Touched.. by tragedy?

What, a fucking, understatement. Given a choice between imprisonment or hormonal treatment? As if they can.. cure the gay away. Touched by tragedy doesn't even begin to describe the kind of stupidity exhibited in this case, by society, no less.

In January 1952, Turing met Arnold Murray outside a cinema in Manchester. After a lunch date, Turing invited Murray to spend the weekend with him at his house, an invitation which Murray accepted although he did not show up. The pair met again in Manchester the following Monday, when Murray agreed to accompany Turing to the latter's house. A few weeks later Murray visited Turing's house again, and apparently spent the night there.[48]

After Murray helped an accomplice to break into his house, Turing reported the crime to the police. During the investigation, Turing acknowledged a sexual relationship with Murray. Homosexual acts were illegal in the United Kingdom at that time,[49] and so both were charged with gross indecency under Section 11 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885, the same crime for which Oscar Wilde had been convicted more than fifty years earlier.[50]

Turing was given a choice between imprisonment or probation conditional on his agreement to undergo hormonal treatment designed to reduce libido. He accepted chemical castration via oestrogen hormone injections.[51]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing#Conviction_for_indecency

On 8 June 1954, Turing's cleaner found him dead; he had died the previous day. A post-mortem examination established that the cause of death was cyanide poisoning. When his body was discovered an apple lay half-eaten beside his bed, and although the apple was not tested for cyanide,[54] it is speculated that this was the means by which a fatal dose was delivered. An inquest determined that he had committed suicide, and he was cremated at Woking Crematorium on 12 June 1954.[55] Turing's mother argued strenuously that the ingestion was accidental, caused by her son's careless storage of laboratory chemicals. Biographer Andrew Hodges suggests that Turing may have killed himself in an ambiguous way quite deliberately, to give his mother some plausible deniability.[56] Others suggest that Turing was re-enacting a scene from the 1937 film Snow White, his favourite fairy tale, pointing out that he took "an especially keen pleasure in the scene where the Wicked Witch immerses her apple in the poisonous brew."[57]

This reminds me of the time i used to get bullied, eventually it always ended up with me demonstrating to them that the reason they where able to bully me is because i let them, i only had to do it to 3 people before they all realized i could pwn them all (Blue belt in judo and being bigger and stronger than everybody helps), and each time the ones i did it to immediately stopped bullying me forever.
It's not like i hurt them or anything, much, though one of them did end up playing for Manchester united, so i guess he has some brain damage, o well, you cant win em all.

I guess the moral of the story is, if you getting bullied first ignore them (bullies hate being ignored for some reason, and really they do act in some way like trolls), then make sure you can fight everybody and still win (and by fight i mean in whatever way they are bullying you, could be intellectual or popularism too), then you stand up to them (never initiate, only defend), and remember kids, they only bully you because they are in some respect jealous of you.

the shouts of "Go back home!" remind me of a great Stewart Lee joke about a similar situation in London which went something like "they were shouting 'Go back home', 'Go back home!' and presumably they meant go back to Leeds, Bradford, Liverpool, Manchester and other industrial centers that required cheap labor back in the forties".

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This feels like a spoof video. He seems like a really good actor pretending to be a chav. The accents just make me believe it more.

Cockney was great, southern england, west country and posh england sucked. Northern was TERRIBLE (i'm northern, right by manchester). Scouse and welsh weren't great - scottish and (northern) irish had words he could pronounce and words he couldn't, ended up sounding dodgy. Australian i agree with dag was poor. His american wasn't bad to my untrained ears, but maybe an american would say something similar to what i say about his british range.

The more the video goes on the more i notice that he has a range of words for each accent that he's got perfect and others that he hasn't, which i think virtually everyone can do? If i hear a word in an accent i can do a great version of it but i struggle on words i've not heard often in that accent. For example, his west country accent, he says "green army!" which is ripped straight from a very well known british advert which you basically hear a lot.

