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Post by mids on May 8, 2024 14:48:02 GMT
There's a clothes shop in Bristol called Mapatasi. When I lived there I knew a couple of Aussies who thought it was hilarious and would gleefully point it out when we walked past it.
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Post by Repat Van on May 8, 2024 16:03:29 GMT
Ironically, I remember being told that a Tassie is Australian slang for ladyparts because its shape on a map roughly matches the shape on a woman who takes a more traditional approach to her personal topiary. I never heard this a day in my life. |
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Post by perrykneeham on May 8, 2024 17:26:31 GMT
I've heard it a few times, and I've never been down under.
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Post by perrykneeham on May 13, 2024 15:03:22 GMT
What a grubby little story. I'm not sure where we go with this sort of thing. "A military servicewoman says she will “never be the same” after she was allegedly raped by a more senior Royal Navy officer. Military police brought charges of rape and sexual assault against the man, but the case never went to court due to a lack of evidence. The woman, who was an officer at the time in the armed forces, exclusively told BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour her career has been left in ruins. The senior officer, with responsibilities for behaviours and values including sexual consent, remains in his role. The Royal Navy said it has made significant changes to how incidents are reported and investigated. The rape is alleged to have happened after a work social at an officers’ mess in England. The woman, whom the BBC is calling Joanna to protect her identity, said: “It’s supposed to be your home and you're supposed to be safe there, and I wasn’t.” At the time she had been classed as vulnerable due to a stressful work-related incident, which had also affected the senior male colleague. Joanna said she saw the man during the work function when he had caught her eye and asked if she was OK. After the dinner, she said he approached her and “expressed some words of concern”." www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn3ddy2ekm4o |
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Post by Repat Van on May 13, 2024 15:17:50 GMT
Good for her:
“ "Some of the things that happened are horrific, but I don't have any shame because it's not my shame,” she told Woman’s Hour, adding that the fact sexual assaults are often not talked about makes them “like a dirty little secret”.
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Post by perrykneeham on May 13, 2024 15:21:05 GMT
She's right, but no sexual assault took place.
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Post by mids on May 13, 2024 15:23:48 GMT
"Woman's Hour"
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Post by mids on May 13, 2024 15:48:58 GMT
Bloody hell, Belgium. "A teenage suspect who allegedly took part in a gang-rape of a 14-year-old girl said the victim looked like she was in pain and 'grimaced' during the attack, local media reports. Prosecutors say the girl was abused by a group of 12 boys on three occasions between April 2 and April 6 over the Easter holidays as horrifying new details continue to emerge about the case that has shocked Belgium. Interrogations of the suspects have revealed that the girl shouted 'stop' when the teenage boys assaulted her, with one 14-year-old suspect saying that she 'grimaced' and that he 'saw she was in pain', according to local outlet HLN. The girl also appeared dizzy during the attack, turned pale and her eyelids seemed to close, according to statements. The main suspect - the girl's 14-year-old boyfriend - allegedly took the girl with him to a wooded area called Kabouterbos in Kortrijk, West Flanders, Belgium, around 6pm on April 2 after they spent the day at a fairground. Once there, the boyfriend is said to have raped his young partner in front of the others before he 'loaned her out' to his friends to sexually assault her as well while the youngest of the boys, an 11-year-old, was used as a lookout, reports claim. Prosecutors arrested ten suspects aged between 11 and 16 - all reported by local outlets to be boys of North African or Somali descent - and hauled them in for interrogation, but new reports say up to a dozen boys were involved in the attack. Citing 'well placed sources', Belgian outlet Nieuwsblad described the boyfriend as a 'loverboy boy' type who deliberately allowed his friends to abuse his young partner." www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13412555/Teen-suspect-Belgian-gang-rape-horror-victim-pain.html |
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Post by mids on May 13, 2024 15:54:35 GMT
Uncovered meat?
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Post by perrykneeham on May 13, 2024 16:33:55 GMT
"Citing 'well placed sources', Belgian outlet Nieuwsblad described the boyfriend as a 'loverboy boy' type who deliberately allowed his friends to abuse his young partner."
Bloody odd definition of a loverboy.
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Post by voice on May 13, 2024 21:48:18 GMT
Yeah, sexual predator seems far more accurate. Though trivalizing sexual crimes against women is hardly new, or purely a Belgium thing.
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Post by mids on May 13, 2024 22:18:40 GMT
Or Afrique du Nord.
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Post by Repat Van on May 13, 2024 23:24:22 GMT
She's right, but no sexual assault took place. Well no evidence a sexual assault took place. I believe her. |
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Post by Repat Van on May 13, 2024 23:25:36 GMT
“ The main suspect - the girl's 14-year-old boyfriend - allegedly took the girl with him to a wooded area called Kabouterbos in Kortrijk, West Flanders, Belgium, around 6pm on April 2 after they spent the day at a fairground.”
Throw him out of a helicopter.
In the air of course.
“ Nieuwsblad said prosecutors turned up 'reprehensible behaviour' on the part of the suspects and 'revenge-mongering facts', citing the sources close to the investigation who said the alleged perpetrators showed 'a complete lack of sense of norms'.”
Throw the parents out too.
Poor girl.
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Post by Repat Van on May 13, 2024 23:27:13 GMT
"Citing 'well placed sources', Belgian outlet Nieuwsblad described the boyfriend as a 'loverboy boy' type who deliberately allowed his friends to abuse his young partner." Bloody odd definition of a loverboy. “ 'Lover boy' in this case is a term used to describe human traffickers who typically operate by trying to make their young victims fall in love with them.” |
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Post by perrykneeham on May 14, 2024 6:42:06 GMT
She's right, but no sexual assault took place. Well no evidence a sexual assault took place. I believe her. I don't disbelieve her. She's chosen the wrong platform for her complaint though. It seems spiteful and dishonest to ho after the bloke on Women's Hour. I don't think that's a proper activity for the BBC either. |
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Post by flatandy on May 14, 2024 13:58:12 GMT
It would be nice if she didn't have to use that platform. But from reading just your C&P it sounds like she'd already tried more traditional platforms and now she doesn't have her job and her boss/superior still has his. And is out of alternatives.
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Post by perrykneeham on May 14, 2024 14:00:00 GMT
Well, she's not really out of alternatives. She could sue him in a civil court.
What she appears to be doing is trying to f**k his career.
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Post by flatandy on May 14, 2024 14:04:04 GMT
Seems fair enough given that he seems to have f**k*d her without consent and f**k*d her career. Civil court is not necessarily the right medium for this kind of action, and if you believe that the problem of getting a fair hearing is structural in the armed forces rather than just a one-off it's probably better to go public than keep everything quietly brushed under the carpet of a low profile civil case.
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Post by perrykneeham on May 14, 2024 14:15:31 GMT
"Seems to" isn't good enough, is it? The RN didn't agree, in fact, what they said is that there was insufficient evidence that such a thing had happened. Why should his career be knackered for something that might have been made up? She didn't have to leave the service either, although it sounds like her career was already in bits. Working her passage, perhaps?
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