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Can we have something new to be angry about?
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I don't get worked up over immigration, and I never read the Wail. You are right about the last bit though...Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostI'm glad to be able to make you feel better. But I didn't know you were a gammon. Do you go red in the face over immigration etc.? Or worse... do you read the Daily Mail? I had you down as a reasonably intelligent person.
His heart is in the right place - shame we can't say the same about his brain...Comment
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I made a comment amount gammons. You decided for some reason I was calling you a gammon. I'm glad you've figured out I wasn't. And that probably you're not a gammon.Originally posted by Mordac View PostI don't get worked up over immigration, and I never read the Wail. You are right about the last bit though...
Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
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I get annoyed that people get angry about trivial things rather than the important things that damage the lives of so many people. Essentially they only react to the things that they are told to by the media.
Here's a good example: https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/s...31817881395200Comment
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I get annoyed that people get annoyed that people get angry about trivial things rather than the important things that damage the lives of so many people.Originally posted by TwoWolves View PostI get annoyed that people get angry about trivial things rather than the important things that damage the lives of so many people. Essentially they only react to the things that they are told to by the media.
Here's a good example: Matt Stoller on Twitter: "1. Starting 2006 or so, I've become somewhat disillusioned with the Democratic Party. I'm going to explain why. It has to do with the relationship most Democrats have with corporate power, or really, power. Now first, to explain, I'm a liberal Democrat."
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[/QUOTE]Originally posted by Old Greg View PostI get annoyed that people get annoyed that people get angry about trivial things rather than the important things that damage the lives of so many people.
All day drinking is doing you a power of good, old chap.Comment
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Exactly. You see, I wasn't the least bit upset about the use of "pikey", it's just that it has become anOriginally posted by TwoWolves View PostI get annoyed that people get angry about trivial things rather than the important things that damage the lives of so many people.
unacceptable term with racist connotations, and so, as a moderator, I have to deal with that.
What I find incredible is that people got upset about a little modsnip and it seems to them a bigger deal than some poor copper killed just doing his job. One of my kids wants to be a police officer. One of my friends did become a cop and her partner was shot dead four weeks after she began - took a bullet for a lowlife.Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
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Not enough people showing enough outrage for you?Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostExactly. You see, I wasn't the least bit upset about the use of "pikey", it's just that it has become an
unacceptable term with racist connotations, and so, as a moderator, I have to deal with that.
What I find incredible is that people got upset about a little modsnip and it seems to them a bigger deal than some poor copper killed just doing his job. One of my kids wants to be a police officer. One of my friends did become a cop and her partner was shot dead four weeks after she began - took a bullet for a lowlife.
I refuse to get annoyed about anything on this forum, you chunts just aren't worth it.Comment
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Yet somehow it always provokes a reaction in you.Originally posted by Zigenare View PostNot enough people showing enough outrage for you?
I refuse to get annoyed about anything on this forum, you chunts just aren't worth it.Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
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Virtue signalling again I see...Originally posted by Zigenare View PostNot enough people showing enough outrage for you?
I refuse to get annoyed about anything on this forum, you chunts just aren't worth it.“Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.”Comment
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