11-10-2019, 05:35 PM
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Re: What on Earth?!!
Originally Posted by Mags
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How ridiculous, what is this world coming to! 
I agree, Mags.
If an adult can't tell the difference between a harmless touch and a leery sexual grope, they need their heads examined.
12-10-2019, 10:21 AM
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Re: What on Earth?!!
Maybe, there is more to it? Who knows?If he’s under threat of prison for something so trivial, then it is radically wrong.
I mean, he didn’t even do something like ‘flashing’ or being a ‘peeping tom’. Or even nicking ladies underwear off a washing line! Those crimes seem to have gone out of fashion, these days!
12-10-2019, 02:43 PM
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Re: What on Earth?!!
Both were minors at the time. The judge should have thrown out the case. The worst case scenario is that these two kids both have had a social or developmental problems that require good parenting and possibly a little counseling.Both the girl and the boy will be forever damaged by something that should have never reached the public sphere.
12-10-2019, 02:53 PM
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Re: What on Earth?!!
HiIf we cannot innocently flirt the human race would be extinct.
Asking a girl for a kiss or innocently touching her, not on the breasts or groin or bum is not an offence.
Grabbing her is not the way to go.
There is a huge difference
My first date was very innocent, holding hands and then a snog.
We were both useless at it.
The advice from my Grandmother was spot on.
Treat your girlfriends as you would want your sister to be treated.
12-10-2019, 04:19 PM
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Re: What on Earth?!!
Originally Posted by swimfeeders
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HiThe advice from my Grandmother was spot on.
Treat your girlfriends as you would want your sister to be treated.
12-10-2019, 10:04 PM
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Re: What on Earth?!!
Originally Posted by shropshiregirl
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Phew! thank goodness. I thought about putting my tin helmet on before posting this thread. I was so annoyed about it.It makes me think of when I was a teenager. Boys (some I didn't even know) would sneak up behind me in the street, grab me around the waist and hug me tightly, especially on a Friday or Saturday night, even asking what did I want for breakfast? that's just the way it was when I was young.
THAT was sexual innuendo! but it never scared me, a quick kick in the goolies if they had tried to get too fresh would have sufficed!
On a more serious note though, it certainly seems the world has changed, not for the better it seems. I keep thinking surely a community order or a warning would have been sufficient in that poor boy's case. What career has he got now he is in University. Who is going to employ him with a record as a sex pervert???? It's dreadful.
The coming up and grabbing round the waist was a common thing also. I always thought it was a term of endearment in that the person liked you or was a good friend and it was their way of saying 'hello'. Now if a lad did that to a girl today, the girl is more than likely to shout 'Help!! rape'.
You know what is embarrassing, mentioning to foreign people that the UK is considering making the wolf whistle a hate crime. They just look in bemusement and then they just laugh at how stupid UK law is becoming.
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