I’ve been following the trial concerning the Maya Louise Chappell case and it’s got me thinking – is child abuse more common now than it used to be?

The first such case I remember is the Baby P case, and part of the reason why it was so shocking is because you rarely heard about that sort of thing back then. Sure, Victoria Climbie was killed years before but aside from that very few incidents of that nature cropped up in the news – or at least, that’s how it seemed to my 10 year old brain.

Aside from Daniel Pelka and Keanu Williams I don’t remember many cases from my teenage years either. Nowadays though it feels like every other month a story breaks about a poor child who died as a result of abuse in the home.

I know the pandemic has exacerbated things but even then it was no secret that services were incompetent and overstretched beforehand, so it can’t just be that surely? What do you all think – is it more common now or is it just reported more?

Regardless of the answer it seems to be happening far too frequently as it is, and we’re definitely failing when it comes to tackling it.

Link to Statista’s research: Statista

Nominated by: OpinionatedCunt

 
are a cunt,

I’ve posted a couple of times in the past about annoying, wearisome clichéd themes, scenes, and dialogue in films and on tv. You know the sort of stuff I mean; the frazzled cop who gets just 48 hours to crack the case, the ‘none of this makes any sense’ sort of line. There’s been a lot of it over the years.

Well last night I was reminded of yet another variant, which might be termed the ‘one man army’ film. You know the drill; jaded, mysterious ‘ex special ops’ loner type is forced to confront a bunch of vicious criminals or fanatical terrorists.

I was looking at YouTube and a film called ‘Skin Traffik’ popped up. Although the premise was familar (weary loner takes on vile human traffickers), I was drawn in by the promise of what appeared to be a half-decent cast; martial arts veteran Gary Daniels in the lead, plus Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah, Mickey Rourke, Eric Roberts and Jeff Fahey.

To be fair, the first half-hour or so exercised a bit of control and set the story up well. From then on however, things rapidly got out of hand. In true ‘Equalizer’, ‘Commando’ and ‘John Wick’** style, our hero gets attacked by hordes of tooled-up goons who he proceeds to waste by stabbing, blasting and kicking to death, all while suffering barely a scratch himself.

By the time the hundredth baddy had had his head booted in, the whole thing had taken on such an air of surreal ridiculousness that I actually burst out laughing. It doesn’t matter how well staged things are (and the combat scenes are well-staged here), the production always goes over the top to the point where even the most uncritical viewer can’t contain his disbelief. Clichéd doesn’t do it justice.

So there we go. I add the ‘one man army’ flick to the list of lazy and sloppy film tropes. The great ‘Die Hard’ laid down the template of course; pity that it’s been mostly downhill since.

**current on-screen JW kill count approaching 450, would you believe.

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Nominated by Ron Knee.

Prince Harry…….arch (geddit?) hypocrite and Total Cuckold

So, our ginger bollocked hero, constantly crying about the mythical “climate crisis” takes a private jet to Las Vegas to look as fucking miserable as usual while his slag wife shakes her arse to the tunes of Katy Perry.

It’s 270 miles from LA to Vegas so I reckon I could have put up with sitting in the back of an air conditioned limo, even if I had to listen to that tart’s constant whining.

Or I could have jumped on the Amtrak, not too difficult when you’ve got a limo waiting for you either end.

But why inconvenience yourself, that’s for the little people not for the likes of the mega rich. Do as I say not as I do as usual.

I believe Katy Perry has a famous song called “I Kissed a Girl….and I Liked It”. Watch out Harry boy!……old Sparkletits may be getting certain ideas and you may come to understand the meaning of the word “Spare.” Know what I mean Brainbox?

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Nominated by: Freddie the Frog

Supporting link provided by: Dickie Dribbler

The Hills Are Alive With The Sound of Immigrants

Bitter/Sweet that the Austrians want to join in on the Rwanda Merry Go Round (not a song from the show) if ever it kicks off. Beautiful underpopulated country certainly but one of the knocks to it is that due to its location in Mitteleuropa (Central Europe – DA) on the border between East and West, tranches of immigrants have arrived regularly since the end of WWII. Despite wokedom being rife there they do not like it and in the land of the Sound of Music (it really looks like that) a black face stands out like a sore thumb.

Migrants can simply walk out of the forests and enter the towns and villages due to the Schengen Agreement – open borders – so beloved of the EU and the Austrian Left. Beloved once but oh not now. Our Romanian friends have seen to that and are the second largest (After Germany) immigrant population.

Austria is very white and wants to stay that way. It used to be a member of EFTA (European Free Trade Association) along with the UK but all that ended when we abandoned it and joined the EU.

In short they have a history of friendship and support with the UK (we make Aston Martins there) although moderated by their relationship with Germany which is not unlike UK’s relationship with the US – Austria/UK takes it up the arse while Germany/US gives it. Also Austria supplied Germany with some of its fruitiest Nazis.

You never know and it depends on how much bribery money the EU wants to splash around to counteract it, but this could be the the start of the Rwanda Effect as other countries join in such as Denmark, Poland and Hungary and counting. A time bomb is ticking.

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An Old School Austrian

Nominated by: Jacobus

Are cunts this time for facilitating the indoctrination of young minds with racist propaganda.

Professional race baiter “Professor” Kehinde Andrews has been given a platform within BBC children’s programme ‘Newsround’ to spout Critical Race Theory bollocks and White Privilege bullshit.

This sick ideology is presented by the BBC as fact.

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Through its ‘Newsround’ service, the BBC is meant to be providing an educational resource – a resource that is likely to be regarded as authoritative by both children and schools.

It should at least aspire to enlighten young minds.

Instead it has decided to promote what is a highly contested idea. It has made no effort to present alternative views of race and racism – such as the universalist view that people should be viewed and treated as equals regardless of their race; or be judged by the content of their character and not by the colour of their skin.

The BBC has chosen to forego any attempt at impartiality, which under its charter it is legally obliged to do.

Earlier this month Andrews was invited onto ‘Politics Live’ to plug his new book ‘The Psychosis of Whiteness’

WTF?

Martin Luther King must be spinning in his grave.

Nominated by Minge Juice Bottler.