News that may not be found in the Mail.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Thu Apr 19, 2012 12:37 am

Yes. I remember reading about Japanese soldiers doing the same. Very primitive urge to castrate and dehumanise the enemy.

Some armies played games with the severed heads of their enemies. Same impulse.

In Vietnam soldiers (S Vietnamese) got a bounty for bringing in the severed hands of Viet Cong.

The USAF operators who might have been given the order to fire ballistic missiles were chosen, latterly, for being good at shoot-em-up games, because they lacked empathy. They didn't see the enemy as real people.

During the battle of the Somme, British soldiers going 'up the line' thought it was lucky to shake the hand of a dead German soldier which had eroded out of the side of a trench.

And so on.

oboogie · **Posted:** Thu Apr 19, 2012 12:51 am

When searching suspect's houses in the US the police sometimes find skulls which have been brought home as souvenirs from WWII or Vietnam.
On one island in the pacific the burial party after the battle found that 60% of Japanese dead were headless.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_m ... e_war_dead

Silkyman · **Joined:** Thu Mar 24, 2011 9:31 am **Posts:** 802

It's similar to the stories you hear about junior doctors joking about with training cadavers etc or laughing and joking minutes after telling a family a loved one has died.

If death got to them in the way it does you or I, they wouldn't be able to do their jobs.

oboogie · **Posted:** Thu Apr 19, 2012 10:34 am

Silkyman wrote:

It's similar to the stories you hear about junior doctors joking about with training cadavers etc or laughing and joking minutes after telling a family a loved one has died.

If death got to them in the way it does you or I, they wouldn't be able to do their jobs.

True enough, same with undertakers.

Paul · **Posted:** Fri Apr 20, 2012 3:34 pm

Thanet council first to back gay marriage

http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kentonline/ ... riage.aspx

Quote:

Last month, North Thanet MP Sir Roger Gale was accused of "old-fashioned bigotry" for his opposition to gay marriage.

Sir Roger provoked outrage by claiming same-sex marriage would result in Shakespeare and the Bible having to be re-written.

Timbo · **Posted:** Fri Apr 20, 2012 3:38 pm

Ughhhh. I liked that until I got to the comments....

Quote:

I have no problem with peoples sexuality color or greed. However True marriage in my book is between Man & Woman only. We are what we are so no matter what Thanet Council or anyone else for that matter say they will not brainwash the majority of the population for the befit of the few.

Quote:

This all very confusing .. i mean "do you Kevin take Albert to be your lawful wedded husband" and "do you Albert take Kevin to be your lawful wedded husband" just dont seem right .. or am i missing something here ?

I still think the only winners here will be lawyers, i mean normal marriages end up in divorce one way or other, i cant see this being any different.

Quote:

Though time moves on and values are changing, I do feel that marriage should be between a man and a woman with procreation generally being the next step. Now you can nitpick this all day long, but it is traditional, and to many sacrosanct. I believe that same sex couples get exactly the same rights under a civil union (correct me if I'm wrong), so I don't see the point of this change.

Althea · **Posted:** Fri Apr 20, 2012 3:50 pm

Tradition for... four hundred years? Out of 20,000 years (or is it 200,000?) of human existence?

Arnold · **Posted:** Fri Apr 20, 2012 4:13 pm

Rewriting Shakespeare?
Romeo and Julian.
The Merry Partners of Windsor.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Fri Apr 20, 2012 4:16 pm

Much Ado About Nothing?

oboogie · **Posted:** Fri Apr 20, 2012 4:40 pm

A Comedy of Errors

Althea · **Posted:** Fri Apr 20, 2012 4:41 pm

Isn't A Midsummer Night's Dream a bit... gay?

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Fri Apr 20, 2012 5:16 pm

Althea wrote:

Isn't A Midsummer Night's Dream a bit... gay?

Rly?

Althea · **Posted:** Fri Apr 20, 2012 5:20 pm

Malcolm Armsteen wrote:

Rly?

I get them all confused thanks to a Reduced Shakespeare Company sketch.

This one:

oboogie · **Posted:** Fri Apr 20, 2012 5:21 pm

Malcolm Armsteen wrote:

Althea wrote:

Isn't A Midsummer Night's Dream a bit... gay?

Rly?

She means it's full of Fairies........... not to mention Bottom.

Very un-pc that Althea. tsk tsk.

Althea · **Posted:** Fri Apr 20, 2012 5:24 pm

oboogie wrote:

She means it's full of Fairies........... not to mention Bottom.

Very un-pc that Althea. tsk tsk.

Plus all of the dancing and music and moonlight orgies and stuff.

News that may not be found in the Mail.

Who is online