Reply to: Did I meet you yesterday.....?

[Old Greg]

Right so you in a really rather bigoted manner spoke to someone for a few minutes and decided that person is now a gammon.

Once you have labelled them you can now demonise them and all the traits a gammon has can now be attributed to that human being next to you.

And also now he has a label it is acceptable to ignore his opinions.

Jeezus fooking Christ on a bike.

I know what you are trying to do but this is a classic case if institutionalised discrimination.

Looks like our resident social justice warrior has been triggered. Time for your safe space!

[Whorty]

So having read this book (or at least having skimmed through a few of the photos), no doubt your views would have led you to strongly and openly debunk his rather parochial views, or did you just meekly bid him a cheery farewell then rush to your keyboard to denounce him?

What a fooking chickensh!t weasel. Are you related to alexei or just part-French?

I see you as a crayon colouring book.Would only take me a minute to read you. You're a simpleton with no original ideas.

HTH - you're welcome

[Eirikur]

So having read this book (or at least having skimmed through a few of the photos), no doubt your views would have led you to strongly and openly debunk his rather parochial views, or did you just meekly bid him a cheery farewell then rush to your keyboard to denounce him?

What a fooking chickensh!t weasel. Are you related to alexei or just part-French?

Typical for his toddler level of comprehension, he only looks at the pictures and doesn't read the text.

[shaunbhoy]

I do try to get to know the person I'm talking to before I make a judgement. I don't just look at the cover, I try to read the book.

So having read this book (or at least having skimmed through a few of the photos), no doubt your views would have led you to strongly and openly debunk his rather parochial views, or did you just meekly bid him a cheery farewell then rush to your keyboard to denounce him?

What a fooking chickensh!t weasel. Are you related to alexei or just part-French?

[Whorty]

Right so you in a really rather bigoted manner spoke to someone for a few minutes and decided that person is now a gammon.

Once you have labelled them you can now demonise them and all the traits a gammon has can now be attributed to that human being next to you.

And also now he has a label it is acceptable to ignore his opinions.

Jeezus fooking Christ on a bike.

I know what you are trying to do but this is a classic case if institutionalised discrimination.

We had Dumb earlier, now we have Dumber

Ok dimwit, at which point did I call him a gammon. Go on, read all my postings again and feel free to quote where I called him a gammon. A xenophobe yes, but this was based on the fact that he was being xenophobic, but I never called him a gammon.

I wasn't talking to him for "a few minutes"; we were talking for over 90 minutes. I know quite a bit about him, from the places he used to live in London (well, technically Surrey as he is from Weighbridge but he worked a lot in London), to where his son goes to Poly (sorry, Uni) and the trade his younger son has taken an apprenticeship in. I know he is divorced. I know he has a partner now and she has a daughter. I know the village he lives in (he rents, as they haven't decided exactly where they want to finally settle in the west country). I know where he works (not going to name the company, but it's near Glastonbury). I know he is a Sales Director. I know he has worked in Dubai. I know where he grew up, and that he used to have a student nurse as a girlfriend. I know he played rugby, then switched to hockey. I know about his knee operation.

So yeah, just a couple of minutes and I made a snap judgement. You

You see, unlike you xenophobes, I do try to get to know the person I'm talking to before I make a judgement. I don't just look at the cover, I try to read the book.

As you were ..... next

[original PM]

Right so you in a really rather bigoted manner spoke to someone for a few minutes and decided that person is now a gammon.

Once you have labelled them you can now demonise them and all the traits a gammon has can now be attributed to that human being next to you.

And also now he has a label it is acceptable to ignore his opinions.

Jeezus fooking Christ on a bike.

I know what you are trying to do but this is a classic case if institutionalised discrimination.

[Whorty]

More likely it was your slack-jawed gormless expression and your propensity to lick the windows.

Ye Gods, not only do you insist upon repetitively showing yourself up on here to be a benighted bird-brained wurzel, you have really gone to town by supplementing the whole business by dressing to unimpress as well!

And you accuse me of being a keyboard warrior. Irony really does pass you by

Seems my little story of the xenophobic, Brexit voting train traveler really has touched a nerve with you hasn't it? Was it like looking in a mirror and realising how stupid you are?

[Whorty]

You expended over another half an hour to come up with that turgid rebuttal? Should have saved your time. It was like being strafed by soap bubbles!

It may take you half an hour to write 2 paragraphs, but for those of us with an education past the age of 16, we can formulate sentences much faster.

[shaunbhoy]

My shaved head, goaty beard and tattoos probably made him think my views were like his.

More likely it was your slack-jawed gormless expression and your propensity to lick the windows.

