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Ok so this guy is a racist cunt and I have no sympathy, but I can't help but think that people say racist stuff on sickipedia/youtube/etc everyday with no consequences. But when people threaten to blow up an airport or make racist jokes on Twitter they get prosecuted for it.
Thoughts/Opinions?
Alt. Oh fuck it, Lunch?
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:16, 99 replies, latest was 12 years ago)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-17515992
Ok so this guy is a racist cunt and I have no sympathy, but I can't help but think that people say racist stuff on sickipedia/youtube/etc everyday with no consequences. But when people threaten to blow up an airport or make racist jokes on Twitter they get prosecuted for it.
Thoughts/Opinions?
Alt. Oh fuck it, Lunch?
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:16, 99 replies, latest was 12 years ago)
The police wont arrest you unless people make a complaint.
For crimes like this you need to have someone who is "offended" by it and complains about it for it to become a police matter.
No one gives a shit about sickipedia and anyone with any sense ignores all comments on youtube.
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:22, Reply)
For crimes like this you need to have someone who is "offended" by it and complains about it for it to become a police matter.
No one gives a shit about sickipedia and anyone with any sense ignores all comments on youtube.
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:22, Reply)
So if no-one is offended its not considered a crime?
Fucking stupid. I offend people all the time.
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:26, Reply)
Fucking stupid. I offend people all the time.
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:26, Reply)
Well if you dig a hole in the middle of nowhere and climb in
mock Diana, deny the holocaust, be racist homophobic etc, what's the problem?
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:28, Reply)
mock Diana, deny the holocaust, be racist homophobic etc, what's the problem?
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:28, Reply)
But people do get offended by the shit on sickipedia
but reporting jrg23 or whoever isn't going to do shit.
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:33, Reply)
but reporting jrg23 or whoever isn't going to do shit.
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:33, Reply)
someone does some good stand up about being "offended" and how it really doesn't matter
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:26, Reply)
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:26, Reply)
It's not really very good. I remember seeing it and all he does is build up a nice straw man argument.
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:35, Reply)
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:35, Reply)
i meant it's funny, not that it's the end of all arguments with reagrds to offence etc
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHMoDt3nSHs
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:36, Reply)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHMoDt3nSHs
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:36, Reply)
It's not really funny though, it's a bunch of "jokes" that have been used repeatedly by people with a better sense of comic timing than him.
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:54, Reply)
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:54, Reply)
oh no your opinion differs to mine
*deletes acount and kills self*
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 13:25, Reply)
*deletes acount and kills self*
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 13:25, Reply)
so what you're saying is
someone does some good stand up about being "offended" and how it really doesn't matter, and it wasn't Steve Hughes.
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 13:28, Reply)
someone does some good stand up about being "offended" and how it really doesn't matter, and it wasn't Steve Hughes.
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 13:28, Reply)
why is it worse to be be rude about someone due to theiur race rather than their weight/height or other physical attribute?
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:39, Reply)
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:39, Reply)
Good point, that
The Monday after Muamba's heart attack Battered said that it would have been hilarious if he'd died, and that's probably not even in the top ten of offensive statements for that week.
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:23, Reply)
The Monday after Muamba's heart attack Battered said that it would have been hilarious if he'd died, and that's probably not even in the top ten of offensive statements for that week.
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:23, Reply)
I would have lolled heartily if that had happened, not because he's black, but because he's a footballer
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:25, Reply)
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:25, Reply)
I think that might have been his issue
All the same, if someone here had taken umbrage with such a statement and made a complaint, or linked to it on their FB etc, I don't think our protestations that "but b3ta is just like that, it's not SERIOUS" would have done him many favours.
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:30, Reply)
All the same, if someone here had taken umbrage with such a statement and made a complaint, or linked to it on their FB etc, I don't think our protestations that "but b3ta is just like that, it's not SERIOUS" would have done him many favours.
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:30, Reply)
I think his point was that the papers wasn't WAH WAH WAHing as much as he was over his father in law's death.
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:47, Reply)
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:47, Reply)
.... but then two or three moments later, it would be hesterical if Bono died and it didn't make the papers.
Something like that.
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:48, Reply)
Something like that.
