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Post by cobhamstokey on Dec 19, 2022 23:30:03 GMT
Fair enough we’ll have to agree to disagree. If you want to talk about personalising though it’s very rare that I do it and fair enough if I’ve offended you I apologise. But if you want to “balance” things out you may want to pop onto numerous threads like this and the London one if you want to see people being “targeted” and “personalised.” Maybe I’m a bit of a hypocritic but believe me there’s far worse. To be honest you haven't offended me at all and there is no need to apologise, although it is appreciated. I was aware that my first paragraph in the post was very personalised and I was explaining why I had made it so, it's not something that ordinarily (like you) I would normally resort to. Fair play.
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Post by Rednwhitenblue on Dec 20, 2022 16:19:44 GMT
I agree that you're exactly as described by yourself above Out of interest, why do you post endless numbers of articles about deaths, stabbings etc in London? You talk about expecting balance from others but, on that thread at least, you're one of the worst 'offenders' of all. You live in Cobham (I assume) which is not far from London (might even be part of it for all I know), you've said you never see a whiff of trouble and every post is the same: a death and destruction story! Is it simply that you hate Sadiq Khan and want to make it look like 'his' London is an out of control hellhole? Cobham is in Surrey and not London. I’m fortunate that on the whole it’s a nice place to live. I’ve lived and worked in London for many, many years though, though recently my trips to the smoke have been visits to see friends so I’d like to think that over the years Ive got to know the area well and have many friends who live there (Dalston, Islington, Croydon, Leyton, Bromley and Hounslow) so I get kept abreast of things. I’d say I have the right to an opinion even if you don’t agree with it. Do you live in London yourself? It’s not a personal thing re Khan. I can’t pretend to like him but then I don’t have time for many politicians. I just happen to have a different opinion about London to you and some of the others on here which I base on experience and what I’m told. Maybe I’m a little set in my ways but certainly no more than you just my opinion is different. In relation to bias my bias is no more worse than those posting on the monarchy, Government or many other threads. I’d say the frequency of my posts on the London threads are far less common than those on the government threads and are at least factual rather than some random twitter link put up 10 times a day. I’m not a fan of the Tory party either before you say and will be voting Labour in the next election as I don’t mind Starmer and something needs to change after a disastrous few years. You didn't actually get round to answering the question: why do you post endless numbers of articles about deaths, stabbings etc in London? Agenda?
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Post by cobhamstokey on Dec 20, 2022 16:43:52 GMT
Cobham is in Surrey and not London. I’m fortunate that on the whole it’s a nice place to live. I’ve lived and worked in London for many, many years though, though recently my trips to the smoke have been visits to see friends so I’d like to think that over the years Ive got to know the area well and have many friends who live there (Dalston, Islington, Croydon, Leyton, Bromley and Hounslow) so I get kept abreast of things. I’d say I have the right to an opinion even if you don’t agree with it. Do you live in London yourself? It’s not a personal thing re Khan. I can’t pretend to like him but then I don’t have time for many politicians. I just happen to have a different opinion about London to you and some of the others on here which I base on experience and what I’m told. Maybe I’m a little set in my ways but certainly no more than you just my opinion is different. In relation to bias my bias is no more worse than those posting on the monarchy, Government or many other threads. I’d say the frequency of my posts on the London threads are far less common than those on the government threads and are at least factual rather than some random twitter link put up 10 times a day. I’m not a fan of the Tory party either before you say and will be voting Labour in the next election as I don’t mind Starmer and something needs to change after a disastrous few years. You didn't actually get round to answering the question: why do you post endless numbers of articles about deaths, stabbings etc in London? Agenda? Yep I have an agenda re I don’t like young lads killing each other.
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Post by Rednwhitenblue on Dec 20, 2022 16:51:58 GMT
You didn't actually get round to answering the question: why do you post endless numbers of articles about deaths, stabbings etc in London? Agenda? Yep I have an agenda re I don’t like young lads killing each other. But why the focus only on London?
