Firm Apologises For Daily Mail Ad.

[Gloria Slap]

Funkycoldribena said:

No, to be that obsessed is irrational.

Are you referring to my concern over the impending economic impact of Brexit - entirely rational and even most brexiteers admit we'll be worse off - or perhaps your own fascination with posting on this topic - which has been about homophobia and what that entails for many pages.

I'd say your and others absolute fixation with not liking these things is irrational - unless you can provide rational reasons as to how homosexuality affects you, personally.

[Funkycoldribena]

Gloria Slap said:

Are you referring to my concern over the impending economic impact of Brexit - entirely rational and even most brexiteers admit we'll be worse off - or perhaps your own fascination with posting on this topic - which has been about homophobia and what that entails for many pages.

I'd say your and others absolute fixation with not liking these things is irrational - unless you can provide rational reasons as to how homosexuality affects you, personally.

Erm...don't think I've posted any view have I?

[WinstonWolf]

Gloria Slap said:

Funkycoldribena said:

No, to be that obsessed is irrational.

Brexit Brexit Brexit Brexit Brexit Brexit Brexit Brexit Brexit Brexit Brexit Brexit Brexit Brexit Brexit Brexit, Daily Mail.

Nope, you're perfectly sane and rational. The only time people should worry is if they find themselves agreeing with you.

[alfie2244]

Gloria Slap said:

Funkycoldribena said:

No, to be that obsessed is irrational.

Are you referring to my concern over the impending economic impact of Brexit - entirely rational and even most brexiteers admit we'll be worse off - .

If you focused on making money rather than irrationally spending gzillions of hours on here whingeing about Brexit I doubt you would notice any negative economic impacts of Brexit - if there are any that is.

[Gloria Slap]

OK, come on, which one of you is Martin?

http://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/shelagh-foga...

[chrispmartha]

Gloria Slap said:

OK, come on, which one of you is Martin?

http://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/shelagh-foga...

He can’t be real, it was like a call from Radio 2 spoof phone in ‘down the line’

[Randy Winkman]

It's fabulous.

[Halb]

Well he does have 4,000 female friends on fb....interesting ratio there martin.....creep creep creep

[Gloria Slap]

I think its the bit where he calls all women arrogant that was a high point.

The irony of him doing exactly what he accused her of at the beginning was lost completely on him.

He is not unique though, many threads here show that in spades.

[hairyben]

otolith said:

hairyben said:

A gay friend of mine thinks the idea of sticking his winkle in a ladies fufu is fking rank. Is he a vile hetrophobe or do the usual double standards apply?

It is something that has been criticised.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov...

see this is where its all so wrong, when a expression of dislike immediately becomes a hate crime. Our gay friend adores my wife, he's no misogynist at all. His predilection is simply not for girls and that's fine. He's allowed his individual freedom to feel how he wants. But you get this overly influential idiot end of the left all repeating the doctrine, fawning over nonsense like that sex change Kardashian thing that everyone is obliged to express adoration for (god forbid anyone says not my cuppa tea) and that's kind of the definition of oppresion.

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My £10 offer has been somewhat unsucessfull. Shame, all these people with so much time to make memes and cartoons to attack something and virtue signal but can't back up their options with a shred of evidence.

£50 , charity of your choice with proof posted, provided its something legit and ethical, to someone who can show me some proper hate/homophobia racism etc from the daily wail. By that I don't mean an article having a go at some celeb who happens to be gay or non white in the same way they'd bash the st of any other celeb. You have 24 hrs go.

[amusingduck]

otolith said:

hairyben said:

A gay friend of mine thinks the idea of sticking his winkle in a ladies fufu is fking rank. Is he a vile hetrophobe or do the usual double standards apply?

It is something that has been criticised.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov...

grauniad said:

There is a problem of misogyny among gay men. Of course there is. We were brought up in a rotten, binary world, doused in the hatred of women. Misogyny is as unavoidable as carbon dioxide. It seeps in everywhere.

I've read some absolute st, but that takes the biscuit.

[Russian Troll Bot]

Hope Not Hate are at it again, this time targeting the likes of Amazon and Waterstones for selling "racist and Nazi books". Although you'll note that when you click their link, it doesn't actually define what these racist and Nazi books are.

https://twitter.com/hopenothate/status/97568402922...


Wasn't there another group of people who were very fond of banning books they disagreed with?

