On a completely unrelated note, this made me laugh
From the Daily Mail website, of course, in the comments of an article about a girl going missing after going to Asda by herself.

"Who lets a 9 year old out on her own to go to any supermarket?

Answer: Broken Britain"
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 15 Jun 2010, 13:56, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

My mum used to send me out shopping younger than that.
But this was in the seventies before peaodos and supermarkets.
( girlinthehole, Tue 15 Jun 2010, 13:57, Reply)

There's got to be a correlation,
however spurious, between the number of supermarkets in the country and the number of stories about PEEDOS and IMMAGRUNTS and PEEDO-IMMAGRUNTS. Do you think if we sent this to the Mail they'd make a story out of it and roundly condemn the existence of supermarkets in Brwoken Brwitain?
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 15 Jun 2010, 14:00, Reply)

perhaps
I have my own crazy correlation idea. But I'm not enough of a scientist to back it up :(
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 15 Jun 2010, 14:02, Reply)

You don't need any science to back it up
This is the same way the Mail can peddle stories about tea/chips/trans-fats/transvestism giving you cancer one week and not the other - someone looks up the figures and plots them against one another. If you can draw a straight line through 'em, bingo! You've got a frivolous health story.

What's your idea then?
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 15 Jun 2010, 14:04, Reply)

If it's a quiet week for news then perhaps so.

( girlinthehole, Tue 15 Jun 2010, 14:02, Reply)

There were peados but they were safely contained in childrens homes and churches.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 15 Jun 2010, 14:01, Reply)

Of course.
I was never in either of those so I was safe.
( girlinthehole, Tue 15 Jun 2010, 14:02, Reply)

Neither of you fuckwits can spell Paedos properly
See me after class

EDIT Although, Peaodos does sound like some kind of sexy Greek God
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Tue 15 Jun 2010, 14:07, Reply)

They're both valid.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 15 Jun 2010, 14:13, Reply)

Only to retards

( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Tue 15 Jun 2010, 14:16, Reply)

I don't think my mum would have sent me out to Asda by myself at 9
maybe the village shop though.

She went to buy cake mix, so I think the more pressing issue is why her mum wasn't teaching her to make a proper cake.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 15 Jun 2010, 14:06, Reply)