Into bits
A bench inspired by the final series of a Ricky Gervais TV show about loss has been broken into bits by vandals.
The After Life bench in Nottingham’s Arboretum was one of 25 donated to councils by streaming service Netflix and suicide prevention charity Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM).
Nottingham City Council said the vandalism over the weekend was “unacceptable and heart-breaking”.
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The authority said the bench was donated to the park in January via the Ricky Gervais show Afterlife. Ms Wynter added: “It’s been a symbol of hope and support to many people off the back of the series, which shone a light on loss, bereavement and mental health.”
Never mind all that, he mocks the idea that men can be women.
The back story of the benches:
In After Life, the main character Tony, played by Gervais, is often seen sitting on a bench in the churchyard where his wife is buried.
A woman played by Penelope Wilton, whose husband is also buried in the cemetery, often sits beside him.
The bench is the setting of their conversations across all three series, as Tony deals with his grief.
A suitable target for vandalism then.
All previous ‘social justice’ movements were about adding human rights already available to some people, to the cohort asking for the same rights. The right to vote. The right to own property. The right of two consenting adults to marry regardless of their race or sex.
This ‘movement’ is an extended tantrum for not being granted privileges which no-one else has. No-one else has the right to something which properly belongs to someone else; why should they get that right, just because they claim trans-hood? No-one else has the right to be bonked by anyone they want; why should they get that right, just because they claim trans-hood? No-one else has the right to enter any place they want to; why should they get that right, just because they claim trans-hood? And so on…
Like all thwarted toddlers, they smash things when they don’t get their own way.
tigger, another “no one else has” – no one else has the right to be seen by everyone as they see themselves…and to have that enforced by law.
I haven’t seen the show but I read an article about this vandalism and found every part of it profoundly sad. Fractally sad.
And nobody has a right to lie on government documents. There’s no such thing as a “right” to lie about your sex.
Thanks, iknklast and maddog – there is also no right to withhold information concerning any previous names one might have gone by. Indeed, there is an obligation to declare such on all the government forms I have ever had to complete.