Your mom is a good person

Good for your mum. Honour & respect.

Good for her!

Are you sure it isn’t because it’s used instead of “fuck all”?

Thanks to your mama from me as well!

@Seven Inches of Throbbing Pink Jesus oh look a religion contrarian online! How original. Feel better?

@Seven Inches of Throbbing Pink Jesus *edgelord entered the chat* how's mamas basement?

@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ Amen!! Time is running out! Come Lord come!!

I would be so sad to be her mother and to know that is what lives on of your child's legacy

@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ Not the time.

I hope she felt all the guilt in the world. That dumb bitch wasted soo much time because she dismissed those children regarding the situation as playing. All because nothing bad has ever happened there. Evil always has a beginning

She'd have been joining Fanny in the grave if that was my daughter. I'd have blamed her forever. Whether it was her fault or not, I wouldn't be able to move on knowing she could have done something in time but brushed it off. Who knows how long she was alive for before he'd finished. He probably did other things to her before he killed her. She might have been saved if that woman had acted immediately. Doesn't matter what year it was, if a man was determined to get a kid to go with him then picked her up and walked off, he's obviously got nefarious intentions. She's almost just as to blame.

​@@melodyvalentine8779 I totally agree.

​@@melodyvalentine8779 It is hard to excuse someone who would do that. What would she have done if it had been Minnie he carried off, not Fanny? Either way, any right thinking adult would have raised the alarm immediately. This man had only lived there 2 months; they knew Nothing about him. Even f it had been a local, you would react. I have lived in villages like Alton, where everyone knows everyone else and we all look out for the kids. If a child had told me Jose had just carried off her friend, I would have been in the bar across the street telling the local men, even if I was the incomer. It just doesn't happen, now Or then!

@Melody Valentine she wasn’t “almost as much to blame,” but I’m confident she felt far more guilt than he ever did. She made a bad decision not out of malice, and I’m confident it haunted her forever. There have been periods in history where humor could be pretty dark. She’d met this man and probably couldn’t fathom him doing something like that.

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A particular adult I remember used it when I was a kid but they didnt know its deeper meaning when I asked them. All they knew is it meant nothing. "What did you get"? may be the question. "Sweet Fanny Adams" was the reply. It has morphed into Sweet F*** all or Sweet FA.

Rest in peace

Tough times.

@@michaelbailey8729 Yeah, I always heard people say "I could give a sweet F all about that". Which actually, despite being dark, makes sense. For that man gave a sweet F all about fanny.

so true. got a couple of thoughts while reading your comment. insulting yes but sad to say remembered because of it, although less so now i think, it was my granny that told me the story. and nowadays it's sweet f*** all

Agreed

Spot on i thaught it meant f### all but now ive heard the tragic story of the wee girl ill never be using that phrase its not used much in scotland but ive heard it said RIP little fanny 😢

I agree, it makes death seem unimportant and is very demeaning to this child,VERY disrespectful

For real haha how did that happen? I hope her mom never heard it.

She does seem to have been a strong little girl, but of course she could not overpower that monster. RIP Fanny

Try

No.

And being streetwise

Absolutely, strength and loyalty

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He was sick beyond comprehension.

Even if she went 1st time, took time to get a man/copper she prob already gone.

Stop using it. Implies her life had no value. “Poorquality meat” totally insensitive.

I agree entirely

Same here. I sat in disbelief and horror throughout the video, then got really choked up when I saw the flowers being laid.

Very touching & sweet thing to do indeed. Thank you dear sir.💐💐💐💐💐Rest in peace sweet child.🙏

all youtubers would if they lived near a grave...why lie and say they wouldn't with your fake photo

some would pick them up when they left or use flowers at another grave and then returned them when they are done. people know things like that touch emotions, which could be why they do it. in this case, it seems sweet and sincere, but who knows? 🤷‍♂🤷‍♂

She might have been able to prevent the death if she had raised an alert with Fanny's parents. A search party might have found the monster while he was still "playing" with his victim before dismembering her.

I got up to all sorts of mischief as a child, but I’m sure I wouldn’t have used a kidnapping of my best friend as a prank!

