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Afternoon all.

Grim stuff coming out about the 17-year old Farage. Waiting to find black and Asian pupils alone to intimidate them, regular antisemitic bullying, and Nazi salutes. Not a mild issue, whether 17 years old or not.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2025/nov/18/deeply-shocking-nigel-farage-faces-fresh-claims-of-racism-and-antisemitism-at-school

17 is legally a child and is also considered one under the UNHRC.

Unpleasant for sure. Reprehensible certainly. We do not know if it is true or not, of course, it is just an allegation.

Most of us do stupid things when young.

As a result of the investigation, we now know it was the Russian Secret Services that commissioned the blast of the Polish railway and recruited two Ukrainians to do it. We also know the identities of the perpetrators who immediately fled Poland for Belarus.
https://x.com/donaldtusk/status/1990818892491395549

Curious to understand Russian thinking behind these sabotage events.

WTF ?

Nearly half of sexually active young people in UK have experienced strangulation, study shows
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/nov/18/sexually-active-young-people-uk-choking-strangulation-sex

Wait, have I been doing sex wrong all this time?!?

You probably need to ask someone more intimate.

If only we had an expert on kinky sex and the internet as a member of the PB community...

There was that Conservative MP who died in an asphyxiation game gone wrong, back in the Major years.

And for all that many things about relationships are healthier now than in the past, teenaged boys learning their moves from the internet is not a positive thing.

For years I wondered why he died with an orange his mouth, I then went to university and found the reasons why.

Wh... what did you do at university???

I spent a lot of time with the gay community and the fetish community, plus I also knew a lot of degenerates.

One night the discussion turned to what question do you really want to know the answer to and I asked why that Tory MP died with an orange in his mouth (it had bugged me for four years.)

Several people explained that strangulation enhances orgasms, and when people are masturbating/strangling themselves they put an orange in their mouth so if they are on the verge of passing out/getting strangled they will bite down and the taste of the orange will wake them up to avoid accidentally killing themselves

Thanks for that pithy explanation.

WTF ?

Nearly half of sexually active young people in UK have experienced strangulation, study shows
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/nov/18/sexually-active-young-people-uk-choking-strangulation-sex

Not half of young people but a very significant proportion of young women. Women - the word which no-one wants to use in case it makes men feel bad even though its use would be factually accurate.

And what's with the WTF anyway.

If men had listened to what women, including those pesky feminists, have been saying for some time they would know that -
(a) this has been going on for a while
(b) it is largely fuelled by porn
(c) some sex education in schools has emphasised the importance of getting consent before seeking to choke someone during sex, which rather misses the point I feel. There is no safe way of choking someone. It is associated with a range of health risks. A lot of women do not like it but feel they ought to go along with it.
(d) Non-fatal strangulation or choking has been a criminal offence since 2022.
(e) Strangulation is the second most common method of killing women by men.
(f) It has been announced this month that pornography showing strangulation is to become a criminal offence with tech companies placed under an obligation to prevent users accessing such material.

There are many different Spanish-speaking communities in the USA, including Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Mexicans and Native Americans. It's a mistake to view them all as 'the same'.

Do Native Americans speak Spanish?

The majority of them, apparently.
https://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/most-native-americans-speak-spanish

That some do is hardly surprising, since the Spanish were colonists before we were.

WTF ?

Nearly half of sexually active young people in UK have experienced strangulation, study shows
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/nov/18/sexually-active-young-people-uk-choking-strangulation-sex

This is one of the saddest thing I've ever read on PB, not including deaths. Choking is dangerous and not erotic either to the strangler or enstrangled, it's nasty, a waste of time and makes ugly what should be beautiful. Plus it has a high chance of death or serious life-changing damage. Urgh, horrid.