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"I was, for several months, mutely in love with a coloratura soprano, who seemed to me to have wafted straight from Paradise to the stage of the Odessa Opera-House"
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Milly Jones
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« Reply #1 on: 11:53:09, 29-07-2007 » |
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I could go with the sentence of the woman who had to spend the night in the woods without food or water for abandoning the kittens though. That's ok - if a bit lenient.
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Reiner Torheit
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« Reply #2 on: 12:02:27, 29-07-2007 » |
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But why a chicken costume, is what I was wondering? Their anonymity is preserved. Make 'em walk down the street with their trousers around their ankles  Ooooh, I'm terribly reactionary sometimes  |
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Milly Jones
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« Reply #3 on: 12:11:03, 29-07-2007 » |
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Well I'm sorry but I don't think that prostitution should be illegal - so I don't think that humiliating "clients" and kerb-crawlers is the thing to do anyway. Prostitution obviously provide a much-needed service, is probably the oldest profession and if it stops a few innocent women being raped then I'm all for it. The hypocrisy surrounding prostitution is what sickens me. Think how many judges, lawyers, policemen have been publicly pilloried in the press. As far as I'm concerned let them get on with it and stop pretending that it is a terrible crime or that it shouldn't exist. Re. the chicken suit, the clip did explain why that had been adopted. It wasn't anonymous because they named the guy on the newsclip anyway. Kitten-abandoners and Shambo-murderers deserve all they get as far as I'm concerned.  |
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« Reply #4 on: 12:13:34, 29-07-2007 » |
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I wish you'd chosen another heading for this thread. I can't get it out of my head and I've been singing it to myself ever since.  |
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« Reply #5 on: 12:30:14, 29-07-2007 » |
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And I thought it was just me.  |
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Ron Dough
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« Reply #6 on: 12:37:22, 29-07-2007 » |
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In which case, this might help you: the director of that Turn of the Screw I've been praising so mightily, incidentally: a talented man, and a great voice. Possibly not for purists, though... http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=iFjTNZ[edit: silly party]gY |
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Reiner Torheit
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« Reply #7 on: 13:09:59, 29-07-2007 » |
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Super stuff, Ron  Ta for the link Because I was "around at the time", I still find Richard Angas's "Mikado" pops most readily into mind... in that glorious absurd "big suit" I don't take a moral position on prostitution, Milly - although when women get kerb-crawled simply because they had to walk down some particular street, then something needs fixing. My interest was more piqued by this particular judge's eccentric attitude to sentencing |
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« Reply #8 on: 13:39:10, 29-07-2007 » |
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In the case of the police officer and the pig, maybe the two could have been made to stand together, the latter with a sign round their neck saying 'I'm not the pig around here'?
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« Reply #9 on: 13:43:32, 29-07-2007 » |
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I don't take a moral position on prostitution, Milly - although when women get kerb-crawled simply because they had to walk down some particular street, then something needs fixing. My interest was more piqued by this particular judge's eccentric attitude to sentencing You have a point there. I remember still how terrified I was when I wandered into a part of Nottingham at the age of 15 when I was too naive (well you were in those days) to realise that I was in a red light area. Every single car that went past was kerb crawling and I couldn't understand why all these men were creeping along the kerb, staring at me and beckoning me into their cars. I can remember just putting my head down and running as fast as I could to my father's shop which was further along in the city centre. I think the area I was racing through was called Hockley? I can't quite remember....but I remember how scared I was. I wonder, if I'm right about the name, if the area still has that reputation or whether it has all been regenerated and renewed and is now a yuppie place to live. |
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« Reply #10 on: 14:06:07, 29-07-2007 » |
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Police tactics on "kerb-crawling" areas rarely seem to work, as the "area" just moves somewhere else. I grew up in Camden Town, and Goodsway (a grim street around the back of King's Cross Station that runs through an area of gasometers and railway lines) was a notorious pick-up zone. And frankly no-one was inconvenienced, because no-one lived there at all (there are no buildings except the gasometers on the street anyhow). Then the Police moved-in, and the entire business relocated to Streatham, on main residential streets. So one police force dumped the problem on another. The same thing has happened in Moscow - Tverskaya used to be a main pick-up drag. Then the Moscow cops moved-in on it, so the "business" relocated around 10km up the same highway, but outside the City Limits, so now it's the Khimki cops (ie the adjacent region) who have to deal with it (or not). The unfortunate result is that all foreign visitors to Moscow arriving at Scheremetevo Int'l Airport get driven* past a small army of streetwalkers offering every conceivable kind of sexual service... not, perhaps, the impressive welcome the City Fathers had in mind * no trainline was ever built to SVO Airport, because it was built in 1980 at a time when Russians were blocked from travelling abroad anyhow... foreigners - being millionaires or VIPs or Esteemed Foreign Communist Delegations, as we all know - would take taxis or limos. |
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