The PC and Perpetually Offended Brigade

[Caomhaoin]

Les français commencent à boire avant midi aujourd'hui  où quoi?

Hmmm je voudrais prendre une verre plus tard, cependant les 'gabachos' ne sont pas populaires ici

The first time I read Down and out in Paris and London years ago, I assumed all Frenchmen were incorrigible peeve artists, but I guess it's more of a time rather than place thing.

Plus, I drove across the border into St Lary when I was in the Pyrenees before Corona and the prices...A bottle of vape juice and two small scoopíns cost me the guts of twenty bar, so I'd be keeping it healthy too if I was living there.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

No, it's not what it used to be at all. Probably less fighting, domestic abuse and stuff as a positive, but also worse art, worse literature, worse cinema, and much worse philosophy. Aux armes ? Non, aux bars les français, bordel !

[Nixer]

No, it's not what it used to be at all. Probably less fighting, domestic abuse and stuff as a positive, but also worse art, worse literature, worse cinema, and much worse philosophy. Aux armes ? Non, aux bars les français, bordel !

I'm glad someone said it first. Personally I'm getting sick of the missus not showing due respect when I'm trying to put the feet up and blow off some steam.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Unfortunately, domestic abuse is still a huge problem in France, and elsewhere, so I wasn't making light; it probably is less than it used to be though, so that is a definite positive.

[astfgyl]

It has increased by a massive margin here since the dawn of restrictions. Sure the Gardai are under their own investigation for the level of domestic abuse calls they didn't turn up to in the last year or so.

[Caomhaoin]

South Americans  are notorious for wife beating here, Colombia and these places have a very macho culture. Not that it doesn't happen among the natives.

The law here would make you think twice, it's very heavy handed when it's non-physical. I guy I know found out his bird was playing away and sent her a WhatsApp calling her a 'fucking whore' (which is what she is). Up before a special judge the next day on gender violence charges (which were thrown out but still).

If the roles were reversed or it was a pair of homosexuals, the law doesn't apply and the polis won't even entertain it.

Strong women indeed.

[livingabortion]

Stated In 2020: Gardaí report a 25% increase in domestic violence calls compared to same time last year.


https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/libraryResearch/2020/2020-06-09_l-rs-note-domestic-violence-and-covid-19-in-ireland_en.pdf

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Having initially framed it in the wider context of online racial abuse after the final, Manchester Police have now said they're not, or no longer, treating the Rashford mural graffiti as being per se racist in nature. It's political correctness gone...erm... unmad!

[Mower Liberation Front]

Blue paint used, only the two United players named, no mention of Saka.

City fans.

[Kurt Cocaine]

What a wee angel 

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/woman-swastika-tattoo-bum-hitlers-24530478?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=star_main

[Giggles]

That swastika is ms paint quality 

[Blackout]

Jimmy Carr had a good joke about domestic abuse that rings true.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Was that for Random Thoughts, or....?

[Blackout]

Was that for Random Thoughts, or....?

I knew you would push the outrage button before researching. Here is the "joke":


"It's just so stupid, isn't it? Beating your wife... I mean, it's your wife- it's like keying your own car".

It's a good observation on how ridiculous and illogical domestic violence is.

Dude this is why people ridicule you. You behave like you're vastly more intelligent than everyone else but you're just another dumb sjw. Take the wife out for a drive or go enjoy a pint in a beer garden and stop getting worked up over nothing.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

I didn't get worked up, I just didn't know which of the several domestic abuse jokes of Jimmy Carr you were talking about. And I guess no one else did either. But mainly, when I read your post, I'd actually forgotten we'd even been talking about domestic abuse in this thread, since it was three days ago. We're all good.