Zac_A
Can you keep this thread about horses,please.
There is another thread on religion,although I thought it died it’s death.
Let me know when you finish reading the book…
Sploom:
Zac_A
Can you keep this thread about horses,please.
There is another thread on religion,although I thought it died it’s death.
Let me know when you finish reading the book…
To be accurate the unfortunate abused animal was a pony, not a horse.
The thread stopped being about insufficiently punished animal abusers when you indicated that physical violence was a valid means to engender “respect”, which several of us appear to disagree with.
To then claim violence applied in a situation where the violated cannot escape the violator (pony/evil huntsperson, schoolchild/teacher) does not do harm, is morally abhorrent to those of us who do not have a medieval mentality.
Rob’s religiously-orientated comment was clearly humerous, though it seems to have gone over your head, which either: Confirms what I suspected about your cultural-reference bank, or suggests an inability to correctly assess when a comment should not be taken literally.
For example, could you (without Googling) understand what was meant if someone told you to “break a leg”? Is that a physical threat, a nasty comment, or an encouragement in the face of a challenge?
the nodding donkey:
dozy:
It’s in our local rag , it’s a joke , Christ as a kid I was always getting smacked round the head for something or other , did me no harm ,Must resist…must resist…
Zac_A
Ive never heard of that phrase to be honest
Sploom:
Zac_A
Ive never heard of that phrase to be honest
It means “good luck to you”, the idea being that suggesting something bad will produce the opposite result, like reverse jinxing
Anybody remember this.
dailymail.co.uk/sport/footb … horse.html
Absolute disgraceful and something I hope will never happen again…I was there.
As a true Toon fan, everytime I think about it I’m ashamed.
(The Mackems beating us 3 ■■■■ nil at that game mean !
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Sploom, you must have a limited vocabulary, do you not know the difference between fear and respect?
Yes,I do,but what’s that got to do with the price of eggs?
Zac_A:
Sploom:
mmm,they arent allowed to slap children now.Im sure she will be aware of that rule.
I remember getting slapped by the teacher at school.It never did me any harm.It taught me a bit of respect.As per usual, missing the logical points massively: she abused the pony when she lost her temper, she could just as easily abuse a child when similarly losing her temper.
As for “learning respect” with the application of a spot of physical violence…
The nineteeth century called, you’re wanted back in your proper place, caning the children and paying midnight visits to the scullery maid’s quarters
I guess Mr Sploom isn’t talking from the experience of attending a roughest of the rough 1970’s secondary.In which the scum ‘teachers’ and worse scum head masters, ran a regime of violent ‘discipline’ against those who they thought/ knew wouldn’t hit them back.
Also not telling parents because didn’t want them sent down for hitting one of said scum.
the nodding donkey:
Being beaten by a person in authority, without you being able to defend yourself, or retaliate, instils fear, and resentment.
Not half as much as when you realise that you’re only being beaten because the real troublemakers would and did hit the zbs back.
Our headmaster got a badly smashed jaw.When the school authorities over saw and imposed a general disciplinary response.From memory connected to a strike which most of us took part in, but even the innocent got caned for it, against the raising of the school leaving age from 15 to 16.Karma finally caught up with the POS.
The problem being that just made the issue of retaliation by deputy and teachers against their usual whipping boys even worse.
Zac_A:
There’s plenty of evidence linking animal abuse with child abuse, so she shouldn’t be continuing to work with children if she’s capable of mistreating an animal.
You at least have to question the motivation behind wilful cruelty to animals in that regard.
Logically it points to a phsychological flaw.