The thought police

[BrilloPad]

Don't know whatcha talking about.

At your age hardly surprising.....

[NotAllThere]

Oh look there's another echo in here echo in here echo in here.

It must do 3 for the price of one especially for mods.

Don't know whatcha talking about.

[DoctorStrangelove]

The article is here: Sri Lanka to deport Buddha tattoo British woman - BBC News

The article is here: Sri Lanka to deport Buddha tattoo British woman - BBC News

The article is here: Sri Lanka to deport Buddha tattoo British woman - BBC News

Oh look there's another echo in here echo in here echo in here.

It must do 3 for the price of one especially for mods.

[NotAllThere]

Follow up story here. She sued, and won compensation from the Sri Lankan supreme court.

[original PM]

The article is here: Sri Lanka to deport Buddha tattoo British woman - BBC News

Hmm yeah not condoning it but PB was not 100% wrong....

Not that we should judge by appearances obviously.

[NotAllThere]

1) We really need a picture of the Munter.

The article is here: Sri Lanka to deport Buddha tattoo British woman - BBC News

[original PM]

1) We really need a picture of the Munter.
2) There are some legends on that thread - some are sorely missed.
3) There does need to be a review and understanding of the difference between 'hate speech' and a 'joke i find a bit offensive and so anybody telling it should be locked up'

Mainly because if you keep pushing for the latter then people will be happy to be hung for a sheep as for a lamb and the situation gets worse and not better.


Probably.

[NotAllThere]

[BrilloPad]

Another one he liked was "I was born a mammal but now identify as fish".

[NotAllThere]

I had a post edited and then a ban for moaning about it on here once - whilst it's not big or clever going around offending people for fun, it's difficult to get right without making the world utterly anodyne and fearful.

Five years ago, for post 16 here: https://www.contractoruk.com/forums/...ul-munter.html and it still rankles, eh?

Get over yourself, princess.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

I had a post edited and then a ban for moaning about it on here once - whilst it's not big or clever going around offending people for fun, it's difficult to get right without making the world utterly anodyne and fearful.

[NotAllThere]

It's these activists - they respond to anything that doesn't match their ideology with hate and venom. Bang 'em up, I say.

[ladymuck]

It's not a nice limerick and actually quite a rubbish one too but I agree that the general principle is that debate gets shut down as hate speech when it would be far healthier if everyone could freely talk.

[BrilloPad]

Hate crime rules challenged in court after man quizzed by Humberside Police for liking 'transgender limerick' - Grimsby Live

A former police officer has launched a High Court case about his "freedom of expression" after being contacted by Humberside Police for liking a limerick about transgender people on Twitter.

Be careful what you think.....