Jimmy Carr shared a brutally honest take on life without kids that will hit hard for anyone who's ever weighed the choice:
“Not having kids was like living life with a cheat code on the video game. Super easy. Low stakes. No real skin in the game.”
He continues:
Once you have children, your heart literally lives outside your body.
You worry about mortality differently — because now dying means saying goodbye to them.
Suddenly you're not playing on easy mode anymore. You're at the high-stakes table.
And his final word? “It’s very joyful.”
In 54 seconds he captures something profound:
The deepest fulfillment often comes from the highest risk — the one where you have everything to lose.
Parents: Does this perfectly describe the shift you felt?
Child-free: Does it change how you see the trade-off?
I feel like many people still don’t quite understand the level of depravity inflicted on those little girls — or just how young they were.
Think of your sister, daughter, or granddaughter as a child. Picture them. Think of how young and vulnerable they were.
Lucy Lowe was 14.
Vicky Round was 12.
Becky Watson was 11.
Charlene Downes was 11 or 12.
Sammy Woodhouse was 14.
Victoria Agoglia was 13.
Sarah Wilson was 11.
And there are countless more.
They were children. Many barely out of primary school, so young and in no way responsible for the atrocities committed against them.
Think about what gangs of Pakistani-Muslim men put those little girls through. Now imagine it was your sister, daughter or granddaughter.
Pakistani-Muslim grooming gangs plied them with alcohol and drugs, they raped them in graveyards, they put them into the back of taxis and drove them to be gang-raped by 20+ of their friends, they dismembered them and sold them as kebab meat, they inserted a pump into their anal cavity and had multiple men sodomise them at once, they raped them on filthy mattresses above takeaway shops, they forced panties down their throat to muffle the screams, they threatened to murder them if they told anyone, they brutally beat them, they killed them and torched their houses with their family inside, they picked them up from local authority care homes to be raped, they forced them to take crack cocaine and heroin, they convinced them they loved them so they could abuse them, they killed their unborn children, they targeted the most vulnerable and marginalised, they told them no one would believe them, they forced them to get abortions, they passed them round like a piece of meat, they threatened to kill their families, they gaslit and manipulated them.
And that is just a fraction of the abuse inflicted by Pakistani-Muslim grooming gangs in Telford, Rochdale, Rotherham, Oldham and elsewhere. That is just a tiny percentage of the horror that thousands of little girls faced at the hands of their abusers.
Now think about the people that were meant to protect them. Who comes to mind? Police, local councils, social services, sexual health clinics, schools, care homes.
But they didn’t.
Those in positions of power turned a blind eye for decades while little girls were being raped, tortured, and murdered.
They branded them “white slags”, “child prostitutes”, and “paki shaggers”. They walked in on victims naked and drugged with 20+ adult men and only arrested the child, they arrested girls for prostitution and handed them back to the same men that were exploiting them, they added the victims to dockets as co-defendants in their own abuse, they downplayed the scale of abuse, they refused to investigate reports, they paid for the taxi rides the girls got raped during, they silenced whistleblowers (like @MaggieOliverUK), they blamed the girls for their own abuse, they tried to block inquiries, and more.
Imagine all of this happened to your sister. Or your daughter. Or your granddaughter.
Now think again about how young they were, how vulnerable, how innocent.
And understand the true horror of child sexual exploitation and the depravity of Pakistani-Muslim grooming gangs.
For anyone doubting the severity and depravity of the mass gang rapes of little girls in Britain, go to the source material and read the court transcripts. I did.
It is worse than you could possibly imagine.
Jordan Peterson: 'This is the Worst Scandal I've Ever Heard Of' on UK Child Abuse Cover-Up
“They didn't just ignore it, it's worse than that. They ignored it and tortured the people who brought it to light…”
– @jordanbpeterson
https://t.co/ANdHHSWtnd
Do I have this straight?
For more than two decades, hundreds of thousands of young British girls have been gang raped by members of principally one ethnic group.
Efforts to stop these egregious acts have been curtailed by British government leaders and politicians, the media, and others because of concerns about prosecutorial efforts and media exposure of these crimes appearing racist, and/or due to the risk of loss of political support from members of this ethnic group.
Cases have been dismissed and/or not pursued, among other reasons, because the underage girls were deemed to have made ‘lifestyle decisions’ that have led to the horrors they have experienced.
The relatively few prosecutions that have led to convictions have resulted in abbreviated sentences and early releases of the perpetrators back into the communities in which they committed these horrendous crimes to again walk the streets with their victims. Many perpetrators who were sentenced to be deported have remained in the country.
Those who have raised alarms about all of the above and posted about it on social media have been arrested and prosecuted for ‘stirring up racial unrest.’
All of the above is still going on and PM @Keir_Starmer and King Charles are doing nothing to stop this madness.
What if anything have I gotten wrong?
Where is the international uproar?
What are the UK and international rape victim groups doing to stop these horrendous acts?
Why wouldn’t @realDonaldTrump consider appropriate sanctions against the UK until these concerns are addressed?
Why is the convention to refer to the rape of children in Britain as ‘grooming’? Grooming is what you do to improve the appearance of your horse or dog.
We should not use a euphemism to describe the most vile and evil acts because it normalizes them, and allows one to think they are acceptable in society.
Words matter. We need to call out evil in the starkest possible terms and take every necessary step to rid the world of it.
Let’s not talk about grooming. These are pedophiles gang raping young girls. We need to understand this viscerally so it tears at our humanity and causes us all to lose sleep. Pretend it is your daughter. That will motivate us all to act.
This 600-year-old painting is one of the most mysterious in history.
That mirror at the back is just 3 inches wide — yet it reflects the entire room in immense detail.
Look closer at it and you'll realize nothing is as it seems… (thread) 🧵