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:48, Reply)
I imagine they would have been had he carked it on live TV though
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:48, Reply)
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:48, Reply)
I told a coworker that some code had Muamba'd
Because it ran for 40 minutes and then fell over.
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 13:19, Reply)
Because it ran for 40 minutes and then fell over.
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 13:19, Reply)
what about that walken4GOP twat? he has been tweeting in support!
and going on about sheboons and their disgusting "niglets" stinking up the usa and how he is glad whitney is dead so that she can no longer have the same surname as his beloved city... he can't understand why the whole of the uk seems to be sending him hate-filled tweets, and thinks that we are all gay...
i think he should be made to wear a t-shirt with his top ten tweets on it. and then made to walk around various cities in it. that'd do.
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:26, Reply)
and going on about sheboons and their disgusting "niglets" stinking up the usa and how he is glad whitney is dead so that she can no longer have the same surname as his beloved city... he can't understand why the whole of the uk seems to be sending him hate-filled tweets, and thinks that we are all gay...
i think he should be made to wear a t-shirt with his top ten tweets on it. and then made to walk around various cities in it. that'd do.
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:26, Reply)
I like the way you've adapted the Die Hard With A Vengeance tactic for the digital age
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:32, Reply)
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:32, Reply)
Ooooh, so close
It is an excellent film but it's not as good as the first. But then, very little is.
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:42, Reply)
It is an excellent film but it's not as good as the first. But then, very little is.
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:42, Reply)
Ah, what would you know?
You probably fancy Alan Rickman more than I do.
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:45, Reply)
You probably fancy Alan Rickman more than I do.
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:45, Reply)
This is more or less why the first one is better
" symbol here but it keeps deleting for some reason) Jeremy Irons
I'm basing this on their roles as the Gruber brothers alone, but say what you will about Le Rickman, he wasn't in Dungeons & Dragons
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:46, Reply)
" symbol here but it keeps deleting for some reason) Jeremy Irons
I'm basing this on their roles as the Gruber brothers alone, but say what you will about Le Rickman, he wasn't in Dungeons & Dragons
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:46, Reply)
I cannot comment on that film as I haven't seen it
Although I am assured that it's shite. Which is why I haven't seen it.
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:56, Reply)
Although I am assured that it's shite. Which is why I haven't seen it.
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:56, Reply)
The guys clearly tried to be funny, then backpedalled as soon as he realised it wasn't funny.
Bit of a nothing really, but ah well, who gives a fuck?
Alt: BBQ pork.
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:29, Reply)
Bit of a nothing really, but ah well, who gives a fuck?
Alt: BBQ pork.
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:29, Reply)
agree with the hypocrasy of not charging everyone but he's a moron and probably said something less jokey and more hateful than usual
I need a sandwich / lunch suggestion:
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:30, Reply)
I need a sandwich / lunch suggestion:
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:30, Reply)
I'd love to give a fuck about this story.
I just can't though, sorry.
xxxxx
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:33, Reply)
I just can't though, sorry.
xxxxx
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:33, Reply)
Anyone who takes to Twitter and makes a controversial/hateful/idiotic statement deserves everything they get
It should be fucking obvious that such things will be retweeted and quite possibly taken out of context. You're sticking your head on the block just by logging on.
Plus it's shit.
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:33, Reply)
It should be fucking obvious that such things will be retweeted and quite possibly taken out of context. You're sticking your head on the block just by logging on.
Plus it's shit.
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:33, Reply)
This is a significant state blow against our fundamental rights to freedom of speech
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:35, Reply)
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:35, Reply)
You're a significant blow against our fundamental right to freedom of speach.
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:37, Reply)
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:37, Reply)
What a waste of tax money
56 days in prison? Why didn't they just give him community service so he could do some good in the community. He's clearly not a danger to society.
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:48, Reply)
56 days in prison? Why didn't they just give him community service so he could do some good in the community. He's clearly not a danger to society.
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:48, Reply)
Incentivises the rest of Twitter to shut the fuck up though
and I for one am all for that
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:49, Reply)
and I for one am all for that
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:49, Reply)
I see horrificly racist comments every day on facebook, from the EDL lot.
I'd love to see them all pulled up on it.
