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[Doctor Gollum]

The from which those comments came...

The story is actually well reported, some of the comments... well...

http://www.newzimbabwe.com/news-35651-UK+Mum+crashes+car+while+sipping+vodka/news.aspx

And for balance, the Kiwi perspective...

http://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/news/91434361/drunk-mum-in-spectacular-crash-with-had-toddler-in-back-of-suv

And if anyone doubts the enormity of what this woman did, her blood alcohol reading of three times the limit was from five hours after the crash...

That's FIVE HOURS

[Marks DTM Calib]

And yet, she will be allowed back on the road after her ban period is up.......

[biggriffin]

So....that's two posts in this thread that say 'If you think we're bad, look at them'. I suppose Robert Mugabe could have said 'If you think I'm bad, look at Hitler'.
Doesn't work for me.

Comparing anything to Hitler seems to be very bad form these days as Ken Livingstone and Sean Spicer will tell you.   

Cut him some slack. The lad only had one ball.

So in todays looney leftie,poor thing world, Mr Hitler has a disadvantage, and would be found not guilty due to being deformed,

[Sir Tigger KC]

That's FIVE HOURS

NO NEED TO SHOUT!    

[omega2018]

And for balance, the Kiwi perspective...

http://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/news/91434361/drunk-mum-in-spectacular-crash-with-had-toddler-in-back-of-suv

new zealand is a very strange country

"Hamilton, in a 1995 BMW, hit Richardon from behind about 7.30pm on August 6 as Richardon was cycling home on the Springston-Leeston road.

He stopped his car but did not get out and did not alert emergency services. He had been drinking beer since 2.30pm that day and had consumed 10 "pints of Steinlager" at the Rock Restaurant and Bar in Rolleston before staff refused to serve him about 6.30pm. He was seen staggering as he left the pub. He and his brother then went and bought more alcohol.

Hamilton hit Richardon about 1.5 kilometres from his home on a straight piece of road. The victim was wearing a reflective jacket, a cycle helmet and had a flashing rear tail light. Police were able to trace Hamilton quickly because his front number plate was torn off in the collision and left at the accident scene. He told police he had panicked because he had been drinking and his car's warrant of fitness had expired.

An evidential breath alcohol test taken after 11pm returned a reading of 661 micrograms per litre of breath. The legal limit is 400mcg a litre. "  (uk limit 350)

= 11 months home detention and a hug. plus the state then stops widow's pension benefit.  http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/3305318/Victims-widow-kisses-hugs-drunk-driver

[omega2018]

So....that's two posts in this thread that say 'If you think we're bad, look at them'. I suppose Robert Mugabe could have said 'If you think I'm bad, look at Hitler'.
Doesn't work for me.

Comparing anything to Hitler seems to be very bad form these days as Ken Livingstone and Sean Spicer will tell you.   

Godwin's Law at work https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law

[Lizzie Zoom]

So....that's two posts in this thread that say 'If you think we're bad, look at them'. I suppose Robert Mugabe could have said 'If you think I'm bad, look at Hitler'.
Doesn't work for me.

Quite. As the saying goes " two wrongs don't make a right"

I have often wondered about that saying which I certainly grew up with.  As an historian I have noted many instances, especially during the World Wars, when perhaps two actions did actually achieve good and justified the wrongs. The Machiavellian belief that the ends justifies the means is a counter interpretation of the other. The mass bombing of Germany and in particular the dropping of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs are just two examples, yes hotly debated still, but much good came out of it.  The destruction of Nazi Germany and the "persuasive tactic" to halt the Japanese war madness saved millions of lives. 

[TheBoy]

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 I'm offended by receiving nothing but verbal, and being threatened with physical abuse from the scum dad of the little shit I caught stealing from me................

That's because you grew up in the posh part of Aylesbury, you're not hardened to it. 

I grew up on Bedgrove in the 70s and 80s, spent late 80s and very early 90s in Elmhurst, then bought my first house in Southcourt.

I think old skool Aylesburians can see which way my life was leading

[Rods2]

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[TheBoy]

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Hmmmm...  ...shall I/shan't I 

[Doctor Gollum]

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Hmmmm...  ...shall I/shan't I 

Do and you're being spiteful, don't and you're gay...

Man up and do your worst

[New POD]

Shame it didn't kill her. And the little bastid in the back.

I'm Faux-Offended.

Pronounced with a lisp, this might come out like So Offended.

Some people do wanna get a grip. I'm properly offended that this place isn't more relaxed with off the cuff and (in my very humble opinion) trivial comments. 

[STEMO]

Shame it didn't kill her. And the little bastid in the back.

I'm Faux-Offended.

Pronounced with a lisp, this might come out like So Offended.

Some people do wanna get a grip. I'm properly offended that this place isn't more relaxed with off the cuff and (in my very humble opinion) trivial comments.

Well...if you're offended...piss off 

[aaronjb]

the "persuasive tactic" to halt the Japanese war madness saved millions of lives. 

And the prize for understatement of the year goes to..

[omega2018]

the "persuasive tactic" to halt the Japanese war madness saved millions of lives. 

And the prize for understatement of the year goes to..

it is debatable see http://www.historyextra.com/feature/second-world-war/was-us-justified-dropping-atomic-bombs-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-during-second