"Metropolitan Police officers assaulted autistic boy"

[simer553]

singlecoil said:

Then that's something we both agree on. Anything to say about the thread topic?

To you no - as I'm not entitled to an opinion

[carmonk]

simer553 said:

Positive discrimination against women is rife (YES they have their own queue's and special treatment almost everywhere you go).

Until they're raped and then they get banged up in jail. But they can get their stamps quicker, so every cloud.

[simer553]

carmonk said:

Until they're raped and then they get banged up in jail. But they can get their stamps quicker, so every cloud.

Source : Guardian, Sunday Sport or Wiki??

[davepoth]

simer553 said:

carmonk said:

Until they're raped and then they get banged up in jail. But they can get their stamps quicker, so every cloud.

Source : Guardian, Sunday Sport or Wiki??

http://www.dubaifaqs.com/dubai-police.php

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1371240/Wo...

[carmonk]

simer553 said:

carmonk said:

Until they're raped and then they get banged up in jail. But they can get their stamps quicker, so every cloud.

Source : Guardian, Sunday Sport or Wiki??

Are you disputing this happens? Or perhaps you're alleging the Guardian makes up stories and Wiki is a load of rubbish? I guess you might be genuinely ignorant of this being that UAE censors a lot of printed media. I looked at Wiki and yes, it is on there with a specific case, although that's not where I got it from nor is it the case I remember. Once you've answered that you can mention the government-sanctioned slave labour they have over there, where foreign workers have their passports confiscated and are forced to work for nothing. Or the jail time you'd get for insulting the prophet or exercising free speech, or the terrible crime of being a homosexual.

[scenario8]

simer553 said:

The problem we experience is that the changes are so bloody pronounced each time we visit. In the last two years, I've felt that the UK has turned into some sort of bizarre parody. The PC madness gets worse every time we visit.

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Your POV is quite disheartening as it is indicative of just what a good job the PC brigade with their book of petty legislature have done. I feel sorry for you

I'm genuinely interested in the sentence in bold. Can you elaborate on what exactly has substantially changed in the last two years that makes you think the UK has become some sort of PC/H+S parody? I seem to find myself more and more wondering where I'm going wrong in life as I just about never roll my eyes and utter "Health and Safety gone mad" despite the right wing media and fora like these constantly telling me I should. I just kind of get on with life without fearing the ever increasing limits on my freedom that others seem to want to believe are happening.

I could understand an expat returning after a decade or two noticing substantive change. I'd guess the progress of time changes things. The city of my university had changed hugely in the two decades since I lived there - but I still recognised it and it seemed at least as nice as when I left. I imagine if my Nan returned to India (the country of her birth and first two decades under British rule) I imagine she'd be shocked and disgusted at much of the change. That doesn't mean India is "worse" now, of course.

Regardless I'd be surprised if there has been any significant change in the last two years at all. Is it not more likely that you're becoming more entrenched in your new (and presumably fairly comfortable) expat lifestyle in UAE and so when you return to a more "normal" Western country that nnormal appears more and more removed from your new normal.

[carmonk]