This Week
LA school teachers might be getting a 5% pay increase to splurge on a third of their rent.
2 New Zealand ‘gang associates’ were arrested after trying to smuggle a car full of KFC chicken, french fries, and 10 tubs of coleslaw into Auckland during lockdown. The gang’s name: Chicken Skulls.
The US Space Force got a new uniform. We still don’t know why they needed new uniforms for the simulation room, but we DO know that the cast of Battlestar Galactica wore it better.
A billionaire investor wants to create a new ‘sustainable’ and ‘equitable’ city in the middle of the US desert. It opens in 2030, so I recommend you watch Netflix’s dystopian thriller,3%, to get more familiar with the project.
DHS suspended horse patrols in an effort to blame the horses for revealing each agents’ asshole within. Some agents are even speaking up about fearing retaliation from the horse gang that has controlled the agency for years.
This posh school in NYC has created a guide of words to retire and the new inclusive substitute words their staff should use. Sounds like a decent idea, except that it’s just putting a bandaid on the issue. Some examples of the terms are below and the full guide can be found here: Grace Inclusive Language Guide
Being respectful and sensitive towards others is wonderful, but how is assuming someone has a mom and a dad disrespectful? It is not! You might say it’s presumptions. I make many assumptions as well and I’m not bothered by someone correcting me. Note that I said correcting me, and not attacking me because I have a different opinion. The lines have started to blur between those two things for a while, but I try to still make the distinction. Instead, of making a certain vocabulary taboo why don’t we teach the staff to listen more closely and pick up cues in the students. I think that most teachers have a good idea of who their student’s are. Teachers have to go by the information given to the schools administrator’s as well as their own observations. Instead of asking the staff to walk on egg shells why not educate the child to feel confident enough to correct a staff member about their home arrangement or their personal preferences and so on. Yearly tuition at this school costs about $46,000. At $46K a year this school should be focused on molding young minds into respectful and confident members of society.
Maybe this has all been a plot to create a brand new language. It seems like everywhere you turn words are being banished. Every term offends someone. That’s just basic math — remember probabilities? I’m not on board with the whole anti-cancel culture movement, but I do dislike the phrase cancel culture. In other words, I don’t want to be associated with either side of the spectrum. I don’t mind using language that is respectful and inclusive. After all, we should all grow and learn as time passes. That includes adapting to your surroundings, as well as adapting language to changing times. With that said, I do have a problem with “inclusive” language that is created out of the guilt of white middle-upper class liberals. Instead of asking, “Lisa with the blue sweater, what marginalized population do you identify with?” why doesn’t the staff get to know Lisa and encourage her to do her best in school. It really shows that the person who came up adding “marginalized population” to this guide has probably never been the only black or brown kid in class just trying to do their work, but instead gets put up on display for the whole class to learn from them.
The student body at these schools: elementary, middle and high school are mostly white.
An anti-abortion protestor in North Carolina accidentally shot himself in the leg during a protest outside an abortion clinic. So much for a peaceful protest. Every wonder how these pious conservatives are so pro-gun, most probably love their guns more than their significant other, but the gun just keeps turning against them. It’s like you took the gun in case that your “freedom was attacked” and you have a right to protect yourself yada yada yada, but then your armor ends up shooting you in the leg. Can you take a hint? Clearly not! That protestor probably blamed the wrath of God over the abortion clinic for the gun going off. I wish I could add emojis right now, but since I can’t I shall describe them: eye roll, face palm, tears coming out of side ways laughing face, tears rolling down from face* He only suffered minor injuries and was charged for having a firearm at a peaceful protest. Let me be clear when I say that even if he had been seriously injured by the gun shot I would still be laughing my ass off. We are not in the wild wild west, but if you plan to walk around like we are, I don’t think that doctors and nurses should drop everything to treat your stupid ass. They already have a lot on their plate since people keep coming to the ER and yeah because we’re technically still in a pandemic — Pandemic 2.0. So don’t be stupid.
According to the article, the woman brought the goat inside her house for her son to see and then they proceeded to paint the animal. When I first read this headline I immediately imagined that the goat looked fabulous when they were done painting him/her. Then I did a quick Google search and came saw this..Eeeeewhhh
It looks like they ran out of blue paint along the way, but they made an effort to at least finish what the started. I have to tell you that if I’m an animal living in this hell where humans rule the land I’d be very relieved if the worse that happens to me is being painted unevenly by possibly a drunk lady or not mentally stabled (just speculation) and her kid. By the way if the police or reporters did their job I wouldn’t have to speculate on the ladies mental status. I would be quoting instead.
