I've been following this thread with interest, and it's plain to see that some people have completely missed the point. That children are no longer allowed to remain innocent.
Teaching homosexuality to 5 or 6 year olds is just plain wrong. I didn't know what sex was until about 9 - and that was through an older girl friend. My parents/school didn't touch on this until early teens.
(Drugs were never discussed/used/seen, and I only found out about these once I had left school altogether)
Why should we teach little ones who are barely past toddler stage that some men sleep together, and some women get married.... why???
Surely they can find this out for themselves once they discover about sex in general? Formulate opinions then, once their brains have developed more? I would be furious if my child were taught this stuff in school and would be sorely tempted to teach them at home. At least then my child would remain a child until it was ready to know about adult stuff. It has enough years in which to be an adult. How can a child form an opinion about this kind of thing when he doesn't even know what his own willy is for? (At least, he shouldn't, until he needs to start using it).
Never did me any harm. The kids whose 'home lives may be reflected in those relationships' will learn about it anyway - at home.
Maybe it's a generation thing. Maybe the world just decided to abolish childhood while I wasn't looking.
I don't take any notice of what the big supermarkets choose to tell me and like others, use common sense to tell if something is edible or not. I frequently buy close-to-sell-by bargains and am not scared of eating certain things that others would run away from. I am rarely ill, and if I am, it is never from something I've eaten.
Admittedly, I won't eat fish or meat that looks or smells old - but it's not difficult to tell, if it starts off fresh and I know what colour it should look.
This thread does make me think about the way we waste so much food though, when so many would literally kill to have such well stocked fridges as ours. Millions don't even have a fridge at all.
We are all suckers to the bright lights of the supermarkets and I believe most of us probably buy far too much than we can actually eat. Simply because we can. A day-old yoghurt or sad-looking chicken leg could keep a child alive in Ethiopia. Makes you think, doesn't it?
No one should take any of these comments personally - it is a healthy (IMHO) debate about things that, at the end of the day, we have little control over.
Politics will always divide people - and this thread highlights the fact. If we can't speak out here, where else can we? Surely no one expects MPs to be listening? Surely we should be able to voice our opinions, educated or not? Surely by reading others' opinions, we are more informed?
Some think the terrorists are wrong - some think they have a point - some think we should pretend none of it is happening and carry on enjoying our lives of opulence and luxury, outraged that terrorists seek to disrupt our holiday plans. (This is a general comment - not aimed at ANYONE). I wonder how many Iraqis or Afghans have the time/means/inclination to sit and chat on a swingers' site all day.
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. Seriously though, there is, understandably, a degree of hostility levelled at us a a whole although as usual it's the minority of nut cases that give the rest of us a bad name for being time wasters, pests, wankers (hold my hand up to that one.......ooops, not now) and generally a bloody nuisance bombarding couples and singles with one liners (I'm not holding my hand up to that one) and failing to show up etc. (nor that one).
