In recent years, for an extended period before and during Christmas, Bath has had an outdoor ice rink. Previously it has been sited on Queens Square which is a smallish lovely Georgian park square with trees and a stone obelisk and once the ice rink is up and they've put lighting in the trees it looks lovely and very festive.
Now, I don't know if that is a different rink, but it seems another one was proposed around the back of the sports centre (which isn't very far away if it's the on I'm thinking of), and this is a good thing as far as I can see because it's a harmless festive pursuit and brings a bit of fun and exercise away from computers and PlayStations for kids. Great.
Err, no. Apparently, the rink will be near a primary school, St Johns Roman Catholic primary school to be precise, and they've decided that it can't be allowed to go ahead because, obviously, the rink will be used by paedophiles to groom children. What? How the fucking hell did they come to that conclusion? Have we, as a society, become so paranoid that we won't allow kids to do anything at all just in case? Do these people really think there's a paedo behind every tree?
It would seem so. Of course this is not helped by Suntards (and Mailtards, Mirrortards and Expresstards), that enormous collection of dribbling, mouth-breathing, hairy-palmed knuckle draggers who believe every damn thing they read in the tabloids, all of which is written by ignorant, lazy cretins who merely tap into whatever base prejudice suits at the time to sell papers regardless of fact, truth or accurate reportage.
So, the long and the short is that thanks to some obnoxious god bothering turds, kids in Bath will be denied a bit of festive fun because they are convinced that anyone who isn't married and needs to prostrate themselves to a shyster every Sunday (i.e. anyone who's not one of them) must be a kiddie fiddler out to molest every Tom, Dick and Sally. Wow, bet their households are fun places to grow up.
Perhaps they should pay more attention to real life and maybe even have a listen to some modern rules of life, written by someone who actually understands the world (Scroobius Pip in this case):
"Thou shalt not think that any male over 30 that plays with a child that is not their own is a paedophile: Some people are just nice"
Now, I don't know if that is a different rink, but it seems another one was proposed around the back of the sports centre (which isn't very far away if it's the on I'm thinking of), and this is a good thing as far as I can see because it's a harmless festive pursuit and brings a bit of fun and exercise away from computers and PlayStations for kids. Great.
Err, no. Apparently, the rink will be near a primary school, St Johns Roman Catholic primary school to be precise, and they've decided that it can't be allowed to go ahead because, obviously, the rink will be used by paedophiles to groom children. What? How the fucking hell did they come to that conclusion? Have we, as a society, become so paranoid that we won't allow kids to do anything at all just in case? Do these people really think there's a paedo behind every tree?
It would seem so. Of course this is not helped by Suntards (and Mailtards, Mirrortards and Expresstards), that enormous collection of dribbling, mouth-breathing, hairy-palmed knuckle draggers who believe every damn thing they read in the tabloids, all of which is written by ignorant, lazy cretins who merely tap into whatever base prejudice suits at the time to sell papers regardless of fact, truth or accurate reportage.
So, the long and the short is that thanks to some obnoxious god bothering turds, kids in Bath will be denied a bit of festive fun because they are convinced that anyone who isn't married and needs to prostrate themselves to a shyster every Sunday (i.e. anyone who's not one of them) must be a kiddie fiddler out to molest every Tom, Dick and Sally. Wow, bet their households are fun places to grow up.
Perhaps they should pay more attention to real life and maybe even have a listen to some modern rules of life, written by someone who actually understands the world (Scroobius Pip in this case):
"Thou shalt not think that any male over 30 that plays with a child that is not their own is a paedophile: Some people are just nice"