@@brianmccarthy5557 i've seen another video on this case and they thought she was killed within 20 minutes after she was taken, so it's unlikely she could have been saved.

She didn't care, are you deaf.

@@rneustel388 more than likely the woman just didn't care.

I agree. I'm a new subscriber. 🙏🏻

Is Alton towers in alton

@@prochoicenotantivax119 Not in my Alton. There are two Altons- one in Hampshire (where I live) and as mentioned the other one (where Alton Towers is) is in Staffordshire, almost the other end of the country. I have met a few people who have arrived in this Alton when they intended to go to the other one. Unfortunately this Alton is considerably less exciting.

That's beautiful

@@prochoicenotantivax119 No, it is a different place. My maternal grandparents lived there and I spent several summers there and the village of Farringdon some three miles away. Loved my time there!

@@prochoicenotantivax119 I guess you can choose Alton Towers to be wherever you want it to be.

Yes, me too, "as innocent as Sweet Fanny Adams."

Totally agree

If, as some people have suggested, he was a serial killer, then but for that slang, Fanny Adams name would have been long forgotten, just as everybody else's he may have murdered, has done.

@@vanessaouyang1220 It was never suggested he was a serial killer this is just silly conjecture nor was it ever suggested he sexually molester her that is just modern day peoples minds. He denied that right up till he was hung.

@@thelastpilot4582 : Do you understand what the word "if " means?

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That was my thinking too. Maybe he had gotten away with it too often before. Hence the fact he left behind witnesses. Thinking he was simply untouchable due to his status and previous actions.

Exactly!

Agreed! His determination was scary, especially the fact that he tried different tactics without hesitation. Everything screamed a seasoned killer at large.

Exactly that man had likely hurt lots of children and people, so sad😢

I thought the same.

She is not remembered as something worthless, her remains were so sparse...

It’s not an expression I’ve ever used and I didn’t know the story of the little girl either. It’s not one I ever intend to use, especially now.😪

my Nana too, she'd say that's disrespectful don't say it, but i don't think she realized what sweet FA also mean't, lol bit naive my Nana

I am sure God is looking after her now

Yes, no child is worthless! Stop using her name in a derogatory meaning. Please.

The phrase " sweet fanny adams " . VERY inappropriate .. and UNKIND ..

.. my name's not the greatest but Fanny is Grose and used as a derogatory expression nowdays

The diary entry makes it seem like Fanny was the first time he had killed a little girl. Maybe, he had never killed anybody before.

Well thanks to stern punishment , he didn't kill any more. And the people got free entertainment.

Exactly. He is 29 and had only been in the town for 2 months. They needed to look into missing kids everywhere he lived. For him to use so little effort to conceal what he did, he was probably at the decompression stage of serial killing. They always get super casual and sloppy in the end. Imagine if Dahmer exercised better hygiene and cleanliness in his home. He probably would still be killing.

@@batintheattic7293 actually, not. The matter-of-factness of the entry seems as if he’s done this before. Not his first.

It wouldn't have been difficult to find similar (very rare) crimes even back then.

It was just for show. He actually bought the flowers for his wife on their anniversary and took them home to her after recording his video smh

🤔😖☝

@@yourmom9951 You are no one's mom. Your mind has not got beyond the age of 13 when you discovered how to shock people by saying things like this. Go back to the playground.

@@yourmom9951 that's rude. Go away.

@@yourmom9951 I bet you're fun at parties....

Oddly enough though, he wasn’t a ‘stranger’ but someone the kids knew from church. Still … The first ‘enticements’ should’ve / could’ve triggered the girls intuition warnings. What a different outcome it might’ve been had they ran …

@@bryanthunderfootporter4436 well they knew him from the church, so maybe they thought he's harmless and just as what the narrator said before, there were no history of crimes until then so obv the parents never told them how dangerous some human can be

@@bryanthunderfootporter4436 the dude just snatched her up when she refused to go... do you think running woud have deterred him? also, when you're having a conversation with someone that you know, even if they're acting strange or creepy, most people just wouldn't run... it's rude, and humans tend to avoid being rude, even to the last second, it comes with being a social species. But again,,, this dude just straight up picked her up, they would've run all of ten steps and he'd've caught up, these were 8 and 5 year old little girls, intuition is nothing more than experience and they didn't have that, c'mon now

I'm so pleased someone is still leaving flowers for her R.I.P.

