welshbairn Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 1 hour ago, Tynieness said: Always a good idea to take a controlled drug into a country that they're banned in. No sympathy for the ignoramous. The penalty for supplying Tramadol in the UK is up to 14 years. http://www.talktofrank.com/drug/tramadol 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 The penalty for supplying Tramadol in the UK is up to 14 years.http://www.talktofrank.com/drug/tramadol All of a sudden 3 years seems like a pretty good deal, yet our government is criticising a sentence that our own law system would also dish out had it happened on our shores?Seems to me like it's all about prison conditions which only ever get condemned the second a Brit is treated the same as tens of thousands of others in the country they happened to break the law in. Also always makes me cringe when the papers write things like "forced to use a hole in the ground as a toilet", when this is standard fare for over a billion people worldwide who have never used Western-style toilet seats. Some people need to get off their high horse. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 23 minutes ago, welshbairn said: The penalty for supplying Tramadol in the UK is up to 14 years. http://www.talktofrank.com/drug/tramadol So you're saying get her extradited back to the UK and jail her for 14 years? I'd be up for that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjc Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 5 minutes ago, Hedgecutter said: All of a sudden 3 years seems like a pretty good deal, yet our government is criticising a sentence that our own law system would also dish out had it happened on our shores? Seems to me like it's all about prison conditions which only ever get condemned the second a Brit is treated the same as tens of thousands of others in the country they happened to break the law in. Also always makes me cringe when the papers write things like "forced to use a hole in the ground as a toilet", when this is standard fare for over a billion people worldwide who have never used Western-style toilet seats. Some people need to get off their high horse. They'd certainly need to in order to use those toilets...... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 It is like that film "Midnight Express" that made a big thing about Turkish prisons not being nice (what a surprise) but tended to downplay the fact that the guy was guilty. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayrshire_nomad Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 Maybe if British prisons resembled certain other countries then repeat offending maybe reduced 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invergowrie arab Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 2 minutes ago, ayrshire_nomad said: Maybe if British prisons resembled certain other countries then repeat offending maybe reduced It's like a holiday camp these days !! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Skidmarks Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 Bring back hanging!!1! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 25 minutes ago, ayrshire_nomad said: Maybe if British prisons resembled my house then repeat offending maybe reduced FTFY -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 3 hours ago, Hedgecutter said: Ah, the "daft" wee lassies defense being used again. Where did we hear this used fairly recently involving some Scottish girl, who if I remember correctly, turned out to be guilty as sin? Family fairly clutching at straws with the whole 'she could be murdered in jail so you can't send there there at all' comments though. If it's something that could potentially have carried a 25 year sentence then 3 years seems like a pretty good deal that reeks of leniency given the evidence shown imo. Tbf though, the thought of spending 3 years in Egypt in general would drive me around the bend as I have nothing but contempt for the place. The media seethe will be interesting when the Egyptian authorities reject the appeal and bump up the sentence Pistorius-style though. The authorities should put the prisoners to hard labour - build a few new Pyramids, the way it was originally done. No cranes or bulldozers, just overseers with big whips. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 3 hours ago, Hedgecutter said: Ah, the "daft" wee lassies defense being used again. Where did we hear this used fairly recently involving some Scottish girl, who if I remember correctly, turned out to be guilty as sin? Family fairly clutching at straws with the whole 'she could be murdered in jail so you can't send there there at all' comments though. If it's something that could potentially have carried a 25 year sentence then 3 years seems like a pretty good deal that reeks of leniency given the evidence shown imo. Tbf though, the thought of spending 3 years in Egypt in general would drive me around the bend as I have nothing but contempt for the place. The media seethe will be interesting when the Egyptian authorities reject the appeal and bump up the sentence Pistorius-style though. They're obviously more concerned about her demise than the probability of her twatt being played like a banjo for the next 1095 days. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 So you're saying get her extradited back to the UK and jail her for 14 years? I'd be up for that. The dilemma: Would you rather 3 years in an Egyptian hovel with no bed / space and the occasional alleged beating, 14 years in a relatively luxurious British prison, or a return to Hull? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 1 minute ago, Tynieness said: Being stoned to death is preferable to a return to Hull. I reckon you have experience of being stoned. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 9 minutes ago, Hedgecutter said: The dilemma: Would you rather 3 years in an Egyptian hovel with no bed / space and the occasional alleged beating, 14 years in a relatively luxurious British prison, or a return to Hull? Egyptian linen is absolutely marvelous, whatever is she complaining about? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cardinal Richelieu Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 My dotty Canadian aunt has sent me a Xmas parcel that's not arrived. She sent it about 2 months ago. She has a tracking number from where she sent it but that's pretty much useless when you phone up. She has urged me to phone the Post Office to find out where it is. Every time I phone them, I get through to an automated line. There doesn't seem to be any way of speaking to a real person. I'm trying to phone the Glasgow Victoria Road post office to no avail ... there doesn't seem to be any way to ask for a real person. Any ideas? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dindeleux Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 My dotty Canadian aunt has sent me a Xmas parcel that's not arrived. She sent it about 2 months ago. She has a tracking number from where she sent it but that's pretty much useless when you phone up. She has urged me to phone the Post Office to find out where it is. Every time I phone them, I get through to an automated line. There doesn't seem to be any way of speaking to a real person. I'm trying to phone the Glasgow Victoria Road post office to no avail ... there doesn't seem to be any way to ask for a real person. Any ideas? From my experience its the sending company you need to chase. Can you not go on their website and put the tracking number in? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cardinal Richelieu Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 Just now, Dindeleux said: From my experience its the sending company you need to chase. Can you not go on their website and put the tracking number in? Cheers Dindeleux. I've asked my aunt for more info but she's a bit of a technophobe so it might be a struggle. This is the same woman who, to this day, has 8 pictures of herself gawping at her webcam on her FB newsfeed, in an attempt to find one she likes. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dindeleux Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 Cheers Dindeleux. I've asked my aunt for more info but she's a bit of a technophobe so it might be a struggle. This is the same woman who, to this day, has 8 pictures of herself gawping at her webcam on her FB newsfeed, in an attempt to find one she likes. Aye she's sent me a few photos of her gawping before. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cardinal Richelieu Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 51 minutes ago, Dindeleux said: Aye she's sent me a few photos of her gawping before. Dindeleux wins the internet. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 1 hour ago, Cardinal Richelieu said: My dotty Canadian aunt has sent me a Xmas parcel that's not arrived. She sent it about 2 months ago. She has a tracking number from where she sent it but that's pretty much useless when you phone up. She has urged me to phone the Post Office to find out where it is. Every time I phone them, I get through to an automated line. There doesn't seem to be any way of speaking to a real person. I'm trying to phone the Glasgow Victoria Road post office to no avail ... there doesn't seem to be any way to ask for a real person. Any ideas? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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