, and vaccinated to stop this horrid disease. Farmer’s shoot them anyhow, even though it is against the law.

It makes me mad when ‘do-gooders’ don’t give their babies the MMR too – another debate, I…

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@(f)politics? wrote:

. . . But if it makes u feel better . . .

It doesn’t, this is not a happy subject. I’m sorry you think I was just scoring points. I wasn’t.

Although “perfectly accurate” is not quantified, an inaccuracy of 100% is pretty huge and undermines the other perfectly valid points you seem to be trying to make. As does the…[Read more]

@(f)politics? wrote:

. . . . . so hundreds and thousand on differing weeks is perfectly accurate . . .

. . . not the main point of the thread, I know but no, no it’s not. It’s not even an approximate average. Sorry to go on, but bad maths is worse than bad grammar.

http://www.defra.gov.uk/animal-diseases/a-z/bovine-tb/

Here’s DEFRA’s info on the subject. 26,000 a year is a lot of cattle, but it’s not “hundreds of thousands every week” by a long chalk. Granted your post was sarcy f_pol, but your point was spoilt for me by the sarcasm and the exaggeration.

The reason for protecting badgers is not their…[Read more]

But seriously, as a species our farming of cattle is not natural in the sense of ‘wild’ but industrial. Much of what we do with cattle to support milk and beef production – forced gestation, prolonged milking, selective breeding, culling of resulting over-production of calves, castration of bulls, feeding on hormones and protein-rich food etc. has…[Read more]

@rogue trader wrote:

i love badgers,they have been responsible for loads of my favourite films, just to name a few

the badger always rings twice
snow white and the 7 badgers
honey ive shrunk the badgers
midnight badger
throw badger from the train

im sure theres lots more?

Not to mention “Badger of Honour”

@momentaryloss wrote:

. . . Only a crime evidently if she could not be seen from a public place without a telesope or similar. . . .

Is that in British law, or French law?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTU2Y0VFH0E

but the gun was warm, so everyone was happy

@momentaryloss wrote:

Now let’s be really clear. . . . . Any more of this and they are going to start looking like spoiled, privileged children……..

NOOOOOOOOOOO!

Say it ain’t so!

Is it actually illegal? I thought the right to privacy in law mainly applies to the actions of the state.