Rape in Egypt

www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/27/egypt-rape-foreign-office-apology

Disgraceful behaviour, or rather lack of by the Embassy staff in Egypt but I am not totally surprised or is that just me being cynical.

I'm trying to understand how they could possibly have behaved like that.
I'd like to know more and what if any disciplinary action was taken? They actually put her life at risk

Words fail me - repeatable ones at any rate.

Oh dear - this is all very sad - that poor woman.

Come, come. The nice chaps at the embassy have said sorry and generously given her £1,000 – I expect they passed the hat – so what is all the fuss about?

Chaps being the operative word!

They were probably too busy arranging cocktail evenings and parties - for diplomatic purposes of course.

I know where I would have told them to put their £1,000. Bloody insult!

Expect she asked for it anyway - do- gooding around in that sort of culture

That is a bit harsh , Blubell I am sure she did not ask for it !!!!!!
Sad you would even think to say it !!!

Naughty bluebell you don't mean it.....I hope.

Oh Nonu - I despair ! I am trying to come up with theories as to why that bunch of ...... in the Embassy failed so appallingly.

And anyway, she clearly didn't go to the right school....

Like I said , served her right. She should have been a chap

Not something I find amusing or a subject for black humour.

I'd call it sarcasm - bluebell's good at that.

There's humour and humour. Jonathan Swift – not that I would put our literary efforts in quite the same class – was capable of humorous extreme irony (rather than sarcasm) prompted by "savage indignation". If it was good enough for him…

It's irony, for goodness' sake! Quite different from sarcasm.

That's debatable, anno.

But of course, you and absent know best...

Chaps, wrong schools, cocktail parties - chips on shoulders ladies?

Yes Ana, they do know best. Perhaps you, Aka and Sel could come up with some reasons as to why this woman was let down so badly by the Embassy - and whilst you're at it Ana, why don't you explain to us all the difference between irony and sarcasm and why my comments were the latter and not the former- but you won't of course because you delight in one liners and eschew any meaningful debate - I do so wonder why ( last comment was sarcasm by the way)

Anyone who has seen bluebellpost before will know she would abhor the situation at the embassy and that her comments were meant ironically. A bit disingenuous of anyone to suggest otherwise. I did not read the comments in anyway as making light of the situation...simply sad despair and anger!