bring back flogging?

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Part of it involved cutting off parts that women don't have, so maybe they weren't just being nice to women.

Yeah....well that too.... I imagine that there were far more women burned than men "quartered." So I don't suppose they were being nice to women....

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Part of it involved cutting off parts that women don't have, so maybe they weren't just being nice to women.

Yeah....well that too.... I imagine that there were far more women burned than men "quartered." So I don't suppose they were being nice to women....

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Lots of men got burned too, especially during the Tudor period (corresponding with the Inquisition in Italy, France and Spain). Burning was for heretics of both genders.

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I support that idea 100% Prison ships are the way to go.

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yea, and cleaning beaches.

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Until recently in Scotland a criminal could be 'birched' (flogged) personaly this is something I'd like to see returned to the UK and don't see why it wouldn't be a good idea in the US either. With prisons filling up wouldn't it make good sense for minor public order offences to be able to be flogged as a option to petty custodial sentances? What do you think?

I think you need to expand on "Birched" as a lot of our American cousins won't really appriciate exactly what it involves
and I don't want to hijack your thread.
At public school I was birched in front of the whole school
I didn't get mad I got even.


I think that a public birching would have it's avantages
A "criminal" could choose between public birching or going to jail ( I discount murder, rape or armed robbery)
if "He" chooses public birching the record should be sealed (like juvenile americans)
The initial pain soon goes but the phyiscal and mental scars remain for life as a reminder not to got into trouble again.

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I support that idea 100% Prison ships are the way to go

What are you guys talking about "prison ships"? Going towards which coast?

If I do remember well, you wrote something about Atlantic? Send them with the westerly wind, OK? The European continent does not need GB's rubbish!

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Hey you guys keep invading Europe why can't we?

Actualy they wouldn't go anywhere they would just be 'moored' in the northsea off the northeast coast of the UK.

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Hey you guys keep invading Europe why can't we?

Oh fuck your in trouble now, That was below the belt

Gone fishing

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She knows I'm just kidding. Just a bit of Anglo-Geman banter. See the Brits are obsessed with the war because apart from 1966 (When we beat them again) and a few small wars we didn't really win much else in the last century. The Germans however now not only lead Europe but sit on the throne of England!

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Hey you guys keep invading Europe why can't we?

Oh fuck your in trouble now, That was below the belt

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She knows I'm just kidding. Just a bit of Anglo-Geman banter. See the Brits are obsessed with the war because apart from 1966 (When we beat them again) and a few small wars we didn't really win much else in the last century. The Germans however now not only lead Europe but sit on the throne of England!

Germans have sat on the throne of England (and Scotland) since 1714, when the Brits decided better a German (George of Hanover) than a Scot (James Stuart). Comparing the music of Handel to the bagpipes, I can't say that I'm surprised.

The Windsor's REAL name is Battenberg, but that was not PC during WWI.

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Like most true Brits I couldn't agree more about the tunnel. Demolish the damn thing, it was a nice little challenge for the engineers but really for national security its a disaster. As for the Corgis its hardly our fault if their Germanic owner feeds them saurcraut!

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LOL.....I think you mean Saxe-Coburg-Gotha! battenburg is a type of marzipan covered cake

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Germans have sat on the throne of England (and Scotland) since 1714, when the Brits decided better a German (George of Hanover) than a Scot (James Stuart). Comparing the music of Handel to the bagpipes, I can't say that I'm surprised.

Oh, I would not always prefer GFH, when I was in Scotland, I loved listening to the bagpipe

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The Windsor's REAL name is Battenberg, but that was not PC during WWI

Yup, The Mountbattens. German heir is wide spread all over the world. Even to be found in the US, Rumsfeld etc...

How do I have to understand "PC" in the above connection?

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LOL.....I think you mean Hapsburg! battenburg is a type of marzipan covered cake

No no. House of Hanover is correct. And Mountbatten (Battenberg), too.

When will the new Webley stadium (that place of a shame!) be built? 1966 never will be forgotten. My old dad made a vow. Our day will come. As a first step, perhaps Bertie could coach the Brits?

If not in soccer, we should send Boris Becker again.
He always will make his points.

dudeist skydiver # 3105

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He'd be an improvment on that embarasment Tim (Yes hes crashed out in the semi's again) Henman!)

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He'd be an improvment on that embarasment Tim (Yes hes crashed out in the semi's again) Henman

Henman, Tim Henman... This guy is good or not? when did he crash? Did I miss something?

Truly: Since BB retired, the tennis world is empty.

But there still is Bertie Vogts we could offer to you Brits

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How do I have to understand "PC" in the above connection?

Politically correct (I think)

Gone fishing

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How do I have to understand "PC" in the above connection?

Politically correct (I think)

Right. During WWI the British Royals were somewhat embarrassed to have a Germanic family name, so they changed it, variously, to Mountbatten or Windsor. Prince Louis of Battenberg just didn't sound right for a British admiral.

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