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@no-quarter pretty sure there was something similar in NZ earlier this season,think it was soccer.
When TR Jnr played in a Northland wide rugby tournament earlier in the year they had people walking the sidelines ensuring parents were acting appropriately, no excessive cheering/shouting/booing etc
When coaching TR Jnrs team (U13) we have to stand behind the posts, opposition coach down the other end.
I can understand some parents (again, minority) that ruin it for everyone, but no cheering is pathetic.
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I'm all for nothing derogatory or negative, but being asked to not show encouragement is simply absurd.
This whole problem stems from a lack of people willing to enforce civil behaviour. By violence if necessary.
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@antipodean said in British Politics:
I'm all for nothing derogatory or negative, but being asked to not show encouragement is simply absurd.
This whole problem stems from a lack of people willing to enforce civil behaviour. By violence if necessary.
I'm wondering if these idiotic people and all the shit we're hearing simply have life way to easy.
I can't imagine any of this shit taking place in Thailand or the developing countries I've been to. Folks there just don't have time or energy to enforce their bullshit views on the world, and by contrast just accept most of the natural realities of the world.
It's a misguided mindset as the developed world would go to shit in a heartbeat if something like electricity was cut for a week.
Westerners are fucking soft, well some of them.
And yes for sure, all this impinging on basic behaviour will lead to violence, always the final arbiter of a ridiculous argument.
Some days I think "bring it on and reset people's reality"
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The problem is that these people are being given a platform - they have always existed, but due to social media, any ridiculous idea manages to gather pace, because fellow people who agree with said ridiculous idea search for them and then form a group.
The thing about Piers Morgan, and partially why I think he's so fantastic these days (I'm reformed, I used to hate him), is that I usually agree with almost all that he says. And he loves to bring people like this onto his show so he can point out the ridiculousness of their argument.
He basically just takes the piss out of social media fools, day in, day out ... and makes a killing out of it. Fair play, these fools think because GMB has agreed to have them on, they are getting a larger platform to share their ideas. When they are just getting a platform for Piers to laugh at the idiocy of their views.
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Repeating yet again the phrase WTF....
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@baron-silas-greenback said in British Politics:
Repeating yet again the phrase WTF....
What I find bizarre is that TR is always, and I mean always, referred to as the "former head of the EDL". He left that organisation because of the racism, yet he's forever saddled with that baggage. Are former Marxist leaders routinely referred to as "former leader of the communist" party" if they left that group? It's just a lazy means of denigrating him and dismissing him without ever actually having to address what he says.
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This was pretty smart by Tommy.
The reaction by many here is off the scale BS, which is exactly what I think was predicted. He's many things, but he's not an extremist.
As I've attested to in many posts above, I'm really not a fan of this bloke, but this was quite a good move to perhaps make those who dismiss him without thought, think again.
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@majorrage said in British Politics:
This was pretty smart by Tommy.
The reaction by many here is off the scale BS, which is exactly what I think was predicted. He's many things, but he's not an extremist.
As I've attested to in many posts above, I'm really not a fan of this bloke, but this was quite a good move to perhaps make those who dismiss him without thought, think again.
Is it/him getting any real coverage?
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@baron-silas-greenback barely a ripple, but I’ve not been in London today.
To be honest, it’s goimg to take more than this to overshadow May / Brexit at the moment.
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@jegga said in British Politics:
Morons
I wonder what would have happened had it been a flight from Istanbul with the Turkish equivalent of the Home Office...
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@rembrandt said in British Politics:
Oi!,do you have a license for that delicious looking pizza?
Has Corbyn complimented Venezuela’s anti obesity measures yet?
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@jegga said in British Politics:
@rembrandt said in British Politics:
Oi!,do you have a license for that delicious looking pizza?
Has Corbyn complimented Venezuela’s anti obesity measures yet?
Surely only a matter of time. Also their amazing environmental efforts reducing population impact (extremely likely to get exponentially better), oh and lets not forget their recent minimum wage increase, 3 million bolivars per month! Everyone's a millionaire in that socialist paradise!
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@rembrandt said in British Politics:
Oi!,do you have a license for that delicious looking pizza?
I can see a clash with the "big is beautiful" activists in the near future.
What I find weird is that stress about body image is at an alltime high, yet so is obesity. Interesting that hot chick on posters is banned in London yet obese land whales on the front cover of magazines is applauded. There can never ever be some kind of middle ground on anything can there?
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@rancid-schnitzel said in British Politics:
@rembrandt said in British Politics:
Oi!,do you have a license for that delicious looking pizza?
I can see a clash with the "big is beautiful" activists in the near future.
What I find weird is that stress about body image is at an alltime high, yet so is obesity. Interesting that hot chick on posters is banned in London yet obese land whales on the front cover of magazines is applauded. There can never ever be some kind of middle ground on anything can there?
Hot chick banned in London? Say what?
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@rancid-schnitzel they had the 'fat expert' from Massey uni on TV last night (the project)... far out. I get there are many reasons contributing to obesity and that 'shaming', in the genuine sense, isnt overly helpful for most. But to try and frame any and all commentary about risks and implications of obesity as shaming is fucking bullshit and dangerous.
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