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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    Elsewhere, this massive Asian rapist insisting on trials so he could prove the dozens of videos he had of him bum-raping unconscious people were consensual is right up there.
    This seems like it should be much bigger story than the coverage it's getting. Isn't he the the most rapiest person ever convicted in the UK by a loooong way?

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    Maybe they don't want to publicise the availability of industrial strength date rape drugs too much, but I did think the same earlier.

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    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-51013458 - surely he must be innocent, as I can't even imagine how you would wrangle a seagull in the first place?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dan View Post
    Dangerous driving usually gets pretty harsh sentences where we are - it’s not uncommon to see people get a few years, even if it’s just causing serious injury rather than actually killing someone.

    You’ve got to go some to get put in prison for a punch, on the other hand- most ABH & GBH get community sentences.
    The sentences hardly ever seem to tally with what happens. That Polish lorry driver got ten years for wiping a family out because he was on his phone. Two and a half years per life, because he was mis-using potentially dangerous equipment. It's hard to imagine sentences being that light in any other context.

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    Quote Originally Posted by John Arne View Post
    This seems like it should be much bigger story than the coverage it's getting. Isn't he the the most rapiest person ever convicted in the UK by a loooong way?
    I suspect they want to brush it aside as some gay cruising. Except the majority of his victims were straight and he was on social media saying how he liked to 'save them from their girlfriends'.

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    I'm not that bothered about the length of prison sentences for the absolute worst driving offenses, but I think generally they're far too lenient with the driving bans they dish out.

    Like lee Hughes got banned from driving for 10 years. How the fuck is that not just a lifetime ban? I think any death by dangerous driving verdict should be a mandatory lifetime ban from driving.

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    Quote Originally Posted by John Arne View Post
    This seems like it should be much bigger story than the coverage it's getting. Isn't he the the most rapiest person ever convicted in the UK by a loooong way?
    Everything about it smacks of something dodgy. Even the idea of convicting him before releasing the evidence, and only then asking for more people to come forward, is a big strange.
    I'm a twit

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    Elsewhere, this massive Asian rapist insisting on trials so he could prove the dozens of videos he had of him bum-raping unconscious people were consensual is right up there.

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    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-509...eporting-story

    If you're going to skip out on 6.5m bail then this is the way to do it, like something out of a Bond film.

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    "I am dumbfounded," his lawyer, Junichiro Hironaka, told reporters in Tokyo shortly after learning of Mr Ghosn's flight. "I want to ask him, 'How could you do this to us?'"
    What a bellend.

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    That's the most Japanese reaction to such a thing

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    The Japanese justice system sounds sufficiently mental to prove once and for all that only English-speaking countries have something like a handle on these things.

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    They have something like a 99% conviction rate.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    The Japanese justice system sounds sufficiently mental to prove once and for all that only English-speaking countries have something like a handle on these things.
    The English libel laws on their own are enough to suicide a nation, so not really

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shindig View Post
    They have something like a 99% conviction rate.
    I imagine that goes up one percent for immigrants too. I used to like the idea of visiting Japan, but I feel like there's a lot of xenophobia and paedophilia that I hadn't been taking into consideration.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Offshore Toon View Post
    I imagine that goes up one percent for immigrants too. I used to like the idea of visiting Japan, but I feel like there's a lot of xenophobia and paedophilia that I hadn't been taking into consideration.
    The Japanese are very friendly and helpful towards tourists.

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    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-50599080

    Presenter Samira Ahmed has won the employment tribunal she brought against the BBC in a dispute over equal pay.

    Ahmed claimed she was underpaid for hosting audience feedback show Newswatch when compared with Jeremy Vine's salary for Points of View.

    The judgement said "her work on Newswatch was like Jeremy Vine's work on Points of View under section 65(1) of the Equality Act 2010".
    This whole case baffles me.

    The different profiles of the shows and the presenters only should make it obvious that they're not likely to be paid the same.

    Besides that though she was paid exactly the same as the previous host of Newswatch Raymond Snoddy, so what has this got to do with sex discrimination?

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    The real outcome is that Jeremy Vine should be made to pay back the difference.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yeldoow View Post
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-50599080

    This whole case baffles me.