Different times. Delia Morris

It’s disgusting that the Tragic murder of little Fanny (on par with Jack the Ripper) became an off the cuff phrase for bad tinned meat! That is truly sick. The phrase should never be used again.

she could have AT LEAST checked to make sure u know?

@@nielszindel1151 Different times, for sure. But I can't help but think that if it was her daughter who got grabbed and taken away by the man, she would've dropped everything and ran after them. That's what a mother would do, no matter what. The fact that she did not think another person's child has worth even considering making sure that Fanny is alright is just shocking.

@@nielszindel1151 you're telling me 200 years ago they didn't have common sense or empathy? 😂 no matter how "safe" a place is, it should be common sense to think something's up when your daughter comes home and tells you her friend got taken away by a man

Eh? She's dead. Were you not listening? She died in the 1800s so it's quite sick/sadistic of you to think she's still in her grave listening away. Weird.

The comment you've replied to is a hopeful abode to this poor girl. Leave it be just that.

​@@dowogenesthedog7186well, like they said, "I'm in Mississippi"

​@@dowogenesthedog7186 Why are there always evil idiots trying to mock a tragedy? Grow up little boy before you get to your Boneyard ! 🤮

​@@dowogenesthedog7186some believe the spirit lives on as do I. Sending love to Fanny Adams does no harm.

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The touch of the headstone is what made me tear up, as well. It was such a comforting gesture to her memory.

I thought that was super sweet also.

I also thought it was a 😢sad story, but putting the flowers 💐 by the grave was a nice tribute...

You know why we're all so touched by that simple, kind act? Because not only is it rare, but it is a deep look into the people who produce these videos. They are genuinely kind and decent and we all resonate with the tenderness to a murdered child.

@@jennifermaurer100 Your kind words are just as touching!

As an adult , I was assaulted by a man I did housework for , He said to me , when I broke away from him , shocked and wideeyed . No ONE will ever believe you ,if you bring charges , I'm a FREEMASON, and the courts are in my favour , do your worst ,I'm not scared of what you'll do , . ,

Did you tell anyone? Because a guy like that shouldn't get away with that.

@@angelashort1331 I’m so sorry that happened to you.

@@angelashort1331 Really ? I'm sorry. Was he an old guy ?

Probably too stupid for anything to impact.

It wasn't just 150 years ago that people were that stupid. In the early 50s a fat woman showed up at a Catholic school in Missouri to kidnap a wealthy man's son. She claimed she was his aunt and that his mother was sick and she was taking him home. The boy didn't know this woman from anywhere, but a nun let him go with her, no questions asked. The woman then got into a taxi, met up with her boyfriend, drove with him to an isolated spot, and walked her dog while the boyfriend killed the child, who fought for his life. Then they called the parents and demanded a huge ransom, which the father paid in spite of the male criminal giving one excuse after another why the boy wouldn't answer questions or talk on the phone (more stupidity.) 😖

@pop pixie look up "Kidnapping of Bobby Greenlease"

I can’t stand people who do that. Too many people do that to kids.

@@SFVnative why is it important to describe the woman as "fat"?

Maybe your Grandma did not know where the saying came from

If theres an afterlife and your nice granny meets her im sure sheill give her a wee cuddle grannies are great

My late nan, who lived in Hampshire, used to use the name when talking about somebody and not wanting to use their actual name. "Ol' Fanny Adams over there". Not sure where that came from.

Actually, now I think about it I think that's Fanny Anne I'm remembering

@@smith549371 i think ur right my friends granda used to call them auld farty breath ower there

I was raised with adults calling little girls fanny or fanny Adams as a sign of affection..ever heard the meat thing before 🧐

It should be dropped.

If you comit a crime you'll get less yrs for murdering and raping a kid than for a financial crime, at least in my country...

@@ifyourepeatalieoftenenough8500 Just curious but were you born an adult? Because if I’m not mistaken EVERY adult was once a child, are you saying people worthless until they make it to adulthood? What was your point, besides showing your genius?

