Joined: 25 Feb 2010 Age: 45 Gender: Male Posts: 17,671 Location: Untied Kingdom
21 May 2010, 11:48 am
So instead of 'hug a hoodie', it's now going to be 'batter one'?
I think people did used to intervene in the affairs of others, but that was in the days before political correctness, widespread litigious culture, and general rampant anomie ruined society.
Maybe they think they can save some money by encouraging have a go heroes and public lynch mobs.
Does she look a bit like Emperor Palpatine, or is that just me?
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21 May 2010, 12:09 pm
Moog wrote:
So instead of 'hug a hoodie', it's now going to be 'batter one'?
I think people did used to intervene in the affairs of others, but that was in the days before political correctness, widespread litigious culture, and general rampant anomie ruined society.
Maybe they think they can save some money by encouraging have a go heroes and public lynch mobs.
Does she look a bit like Emperor Palpatine, or is that just me?
Yeah, her 'jowls' makes her sorta resemble palpatine XD
Joined: 3 Oct 2008 Age: 66 Gender: Male Posts: 515 Location: Hungary
22 May 2010, 3:22 pm
Hmmm, yeah, the way things in the UK are going there will be a closed circuit TV camera for every member of the population. That way you will all feel really safe.
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22 May 2010, 3:27 pm
Vanilla_Slice wrote:
Hmmm, yeah, the way things in the UK are going there will be a closed circuit TV camera for every member of the population. That way you will all feel really safe.
Vanilla_Slice
Looks like Orwell's vision of the future came true, only 26 years later than he predicted.
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23 May 2010, 3:09 am
"Then add in the race problem. Fifty years ago everyone in England was English. But now....... ?"
Fifty two years ago I was born in England, and I'm one quarter Polish, one quarter Swiss, one quarter irish and one quarter English. What does that make me? If you look carefully you'll find that some of the immigrant population in the UK are better behaved than the British, the Indian sub-continent and Jewish racial groups spring to mind. These people bring with them a mindset of 'study, work hard and then you will succeed', something which the average English kid should think about copying.
Joined: 21 Aug 2008 Age: 32 Gender: Female Posts: 1,196 Location: UK
23 May 2010, 10:09 am
Vanilla_Slice wrote:
Ummmmm, no
DO NOT DO THIS
Knives are a problem on Britain's streets and if you do this to the wrong person you're going to end up with a knife in the gut.
Vanilla_Slice
Yeah or you'll get your head kicked in. It just goes to show how completely out of touch some of these politicians are with the real world. I doubt that she has a problem with street crime where she lives. Or if she ever needed to call the police it would take them only a few minutes instead of a few hours to come.
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29 May 2010, 4:31 am
Actually I am all for public help.
If I see a a number of yobs knocking someone down and kicking him in the head.......
And I can pull out a pistol and shoot them down like dogs, without being charged with murder, then I am all for helping.
But that isn't gonna happen, is it?
In truth if I saw yobs assaulting or raping someone and I jumped out of my car with a baseball bat and laid into them then I would probably do more jail time than they did.