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:50, Reply)
I'd love to see them all pulled up on it.
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:50, Reply)
Yeah', hating muslims counts as racist, despite the whole "islam isn't a race" thing.
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:53, Reply)
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:53, Reply)
Yeah, see how many of them can tell the difference between Asian catholics, Hindus, Budists and Muslims
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:58, Reply)
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:58, Reply)
frankly, I think the real question is will Gonz be in my The Wanted tribute band?
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 13:03, Reply)
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 13:03, Reply)
Not until you commit to recreating Feeling Strangly Fine by Semisonic.
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 13:06, Reply)
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 13:06, Reply)
It seems like the thin end of the wedge.
Before you know it we'll be doing closing time or secret smile.
While I have nothing against semisonic, they're just not The Wanted.
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 13:12, Reply)
Before you know it we'll be doing closing time or secret smile.
While I have nothing against semisonic, they're just not The Wanted.
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 13:12, Reply)
How about we form two tribute bands then.
One for semisonic and one for The Wanted?
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 13:15, Reply)
One for semisonic and one for The Wanted?
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 13:15, Reply)
I like Wanted More and floppysonic.
If we had our own band we'd be the bearded jew.
Cause Gonz has a beard and I'm circumcised.
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 13:35, Reply)
If we had our own band we'd be the bearded jew.
Cause Gonz has a beard and I'm circumcised.
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 13:35, Reply)
I think the subtext of the subtext though is that nobody likes Battered.
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 13:10, Reply)
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 13:10, Reply)
I don't not like battered.
I don't really like him though either.
I'm fairly neutral on battered.
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 13:14, Reply)
I don't really like him though either.
I'm fairly neutral on battered.
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 13:14, Reply)
I think it's well funny.
"What you in for mate?"
"....Twitter"
Geezer's gonna get eaten alive. Good.
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 13:37, Reply)
"What you in for mate?"
"....Twitter"
Geezer's gonna get eaten alive. Good.
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 13:37, Reply)
Like Chompy said above, it requires an "offended" party
If people started to lodge formal complaints against sickipedia, or against racist posts by youtube users, the offending parties probably wouldn't last very long. By contrast, on here, there's a tacit understanding that it's all very tongue-in-cheek and we're here to share the coarser end of our sense of humour: we're all offensive and nobody gets offended. I'd like to think if the guy in question had turned up and posted the same stuff here, it wouldn't be long before he was either flamed off the board or belted with a mod's ban hammer.
I do wonder whether he's been sent down because the remarks were about such a widely publicised story. I can't help but suspect the sentence wouldn't have been as harsh if he'd been pulled up for making similarly nasty remarks about a comparatively unknown youtube video.
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 13:49, Reply)
If people started to lodge formal complaints against sickipedia, or against racist posts by youtube users, the offending parties probably wouldn't last very long. By contrast, on here, there's a tacit understanding that it's all very tongue-in-cheek and we're here to share the coarser end of our sense of humour: we're all offensive and nobody gets offended. I'd like to think if the guy in question had turned up and posted the same stuff here, it wouldn't be long before he was either flamed off the board or belted with a mod's ban hammer.
I do wonder whether he's been sent down because the remarks were about such a widely publicised story. I can't help but suspect the sentence wouldn't have been as harsh if he'd been pulled up for making similarly nasty remarks about a comparatively unknown youtube video.
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 13:49, Reply)
*squeals to mods*
Hang on, weren't you tipped to become the mod here...?
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 13:51, Reply)
Hang on, weren't you tipped to become the mod here...?
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 13:51, Reply)
I imagine you're right with this last point
but that only makes him a bigger fucking idiot, if he had the faintest idea of how Twitter works he must have known he'd get RT'd all over the shop. He probably has a case to complain that he's been made an example of because of the profile of the abused, but he probably would have done well to just not racially abuse a critically ill man.
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 14:00, Reply)
but that only makes him a bigger fucking idiot, if he had the faintest idea of how Twitter works he must have known he'd get RT'd all over the shop. He probably has a case to complain that he's been made an example of because of the profile of the abused, but he probably would have done well to just not racially abuse a critically ill man.
( , Tue 27 Mar 2012, 14:00, Reply)
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