Well I’m at a distinct disadvantage at our pub quizzes…I don’t do celebs. The picture quiz is a series strange people I’ve never heard of, fortunately other members of the team are more familiar with these mystery people. Mind you the most difficult question about them is usually, “Why are they famous”
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And who is Caroline Flack?
No I didn’t recognise the name until they reshowed the media scrum outside the court a few months ago. I had vague recollections of some young woman on charges of assault, hardly front line news for me.
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Err… singer of Killing Me Softly 
That was the Fugees.
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OK Uh Uh…fixed it for you.
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Same here.
I don’t watch a lot of… well ITV in general, but I’ve never seen an episode of Love Island.
I do know that Love Island is a massive money spinner for ITV, and I also know that there have been a number of suicides of people who have been on the show, but what I can’t understand is why it’s still on air - especially if Jeremy Kyle was (rightly) taken off air.
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Love Island is now officially more dangerous in the UK than the corona virus. 
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"For a lot of people, being arrested for common assault is an extreme way to have some sort of spiritual awakening but for me it’s become the normal.
"I’ve been pressing the snooze button on many stresses in my life - for my whole life. I’ve accepted shame and toxic opinions on my life for over 10 years and yet told myself it’s all part of my job. No complaining.
"The problem with brushing things under the carpet is they are still there and one day someone is going to lift that carpet up and all you are going to feel is shame and embarrassment.
"On December the 12th 2019 I was arrested for common assault on my boyfriend. Within 24 hours my whole world and future was swept from under my feet and all the walls that I had taken so long to build around me collapsed. I am suddenly on a different kind of stage and everyone is watching it happen.
"I have always taken responsibility for what happened that night. Even on the night. But the truth is… It was an accident.
"I’ve been having some sort of emotional breakdown for a very long time.
"But I am NOT a domestic abuser. We had an argument and an accident happened. An accident. The blood that someone SOLD to a newspaper was MY blood and that was something very sad and very personal.
"The reason I am talking today is because my family can’t take anymore. I’ve lost my job. My home. My ability to speak. And the truth has been taken out of my hands and used as entertainment.
"I can’t spend every day hidden away being told not to say or speak to anyone.
"I’m so sorry to my family for what I have brought upon them and for what my friends have had to go through.
“I’m not thinking about ‘how I’m going to get my career back.’ I’m thinking about how I’m going to get mine and my family’s life back.”
Unpublished Instagram Tweet, Caroline Flack
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How can you “accidentally” hit someone with a lamp? 
Sounds like a lot of self-justifying bollocks to me.
Then again, I’ve never understood the mentality of the facebook generation.
I’m going to go with it being either a) a struggle or b) something she did whilst relieved of her senses due to emotional stress.
Don’t know the truth of it but I’m prepared to take it on face value.
If you take your life you’re more than capable of losing control for a second or two.
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The thing that sticks out for me is the part about having some sort of emotional breakdown for a long time. If that is true then where the hell were her family and all those so-called friends who are busy getting their faces in the paper? Why did no-one get her help?
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Her boyfriend called 999 and said she was trying to kill him. The police clearly agreed, as did the CPS. If it really was just a few seconds of madness, why did he still phone the emergency services and say, in effect, that he feared for his life?
Because, like you, he was struggling to understand the impact of mental illness?
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It doesn’t sound as if he was struggling with anything other than self preservation.
So at what point (and severity of action) does mental illness stop becoming reasonable grounds for ones actions.
The bloke was clearly of the impression that she was capable of harming him. Does someone’s mental state excuse that? What if she had connected with the lamp? Does her mental illness still excuse it? How about if he was knocked unconscious or worse?
I am not trying to do down mental illness here but there has got to be limits to which it can be used as a mitigating factor.
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Why is everyone pretending like they know exactly what happened?
If the police believed she was trying to kill him she’d have been charged with attempted murder. Common assault is just the fear of injury. For instance, throwing a glass on the floor near someone’s foot, or pushing someone.
I am pretty sure everyone on this forum has committed something that could be classed as “common assault”.
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A lot of people with mental illness don’t want help, and it’s very difficult to convince someone in that state of mind to get it.
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Actually, no. Outside of school which were consensual’n scraps, and a small riot in St. Marys, equally consensual, something I got my fucking head kicked in for later, and one case of self-defence at University, I don’t think I have.
On those terms, that school shit and self-defence don’t count, I’ve never done it.
You? 
I can’t remember ever being directly involved in committing anything violent either. I’ve been attacked several times, each time I was alone and just legged it.