tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184990032979540229.post8919579744286270868..comments2023-10-25T09:49:43.089+01:00Comments on BEN'S PRISON BLOG - Lifer On The Loose: Better to Live with Nonces than Grassesprisonerbenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14923205052778958118noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184990032979540229.post-51436854792721252602010-01-14T07:30:35.234+00:002010-01-14T07:30:35.234+00:00@ Gaina
That wasn't sarcasm - I meant it when...@ Gaina<br /><br />That wasn't sarcasm - I meant it when I said "fantastic". I don't necessarily agree with you that calling paedophiles "bushwhackers" belittles their victims but I do agree that words are very important. I think it's great that no one is jumping up and down and screaming that Ben is defending sex offenders because everyone here understands the subtleties of his post.<br /><br />It won't last: if Ben's profile continues to grow we will soon be inundated with less reasoned posters. I suppose in a way that's a good thing.Wigarsehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09230520227527547502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184990032979540229.post-24363879365357099112010-01-14T04:49:35.411+00:002010-01-14T04:49:35.411+00:00You wouldnt say that Ben if you had been abused by...You wouldnt say that Ben if you had been abused by a kiddie fiddlerCharliewhitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12421685113908022029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184990032979540229.post-60487935992324841542010-01-13T21:24:46.944+00:002010-01-13T21:24:46.944+00:00" I think that says a lot about Ben's rea..." I think that says a lot about Ben's readership. Fantastic."<br /><br />If "bushwhacker" turns out to be someone who damages a TPO protected bush[1], then that changes the context of the next paragraphs quite a lot!<br /><br />[1] yes that is possible, there's a few round here.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08980634129484815656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184990032979540229.post-8103212712929356532010-01-13T21:02:40.021+00:002010-01-13T21:02:40.021+00:00@Gaina, this is standard prison slang, i am sure n...@Gaina, this is standard prison slang, i am sure no offence was intended.madalbertnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184990032979540229.post-61086429200014564482010-01-13T18:46:22.215+00:002010-01-13T18:46:22.215+00:00Wigarse said...
It amuses me mightily that, after...<i> Wigarse said...<br /><br />It amuses me mightily that, after a blog post describing how the writer sometimes prefers to spend his time with paedophiles, the comments are mostly devoted to an issue of semantics and etymology. I think that says a lot about Ben's readership. Fantastic.</i><br /><br />Wigarse, it matters because it is <b>never, ever</b> acceptable to use words or phrases that belittle the experience of rape survivors (be they male or female) with euphemisms like this.Gainahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08495953058626656188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184990032979540229.post-85883472517366155962010-01-13T14:56:17.697+00:002010-01-13T14:56:17.697+00:00No shortage of grasse's out here too, the gove...No shortage of grasse's out here too, the government have made us all spy on each other, a phone line for if you know somone is working and signing on, a phone line to snitch on someone who doesn't clear up there dog mess, cctv in every high st etc, etc. No shortage of sex offenders out here too, my friend said there is probably a nonce in every street, may just be a case of looking at child porn on the internet, but nevertheless, they are out here too. Btw, don't know if it is true, but in the days where the kangas would write your crime on the door, along with your name and no, they would put nonce as an abreviation of "not of normal criminal element."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184990032979540229.post-22319955979209827632010-01-13T14:22:50.215+00:002010-01-13T14:22:50.215+00:00It amuses me mightily that, after a blog post desc...It amuses me mightily that, after a blog post describing how the writer sometimes prefers to spend his time with paedophiles, the comments are mostly devoted to an issue of semantics and etymology. I think that says a lot about Ben's readership. Fantastic.Wigarsehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09230520227527547502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184990032979540229.post-694432479435663462010-01-13T11:44:22.732+00:002010-01-13T11:44:22.732+00:00To attack suddenly from a place of concealment; am...To attack suddenly from a place of concealment; ambush. See Synonyms at ambush.<br />bush'whack'er n.Jonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02894626355758041112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184990032979540229.post-54233467060740155132010-01-13T11:37:47.798+00:002010-01-13T11:37:47.798+00:00@ von himmel, you are exactly right!@ von himmel, you are exactly right!madalbertnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184990032979540229.post-1264672768302604842010-01-13T11:22:44.354+00:002010-01-13T11:22:44.354+00:00I'd just assumed it was slang for a rapist, &#...I'd just assumed it was slang for a rapist, 'bush' being the obvious and 'whacker' being slang for a physical attack, but maybe my mind's just in the gutter. <br /><br />Anyway, first comment here, but long time reader, Ben, and I must admit I find your blog unique, fascinating and informative.Evo Von Himmelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07000084652555272890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184990032979540229.post-71891603059020737522010-01-13T09:42:58.437+00:002010-01-13T09:42:58.437+00:00With you, Steve. Interesting to get the etymology ...With you, Steve. Interesting to get the etymology of this one. There's no rhyme in it that I can see. Tell us, please, Ben.<br /><br />I suppose, Ben, that you rate grasses worse than nonces because it's grasses that pose the gravest immediate threat to you (nonces hardly any). Makes sense.<br /><br />I remember, when I was 'teaching' in a prison, we had a visit from a kanga who had a quiet word with someone and left. Moments later an enormous man who was in for terrorising and robbing old ladies stood and said to me with cultivated menace, "Ere, Charlie, are you a cat's arse?" I was rarely alarmed in any prison I worked in, even the young offender prison, but that moment came close to terrifying.<br /><br />While we're on this language thing (I hope I'm not monopolising this blog this morning. Am I getting boring?), I can recall laughing often in prison, especially the day when the education department won a Beacon Award. They displayed a huge poster outside the office proclaiming this. Within moments, someone had obliterated the letter 'e'.Charles Cowlinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06757185376546920527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184990032979540229.post-36422796304553278592010-01-13T07:24:28.653+00:002010-01-13T07:24:28.653+00:00"bushwhacker" Well thats a new word. A..."bushwhacker" Well thats a new word. A little GIS gives us a few possibilities:<br /><br />1. Someone who trims their bush on a regular basis, perhaps not.<br /><br />2. "Gawkers, always males and usually Mexican, that hang out on the cliffs, hills or dunes around a nude beach." Perhaps, maybe they shouls be locked up in mexico though.<br /><br />3."a legendary gang of football hooligans that follwed Millwall Fc in the 70,s and 80,s<br />still active today but power much diminished" , hmmm I guess I'm not wearing white socks.<br /><br />4.Remove the h, and get people who steal on the street, I guess thats right, a little help here!Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08980634129484815656noreply@blogger.com