Excuse my ignorance as I’ve only been driven through Alabama once, but are goats just wondering around the neighborhoods? They don’t stay in a barn or at least a fenced area? At least the person who wrote the article seem to think so. It did not state anywhere that this woman wondered into her neighbor’s property. But I’d did say that she grabbed the goat and brought it in. Maybe the goat was a latchey kid wondering around he porch in hope that someone would let him/her inside. Maybe check his/her goat homework to feel special.
The more I look at this photo the more I dig it. Goats are cute regardless… I wouldn’t want to be stuck in a closed room with one of those f****es, but from far away they’re adorable. This just gives the goat more character.
From this harmless prank that resulted in a felony charge and much paperwork, I can only assume that these two neighbors fill the hole in each other’s heart. Disclaimer: If you still experience shortness of breath, palpitations, fatigue, leg swellings, etc please visit a doctor. Atrial Septal Defect (ASD) can be treated successfully. Phew! Ok, you’ve been warned. Now back to our two besties: I’m giving the artist an 8 out of 10 for effor, and the owner also an 8 out of 10 for waiting until the goat was fully painted to realize the goat was missing and/or call the police.
The landlord showed up at their home with a gun, put zip ties into them, a pillow case over their head and dumped them in a rural cemetery 30 miles away. Here’s a link to the article. Daaaaaamn… I wonder if he came up with the plan over dinner.
Wife: Douglas, stop complaining about the state ban on evictions. If you want them out so bad then kidnap them or something. *laughs* But before you go take out the trash.
Douglas gets up and leaves.
Wife: Douglas, if you’re stepping out take the trash with you… Douglas?
That’s just one take, but I can spend the whole day coming up with scenerios. We don’t know the history between the tenants and this landlord. Maybe Douglas has been running this plan through his head for 10 years now. Maybe the tenants are not nice people, and they sure got a wake up call. Or maybe Douglas has been an asshole from the start. I doubt the Albany police can fill us in on those details, but we can all speculate.
Let this be a lesson to all tenants. Times are tough, but don’t be an asshole either. Landlords have bills to pay as well. They’re just the middle man or middle woman between tenants and the building’s owner. Those are most of the time the rich fuckers that you should be getting mad at if you don’t like something. So be nice and avoid a zip tie.
5 Phobias That Will Make Misogynist Men More Comfortable Around You
- Being alone – Try the old boogeyman might come out if I’m alone excuse. Then leave him a voicemail every 30 minutes asking him when he’s coming home.
- Opening anything – Start pouting when you come into contact with anything that needs to be opened and stomp your foot on the ground.
- Eating by yourself – Actually you shouldn’t be eating much around a misogynist men because you’ll probably be eating away your feelings, which will be a lot of eating. He obviously won’t like to see you eat too much. So just refuse to eat anything until he sits with you, and when he sits pretend to take a bite of food when his head is down.
- Getting wet – Refuse to step outside when it’s raining, hold a water hose or walk around sprinklers that are turned on.
- Hair in the shower drain – Start screaming as soon as you step in the shower and notice hair clogging the drain. Refuse to shower until the hair is gone; pass out from the stress; and wake up at least 3 times that night with nightmares.
THE 10 MOST EFFECTIVE WAYS TO BRAG ABOUT YOUR ANCESTRY DNA TEST RESULTS
First pick the ethnic group within your test results that you want to identified with.
- Adopt an ethnic middle name
- Start dressing in ethnic attire at least three times per week
- Start a video blog about cooking ethnic foods
- Tell your black and brown friends childhood stories that prove your ethnic background
- Adopt an ethnic first name as well
- Move to a more ethnic neighborhood, and start a blog about your new life
- Adopt an ethnic little sister/brother and remind her how you two are now the same
- Become a fierce advocate for/against an issue that is plaguing your ethnic brothers/sisters
- Adopt an ethnic last name
- Write a memoir of your ethnic life
Notes: You must have proof of your Ancestry DNA results. 3 I recommend you practice cooking before trying to make a tutorial video. 7 You can become part of the little sister/ brother program. No need to attempt adopting a little brother or sister at an adoption agency.
Headlines
I recently applied to a workshop with The Onion and had to come up with 10 headlines. I sent them 10 of the 19 below.
- Scientists have released data showing that stupidity is the worse underlying condition in COVID-19 patients
- Christ was not wearing a mask on the cross, so why should I?
- The new anti-homeles group that wants you to know they don’t hate homeless people
- Tony Lanez asks Meghan Thee Stallion to not blame him for shooting her, but to blame the gun for going off
- Trump gives a long rambling speech over who has more accountability to the people of the USA, him or a squirrel.
- All the people who thought Trump was a racist.
