What Annoys You?

[Ian]

The weather. What an awful day!

[katka]

here too, over +30 °C impossible to get out

[DMt.]

Rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, and a little more rain.

[katka]

I love rain I want to this !

[snaps]

I love rain I want to this !

You can have our U.K. rain anytime you want. We've had more than enough. We've had two days, Tuesday and Wednesday which were OK, now it's back to rain again. Grrr.

I gather it's pretty much the same in Sweden right now:

http://www.videofy.me/yohio/549235

[katka]

I know, it's about UK quite well-known fact, but so much I don't want hmm there it looks very tempting.

[Ian]

Not annoying, just sad: Caroline John, who played Liz Shaw opposite Jon Pertwee's Doctor in his first season (the brilliant season 7) has died.

Another Who icon gone.

[snaps]

School to bullied lesbian teen: don't be so gay

2012/07/05

The victim's report, which has filed with the Swedish Equality Ombudsman (Diskrimineringsombudsmannen, DO), explains how the teen had to quit her studies at the Munkgård high school after severely mistreatment from other students.

Teachers at the school were unhelpful when she raised the matter with them, telling the girl to "tone down" her sexuality as other students were "confused and scared" by it.

According to the girl's report, the incidents began when she was assaulted in 2010 by a fellow student who had hit her in the head, causing a minor head fracture.

“She threatened to shove pliers into my eyes and then she took hold of the pliers and delivered three hefty hits against my temples and the area close to my eyes,” the girl wrote in the report.

When she later consulted the school about the incident, teachers told her it was all her own fault.

According to the report, the school told her:

“You’re the one to blame. It was your own fault. You provoked her,” adding that she should have “just hit back.”

After online research, the girl discovered that the school must report any mistreatment that occurs during school hours, and confronted the school, only to be told that it was up to her to make a report.

The case is now being handled by the DO, but before any compensation decisions are made, the school will be given the chance to comment, according to DO case officer Sara Stenberg.

“We have made a request for the principal of the school to comment on the case. This is standard procedure. They have until July 6th to make a comment,” she told The Local.

http://www.thelocal.se/41860/20120705/

The comments, as always are illuminating

[DMt.]

They're so liberated in Scandinavia, or so I hear...forgive me if I don't read the comments; I could probably write them myself, but I'd have to go into snide-and-bigoted-shit-head-and-phobe mode, and that's no fun.

[Agnes&Elin Forever!]

Actually this seems very exaggerated by The Local.

I did a search for this, and all I could find in swedish was that the staff at a high school had asked a student to tone down her homosexuality. Because of this the student had filed a complaint to the authorities.

Maybe the student had some rather vulgar manners, who knows?

And now the school gets reported to the "Equality Ombudsman", seems to me the power is with the gay student

[fish]

Who knows what truth there is in the article.
Who cares.
Let's just join the others and persecute the victim.


If it's true, it's appalling treatment.

[Agnes&Elin Forever!]

Well, I don't think there is much truth in the article

I think The Local is a really trashy piece of journalism

[snaps]

[DMt.]

Oh My God!! Call the police and emergency services! There are yellow rays coming from this big burning thing in the sky, and it's all gone blue and white! Something is terribly wrong here...it's just not natural, I tell you...

[fish]

A typical summer in the UK or what?