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The Fair is setup in the center of the park and the circus is to the side of that instead of being in the center when it comes alone. So I think some thought has gone into where the fair should go. But for Dan, who lives next to the park, the noise of the fair is going to be more noise.

I can provide a list of around 15 EDL members who were convicted of child rape and peadophile related crimes. But people like Uncleglen are living in a parallel universe of denial. Even on the point of journalism, and Yaxley Lennon (with all his fake names) is no journalist, Andrew Norfolk of the Times is the proper investigative journalist who pursued the Rochdale crimes and eventually persuaded his editor to go with it. You see, Lennon is just a pretender. A fraud, a fake. He is a single issue obsessive, obsessed with hatred for Islam. He cares nothing about child rape at all. If he did, he would be highlighting all cases of such and lobbying parliament for change in the same way that genuine campaigners (many of them themselves victims) already do. He is a narcissistic rabble rouser. And he belongs to a group who think it is ok to threaten Police, the law, elected officials and just about anyone that stands in their way. He is enjoying attention simply because of the rise of an alt right movement, a movement that does not actually believe in free speech for anyone outside of its own echo chamber, a movement that believes in totalitarianism over liberty. And many of those being sucked into this narrative, ordinary people on the whole, would not like the world these people are driving to create either. Lennon ultimately is becoming a puppet, for people far more clever than he can ever hope to be. That is the dangerous part of this.

rendelharris Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Most people, in my experience. It's a natural > linguistic trait to add an adjective to the noun > to add more information for the reader/listener - > "this tall woman got on the train", "A bald guy > came over", "A black guy helped me push the car". > Listen to people talking, it's a part of speech. It is, but as my previous post points out, there is a difference between a clear unmistakable physical descriptor and one that is assumed, and may or may not be correct. 'Obviously gay' could just as easily mean obviously many things other than being gay.

The problem is, that being gay is not a physical trait, like ethnicity or height etc. I've know people assume someone to be gay, and been wrong. The OP is drawing a conclusion, which may well be based on certain stereotypical assumptions, which may give the right conclusion, but equally may not. It's an unreliable descriptor really, without knowing for sure.

Yes definitely a young rat.

What if SpringTime had written he or she liked to use the word (insert any word used to describe black people which is derogatory in its use), but that he or she didn't care because he or she was not a big fan of black people? It's one thing to use language without an awareness of how it it might be offensive to do so. It is another to use it irregardless of a full awareness of that. So no, not each to his own. SpringTime clearly thinks it is ok to to see gay people as inferior or 'lame' and then draw comparisons when describing what he thinks is a 'lame' act (that is where the use of gay in that context stems from). There are words used to describe people with mental and physical disabilities in the past that have also been used in this way. No-one would let that pass now. So let's not excuse use of any language in any context that deliberately shows disregard for a group of people.

Useful link. Thank you for that Jules.

Depends on the use. Mental illness is something tangeable and cleary defined. Use of he word 'mental' as a adjective for being out of control, is a common form of slang. To be offensive, it has to be an inappropriate use that directly compares to a person or group in a derogatory way. You could just as easily use 'deranged' instead of 'mental' in this context. That would be a more correct description of what the user is trying to describe. I think there are other words that people use (around the lanugage of mental illness) when people are trying to be deliberately offensive though.

Tariffs won't affect labour, but may affect materials costs if amything used is being imported. An end to freedom of movement is the thing that is most likely to affect labour costs.

Or the Police as he is clearly conning people.

Even a dog on a a lead can jump. This idea that dogs MUST but under perfect control is bonkers. It is quite clear the dog was playing with another dog and accidentally ran into the child on a bicyle. The dog can't have been very big or it would have knocked the child over, so we are probably talking about a smallish dog, and it was not in a dogs on leads area anyway! Be sensible about this.

But I think if a child did accidentally knock over a pensioner Rendel, it would be seen for the unintentional accident that it was. I get the issue around the park rules, and that's fair enough, but there are other areas where dogs are allowed off the leash, other parks with no rules and even common off road routes where pedestrians, dogs and cyclists mix. I cycle along several paths like this (the old canal route being one) and I just slow right down. Because if I see a dog, even one on a lead walking near me, I know it can suddenly move towards me in an instant (just like a small child). Dogs on leads don't walk in straight lines either.

rendelharris Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Blah Blah Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Just sounds like an unavoidable accident in a > > shared space to me. > > As the dog was off the lead and not under control > in an area where it should have been both, > "entirely avoidable" would seem a more apposite > expression. I was in a supermarket today and a small child ran into me. Do I ask the parent keep it on a lead? No, I use common sense and accept that children aren't always aware of who is around them. As for dogs, toddlers get knocked over by the family pet on regular occasions. Clumsy accidents are always avoidable, but they are also part of life. I agree with the person above who pointed out that f you are going fast enough to crush a dog that strays into your path, then you might be going fast enough to crush a child as well. Worth thinking about. I see the OP as a reasonable expression of annoyance over unresonable outrage though. People will always ignore the rules (or may not even be aware of them). It's better to be civil about these things in the long run.

Just sounds like an unavoidable accident in a shared space to me. And yes, the responsibility is always with the cyclist to anticipate sudden obstacles, which is why, when I cycle through a park, I slow down to walking pace when passing or near to dogs and small children, and just any person in fact.

Yes, sadly, some of the best supported charities euthanize perfecly healthy animals after a period of time. Yet other charities, like Celia Hammond manage to never euthanize a healthy animal.

Everything dies eventualy Springtime but as Rendel says, wild horses tend to die from natural illness not forced gymnastics and most wild horses also live on open land that is easy for them to roam.

Hey Elphinstone. I actuslly did grow up in the country and my parents and one of my brothers still live there running the family farm. I think you know nothing about it. There are humane ways to kill animals and birds and there are sociopathic ways as demonstrated by these boys, who were not for one moment concerned about the size of the pidgeon population.

A horse died at Aintree three days ago. The Grand National was always designed to be a testing curcuit with more regard for spectacle than the safety of horses. Even though today, more focus is on safety, a horse stil dies jumping Becher's Brook, and for what? So someone somewhere can make a few quid. To me, horse racing is no different to fox hunting. It pushes horses to their limits and opens them up to completely preventable stress and injury just so that someone can get a jolly somewhere. The saddest thing is how those horses that do manage to survive a life of racing end up when their trainers no longer want them.

I think the council are the ones to contact on this. They will go after flytippers legally if they have evidence of who is guilty.

It seems like a display of brinkmanship to me. I'm not sure who was most supposed to be more impressed, Assad or Russia. And it will make not one iota of difference to anything happening in Syria either.

Trump just annouced (at 2am UK time) that strikes were under way with the help of Frnace and the UK, in a speech so obviously written for him.

Hi Kwayz. Was the orginal burn first or second degree, and did you seek treatment at the time? It takes around 18 months for a second degree burn to fade. And you should avoid sunburn on the affected area to aid that healing.

Well you can apologise, but there are good reasons to oppose horse racing from an animal welfare perspective. I will spare the usual complaints about injury and training cruelty and ask just this. What on earth is the point of horse racing? Betting on animals whipped to run as fast as they can around a track! What purpose does it serve?