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Woman beheaded in London

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  • #2
    The Peanut
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    I fear for mankind. The ability to carry out this kind of barbarism is shocking. Nothing justifies it.


  • #3
    DLMA23
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    Nutcase with a grievance & a machete apparently


  • #4
    The Backwards Man
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    As barbaric as the actual incident is, the comments on social media and news sites make me despair for humanity.


  • #5
    ScumLord
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    The Peanut wrote: »
    I fear for mankind. The ability to carry out this kind of barbarism is shocking. Nothing justifies it.
    Why? Today a rare beheading is headline news, 1700 years ago in south America it was weekly mass.


  • #6
    Timberrrrrrrr
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    The Peanut wrote: »
    I fear for mankind. The ability to carry out this kind of barbarism is shocking. Nothing justifies it.

    As ****ty as it is it's not even close to barbaric when you think of the past. One nut job doing something like this is just that......one nut job. Nutters have been chopping people up.for centuries.


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  • #7
    The Peanut
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    ScumLord wrote: »
    Why? Today a rare beheading is headline news, 1700 years ago in south America it was weekly mass.

    Society is benchmarked by standards of the time. By today's standards, it is barbaric.


  • #8
    The Backwards Man
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    Nightingale Road is a typical suburban street in the London Borough of Edmonton. The average house value on there is £310,000, while it is £275,000 in the local N9 postcode area

    Good old Daily Mail, what a fcuking rag.


  • #9
    Sonderkommando
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    ScumLord wrote: »
    Why? Today a rare beheading is headline news, 1700 years ago in south America it was weekly mass.

    Because that was 1700 years ago in South America. We have evolved a bit since then don't you know!


  • #10
    Beano
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    ScumLord wrote: »
    Why? Today a rare beheading is headline news, 1700 years ago in south America it was weekly mass.

    a bit closer to 500 actually.


  • #11
    BobbyPropane
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    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Nightingale Road is a typical suburban street in the London Borough of Edmonton. The average house value on there is £310,000, while it is £275,000 in the local N9 postcode area

    Good old Daily Mail, what a fcuking rag.

    Why have you gone on Dailymail?


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  • #12
    The Backwards Man
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    BobbyPropane wrote: »
    Why have you gone on Dailymail?
    I'm enlightening myself on the comments section.


  • #13
    BobbyPropane
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    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    I'm enlightening myself on the comments section.

    I do the same thing but with this site ;)


  • #14
    TwoShedsJackson
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    Sonderkommando wrote: »
    Because that was 1700 years ago in South America. We have evolved a bit since then don't you know!

    Why are people still being beheaded in the name of religion then?


  • #15
    ScumLord
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    The Peanut wrote: »
    Society is benchmarked by standards of the time. By today's standards, it is barbaric.
    Exactly my point though, doesn't it highlight the fact we have a much more civilised society than in the past when these things disgust us so much? even compared to 50 years ago societies much nicer.
    Beano wrote: »
    a bit closer to 500 actually.
    yup, I muddled up my years, although I was still off by a hundred years or so.


  • #16
    Intensive Care Bear
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    I bet later news reports will confirm that she wasn't beheaded.


  • #17
    lukesmom
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    What would make someone do that in this day and age ??? All I can think of is he must have lost the head.....


  • #18
    The Peanut
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    TwoShedsJackson wrote: »
    Why are people still being beheaded in the name of religion then?

    No-one is saying it doesn't happen. But by the standards of the 21st century, in most parts if the world,it is barbaric and unjustified.


  • #19
    ceadaoin.
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    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Nightingale Road is a typical suburban street in the London Borough of Edmonton. The average house value on there is £310,000, while it is £275,000 in the local N9 postcode area

    Good old Daily Mail, what a fcuking rag.

    No matter what the story is, the daily mail usually find a way to mention how much the house of the subject is worth.


  • #20
    The Backwards Man
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    ceadaoin. wrote: »
    No matter what the story is, the daily mail usually find a way to mention how much the house of the the subject is worth.
    Yeah, and their salary.


  • #21
    Paco Rodriguez
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    1210m5g wrote: »
    I bet later news reports will confirm that she wasn't beheaded.

    I think the fact that the police mentioned the word terrorism, in denial of it, leads to the conclusion.


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  • #22
    The Peanut
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    ScumLord wrote: »
    Exactly my point though, doesn't it highlight the fact we have a much more civilised society than in the past when these things disgust us so much? even compared to 50 years ago societies much nicer.

    yup, I muddled up my years, although I was still off by a hundred years or so.

    Yes, violence towards people is tolerated less in most parts of the world. But as society advances, acts of violence that fall outside of accepted parameters surely then seem more barbaric. I realise it's all about perception; General X who orders the killing of a tribe/village somewhere is obviously an evil animal, but there is something barbaric about killing someone in person.

    Btw, I think you're out by a lot more than 100 years. :D


  • #23
    Last_Minute
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    Is this 2014 or 1804 we are living in?


  • #24
    comongethappy
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    Last_Minute wrote: »
    Is this 2014 or 1804 we are living in?

    Were be headings common in 1804?


  • #25
    DLMA23
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    In France the guillotine was the only legal method of execution from 1789-1981

    The last person to be beheaded by the guillotine was Hamida Djandoubi, in 1977

    Djandoubi's execution was the last legal beheading in a democratic country


  • #26
    Last_Minute
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    comongethappy wrote: »
    Were be headings common in 1804?

    Very much so. It was the trendy way to die in 1804.


  • #27
    Sleepy
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    DLMA23 wrote: »
    In France the guillotine was the only legal method of execution from 1789-1981

    The last person to be beheaded by the guillotine was Hamida Djandoubi, in 1977

    Djandoubi's execution was the last legal beheading in a democratic country
    Many still argue that the guillotine is one of the most humane means of execution.

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  • #28
    cletus van damme
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    Sleepy wrote: »
    Many still argue that the guillotine is one of the most humane means of execution.

    who argues that??

    My limited reading on the guillotine was that it was a horrible way to go and sometimes needed a few chops in order to fully cut off the head.


  • #29
    Hootanany
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    Poor Lady RIP


  • #30
    Beano
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    cletus van damme wrote: »
    who argues that??

    My limited reading on the guillotine was that it was a horrible way to go and sometimes needed a few chops in order to fully cut off the head.

    You're thinking of a big axe or a sword. The guillotine was first time, every time. Guaranteed amount of force and it never missed.


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  • #31
    ScumLord
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    cletus van damme wrote: »
    who argues that??

    My limited reading on the guillotine was that it was a horrible way to go and sometimes needed a few chops in order to fully cut off the head.
    A guillotine wouldn't need a few chops, if you were being beheaded by an axe it took skill to make sure one blow did the trick but with the guillotine you were held in position and a large heavy blade made short work of cutting the head off in one go.


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