    The different profiles of the shows and the presenters only should make it obvious that they're not likely to be paid the same.

    Besides that though she was paid exactly the same as the previous host of Newswatch Raymond Snoddy, so what has this got to do with sex discrimination?
    I mean that bits obvious. They were both being underpaid.

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    Or he was being overpaid.

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    I don’t understand it either. If the logic here holds then shouldn’t whoever presents CBBC be paid the same as Graham Norton?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spikey M View Post
    Or he was being overpaid.
    Jeremy Vine should be paid more to present Points of View than someone I’ve never heard of, presenting a show I’ve never heard of.

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    The specific jobs it refers to are clearly similar and sufficiently bollocks to not really merit such a pay disparity (which also begs the question why they were even paying Jeremy Vine that much to do them). It's not about their overall role[s] and main position in the company.

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    To be fair I'm sure reading out the crank mailbag must be very taxing.

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    It was a popular show. I’ve never even heard of Newswatch.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yevrah View Post
    Jeremy Vine should be paid more to present Points of View than someone I’ve never heard of, presenting a show I’ve never heard of.
    We're both right.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Offshore Toon View Post
    I imagine that goes up one percent for immigrants too. I used to like the idea of visiting Japan, but I feel like there's a lot of xenophobia and paedophilia that I hadn't been taking into consideration.
    My mate was briefly dating this girl who had been a massive weeb. She'd heard and dismissed all the nasty rumours about all that stuff, understandably assuming it was just racist bullshit. Once she was there on her big dream Japan trip, she'd been sat in this cafe with just her at one table next to a table of 4 businessmen and nobody else in the place except staff at the other end. She thinks they were speaking openly because as a black girl they just assumed she couldn't speak Japanese. Anyway, supposedly she overheard an exchange where one businessman told the rest that he still bathed his 14 year old daughter, and the rest just openly went like "OMG YOU'RE SO LUCKY I'M SO JEALOUS", and he just sorta winked smugly at them. I'd like to think it was just dark bantz, but she didn't think so, and it basically completely soured her on the country and she came home depressed and no longer a weeb.

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    Christ yeah, imagine the shock of finding out that Japan has some significant creepiness going on.

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    Asian people don't do banter, so that story is damning.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Offshore Toon View Post
    Asian people don't do banter, so that story is damning.
    There do fire takeaways though.

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    Reading some of the stuff about the Jeremy Vine tribunal and loving that one of their arguments was that he has a glint in his eye.

    Should've been case closed really.

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    'This boring old bag however...'

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    "He's had a fucking stroke!"

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    Not sure if she's on the wind-up or the gin.

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    lol at this Chinese virus being spread by them eating shit like bats. Hopefully people are writing their apologies to Morrissey as we speak.

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    The last thing you want to do after lunch is terror the world.

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    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51261999

    Chat about football or cricket in the workplace should be curtailed, a management body has warned.

    Chartered Management Institute head Ann Francke said sports banter can exclude women and lead to laddish behaviour such as chat about sexual conquests.


    "It's very easy for it to escalate from VAR talk and chat to slapping each other on the back and talking about their conquests at the weekend."
    Yeah, because that happens all the time.

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    Isn't assuming that football talk excludes women sexist in and of itself?

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    Get her back in the attic.

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    Should women therefore not be allowed to talk about their major interests at work that exclude men?

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    A certain type of mainly boomer woman (my mum is one) goes into a psychotic frenzy if anyone talks about sport in their earshot. They don't accept the idea that it's s legitimate field like art or books, they think it is literally a pointless waste of time.

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    It is a pointless waste of time. That's why it's great.

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    Everything is a pointless waste of time.

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    Does this mean the women in the office aren't allowed to talk about any Reality TV or Soap Opera bollocks?

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    Kinda feel like I'd be willing to make that trade

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    Work should be an environment where only work is discussed and who has put fish in the microwave.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Raoul Duke View Post
    Kinda feel like I'd be willing to make that trade
    Actually, fair point. If the trade-off is that I don't have to listen to talk about Love Island or that latest diet you've all started but none of you are going to stick to them I'm more than happy to give up talking about sport.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kikó View Post
    Work should be an environment where only work is discussed and who has put fish in the microwave.
    Should be grounds for instant dismissal.

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