Magdalene Laundries Swiss style!

vetinari

Have to say this news story shocked me
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29765623

I would have heard before about how women only got to vote there in 1971 but had never heard about the "contract children" history.

The Swiss state up until the 60s forcibly removed children from poor families and unmarried mothers and sent them to work on farms as child labourers. It applied to orphans as well. Absolutely nuts, don't know how I never heard of it before.

How Soon Is Now

There chocolate is lovely though.

Cantremember

It worked like clockwork.

Turtyturd

How Soon Is Now wrote: »

There chocolate is lovely though.

That's probably what the orphans had to make...and watches, and Swiss army knives..which they just called army knives.

KungPao

How Soon Is Now wrote: »

There chocolate is lovely though.

They make decent Swiss Rolls too.

shruikan2553

I wonder if a lot of their records were lost in fires as well.

Karl Stein

How do you make a Swiss Roll?

The Diabolical Monocle

How Soon Is Now wrote: »

There chocolate is lovely though.

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Cantremember wrote: »

It worked like clockwork.

= terrys chocolate orange

Kovu

Karl Stein wrote: »

How do you make a Swiss Roll?

Push him down a hill?

djflawless

Did Kenny pay the Irish victims yet btw???

Karl Stein

Kovu wrote: »

Push him down a hill?

What? No.

Ingredients

For the Swiss roll

3 free-range eggs
75g/3oz golden caster sugar
75g/3oz self-raising flour

For the filling

75g/3oz raspberry jam
125ml/4½fl oz whipped double cream
100g/3½oz raspberries

To serve
icing sugar

Preparation method

1. Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6.Grease and line a 23cm x 30cm/9in x 12in Swiss roll tin

2. Whisk the eggs and sugar in a bowl until pale and fluffy.

3. Fold in the flour and spoon the mixture into the tin. Bake in the oven for 7-10 minutes, or until light and springy to the touch.

4. Remove from the oven and turn the sponge out onto another piece of greaseproof paper.

5. For the filling, spread the jam onto the sponge and then spread with the cream, leaving a small gap around the edges.

6. Place a row of raspberries along one edge, lengthways. Roll the sponge to cover the raspberries and repeat the process until all of the raspberries have been used.

7. Dust with icing sugar and serve.

BBC.co.uk

McChubbin

Kovu wrote: »

Push him down a hill?

Sorry, but I giggled at this.
On a more serious note, stories like these make me loose faith in humanity. Truly sad stuff.

Chunners

Never ceases to amaze me how quickly and easily one human will use another for profit/sex/slavery and feel no guilt what so ever about it and actually justify it in their own heads, I long for the day when a meteorite slams into us and wipes us all out and lets evolution start all over again because it has to get it right eventually because **** knows we don't deserve this planet

The_Valeyard

Ah here, even Swiss are at it???

Is there any country without a group taking advantage of kids?

Cookie_Monster

jesus, that is ****ed up.

foggy_lad

vetinari wrote: »

Have to say this news story shocked me
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29765623

I would have heard before about how women only got to vote there in 1971 but had never heard about the "contract children" history.

The Swiss state up until the 60s forcibly removed children from poor families and unmarried mothers and sent them to work on farms as child labourers. It applied to orphans as well. Absolutely nuts, don't know how I never heard of it before.

That's nothing to what was being done in australia with children right up to the mid 1980s and possibly still going on in parts of the country today!

There were fake news stories concocted by political figures with major links and interests in mining who spread rumours about paedophile rings operating between several of the large aborigine townships so that the police could go in and start arresting the men and especially targeted were the elders. the people were then offered miserable sums of money to give up the leases they held for their own land which many did because they felt they would be targeted next if they did not move.

All the land was needed of course for open cast mining.

Years before that the church used to farm out the poor little bastard and half caste children as slaves servants and farm hands to the wealthy and those who could afford all the associated weekly and seasonal parish dues!


Australia, a great country once your not black Indian aborigine Chinese White.

Cookie_Monster

foggy_lad wrote: »

That's nothing to what was being done in australia with children right up to the mid 1980s and possibly still going on in parts of the country today!
...
Australia, a great country once your not black Indian aborigine Chinese White.

sure they're all just criminals over there anyway.

foggy_lad

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

sure they're all just criminals over there anyway.

Ya gotta love the way the police treat the foreign drunks in the northern territory, they even got special Yutes with cages on the back for the mad drunken paddies, But Typically Australian that those same police vehicles are all speed restricted to 80kph because they are classed as work vehicles!

Don't forget the stolen babies in Spain. It's a ****ed up world.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

Between enslaving children, sterilizing Roma and not allowing women to vote until 1971, I like the Swiss less and less all the time.

suicide_circus

But how are irish people meant to feel guilty about this? I guess the irish stste failed to intervene, shame on us.

lanos

suicide_circus wrote: »

But how are irish people meant to feel guilty about this? I guess the irish stste failed to intervene, shame on us.

Who on this thread suggested that Irish people should or might feel guilty about this story ?