- Colleges around the U.S. admit that it’s hard to keep covid out of it’s campus but they still want your money
- Q-Annon to present Trump with a Nobel Peace Prize
- ‘They are not hate crimes if the bullet doesn’t hit them’, says Judge
- Olympic Court has ruled that female athletes are required to re-balance all their hormones to be more male pleasing
- Redneck says that Naomi Osaka is a fraud because he was expecting to see a fully Asian woman
- GOP sues Netflix to take down Cuties because it brings out pedophilia tendencies in their God fearing men.
- Anonymous police chief is hoping for another police shooting so the public can direct their anger away from his police department
- Woman in Michigan is suing the state because the masks mandate is a personal attack on her mask phobia
- White House press secretary, Kaileigh McEnany, says she wasn’t hired to answer questions that make her look bad
- I sent him to school sick because I wanted him out of the house: A parent’s confession
- Following Mickey Guyton’s performance at the ACM some country music fans admitted that Guyton would sound better to them if she had a country music “look”
- California man leaves suicide note saying he walked into the wildfires to prove they weren’t caused by global warming.
- Members of the United Nations have drafted a proposal to quarantine the U.S. from the rest of the world, indefinitely
Why they murder? Mary Flora Bell
I like researching murderers, but not because I’m obsessed with how they commit the murders. That’s just creepy and very disturbing. I’m obsessed with trying to understand why they murder. People all over the world have been subjected to horrible abuse, but they don’t all become murderers. My first person for this thread is Britain’s youngest female killer.
The Tyneside Strangler: 11-Year-Old Mary Flora Bell
In the spring of 1998, a fourteen-year-old girl and her mother were escorted from their seaside house with bed sheets over their heads to get away from a mob of reporters. The teenager found out that day that her mother’s birth name was Mary Flora Bell, who she was given a new identity after being released from HM Prison Askham Grange in 1980.
On May 25, 1968, four year old Martin Brown was found asphyxiated. Four month’s later on July 31, Brian Howe was found strangled with small cuts on his body. The police questioned 1,200 children. The answers of two girls raised concerns. The girls were Mary Flora Bell and Norma Joyce Bell, eleven and thirteen years old respectively. Although the two friends seemed to have a lot in common they were not related to each other. It wasn’t long before the girls began accusing each other, and the two were arrested on August 5, 1968 and charged with murder. Mary’s epic reply to hearing the charges was “that’s all right by me.”
Mary was born to Betty Bell, a seventeen-year-old prostitute. For most of her life she believed Billy Bell, a robber and career criminal, to be her biological father. She was raised on the rough part of Scotswood, an area of Newcastle England filled with domestic violence and crime. Billy was often out of work and in trouble with the law. Her mother, mentally unstable herself, often left Mary with relatives or friends. She once left Mary with a woman she met outside an abortion clinic. Several family members have stated that Betty attempted several times to kill Mary and make her death look accidental. Her family grew suspicious when Mary once fell from a window, and on another occasion accidentally consumed sleeping pills. One witness has said that she saw Betty giving Mary the pills as sweets. Some suspect that Betty suffered from Munchausen’s syndrome by proxy, a condition where she sought attention by hurting Mary. Mary has also accused her mother of allowing men to engage in sexual acts with her daughter since the child was four.
The fall out of the window did cause brain damage to Mary’s prefrontal cortex, where decision making occurs. In school, Mary became a chronic liar and often voiced her desire to hurt people. She gained a reputation for being a show-off and proudly called herself a murderer, but nobody took her seriously.
On May 11,1968, Mary and Norma were playing with a three-year-old boy on top of a Newcastle air raid shelter when the boy fell and was severely injured. The incident was written off as an accident. The following day, the mothers of three young girls informed police that Mary had attacked and choked their children. The police interviewed and lectured Mary, but no charges were filed.
Two weeks later, two boys were playing in an abandoned house when they found the corpse of four- year-old Martin Brown in an upstairs room. With no obvious cause of death, the police ruled that Martin must have swallowed pills from a bottle of painkillers nearby his body. In the days to come Mary bragged to other children that she killed Martin, but her claims were dismissed. People thought she was just a troubled little girl desperate for attention.
The following day when a local nursery was vandalized police found four notes that made them think whoever broke in did it as a sick joke. The notes found read like this: “I murder SO THAT I may come back”, “Fuch off, we murder, watch out Fanny and Faggot”, “You are mice Y Becurse we murdered Martain Go Brown you Bete Look out there are Murders about by Fanny and auld Faggot you Screws” and “We did murder Martain Brown Fuckof you Bastard.” Later the girls revealed that Norma was “Fanny” and Mary “Faggot.” Four days later, the girls appeared at the Brown residence, asking to see Martin. When Martin’s mother reminded them of the tragedy, Mary replied, “Oh, I know he’s dead. I wanted to see him in his coffin.”
