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sleepera6 said:
Im sorry for any offence. I have lived on a estate before...
Don't apologise for anything. Every single person here knows exactly what you mean.Some of my family were raised on council estates and yes, there were good people (although many of the good people also loved a bit of cheap gear), but they were and can still be places to avoid if you are not from that area. Nobody ever went to the houses backing on to the local golf course if they wanted a cheap car stereo, know what I mean? And you were unlikely to bump in to many accountants if you went to buy cheap fags on the estate.
This is how the world works, now. You get people suggesting they are offended by such comments, then they refuse to move close to, or park their car near such areas unless they have no choice.
Growing up, I lived near two large council areas. They were the types of areas where the salt of the earth and house-proud types were eventually pushed out and replaced with gobby baby making machines and loitering
s with swallows on their necks. I grew up with some of them, mixed with some of them, still know a few of them and had family from such areas. Even they would all agree with me.
ChemicalChaos said:
Sorry to bring this topic back to a frothing boil, but this popped up on my feed today and it certainly seems worthy of comment. ASSUMING this is genuine, Twitter has a few questions to answer
The same person reported both posts judging by the number of unread emails in both bottom pics. Funny how he's conveniently omitted the reported user in the leftmost pic. No, that doesn't smell of BS at all. MinuteMan said:
The same person reported both posts judging by the number of unread emails in both bottom pics. Funny how he's conveniently omitted the reported user in the leftmost pic. No, that doesn't smell of BS at all.
I think that's the point - they reported one, found twitters response lacking so made the second themselves and reported it themselves to compare. The fact the first one is blanked but bottle second makes me think the first is genuine and the second is a throwaway account for this test sleepera6 said:
The school disciplinary system is a joke. A family friend told of how a child was suspended 6 TIMES for bullying, drugs and still not expelled. Ridiculous.
Six? Amateur. I racked up 9 exclusions and still didn't get expelled. Alas not for anything a serious as drugs and only once for bullying. In all seriousness kids these days have very little or no respect - swearing and abuse is the norm. I work in retail and some of the kids that come in are completely foul and have so little respect for anything or anyone. It's a shame really.
romeogolf said:
Not sure which is more disappointing. The fact that the situation the OP described actually happened, or the fact that people have replied to say it's not racist.
The incident was 'racist' in the sense that McDonalds sell 'food'. They don't sell what I think of as food but strictly speaking it meets the definition.I was an active member of Searchlight in the late 80s early 90s, someone who would turn up to literally fight fascism and racism all over the North West of the country. Like The Clash said though, I grew up and I calmed down.
If this is what passes as racism today then I would say we won.
Unfortunately it's not, there is still so much worse going on in this country than the OP's incident.
If this is what passes as racism today then I would say we won.
Unfortunately it's not, there is still so much worse going on in this country than the OP's incident.
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