Dafuq is this all about?
It's come in by the back-door if you ask me.
When do we stop apologising for what went on in the past? And more importantly, how much compo can I get for great great grandpa woodlover and his
Pardon?
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Dafuq is this all about?
It's come in by the back-door if you ask me.
When do we stop apologising for what went on in the past? And more importantly, how much compo can I get for great great grandpa woodlover and his
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Doggit
When I was young, if you groped a girl, she's either slap your hand away, or tell you to keep going. Now you end upon the sex register. Some things go one way, and other things go in the opposite direction. No offense meant Blighty.
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blightymam
No offense taken Doggit 
However, it's a bit sweeping your statement isn't it?
However, it's a bit sweeping your statement isn't it?
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Doggit
Unfortunately not. I look at some of the things I got up to when I was young, and now read the stories in the newspaper, and I know the youngsters nowadays must find it a minefield. I'm sometimes horrified when I look at how I was, but in my defense, I only got rejected once, so I must have been doing something right.
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blightymam
Things have changed and so do levels of acceptability - 70's racist TV is a good example of that too.. The youngsters will be aware of what is acceptable because it's their time, their generation and they will be taught at school etc.
Perhaps Doggit that you're out of date too as to what is acceptable? No offense meant..!
At the end of the day, doesn't matter who does it, what age or sex the offender and the victim are, if it's uninvited then people shouldn't do it. The lesser the crime, the quicker they come off the offenders list btw.
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Why do people not include the reference to their presented material? It is a basic tenet of intelligent writing. You provide the references for two reasons: to allow the reader to check on your interpretation, and to recognise that it is someone else's work.
To fail to provide a reference is tantamount to claiming the words as your own. That is plagiarism. Obviously, it is not plagiarism on this occasion because woody disagrees with the words. But if it had been a comment with which woody had agreed and he had failed to recognise the author of the words it would be plagiarism!
http://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/ld/resources/writing/writing-resources/ref-bib
Now that I have referenced the article it becomes apparent that the author, the law, and campaigners were not arguing for the pardon for sexual abusers, merely for consenting gay men who had been convicted under discriminatory anti-gay laws!
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I realise its become acceptable (by some) for 2 blokes, but is it still illegal for a bloke to take a bird up the wrong un ?
Posthumous pardons to remedy grave injustices. 
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Doggit
No offense taken Blighty, and no, I'm not out of date, and I recognise the changes in society, but I'm not sure they are all good ones. I should have added that having aspergers, I always struggled to make sense of peoples actions. In my case, if I fancied someone, regrettably, I expressed it in a simplistic and straightforward manner, and because I never got rebuffed, didn't realise that it wasn't the way to do things - that's all it was. I never had to schmooze a girl into bed, and I always perplexed at the guys who did it that way, as I looked at them and thought to myself, why not just come right out and ask them, they'll either say yes or no. I handle the world a lot better nowadays, but I'm still learning new rules I have to incorporate all the time.
No. Equality laws and all that, can't have one rule for one group etc.
I have no objections to gays of either sex. I even have gay friends of both sexes and after a quick 'straw poll' today I discovered that of the 5 couples I spoke to, 4 of them actually disagree with this 'pardon.' Their view is that at the times the 'crimes' were committed it was actually against the law. They want to know why should people be pardoned, posthumously or otherwise,for something they did when, at the time they did it, it was illegal.
Doggit, my stepson has Aspergers and I fully understand where you are coming from. There are times though when we have to say to him that a certain behaviour is unacceptable and explain why. Once we explain he accepts the reason and asks for guidance on how to react to those situations.
Doggit, my stepson has Aspergers and I fully understand where you are coming from. There are times though when we have to say to him that a certain behaviour is unacceptable and explain why. Once we explain he accepts the reason and asks for guidance on how to react to those situations.
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Doggit
Society thinks it's being magnanimous by offering the pardons, whilst the gay community says they were just doing what came naturally, so they're just being pardoned for societies prejudices. They'd rather the politicians admitted they were wrong to stigmatise them in the first place, but that's society for you I'm afraid.