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Asking For Trouble
This is the kind of thing that gets me throwing things across the room in angry frustration:
A British police officer has said she was raped at the bottom of the Eiffel Tower on Monday.
The victim, 23, has told French police she was attacked by a man wielding a knife in the Champ de Mars park shortly before midnight that evening.
She said the suspect pulled out a knife as she tried to deflect his advances.
Okay, here’s my first point. I know this area very well indeed, and let me just say that it is — along with, say, NYfC’s Central Park — a tourist attraction I wouldn’t go anywhere near after dark. So why would this Dickless Tracy do such a stupid thing? Ah, here’s a clue:
The attacker pounced after the victim went behind a bush to go to the toilet.
She was separated from her friend for only a few moments when the attacker threatened her with a knife.
Translation: she’d been drinking hard, and needed to pee. Where better than in a dark park in a strange city, away from her drinking companion?
Anyway, the gendarmes found the guy and busted him. Surprise, surprise, it was another tourist (nationality not given, uh huh) — but a tourist who travels with a knife and harbors larcenous thoughts.
Sheesh, I myself generally carry a knife when I travel (because I can’t carry my 1911 [lots of bad words deleted] ), but I would only use it in the last extreme in self-defense and not to, say, indulge in a little coercive seduction.
My second point: One would think a cop — especially a Britcop — would know better than to do stupid stuff like the above; but clearly, an excess of booze makes a cop as stupid as the average idiot.
And so much for her police force’s self-defense training; she should ask for a refund.
Random Thought
Just in case anyone needs reminding:
Schadenböner Alert
You would have to have a heart of stone not to pee yourself laughing at this one, and I don’t:
Several Harvard University students came out quickly after Saturday’s terrorist attacks in Israel to blame Israelis for the carnage and support Hamas.
Public scrutiny fell on these individuals and now many appear to regret their pro-Hamas position.
The Harvard Arab Alumni Association has reportedly put out a statement requesting aid for the students whose first reaction was to stand in solidarity with the terrorists who raped, killed, captured, and decapitated innocent civilians.
”They may require legal counsel, healthcare, mental health support, financial aid, or mentorship to navigate these turbulent and uncertain times,” the statement reads.
The Harvard Arab Alumni Association has expressed concern for the students’ “immigration status and future career prospects.”
Deport those who qualify, and put the rest on food stamps for, oh, the next twenty years.
And now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to attend to my clothing.
Writer Loses Balls
…and to his own daughter, no less:
Four Weddings and a Funeral writer Richard Curtis says he was ‘stupid and wrong’ for the way he wrote about women and joked about people’s size in his films after he was confronted by his own daughter.
Curtis, 66, says he regrets much of his work and he was ‘unobservant’ and ‘not as clever’ as he should have been.
The comedy screenwriter poured scorn over many of his films and said he would never use the words ‘fat’ and ‘chubby’ again.
Oh FFS. One of the best parts about the achingly-funny Four Weddings movie was that I could recognize every single one of those appalling female characters in girls of my own acquaintance. I had also been to weddings of similar ilk several times — okay, nobody actually died of a heart attack during any of them, but someone in the bridal party did noisily puke her guts out during the groom’s speech, which surely qualifies.
Also, one of the main attractions of Four Weddings was the realistic dialogue — once again, I’ve heard people say things precisely as they were uttered in the movie, only with a South African accent.
Four Weddings And A Funeral was of its time, people actually spoke, thought and behaved like that, and it saddens me to no end to think that its creator has forgotten the whole point of the satire he so wonderfully wrote.
All because his pissy little woke daughter objected.
Oh Diddums
I would have posted a link, but the article is slammed behind a paywall. Still, we have ways…
Viagra is turning the UK into a nation of dirty old men – it should be banned
PETRONELLA WYATT
12 October 2023 • 6:00pm
There are not many upsides to growing older, but surely the freedom from 80-something sex addicts on pills is one of them
Then follows a whole bunch of words, basically going wah wah wah men are pigs, even old ones. My take: shut the fuck up and leave us alone, you foul harpy. (I should point out that said harpy was once extramaritally bonked by Boris Johnson…) Read the rest, if you want.