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Post by Lizard on Sept 3, 2021 5:53:58 GMT
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Post by simple on Oct 7, 2021 12:04:20 GMT
I don’t really know where to write this but I need to get it out somewhere. Someone from a parenting group I’m part of on facebook has been murdered and I’m not at all sure how to grieve someone I didn’t know beyond his daily memes and contributions to questions about car seats etc. There’s a gofundme and seeing people making two and three hundred pound donations has set me off a bit. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-58811821 |
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Post by Dougs on Oct 7, 2021 12:11:43 GMT
Christ, that's awful
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Post by clemfandango on Oct 7, 2021 12:27:42 GMT
Yeah that's terrible, was it somebody he knew or just a random?
I always think about the kids in these situations, how do they ever process it and get over it..
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2021 12:33:55 GMT
That's bloody awful. I've started writing a few things about the senselessness of it and the family, but it all just seems like words.
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Post by simple on Oct 7, 2021 12:39:30 GMT
Just a random really. It was a spin off from a larger group to separate out the kid chat but really I wouldn’t know him anymore than any of you other than facebook putting a face and name to him.
He was only just asking about best brands of kinetic sand the other day. Totally mundane shit to entertain the kids.
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Post by drhickman1983 on Oct 13, 2021 22:02:37 GMT
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Post by Dougs on Oct 15, 2021 12:49:26 GMT
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Post by crispyxuk on Oct 15, 2021 12:50:38 GMT
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Post by crispyxuk on Oct 15, 2021 13:08:13 GMT
And just like that the traffic has gone
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Post by pizzacrunch on Oct 15, 2021 13:13:56 GMT
The BBC is reporting it wasn't him that was stabbed.
Edit : They have changed it now to him getting stabbed multiple times.
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Post by Danno on Oct 15, 2021 13:19:11 GMT
In a church too. Double hell
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Post by crispyxuk on Oct 15, 2021 13:23:43 GMT
In a church too. Double hell it’s not much of a church tbh, more of a function hall. It is very close to a pub nicknamed “throat cutters” though lol |
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Post by crispyxuk on Oct 15, 2021 13:25:52 GMT
Can see the choppers from my back garden
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Post by KinkyMong on Oct 15, 2021 13:36:15 GMT
Was the perpetrator on Cake?
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Post by Aunt Alison on Oct 15, 2021 13:44:40 GMT
Isn't it funny how even nonreligious people find churches sacred
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Post by crispyxuk on Oct 15, 2021 14:04:50 GMT
Isn't it funny how even nonreligious people find churches sacred fucking loads of old people here, everyone votes Tory and complain how shit they are |
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Post by simple on Oct 15, 2021 14:28:19 GMT
So grim, no idea what he was like as an MP but none of them deserve this. At least the attacker has been caught and can’t hurt anyone else for what little that is worth.
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Bongo Heracles
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Oct 15, 2021 14:34:52 GMT
Isn't it funny how even nonreligious people find churches sacred We didnt watch Highlander for fun, you know? |
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Post by Dougs on Oct 15, 2021 14:42:39 GMT
Fuck. Really grim news.  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2021 15:08:45 GMT
Brown bread.
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Post by X201 on Oct 15, 2021 17:01:11 GMT
Was the perpetrator on Cake? Probably Yellow Bentines |
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Post by PazJohnMitch on Oct 15, 2021 17:01:40 GMT
Isn't it funny how even nonreligious people find churches sacred I find most of them creepy, particularly the gothic cathedrals. (Some Catholic Churches in Rome were certainly pretty though but I still did not find them in anyway inviting). Only religious buildings I have found peaceful are Hindu temples. |
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Post by Aunt Alison on Oct 15, 2021 17:08:21 GMT
Isn't it funny how even nonreligious people find churches sacred I find most of them creepy, particularly the gothic cathedrals. (Some Catholic Churches in Rome were certainly pretty though but I still did not find them in anyway inviting). Only religious buildings I have found peaceful are Hindu temples. My point really was how conditioned we all are to respect religious values even if we're not religious. If you're not religious, a church is just a building but see Danno's comment earlier, as if the stabbing was worse because it was done in a church. I have no idea if Danno is religious, but I can imagine a lot of people feeling that way
If you read a story about a random person being killed and one about a priest, which would you find most shocking?
I've heard people say that they'd make religion disappear if they could and it'd make the world a better place, but it's so ingrained into society at such a deep level that everyone is affected by it whether they believe it in it or not. The world would be unrecognisable without it
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Post by hedben on Oct 15, 2021 18:08:35 GMT
I like and respect old buildings. A lot of churches tend to be old buildings. That's probably why they have a somewhat grudging sense of respect even from atheists.
But some modern church that's basically a converted village hall built after 1900? That's just a building, it didn't become sacred because someone wrote church on it.
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Post by Dougs on Oct 15, 2021 18:09:59 GMT
+1 I love the architecture of old buildings. The attention to detail and the history.
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Post by minimatt on Oct 31, 2021 14:16:17 GMT
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Post by deez on Oct 31, 2021 14:20:56 GMT
I think the Tokyo population odds of c40m to 1 suggest he is safe.
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Post by hedben on Nov 15, 2021 7:13:20 GMT
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Post by Zomoniac on Nov 15, 2021 9:25:27 GMT
Main thing I've learned is - black cab taxi drivers can lock people *in*? Surely that's prone to abuse Yep. Red light indicates doors are secured. Arctic Monkeys did a whole song about it. |
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