I'm gonna go ahead and start the "this is a spoof/fake/troll" bandwagon, plenty of room aboard

also check this news bulletin http://videosift.com/video/Thomson-Fly-B757-double-bird-strike-at-Manchester

>> ^Gimpy60194:

>> ^Flood:
OMG, what did he film this next to one of those high pitch noise generators that they use over there to prevent teenagers from loitering by the businesses? I mean jesus fucking christ I couldn't make it half way through the video before getting a headache.

I didn't notice it til I read your comment, now I can't unhear it.


I know what you mean. It's impossible to get it out of my head now. Stupid low quality camera.

I can tell you exactly where he did film it, that's Manchester's Piccadilly Gardens. There are none of those 'anti-teen' trap things in that area. That's a popular congregation spot for teens.

That should be 4 Non Blondes and Melissa Manchester.

You know why the lawyer is crying; because the judge doesn't give a shit. The whole tone of that court is bullshit.

Now I'm going to use ad homimen against the quoted person below. Do you dislike the constitution; your comment would seem to put you in that category. This case is clear cut, the Judicial Branch in Nevada does not have the power to call that law what it is; bullshit. The balance of powers is not working, and it is clear in the judge’s tone of voice; "I wash my hands of this."

Read the 8th amendment.

Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

Somehow I get the feeling that you would think the ultimatum imposed on Alan Turing was correct and immaculately moral. Read the following excerpt from Wikipedia. Turing’s ultimatum was chemical castration or imprisonment. Bear it in mind that this is the same era where Oppenheimer was persecuted for, what some would say, the same carelessness as Turing.

In January 1952 Turing picked up 19-year-old Arnold Murray outside a cinema in Manchester. After a lunch date, Turing invited Murray to spend the weekend with him at his house, an invitation which Murray accepted although he did not show up. The pair met again in Manchester the following Monday, when Murray agreed to accompany Turing to the latter's house. A few weeks later Murray visited Turing's house again, and apparently spent the night there.[38]

After Murray helped an accomplice to break into his house, Turing reported the crime to the police. During the investigation, Turing acknowledged a sexual relationship with Murray. Homosexual acts were illegal in the United Kingdom at that time,[6] and so both were charged with gross indecency under Section 11 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885, the same crime that Oscar Wilde had been convicted of more than fifty years earlier.[39]

Turing was given a choice between imprisonment and probation conditional on his agreement to undergo hormonal treatment designed to reduce libido. He accepted chemical castration via oestrogen hormone injections.[40] A side effect of the treatment caused him to grow breasts.

Turing's conviction led to the removal of his security clearance, and barred him from continuing with his cryptographic consultancy for GCHQ. At the time, there was acute public anxiety about spies and homosexual entrapment by Soviet agents,[41] because of the recent exposure of the first two members of the Cambridge Five, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, as KGB double agents. Turing was never accused of espionage but, as with all who had worked at Bletchley Park, was prevented from discussing his war work.[42]

Your way of thinking is outdated, outmaneuvered and better suited for the middle ages; also misogyny doesn't suit you.

>> ^fjules:

She got sentenced for life because she refused to have her name on the sex offenders list. Basically, it's her own fault.
"wtf with the crying lawyer?"
Good reason why women can't be lawyers.

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>> ^Tymbrwulf:
>> ^FlowersInHisHair:
Why do videos like this get a "British" tag? If it were presented by an American woman it wouldn't get an "American" tag.

Because it's Manchester Airport, which is located inside the United Kingdom! That's where BRITISH people live! You know this because the United Kingdom is also known as Great Britain -> British people.
Get it?


You miss my point (or are you being sarcastic?)
If this video were shot in JFK airport, it wouldn't have an 'American' tag.

>> ^FlowersInHisHair:
Why do videos like this get a "British" tag? If it were presented by an American woman it wouldn't get an "American" tag.


Because it's Manchester Airport, which is located inside the United Kingdom! That's where BRITISH people live! You know this because the United Kingdom is also known as Great Britain -> British people.

Get it?

The above video is from Manchester, but it's indicative of what's happening in Keene, NH.

Smoking pot in the police station:


Selling pot in public: