Katie Hopkins offensive tweets

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B.J.W

5,782 posts

214 months

Wednesday 31st December 2014
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Grumfutock said:
B.J.W said:
Grumfutock said:
Jasandjules said:
Grumfutock said:
I think the 'police investigating' bit is way over the top but either way she is a vile and loathesome individual.
A fair few people have been jailed for "funny" comments and conduct of late.
Your right but I don't agree with it. People used to have a sense of humour and an ability to shrug it off if they didn't. To many thin skinned fannies nowadays, far to many.

I still think she is an oxygen thieving waste of rations.
She's found a niche, exploited it, and is making a living out of it (which is about as far away from her previous career in HR as it gets).

Silly comments designed to cause outrage aside, I found myself siding with Katie during her recent spat with the fat woman who accused her of hate crimes and phoned the police. Whatever your view on her 'persona', I feel sure that Katie Hopkins would always take responsibility for her own actions - as opposed to blaming other people for their misfortune etc.

There will come a point when you won't be able to say anything, at the risk of some limp wrist taking offence.
How dare you use the phrase 'limp wrist'!!!! Some of my happiest friends are gay!
Hmmmmmmm

turbobloke

103,742 posts

259 months

Wednesday 31st December 2014
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B.J.W said:
Grumfutock said:
B.J.W said:
Grumfutock said:
Jasandjules said:
Grumfutock said:
I think the 'police investigating' bit is way over the top but either way she is a vile and loathesome individual.
A fair few people have been jailed for "funny" comments and conduct of late.
Your right but I don't agree with it. People used to have a sense of humour and an ability to shrug it off if they didn't. To many thin skinned fannies nowadays, far to many.

I still think she is an oxygen thieving waste of rations.
She's found a niche, exploited it, and is making a living out of it (which is about as far away from her previous career in HR as it gets).

Silly comments designed to cause outrage aside, I found myself siding with Katie during her recent spat with the fat woman who accused her of hate crimes and phoned the police. Whatever your view on her 'persona', I feel sure that Katie Hopkins would always take responsibility for her own actions - as opposed to blaming other people for their misfortune etc.

There will come a point when you won't be able to say anything, at the risk of some limp wrist taking offence.
How dare you use the phrase 'limp wrist'!!!! Some of my happiest friends are gay!
Hmmmmmmm


shoestring7

6,138 posts

245 months

Wednesday 31st December 2014
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SkinnyP said:
Is it just me but I always end up thinking less about the people who use the word racist, and more into wishing they would invest in a dictionary.
I'm not sure why you'd go looking for a legal definition in a dictionary. For your information, the Act states: "A racial group means a group of persons defined by reference to race, colour, nationality (including citizenship) or ethnic or national origins.".

So being rude to the purple-painted Irn-Bru drinking heathen bds is Racism.

SS7

irocfan

40,152 posts

189 months

Wednesday 31st December 2014
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Grumfutock said:
I think the 'police investigating' bit is way over the top but either way she is a vile and loathesome individual.
true - a vile, spiteful, hateful haridan who seems to think that she's attractive whilst bearing quite some resemblance to Val Kilmer in several pictures

Mojocvh

16,837 posts

261 months

Wednesday 31st December 2014
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irocfan said:
Grumfutock said:
I think the 'police investigating' bit is way over the top but either way she is a vile and loathesome individual.
true - a vile, spiteful, hateful haridan who seems to think that she's attractive whilst bearing quite some resemblance to Val Kilmer in several pictures
well this sort of stuff pisses me off no end.

She should be made to stand in Georges Square, on a soap box with a megaphone and made to say it again.

Well, guess she'd be "famous" then....


Edited by Mojocvh on Wednesday 31st December 20:15

AJS-

15,366 posts

235 months

Wednesday 31st December 2014
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Wow
I just looked on Wikipedia to see who Katie Hopkins is and it turns out ahe is basically the woman who personifies everything that is wrong with the country.

Wiki said:
Hopkins was allowed to take unpaid leave from her job as a global brand consultant at the Met Office in order to take part in series three of the reality TV show The Apprentice in 2006.
Can you imagine any more utterly useless job than a Global Brand Consultant in the Met Office? I always had this kind of fond image of the Met Office as being sort like GCHQ without the guns - huge spectacles watching radar screens and pouring ober data from German Bite and North Utsira predicting hurricanes and wirey old boffins in wooly jumpers saying it's just a repeat of 1973 when it blew out over Fastnet, to be met with gentle ribbing about 1987. It would have mugs of tea and instant coffee and a bacon sandwich shop downstairs. Well stocked with kagools, flasks and OS maps. Car park full of well used SIII Land Rovers, Volvo 740s and boat parts awaiting repair after hair raising data gathering expeditions.

It is afterall a small government department with the modest task of monitoring Britain's wholly unremarkable weather. I would be quite happy for them to be pursuing their interest in meteorology at the tax payer's modest expsnse.

Alas it turns out that it is an office just like any other. Full of marketing types and I dare say Project Managers, consultants and thought leaders, along with all the other trappings of bloated public sector failure. Probably got a nespresso machine and Pret a Manger downstairs. And they probably buy their weather data from NASA anyway.

They gave her unpaid leave of - I assume - a good few weeks to go and film The Apprentice, so they obviously agree that her job is not essential to warning us of impending death by extreme weather.

McWigglebum4th

32,414 posts

203 months

Wednesday 31st December 2014
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What is it about communists that they are so easily offended

Thank good we didn't get independence

If this gets the nat screaming for police enforcement and jail time


Then what would happen the first time another country said boo to them

Grumfutock

5,274 posts

164 months

Wednesday 31st December 2014
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McWigglebum4th said:
What is it about communists that they are so easily offended

Thank good we didn't get independence

If this gets the nat screaming for police enforcement and jail time


Then what would happen the first time another country said boo to them
To be fair I suspect the nats save a special place of loathing for us English. Turns out we are to blame for every single thing that has gone wrong in Scotland for the last 7,000 years. It also turns out that we had nothing to do with anything that went right!

Tant

493 posts

191 months

Wednesday 31st December 2014
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people ought to get a life and get on with stuff a bit more I reckon. I hear offensive stuff all the time at work and in jokes and I don't go running off to the bloody police about it.

These professional offendees really ought to be told to go and do something more chuffing useful and lighten up a bit.


Edited by Tant on Wednesday 31st December 21:06

Jasandjules

69,825 posts

228 months

Wednesday 31st December 2014
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Grumfutock said:
Your right but I don't agree with it. People used to have a sense of humour and an ability to shrug it off if they didn't.
I agree. Freedom of speech is being eroded too far. Indeed, I object to any erosion, regardless of the current legislation, because freedom of speech must be exactly that, not freedom to say only things we are told are acceptable.

fido

16,752 posts

254 months

Friday 2nd January 2015
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If she was a comedian, even a Scottish one, maybe called Frankie - this wouldn't even make news. We'd be 'liking' it on YouTube.

JensenA

5,671 posts

229 months

Friday 2nd January 2015
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Jasandjules said:
Grumfutock said:
Your right but I don't agree with it. People used to have a sense of humour and an ability to shrug it off if they didn't.
I agree. Freedom of speech is being eroded too far. Indeed, I object to any erosion, regardless of the current legislation, because freedom of speech must be exactly that, not freedom to say only things we are told are acceptable.
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carinaman

21,222 posts

171 months

Friday 2nd January 2015
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The UKIP leader has reportedly said 'Haven't the police got more important stuff to do than look into this?'

turbobloke

103,742 posts

259 months

Saturday 3rd January 2015
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JensenA said:
Jasandjules said:
Grumfutock said:
Your right but I don't agree with it. People used to have a sense of humour and an ability to shrug it off if they didn't.
I agree. Freedom of speech is being eroded too far. Indeed, I object to any erosion, regardless of the current legislation, because freedom of speech must be exactly that, not freedom to say only things we are told are acceptable.
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Agreed, but then we have politicians and the professionally offended around. Both groups know what's best for us. They are so wise.

carinaman said:
The UKIP leader has reportedly said 'Haven't the police got more important stuff to do than look into this?'
If so, he was (presumably) exercising his Article 10 right to hold an opinion.

What odds there are a lot of police who agree but can't say because an incredibly thick ACPO manual says no.

MarshPhantom

9,658 posts

136 months

Saturday 3rd January 2015
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Hardly racist but what a rancid little moron she is.

allergictocheese

1,290 posts

112 months

Saturday 3rd January 2015
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When people talk about freedom of expression as a human right, they ought to take into account it is a qualified right rather than an unqualified one.

Personally I think the Police ought to have more important things to investigate than the inane ramblings of the horse-face, although others disagree.

turbobloke

103,742 posts

259 months

Saturday 3rd January 2015
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allergictocheese said:
When people talk about freedom of expression as a human right, they ought to take into account it is a qualified right rather than an unqualified one.
Indeed it is, but there are people around who consider that it ought not to be.

Mentioning Article 10 conveys all apsects though as opposed to dropping in FoE.

Stevanos

700 posts

136 months

Saturday 3rd January 2015
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I think it a joke that the police are wasting tax payers money on this, it is obscene.

"Police Scotland will thoroughly investigate any reports of offensive or criminal behaviour online and anyone found to be responsible will be robustly dealt with."

However, I bet if I call them up and tell them my website has been hacked they will do f*** all about it.


McWigglebum4th

32,414 posts

203 months

Saturday 3rd January 2015
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Stevanos said:
I think it a joke that the police are wasting tax payers money on this, it is obscene.

"Police Scotland will thoroughly investigate any reports of offensive or criminal behaviour online and anyone found to be responsible will be robustly dealt with."

However, I bet if I call them up and tell them my website has been hacked they will do f*** all about it.
And how many times have i been called an english by the very same folk screaming they are offended

jogon

2,971 posts

157 months

Saturday 3rd January 2015
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Stevanos said:
I think it a joke that the police are wasting tax payers money on this, it is obscene.

"Police Scotland will thoroughly investigate any reports of offensive or criminal behaviour online and anyone found to be responsible will be robustly dealt with."

However, I bet if I call them up and tell them my website has been hacked they will do f*** all about it.
I walked into my local station, down the end of my road, a few weeks ago to report a car that had its wheels nabbed after waking up and hearing people run passed my window at 4am and bundling some large items into the back of an Audi and then seeing another Audi up on bricks a few doors down when I got up the next morning. Gave them description of car and time of the incident as living in Zone 2 London there is lots of CCTV around.

It was like reporting I had seen a alien, the women who spoke to me on the counter was as thick as pig st and couldn't even be arsed to write down the info I told her. I walked out in disgust muttering a life of crime looks appealing if this is what your up against.