OT: Political threads but...

[great_fire]

Here's another beauty: Rwandan refugee given asylum in France and a job as churchwarden of Nantes cathedral repays them by burning the cathedral down. Add this guy to the long, long list of refugees and asylum seekers who have repaid us with violence. As Grist might say, When will we learn?

It fits with the current globalist/ Marxist agenda of tearing everything down and destroying nation states and their culture and history.

[wendun]

It fits with the current globalist/ Marxist agenda of tearing everything down and destroying nation states and their culture and history.

I don't always agree with you but I think here you have hit the nail on the head.

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

Grist, I don't like these people. I also accept I am probably a racist because I don't like the avalanche of adverts showing black guys screwing white women. Actually it shows them in loving relationships of equality with a perennially smiling black dad which if you know black guy's attitude to family is a joke. But all this is irrelevant because the dimensions of the problem that we will face will make even lefty liberal do-gooders say, "F*ck this for a game of soldiers!"

According to census figures the “white British” element of our society is 80% plus

There’s no way then that advertising, tv casts and other visual media reflects this figure

[great_fire]

According to census figures the “white British” element of our society is 80% plus

There’s no way then that advertising, tv casts and other visual media reflects this figure

The BBC are removing all straight white men from the screen, but they still want them to pay the TV licence.

Mo taxation without representation.

[ragingpup]

You guys must be so tired with all of this incessant, one track thought. Why not think about ponies or something?

[wendun]

You guys must be so tired with all of this incessant, one track thought. Why not think about ponies or something?

Fair enough but I suspect that if advertisers were regularly showing BAME people, or LGBT people, for example, in a demeaning light you would feel a responsibility to highlight it. It may be obsessive but it may still also be valid. I have repeatedly asked the ASA, several advertising companies and the major broadcasters to explain the disproportionate appearance of mixed race couples in advertising, within those couples almost universally a black man with a white woman (only very, very rarely the other way round), the absence of black/South Asian couples, the absence of South Asian/white couples and the absence of black/Chinese pairings. I am genuinely interested in what the thought processes here are.

[wendun]

I am indebted to psychologist Niro Sivanathan for confirming something I had long suspected and which is of particular relevance to two of our more esteemed posters - both of a certain persuasion.
Referring to a concept called the "dilution effect" Sivanathan points out that piling up "evidence" or arguments in a long-winded attempt to justify a point of view is counter-productive as the human brain has difficulty processing the verbosity. In short, keep it short! Btw, I never read more than 6 lines of text on MM so with longer posts I simply wing it.

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

I am indebted to psychologist Niro Sivanathan for confirming something I had long suspected and which is of particular relevance to two of our more esteemed posters - both of a certain persuasion.
Referring to a concept called the "dilution effect" Sivanathan points out that piling up "evidence" or arguments in a long-winded attempt to justify a point of view is counter-productive as the human brain has difficulty processing the verbosity. In short, keep it short! Btw, I never read more than 6 lines of text on MM so with longer posts I simply wing it.

Now you know why I block two of our regularly verbose muppets

[Geetarman]

Now you know why I block two of our regularly verbose muppets

You being a less verbose cynic about everything and anything?

You toddle off to Google and you become an expert, on Life the Universe and Everything?

I feel that you are retired, and bored, yet need to have some sort of influence on people. I could bar you, but..you are an in interesting case.

Forgot to add, you are retired alone, and don't have a lot going on in your life. That's how I read it.

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

You being a less verbose cynic about everything and anything?

You toddle off to Google and you become an expert, on Life the Universe and Everything?

I feel that you are retired, and bored, yet need to have some sort of influence on people. I could bar you, but..you are an in interesting case.

Forgot to add, you are retired alone, and don't have a lot going on in your life. That's how I read it.

No I busk on street corners