FIFY
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Talk e ticket, get in line behind me
Normal
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WTAF???
A woman who kept her baby daughter in a drawer under her bed until the child was almost three years old, has been jailed for seven-and-a-half years.
When social workers found the toddler, she had matted hair, deformities, and rashes and, her foster carer said, “did not know her own name”.
Chester Crown Court heard the mother had hidden the baby in the drawer of her divan bed so the child’s siblings and her boyfriend, who often stayed at her house, would not find out about her.
A social worker said in a statement that when she saw the child sitting in the drawer and asked the mother if that was where she kept her daughter, the woman “replied matter of factly ‘yes, in the drawer’.”
She was “shocked”, she said, that the mother, who cannot be named to protect the identity of her children, showed no emotion and “appeared blase about the situation.”
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Bring back the birch
Take away the other children…and sterilise…Do Not Produce Any More Children…
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thats fucked.
that ones hit me a bit to be honest…how the actual fuck…
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Repeat after me: people are fuckwits.
That’s all you need to remember when you see inexplicable shit like this.
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actually i disagree…unless you say ‘some people’
some people also can show traits of kind, considerate, loving, generous, thoughtful, intelligent, inventive
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Nope.
Some people display awful negative and damaging traits.
The overwhelming balance of human behaviour is more positive than you suggest.
The story about this woman is far from the norm… the overwhelming majority of mothers are nurturing and caring for their children.
Outliers don’t define humanity.
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We’re taking about human behaviour in general, not just being a mother.
You’re missing the bigger picture, but I am going to leave it there.
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I’m not really.
But leave it there if you want.
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Great to see Notre Dame is finished and opening at the weekend. I will be in Paris next week and will visit if the queues are not too long.
Just as well they didn’t follow this advice though…
Trump, who was in office at the time, offered some advice to the French authorities.
“So horrible to watch the massive fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris,” he wrote on Twitter.
“Perhaps flying water tankers could be used to put it out. Must act quickly!”
French officials appeared to respond shortly after, noting that “All means” were being used to extinguish the flames, “except for water-bombing aircrafts which, if used, could lead to the collapse of the entire structure of the cathedral.”
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I dread to think how much worse the lead pollution issues would be after that too…
Former England rugby star is feared dead in Storm Darragh floods
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Former England rugby player Tom Voyce is believed to have died after apparently trying to cross a flood-swollen river in his car during Storm Darragh. Northumbria Police believe the 43-year-old attempted to cross Abberwick Ford over the River Aln near Alnwick, Northumberland, before his car was swept away with the current. Police launched a search for the England wing after receiving a report on Sunday morning that he had not returned to his home following an evening with friends.
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This is being discussed now in India where the laws originally created to protect women are being increasingly used by some women to take revenge etc.
I find it extremely hard to believe that any 11 year olds still believe in Santa.
Hampshire pupils 'sob' as vicar discusses existence of Santa - BBC News
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St Nicholas was a real person as far as we know. There is more evidence of his existence than for that of Jesus. He lived in Turkey in the 4th century.
Father Christmas is a pagan mythical character who probably pre dates Christianity and thus Christmas. The history is rather sketchy, but it’s clear that pagan people celebrated the Winter Solstice.
Somehow, the two characters have become fused into one mythical person who does not exist.
The wisdom of telling lies to children is questionable.
This is non breaking news.
The first to draw something akin to the current father Christmas was Robert Weir, in 1828:
It was then taken over by an american caricaturist around 1860, Thomas Nast:
The current incarnation of Father Christmas however is a purely commercial thing, created by Coca Cola in 1931.
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