[irocfan]

Russian Troll Bot said:

Hope Not Hate are at it again, this time targeting the likes of Amazon and Waterstones for selling "racist and Nazi books". Although you'll note that when you click their link, it doesn't actually define what these racist and Nazi books are.

https://twitter.com/hopenothate/status/97568402922...


Wasn't there another group of people who were very fond of banning books they disagreed with?

Indeed - & as others had already alluded to a lot of there 'right on' types (or should that be left on?) are actually every bit as intolerant as those they claim to be against

[Puggit]

University of Exeter apologies for sending out an automated tweet that quoted Rommel.

https://news.sky.com/story/university-of-exeter-so...

[Halb]

that's amusing, and so stupid on so many levels.

[andy_s]

It may have been a good opportunity to point out some, probably challenging, ideas to better edify the student body:

1. Rommel's history, particularly his 'war without hate' attitudes and involvement in the assassination attempt on Hitler.
2. The pros and cons of the division of scholars about his personal Nazi beliefs or lack of.
3. That because someone is in a totalitarian fascist regime doesn't mean that he may be unintelligent nor everything he said is linked to it.
4. Discuss whether someone can provide inspiration even if it's 'the enemy'.
5. Whether in todays society we actually have free speech and thought and what happens if you stifle it (clue: Nazism).
6. How to apply critical thinking with an open mind and decrypt #fakenews.

I thought Universities were supposed to open minds, not close them...?

[saaby93]

Puggit said:

University of Exeter apologies for sending out an automated tweet that quoted Rommel.

https://news.sky.com/story/university-of-exeter-so...

Very odd - wouldnt have thought Rommel was in the Hilter camp
Wasn't Rommel one of the ones to try to overthow him
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Rommel
If he had a good management quote why not use it

[JagLover]

andy_s said:

It may have been a good opportunity to point out some, probably challenging, ideas to better edify the student body:

1. Rommel's history, particularly his 'war without hate' attitudes and involvement in the assassination attempt on Hitler.
2. The pros and cons of the division of scholars about his personal Nazi beliefs or lack of.
3. That because someone is in a totalitarian fascist regime doesn't mean that he may be unintelligent nor everything he said is linked to it.
4. Discuss whether someone can provide inspiration even if it's 'the enemy'.
5. Whether in todays society we actually have free speech and thought and what happens if you stifle it (clue: Nazism).
6. How to apply critical thinking with an open mind and decrypt #fakenews.

I thought Universities were supposed to open minds, not close them...?

The university in question seems dangerously close to suggesting that all Germans of the period were evil. Rommel had the good fortune to be based in North Africa and so not involved in the war crimes committed by so many of his fellow Generals in Russia and as you say was involved in a plot to assassinate Hitler.

To use a quote by Rommel should be as uncontroversial as using a quote by Napoleon.

[saaby93]

JagLover said:

The university in question seems dangerously close to suggesting that all Germans of the period were evil. Rommel had the good fortune to be based in North Africa and so not involved in the war crimes committed by so many of his fellow Generals in Russia and as you say was involved in a plot to assassinate Hitler.

To use a quote by Rommel should be as uncontroversial as using a quote by Napoleon.

[dandarez]

saaby93 said:

JagLover said:

The university in question seems dangerously close to suggesting that all Germans of the period were evil. Rommel had the good fortune to be based in North Africa and so not involved in the war crimes committed by so many of his fellow Generals in Russia and as you say was involved in a plot to assassinate Hitler.

To use a quote by Rommel should be as uncontroversial as using a quote by Napoleon.

So much for the educated today, eh?
They should be called the petrified. Petrified of their own f shadows...

It probably went like this:

'No, I don't recognise that name next to the quote, so?'
'Hang on, you're telling me what? I've quoted someone from the war?'
'You've quoted him. The Desert Rat. Rommel.'
'Which war?'
'Rommel who?'
'He was a German. A brilliant tactician. He wasn't crafty, in fact he was a bit of a softie, he used to gift medical supplies to the enemy and didn't really go too hard on prisoners. He also actually didn't like Hitler. At all. In fact, he was involved in the Valkyrie.'
'Yes, yes, apart from wtf is the Valkyrie, I'm hearing all that ...but was he a Nazi?'
'Yes.'
'Oh my god!' 'Oh my god!'(again).
'Scrub it!'
'FFS scrub the quote...
Now!'
'Apologise, apologise, apologise... NOW!'

Schnell! Schnell!