General News Chat

[stewarty27]

Yeah, maybe these groups who have put up with years (sometimes centuries) of oppression, marginalisation, abuse, humiliation, lesser opportunity, persecution etc. should learn to be less sensitive and get back in the box we put them in, just when they are starting to find a voice.

Aye aye Martin Luther King I feel the unfeigned sensitivity of that post down to my toes. Snook.

[donsdaft]

Lots of things happened to my ancestors which meant I have no money.

Right, who's paying me?

[Shetland Don]

Not sure there’s a woman in the UK who puts up with more abuse than her & it’s nothing to do with her intelligence.

She and Corbin canna count min and they were going to try to run the UK! Some bloody mess that would have been.

[Mason89]

She and Corbin canna count min and they were going to try to run the UK! Some bloody mess that would have been.

She’s a Cambridge graduate, I’m pretty sure she can count.

You only think it would’ve been a mess because you’ve been conditioned to do so.

[donsdaft]

Sent her son to fee paying school.

She can get tae fück.

[57vintage]

She and Corbin canna count min and they were going to try to run the UK! Some bloody mess that would have been.

As opposed to the fuucking paradise it is? Oh aye.

If you're looking for a male/female arithmetical nightmare duo, Truss and Kwarteng have left everyone needing snookers to catch up.

[Basingstokered]

She’s a Cambridge graduate, I’m pretty sure she can count.

You only think it would’ve been a mess because you’ve been conditioned to do so.

Yeah she can count suggested that the cost of 10,000 new police officers would be £300,000 then when pointed out that’s a low wage suggested £80 million which is only £8,000 a year.

Might be maths in you pie in the sky world

[Shetland Don]

She’s a Cambridge graduate, I’m pretty sure she can count.

You only think it would’ve been a mess because you’ve been conditioned to do so.

A history degree though.

[Shetland Don]

Yeah she can count suggested that the cost of 10,000 new police officers would be £300,000 then when pointed out that’s a low wage suggested £80 million which is only £8,000 a year.

Might be maths in you pie in the sky world

That’s the one - not a natural with the numbers. Did she not sh** Corbyn in afield once though?

[57vintage]

Yeah she can count suggested that the cost of 10,000 new police officers would be £300,000 then when pointed out that’s a low wage suggested £80 million which is only £8,000 a year.

Might be maths in you pie in the sky world

"your"

[Shetland Don]

As opposed to the fuucking paradise it is? Oh aye.

If you're looking for a male/female arithmetical nightmare duo, Truss and Kwarteng have left everyone needing snookers to catch up.

They weren’t great either. Spooked the markets big time.

[Shetland Don]

"your"

Tut tut.

[Shetland Don]

Sent her son to fee paying school.

She can get tae fück.

Social mobility, some say.

[donsdaft]

Some can fück right off.

[WhenTattieFlooredChas]

Aye aye Martin Luther King I feel the unfeigned sensitivity of that post down to my toes. Snook.

I just find it curious how middle aged (or post middle aged), hetro***ual white folks can decide what's offensive to minority groups when they have know first hand knowledge of what they suffer in their lives.

It's like people who get het up about "taking the knee". I totally agree this has lost its original meaning since leaving the US, when Kapernick used it to protest against police brutality by not standing for the national anthem. That was an act that really resonated (positively and negatively) with American sports fans, and across theboverly patriotic country as a whole. But no matter what I think about its impact on these shores, who are we to tell a black athlete it's nonsense, or to criticise their colleagues who stand (or kneel) in solidarity. It doesn't hurt us, and it might send a posotive message to others.

Or its like those of a certain generation thinking people with mental health issues just need to man up "like they did in my day", or they are using them to scive off work.

The world changes, people who have been historically oppressed get more of a voice, and it's not our place to tell those people what they can and can't be offended by when we don't understand their situation. I don't understand people's situations, but I try to educate myself as to why certain words and actions may cause offence.

And queue the wokerati, bleeding heart lefty, liberal bollox retorts.