Wow. Chill.

Yes, I think maybe he could have been an early serial killer that was never connected to other crimes!

Well bk n those. Days. Was. Hard ppl bk then not to smart to think of those things. & lack of communication. Remember. No raido. No tv to inform ppl of whats going on like today.

@@sherrylamb5820 Not really - they had telegraph for communication and newspapers every day, in some places twice a day (morning and evening), sold by town criers and stands that relayed the current news as well as any radio or tv of later years did. People were quite well informed about major crimes. It's much more likely that because it took place in a small town where serious crimes were rare, and whose local police force were almost certainly far less educated then those in the city, that nobody ever attempted to search for further crimes to connect with that (and it was likely beyond their pay grade and resources to seriously consider anyway). Even if they had investigated, and it had gotten nowhere, we probably wouldn't know because it's easy for such records to be lost to time if nothing became of the investigation. In a city where multiple murders occur (such as the Jack The Ripper murders), it's far more prudent for the police (or Scotland Yard) to investigate to avoid widespread panic and public scrutiny in their work.

Little is known about Baker unfortunately. What is apparent from witnesses who lived in the town is that he exhibited bizarre and erratic behaviour and apparently was extremely pale, almost corpse like. There’s a book by David Green which goes into more detail but I have yet to read it.

@@avacatherine5646 it's stunning to me that a new resident who was so widely known to be bizarre and erratic scoops up a little girl and the friend's mother's reaction is "meh, you're making it up." like first of all SHE CAME HOME WITHOUT FANNY, that's clue number 1 right there, and if ANYONE was gonna commit a crime for the first time in her lifetime, wouldn't it be the bizarre and erratic new guy?

Indeed... This story needed to be told..

Please do so on all our behalves!

So nice of you. 🥲

It's so tragic how this girl's memory was diminished to a reference to "things without worth!" Especially when it was the complete opposite! *_RIP Dear Child!_*

It was Alton, Hampshire not Chawton where this took place.

Send our love from the states 💔

what a truly shocking story

People were insanely protective of women and children in the past. It's just the modern narrative that they used to mean nothing to anybody. They put women and children on a pedestal. Men worked because they thought women were too good and pure to work. That's why all the men on the titanic died to save the women and children. And I'm not saying it used to be better or we should go back to it. Just that they weren't look at as nothing. There's other cultures where when there's a shipwreck the women die because it's just everybody for themselves and the men are the first to get themselves to safety and the women are left behind. When the taliban took over Afghanistan this year most of the men just ditched their wives and children to try to get on planes for America, leaving them in the hands of the taliban. I watched the videos of them doing it. It was awful. That's what it looks like when people don't care about women.

@@thorlo1278 Allah means God... Please don't pretend Christianity and islam arent simply a different following of different profits teachings. They are the same, facts don't care about your feelings

@@jocelynneville8504 they were only protective of women if the women stuck to a very airtight set of rules. If you strayed from the norm, it would be hard to find even a husband to defend your honor

@@user-xj4yv3qo3v You're using a scene from a movie to contradict actual records from the time? We know exactly who was on the Titanic and who died. Overall statistics: 20% of men survived 74% of women survived 52% of children survived Now, it appears that on other sinkings, there may not have been a "women and children first" attitude, but there clearly was on the Titanic. Some lifeboats were launched only partly filled because there were only men available to get in them. Men were also killed as witches. Men are the ones sent off to fight and die in wars - even today, women and children are being evacuated from Ukraine but men are not allowed to leave. What statistics are you referring to when you say "Statistics and reality show males always leave females behind and couldn't care less except when they can use and exploit them"?

there were more details left out. he definitely had to have more victims and probably just didn't get caught because he moved around.

Proper psychopath to be sure. And the sailors were pretty disgusting😡

Mini violin....

nobody cares

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I agree!!

@@helen-marie3562 That's a relief! It would be very sad to use this phrase, I think.

Something thats hardly said these days my age group is likely where itll stop being said ?

Shame your god stood idly by when she needed him.

