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@jen_jen wrote:

@Wordsworth50 wrote:

@Mrs_Teapot wrote:

If everyone believed in an Eye for an Eye… the world would be blind.

Not sure who said this its a quote in my diary.

If anyone’s interested in theological points, the original use of “an eye for an eye” referred to damage to babies in the womb. With all we are supposed to worry about today…

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@thin ice wrote:

chapter 1 and 2 were funny
chapter 3 lacks any thrust
a bit to similar
you need some thing to grab our attention :P

You can’t expect a name check in ever episode Thin!

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@thin ice wrote:

what about cheating on your seriously ill husband
what punishment for that
hmmmm

Thin, it’s a shame that you’re hijacking this for unrelated personal point-scoring. Bootscardgate was dead and buried as far as I know, so the “joke” is wearing a bit thin (see what I did there?).

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@Mrs_Teapot wrote:

If everyone believed in an Eye for an Eye… the world would be blind.

Not sure who said this its a quote in my diary.

If anyone’s interested in theological points, the original use of “an eye for an eye” referred to damage to babies in the womb. With all we are supposed to worry about today about drinking, smoking,…[Read more]

@Wordsworth50 wrote:

If it had been my daughter I would not want to stop at disfigurement.

Taffyfish, what I meant when I said that was that if it was my daughter I would have wanted to kill him slowly, painfully and savagely, not just injure him. Does that answer your question? It might be worth reading the rest of my comments on the…[Read more]

Bless you Mrs T, if only I’d known I had a future in politics, I have behaved better!

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@Mrs_Teapot wrote:

Maybe she has a point and we should keep our noses out of other peoples cultures?

The world is too small for that, especially now. We belong to international communities that claim to reflect certain values. Iran still remains a trading partner for certain goods and we would want our people there to be safe to do business or to…[Read more]

@eve wrote:

This is a difficult subject to judge and we obviously all hold different opinion.

I can only say that had it been my daughter he disfigured i would, without hesitation or regret, have flung the acid at him. However, it would have been over his ba lls and not his face.

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occupants of the taxi

Crimes against children feel worse than most others, but all lives are valuable.

I wish I could offer an answer, but better minds than mine have failed. The path of retribution has been tried and it delivers the kind of society most of us wouldn’t want to belong to.

Remember the lynch mob mentality about paedophiles a few years ago,…[Read more]

I think a bereaved mother has enough to deal with.

I agree that the punishment should fit the crime and devising a proportionate response to serious crime is not easy.

But harsh punishment is not necessarily Justice: remember that we had centuries of draconian punishments and our crime rate soared sufficiently for us to end up transporting people in sufficient numbers to populate a continent -…[Read more]

@jen_jen wrote:

Mr (or Mrs/Miss) Coathanger, of course I have heard of Chairman Mao, and of course I recognised the spoof of “Chairman Mewwy”, please do not assume that this passed me by.

I admit I was uncertain on whether you were Merry or someone pretending to be him, perhaps because it was such a good impression; you are obviously a regular in…

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Well it was funny enough to make me really chuckle, and anyone who knows me will know that I’m a real po-faced git when it comes to ethnic stereotyping . Well done coathanger.

Not rubber but wax

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said, “That’s for you!”

in his golden limousine

Lilli Von Shtupp

It could go either way. If Terror really does focus on Bin Laden, then this could leave a lot of his former associates and admirers feeling too vulnerable to make themselves targets, knowing that 10-odd years down the line they could still be taken out.

There might be some disenchantment that despite all those videotapes sent from caves in the…[Read more]