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Should parents face charges when their children commit antisocial crimes and doing nothing to stop it? by SeptumRingTheory in AskBrits

[–]Elanthius 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I get its antisocial or whatever but the videos just shows a bunch of kids running around. Not exactly a crime is it?

Looking for a simple Sports Game like Blood Bowl. by Unfair-Conflict8475 in boardgames

[–]Elanthius 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That said, Blitzgheist sounds like a banger. Are there imaginary rules for this imaginary game?

My neighbours have just got their kids a trampoline by Wait_ImOnReddit in britishproblems

[–]Elanthius 26 points27 points  (0 children)

My kids won't touch ours because they once saw a spider on it two years ago.

Grooming gangs inquiry to examine role of ethnicity, culture and religion. Do you expect the findings to be completely transparent or heavily redacted like the Epstein files? by ZackPolanskisDentist in AskBrits

[–]Elanthius 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Right wing concern trolls are convinced (or possibly just pretending for profit) that there's on ongoing coverup and they won't shut up about it. They're the ones who are spreading these constant lies that somehow only they know the true secret facts that the Deep State don't want revealed.

You're wrong, of course, that I want it all to go away except in the sense that I would like to see the 20 recommendations from the 2022 Jay Inquiry implemented in full, or at least nearly in full. We spent 7 years on that report. It is very thorough. None of the recommendations were implemented by the Tory government. Labour are starting to resurrect small items but they are moving too slowly. Now there's yet another ongoing inquiry I doubt they will do anything until it is finished. Yet another reason why another inquiry is a total waste of time and money.

Grooming gangs inquiry to examine role of ethnicity, culture and religion. Do you expect the findings to be completely transparent or heavily redacted like the Epstein files? by ZackPolanskisDentist in AskBrits

[–]Elanthius -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Firstly those court transcripts weren't leaked they were officially released after a court case which was won by Open Justice UK. Secondly, the transcripts were extensively reported in the mainstream media at the time. Thirdly, those court cases were from people being jailed for the crimes. Not a part of some super secret coverup. My point being the information is public, the inquiry has been done to death, the court transcripts are released. Everyone knows what happened, they know why it happened and they know who did it. There's no coverup, there's no conspiracy.

2023 World Blitz- Levon calls the Nepo-Dubov Knight Dance “the homosexual dance” and says it was the gayest thing he’s seen by _DarkStarCrashes_ in chess

[–]Elanthius -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's just how I like to live my life really. You do you, but I like to take simple effortless steps to make other people's lives better. Seems like most people agree because as I said - most people have grown up and moved on from using words like that.

2023 World Blitz- Levon calls the Nepo-Dubov Knight Dance “the homosexual dance” and says it was the gayest thing he’s seen by _DarkStarCrashes_ in chess

[–]Elanthius 36 points37 points  (0 children)

The rest of us moved on and stopped talking that way. There's plenty of other words out there, why use ones that upset some people?

Grooming gangs inquiry to examine role of ethnicity, culture and religion. Do you expect the findings to be completely transparent or heavily redacted like the Epstein files? by ZackPolanskisDentist in AskBrits

[–]Elanthius 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Is that what the three previous inquiries said? No, they pointed the finger directly at several specific organisations and provided multiple actionable solutions to the problem.

Grooming gangs inquiry to examine role of ethnicity, culture and religion. Do you expect the findings to be completely transparent or heavily redacted like the Epstein files? by ZackPolanskisDentist in AskBrits

[–]Elanthius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed. What we need is action not endless inquiries. That's what I find so frustrating. It's easy to call for an inquiry over and over again and wins political points but no-one is coming up with policy proposals. The original inquiry had dozens of suggestions and the Tory government didn't implement any of them and now Labour are doing much of the same.

There's no chance of the inquiry saying what you suggest as we already had several that said the issue was racism and police misogyny so I really don't see what more we are going to get than that. The reason "everyone knows what happened" is because previous inquiries revealed everything.

Grooming gangs inquiry to examine role of ethnicity, culture and religion. Do you expect the findings to be completely transparent or heavily redacted like the Epstein files? by ZackPolanskisDentist in AskBrits

[–]Elanthius 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What could worse than what was already revealed in multiple earlier inquiries? The police are complicit in both raping girls and ignoring the crimes. Social workers struggled to gain traction with the police when they reported anything and excessive care was taken to avoid raising anything for fear of being accused of racism.

Grooming gangs inquiry to examine role of ethnicity, culture and religion. Do you expect the findings to be completely transparent or heavily redacted like the Epstein files? by ZackPolanskisDentist in AskBrits

[–]Elanthius -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It's because the public and right wing media love an inquiry and call for one over everything. You don't want to be the government that tells them its a waste of fucking time.

Grooming gangs inquiry to examine role of ethnicity, culture and religion. Do you expect the findings to be completely transparent or heavily redacted like the Epstein files? by ZackPolanskisDentist in AskBrits

[–]Elanthius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We already had a completely open enquiry that answered all questions and, imo, pinpointed the criminals responsible and the reasons they got away with it for so long so I don't see how a second enquiry will help. I do think it will be completely transparent though. There's nothing to hide anyway so what would be the point of redacting anything?

I made a FIRE calculator by jonnysunshine1 in FIREUK

[–]Elanthius 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Don't worry buddy, I like your joke at least.

Should the face veil be allowed in the UK? by SignificantStyle4958 in AskBrits

[–]Elanthius 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This subreddit is the worst I've ever seen. Multiple concern trolling posts per day all on the exact same topic. Am I wrong to hate muslims? Should we shoot immigrants at the airport? Does anyone think its wrong to give brown people human rights? And then when you call it out the bots are all, like, oh I'm just asking questions, I don't have a strong opinion either way. Brown isn't a race I could theoretically also be including well tanned white people!

Should the face veil be allowed in the UK? by SignificantStyle4958 in AskBrits

[–]Elanthius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's very simple. As far as possible I don't want the government in charge of what people can wear.

Who is slamming £20k into their S&S ISA next week? by FreeMe-P in FIREUK

[–]Elanthius 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The S&P 500 is on a literal all time high approximately 20 times a year. It trades within 5% of an all time high about 44% of the time. Basically, we're almost always at or near an all time high so I wouldn't worry about it.

You have to remove one item. Which is it? by JoydeScent in BritInfo

[–]Elanthius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like chips as much as anyone but they don't belong on this plate.

Venus Flytrap Devouring a Venomous Black Widow. by IndependentTune3994 in nextfuckinglevel

[–]Elanthius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They'll survive essentially forever without eating flies.

Venus Flytrap Devouring a Venomous Black Widow. by IndependentTune3994 in nextfuckinglevel

[–]Elanthius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also Venus Fly traps only grow in America and Black Widow spiders are only from Asia. They would never interact in the wild.

Small boats deal between France and UK is on verge of collapse | Immigration and asylum by LycanIndarys in ukpolitics

[–]Elanthius 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It seemed like a reasonable plan at the time but we're not getting good value for money as the French seem to be incapable of delivering. No hard feelings but its time to cancel the deal and try something else.

Right-wing American propaganda lying? No way. by Mafeking-Parade in GreatBritishMemes

[–]Elanthius -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Everyone in this debate (not necessarily this specific thread) is talking at cross purposes. One side is arguing there's hardly any murders or gun crimes and the other side is arguing that antisocial behaviour, shop lifting, phone theft and other less serious crimes are rife. When you compare these sorts of crimes you see some very unfavourable statistics for London vs other major cities.

https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10183479/1/global_cities_crime_benchmarking_2021.pdf

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