Ye Gods, not only do you insist upon repetitively showing yourself up on here to be a benighted bird-brained wurzel, you have really gone to town by supplementing the whole business by dressing to unimpress as well!

[shaunbhoy]

It was you then?

As for engaging with him; it was a packed train when I joined and the only free seat was the one next to him at the window. I was a captive audience for his xenophobia. My shaved head, goaty beard and tattoos probably made him think my views were like his. I may look like a Chelsea headhunter, but as you say, my views are not!

You'd have liked him; he was full of bulltulip stories too. Although he only claimed to have single handedly won hockey games, rather than save us all from those pesky Russians.

You expended over another half an hour to come up with that turgid rebuttal? Should have saved your time. It was like being strafed by soap bubbles!

[Eirikur]

One for him, one for his ego.

And three for his potato sacks

[Whorty]

How many seats did he take up?

One for him, one for his ego.

[Old Greg]

It was you then?

How many seats did he take up?

[Whorty]

So to recap, whilst on the train to London some mindless yokel boarded the train and made a beeline for you. Wonder what prompted that?

He clearly saw you as a kindred spirit. Possibly the all-pervading stench of damp cabbage drew him towards you like a particularly simple-minded moth to an extremely dim lightbulb?

Maybe it is time to lose the classic neo-bumpkin fashion styling, perhaps lose the smock?

And despite the glaringly apparent fact that his views would seem to be diametrically opposed to yours across a whole welter of areas, you were still weasel enough to happily engage him in conversation the entire trip.

More evidence that you are, as most of us have come to realise, the weediest type of keyboard warrior.

Do please keep these tales coming, they are just the thing for a rainy friday night.

It was you then?

As for engaging with him; it was a packed train when I joined and the only free seat was the one next to him at the window. I was a captive audience for his xenophobia. My shaved head, goaty beard and tattoos probably made him think my views were like his. I may look like a Chelsea headhunter, but as you say, my views are not!

You'd have liked him; he was full of bulltulip stories too. Although he only claimed to have single handedly won hockey games, rather than save us all from those pesky Russians.

[shaunbhoy]

Was travelling from west country into London yesterday as had a freebie at Twickers for the varsity match. Agency I used to use wanted to schmooze me with free drink and food, and who was I to say no? Anyway, I digress....

At Salisbury I ended up sitting next to a chap who was probably late 50's, early 60's. Said he now lived near Sherbourne but used to live in West London. Got chatting and I said I was thinking of moving back to London after 3 years in the sticks.

Him: "You don't want to do that. It's changed so much you won't feel safe now"
Me: "I only moved out 3 years ago, and travel in quite a lot, I don't think it's changed that much in that time"
Him: "But it's full of people now who don't follow our culture. They bring their own in and just don't follow British way of living"
Me: "Who are 'they'?"
Him: "Well the foreigners. You know, the Russians, Arabs, Polish. They don't respect our culture. Peadophile rings in Rotherham and the like. Be better once we're out of Europe." (I jest not).
Me: "Well Russia and Arab countries aren't in Europe so Brexit won't make any difference there. And I don't think any Polish have been implicated in the Pedo rings. Aren't these pedos mostly british born anyway?" (tbh, I didn't know where the Rotherham blokes came from, but i figured he wouldn't either so I was safe).
Him: "BUt when I lived and worked in Dubai I had to follow their laws, we all did, but when they come over here no one follows the law"
Me: "Which laws exactly don't they follow?"
Him: "They're setting up Sharia Laws."

At that point I just changed the subject as he was clearly a fully paid up Daily Fail reader and knew his facts better than me

On the topic of the Varsity Match, he was proud to tell me his son is doing law at Oxford. He then said, Oxford Brookes. I nearly pee'd myself - it took all my control not to point out this was actually Oxford Poly

He also had a lot to say about how good our nurses are, and how little they get paid for the work they do (can't disagree with that). Then went on to say they then get poached to go work abroad, and we replace then with substandard (his words not mine) foreign nurses.

And we let these feckwits have a vote

Come on, fess up, which one of you was it?

So to recap, whilst on the train to London some mindless yokel boarded the train and made a beeline for you. Wonder what prompted that?

He clearly saw you as a kindred spirit. Possibly the all-pervading stench of damp cabbage drew him towards you like a particularly simple-minded moth to an extremely dim lightbulb?

Maybe it is time to lose the classic neo-bumpkin fashion styling, perhaps lose the smock?

And despite the glaringly apparent fact that his views would seem to be diametrically opposed to yours across a whole welter of areas, you were still weasel enough to happily engage him in conversation the entire trip.

More evidence that you are, as most of us have come to realise, the weediest type of keyboard warrior.

Do please keep these tales coming, they are just the thing for a rainy friday night.