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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago

Woman paid £3k after police laugh at her sex toys

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Woman paid £3k after police laugh at her sex toys

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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago
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Suffolk Police officers laughed at Essex woman's sex toys
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A woman is paid £3,500 in compensation after officers act unacceptably during a search of her home.
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  • wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    I bet she’s gonna buy so many sex toys with that money. I hope she does. (In a positive, not-creepy way.)

    • Carvex@lemmy.world
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      Would you rather cum from a bunch of toys for $3K total or one $3K sex toy that should in theory be mind blowing?

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        • ripcord@lemmy.world
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          How could there be 10,000 different kicks

          • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
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            Cue montage of Bubba from Forest Gump listing all 10,000 types of kicks.

            • Zahille7@lemmy.world
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              Roundhouse kick, side kick, chop kick, kick stew…

              • The Rogue Moravec@sh.itjust.works
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                Donkey kick, trapdoor kick, rising kick, jumping rising kick, jumping rising tornado kick…

          • syreus@lemmy.world
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            10 angles @ 10 speeds @ 10 heights @ 10 follow-ups

            10,000 kicks

          • MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de
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            That’s the fun part. They aren’t all necessarilly effective.

            • BeeegScaaawyCripple@lemmy.world
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              any boot to the head is effective

          • BeeegScaaawyCripple@lemmy.world
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            look into tae kwon do. they got two punches and so many godsdamned kicks.

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              Studied it for years. There’s like 50

              • BeeegScaaawyCripple@lemmy.world
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                fun! i had an NTA senior 1st black accreditation back in my early 20s. that was long enough ago i only remember the 1st white form and bits and pieces of a few of the other lower belts. who was yours through?

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          Bruce contradicts himself a lot - elsewhere he says “a punch is just a punch. A kick is just a kick.” He also advises you to learn the form, and then forget the form.

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        Easy answer there, the women have already spoken (pictured: sybian inventor Dave Lampert).

        • Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          Never looked into the inventor of these things. Was not expecting English Mr Rogers.

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          *typing*

          $1500!?

          • Komodo Rodeo@lemmy.world
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            I mean, sure, a little pricey, but some chairs cost as much and they’re not specifically designed to make baby squirt like a startled octopus.

          • Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            I’ve seen these things in action. They’re worth it.

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        Yes.

      • wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        The 3k one but only if it comes with replaceable parts. I wouldn’t want to keep using it after it gets too crusty.

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    from BBC

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      What?

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        Big Black…

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          Campfire?

          …

          Campfire.

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          Ah…

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    Good. Seriously, I hope such actions will be met with complaints and lawsuits everywhere.

    Sexual life is a very sensitive and intimate subject, and it’s bad enough that she even had policemen invade it by opening the box (though this in particular is obviously a necessary part of police operations), let alone make a laughing matter out of it.

    In general, though, I hope we will be able to eventually get more open about such things, so that it would be seen as a regular set of household items, even if it’s hidden from plain sight.

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    Good on her. Fuck the cops. Too bad the police spend must of their budgets on lawsuits instead of, ya’know, vetting and training.

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    …in the form of sex shop gift card

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    god forbid women have hobbies 🙄

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    I think it’s hilarious that this comment section is full of support for the woman AND laughter over her sex toys. Think about it.

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      3k is a fair price for patter that rosey.

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    I love that this had any sort of consequence. I do not thinkthis would have been an option in Germany.

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    In the US, that woman would be lucky if they didn’t shoot her dog

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    FFS do they really have to write headlines that imply the exact opposite of what happened? At first read, I thought the woman had been made to pay £3k, not that she had gotten paid £3k.

    I know “headlinese” is a thing and all, but is adding the word “got” really that inconvenient?

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      I understood it just fine. “Got paid” sounds very informal. “Is paid” or “was paid” would be slightly clearer.

      The opposite would be “fined” or “pays”.

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        I would have went with awarded.

        Edit: This is partly a joke because of the context.

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      ambiguity makes you read the article

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      The past tense “paid” doesn’t go with “laughs.” Are you complaining about a misunderstanding you had for the time it took you to read 3 more words? Or do you not understand tense?

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        In case you didn’t figure it out, the headline is ambiguous between her giving or receiving the money. Reading “three more words” doesn’t change that.

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    Now how much do they pay for kidnapping people?

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