If only that were true, but there is no such thing as a soul, or god. But even if there was a god, the Christian god, then based on their faith, he’ll be in heaven anyway. Because bloody murder doesn’t matter. All that matters is that you accept Jesus is god. I’m sure he also got a priest before his scheduled death, asked for forgiveness, and absolved himself of everything. It’s a stupid religion

You "might think twice" before using it again?! Don't bloody use it. Period. What a completely sick phrase!

You're a good person

@@annsmarpat9500 I've only ever heard/used, sweet fuck all. I've never before heard anyone say sweet Fanny adams or sweet FA. Obviously using sweet Fanny Adams to refer to nothing, is sick, but I don't see anything wrong with using sweet fuck all.

All the sayings with animals in them should drop off the face of the earth. They're horrible and I never say them.

@@lorimiller4301 I HAVE SAID THAT FOR YEARS.....KINDRED SPIRITS

I agree. The phrase they are referring to, though, is not "Well I never," but "Sweet Fanny Adams," an expression in the UK apparently. "Well I never" does not appear to be in any way problematic. What a horrible tragedy.

@@dafyddil -- No, I think she is referring to the phrase "Well, I never" as being something 'too awful' whereas the phrase "Sweet Fanny Adams" went through several iterations and came to mean 'total inaction' and a euphemism for 'sweet fuck all'.

Well I never is used in Wales a lot

@@dafyddil the name of the channel is Well I never.

Yep. We say that phrase. Along with "Bless your heart." I live in the South.

The phrase is also used in Australia, (not so much with younger generations) but this is probably due to our connection with England. Somehow the phrase 'sweet Fanny Adams' has in England and Australia morphed into 'sweet FA' meaning sweet fuck all. Don't know how that happened!

i've actually heard of it and and i like in the usa too lol but i've mostly heard it in movies/tv so never in real life

I use that one myself!

I live in Canada and have never heard this saying before

This was quite common with my Grandmother's generation. That use is now rather redundant as younger people have not known about the history and assume Sweet FA means.. erm.. Sweet F..k All. For example, "What did he do about it?" Response "Sweet FA!". It is a derisory comment but, thank goodness, a murdered little girl has been freed from association. If I do come across it, I will explain the history. I would rather have the modern use than the memory of this poor child disrespected.

It never meant that when my dad used it it meant something so terrible you could not believe it.

It wasn't bad meat The mutton had shrunk in the canning process so it seemed that there wasn't much in the can.(not all of poor fannys body parts were found hence not all the meat in the tin.) The sailors at that time were not the sort of fellow you would invite for tea.

Well said! I totally agree 👍 I remember the phrase from childhood, too, but always thought the phrase "sweet FA" stood for "sweet f--- all" & that the name "Fanny Adams" was made up - as a way to try and make the phrase more polite, but keeping the initials so that everyone knew what you really meant. I had no idea that she was a real person who had met such a terrible end & feel awful for using the phrase now! I meant no disrespect and certainly wouldn't have done so if I'd known the story... I thought I was using the "polite version" rather than swearing. I know that many of the "innocent" things in our society (particularly nursery rhymes) have unsavoury origins, but this is by far the worst. RIP Fanny Adams. I certainly won't be saying that sweet child's name in a callous way again 💕

I've lived in the U.K. 18 years and had never heard this phrase until today watching this video. Hopefully it's not in the younger generations' slang, though I'd have a hard time believing most young people would ever use it, especially once they learned the true meaning.

@@MrsBrit1 I think nowadays, they'd just say "F*ck All."

@@Pythonette That IS what it became a euphemism for. People have just gone back to the original saying.

@@eh1702 which is better than using an innocent victim's name

Well, starvation is no joke.

That is a very good thought.

My mum also says "my giddy aunt and Gordon Bennett", she's 87 now and I think these names will disappear soon from people's mouths. Poor Fanny though, I always wish that bastards who kill children especially should receive the most painful karma

MensaForDummies now it makes sense. Thank you.

What a disgusting reference to the horrific murder of a child. Shame on you for being stone cold hearted.

Exactly... i don't understand 🤔⁉️

It's so cruel I don't understand why it became so popular. Ppl can be disturbing...

Most nursery rhymes & things of that nature have VERY dark backstories if you research them. Truly gruesome.