Two months later, three-year-old Brian Howe disappeared and an immediate search was mounted. The boy’s dead body was discovered at a vacant lot. His legs, stomach and genitals mutilated. On his stomach someone had tried to carve the letter “M”into his skin with a razor blade. A pair of broken scissors were found nearby.
The Medical Examiner suggested the killer might be a child, because of the little force used to strangulate him. Detectives soon began interviewing children and asking for their whereabouts the day Brian went missing. During the interviews Norma and Mary’s answers were inconsistent and raised flags. Norma kept smiling as she was questioned and appeared excited by the murder. Mary told detectives that she had seen an older boy abusing Brian, but the police placed that boy at the airport the afternoon Brian was strangled. She also said that she saw Brian playing with a pair of scissors. The scissors were confidential information the police had not released to the public. Hearing this they knew Mary had information about what had occurred. Norma was questioned a second time before Brian’s funeral, and she quickly broke down and told detectives that she saw Mary killing the boy.
During the nine days of trial court psychiatrists described Mary as “intelligent, manipulative, and dangerous.” Mary was defiant, cold, talked back to the prosecution and did not show a drop of remorse. Meanwhile, Norma presented herself as a fragile girl who tripped over her words, cried and appeared to be the slow-witted friend coerced by evil Mary. Despite the accusations they each made against one another during the trial, at times the girls would lock eyes devoid of emotions as if strengthening their bond. Eventually, the judge ordered that the girls could not have contact with each other. The dramatic spectacles of Mary’s mother disrupting the trial with sobbing and running out of the court room wailing did not help Mary’s case.
At the sentencing, the judge stated that Mary was a dangerous risk to herself and other children. Confident and self possessed Mary, based on diminished responsibility, was found guilty of the two charges of manslaughter and sentenced to life imprisonment at Her Majesty’s pleasure. Norma was acquitted. Prisons in England were not equipped to deal with a girl murderer. Everyone scrambled to find a suitable place where the dangerous girl could serve her time. Mary was first housed with all boys at the reform school Red Bank Special Unit.
Betty visited Mary often, but the visits appeared to be a detriment to her daughter who according to staff was aggressive and appeared disturbed after her mother’s visits. Betty played at being a mother. She didn’t miss the opportunities to remind Mary of how much she suffered as the mother of a juvenile murderer.“Jesus was only nailed to the cross, I’m being hammered,” she once complained to Mary. As expected, the attention starved mother also didn’t miss the opportunity to sell stories to the tabloids and even forge notes to prove Mary’s psychotic tendencies.
Mary went through many counselors while imprisoned, but none of them really got to know her. Red Bank’s philosophy was to focus on the present, because worrying about the past was seen as detrimental. Child psychiatrists have noted that Mary appeared to have blocked out her past rather than examine why she killed, with the help of professionals.
In 1977, Mary was transferred to Moor Court prison, where she escaped with two boys. They were caught three days later. It was enough time for narcissistic Mary to try to sell the story of how she lost her virginity, to the tabloids. In 1980, at the age of twenty three Mary Flora Bell was considered reformed by the legal system and was released with a new identity. Her daughter was born in 1984, and even though Mary was allowed to raise the child, the baby became a ward of the High Court until she turned 18.
A biography of Mary’s life, Cries Unheard: The Story of Mary Bell was released in 1998. The public was furious when they found out that the author paid for her story. It’s believed that the payment was tracked to Mary, and that’s how reporters found her and her daughter’s whereabouts. Other sources say that Mary’s partner was tracked until it led reporters to Mary.
In 2001, Mary won a battle in the High Court to keep her anonymity and her daughter’s anonymity for life. She became a grandmother in 2009, and the court order was updated to include her granddaughter. Mary, her daughter and her granddaughter’s whereabouts are unknown, as it should remain as long as they continue living as law-abiding citizens of England.
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All That’s Interesting. (2018, March 16) “Evil Born”: The Vicious Crimes Of 11-Year-Old Murderer Mary Bell. https://allthatsinteresting.com/mary-bell
Brooks, Richard; Calvert, Jonathon, Gerrard,Nicci; Johnston, Lucy and McSmith, Andy. (1998, March 3) The mob will move on, the pain never can. The Observer. https://www.theguardian.com/observer/focus/story/0,6903,688106,00.html
Harding, Luke. (1998, April 30). Hounding of Mary Bell : Child killer forced into hiding after tabloids track her down. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/media/1998/apr/30/pressandpublishing.childprotection2
Monacelli, Antonia. (2018, January 11). Murderous Children: 11-Year-Old Serial Killer Mary Bell. Owlcation. https://owlcation.com/social-sciences/Murderous-Children-Mary-Bell
Murderpedia. (n.d.). https://murderpedia.org/female.B/b/bell-mary-flora.html
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