It was a different time then. Society was more desensitised to horrors such as violence, famine, epidemics, etc and engaged in ironic and morbid humour more often. Our transition to a more empathetic society is a (relatively) recent development, aided mainly by an improvement in standards of living. If, heaven forbid, we slide back into more desperate living conditions in future, our level of empathy would drop or even vanish entirely.

@@beno1129 Whipping sailors for minor infractions was common back then, and frankly if I was a captain and I heard my men making jokes comparing a meat tin to the way a child’s remains were compiled, I’d make sure to make a lot of jokes about issuing new uniforms with nice red stripes the next time I heard it.

This was the saddest story I’ve ever read. The story was told with compassion and dignity. Good job regaling the tale. Rest in peace sweet fanny Adams

Why are you imagining this?

@@kcbh24 it’s called empathy n thinking about the plight of others of which many spare themselves the sight

I have! Along with several others since I was born in '82. Guess it depends on people you know and who knows the tells!

I have never heard this either since being here in the USA. I am also happy they stopped him from doing that again. Horrible sad true story . Very horrible.

We hear/use it in Ohio.

@@countessli I'm from Ohio and I've never heard it before in my life

Same 💔💔💔

Check out the story of HH Holmes and his “Murder Castle” in Chicago in 1893 during the Worlds Fair.

Look up documentaries on Albert Fish, not just modern times sadly.

I'm American. I know a band in the 1970s called The Sweet or sometimes just Sweet had a hit song titled Sweet F A. I always wondered what that meant, but you couldn't find anything about it in America. This was before the internet and everyone had access to computers at school, home, or the local library

I'd figured he sexually assaulted her and then killed her, and that has been happening since the beginning, but people just didn't talk about it. The by-line for the newspaper was "All the news that is fit to print."

You actually thought horrible and gruesome murders were only a modern thing? How does that make any sense?

Yes, especially the fact that he left flowers for her at her grave. It makes me appreciate him more than many others

@@trevorjennings what virus??

Then there was that pedophile Lawrence Bernard Singleton, who cut off his 15yr old victims arms, and threw her down a cliff where he left her to die. By some miracle she lived to tell the tale.

@@h0rriphic it was a long time ago. The girl is an adult now. You can find the story on KZfaq too

@@h0rriphic Her name is Mary Vincent.

@@jannalam6861 But he cut her arms off , so they could not get fingerprints from her to identify her back then, as he thought he'd left her for dead. Google says: Released from prison after serving only eight years of his fourteen-year sentence, he went on to murder a woman in Florida, for which he was sentenced to death in 1997. He died in 2001 of natural causes before the sentence could be carried out. It is believed that he may have killed over a dozen women in his lifetime.

Everything I read says that there was no sign of rape. That doesn't mean there wasn't though, just that with the knowledge available then they didn't believe any happened.

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Yeah but what a different time back then

It wasn't Fanny's mother that Lizzie and Minnie went to. It was Minnie's mother. Minnie is Fanny's best friend, not her sister.

That's because you're viewing it through the lens of modern thinking. Back then working mothers were busy as hell, didn't have time for a lot of the nurturing we do now, and kids telling tales was something they were used to and brushed off, especially if the idea seemed absurd or unlikely in their personal experience. Look at how some parents of kids who were abused by catholic priests brushed off or denied what their own children told them.

especially one who had just moved to town. like it would be more understandable if it was "farmer thomas whose family has lived here for generations," but "that creepy new guy just snatched a little girl" didn't bother them?!

@@greatguardians1324 not really very different honestly. Both times (then and now) have child predators. Both times have busy careless mothers who would rather ignore their children than acknowledge children don't just make that stuff up very easily, both times have small towns that have a false sense of security. Minnie's mother was careless and Fannies mother was not, perhaps more concerned because it was her own daughter or maybe because of the time that had passed without seeing her. They may not have been fully aware of the atrocities that can be done to kidnapped women and children but they probably knew of some of the possibilities. Now we have news and investigative shows about what happens but then it was probably more up to their imagination and stories by word of mouth or experience. Regardless, you don't want someone taking your child against their will in either time.

dude what