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Post by knype on Dec 20, 2022 16:54:48 GMT
Yep I have an agenda re I don’t like young lads killing each other. But why the focus only on London? Because its on a Met Police thread?
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Post by cobhamstokey on Dec 20, 2022 16:56:29 GMT
Yep I have an agenda re I don’t like young lads killing each other. But why the focus only on London? Because it’s near to me and it’s where I’ve spent a lot of my life and I can see it going down the pan.
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Post by Rednwhitenblue on Dec 20, 2022 17:02:55 GMT
But why the focus only on London? Because it’s near to me and it’s where I’ve spent a lot of my life and I can see it going down the pan. I see. That's a shame, if that is what's happening. The London thread appears to be very much a place for people to post all the negative stories of the city they can find by the looks of it, so I can see why you're such an enthusiastic contributor. It reminds me a lot of the cultural enrichment thread that was on here some time back, aka the I Hate Muslims thread. A very similar approach, content and contributor, and, peculiarly enough, started by the same poster! One can only wonder there about what the link might be that encouraged such thread generation about muslims and Sadiq Khan's mayoralty of London!
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Post by The Drunken Communist on Dec 20, 2022 17:04:26 GMT
Mum, mum, people are talking about things that I don't want them talking about, mum, tell them mum!
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Post by knype on Dec 20, 2022 17:06:05 GMT
Because it’s near to me and it’s where I’ve spent a lot of my life and I can see it going down the pan. I see. That's a shame, if that is what's happening. The London thread appears to be very much a place for people to post all the negative stories of the city they can find by the looks of it, so I can see why you're such an enthusiastic contributor. It reminds me a lot of the cultural enrichment thread that was on here some time back, aka the I Hate Muslims thread. A very similar approach, content and contributor, and, peculiarly enough, started by the same poster! One can only wonder there about what the link might be that encouraged such thread generation! What an absolute load of claptrap
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Post by Rednwhitenblue on Dec 20, 2022 17:33:43 GMT
I see. That's a shame, if that is what's happening. The London thread appears to be very much a place for people to post all the negative stories of the city they can find by the looks of it, so I can see why you're such an enthusiastic contributor. It reminds me a lot of the cultural enrichment thread that was on here some time back, aka the I Hate Muslims thread. A very similar approach, content and contributor, and, peculiarly enough, started by the same poster! One can only wonder there about what the link might be that encouraged such thread generation! What an absolute load of claptrap On behalf of everyone can you please stop these well put together, impossible to argue with rebuttals. The place is about shooting the breeze, differences of opinion. You'll kill off every thread with this kind of barrister-like approach
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Post by knype on Dec 20, 2022 18:00:12 GMT
What an absolute load of claptrap On behalf of everyone can you please stop these well put together, impossible to argue with rebuttals. The place is about shooting the breeze, differences of opinion. You'll kill off every thread with this kind of barrister-like approach Well done RWB. 👏 more shite
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Dec 20, 2022 18:36:42 GMT
But why the focus only on London? Because its on a Met Police thread? Talk your way out of that one Deputy Bluers🤣
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Post by foster on Dec 20, 2022 18:54:34 GMT
Because it’s near to me and it’s where I’ve spent a lot of my life and I can see it going down the pan. I see. That's a shame, if that is what's happening. The London thread appears to be very much a place for people to post all the negative stories of the city they can find by the looks of it, so I can see why you're such an enthusiastic contributor. It reminds me a lot of the cultural enrichment thread that was on here some time back, aka the I Hate Muslims thread. A very similar approach, content and contributor, and, peculiarly enough, started by the same poster! One can only wonder there about what the link might be that encouraged such thread generation about muslims and Sadiq Khan's mayoralty of London! Not sure how pointing out negatives about a city and being Islamophobic are similar. I don't recall Hartshill starting that other one either, but I can't find it so can't be sure.
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Post by cobhamstokey on Dec 20, 2022 19:10:43 GMT
I see. That's a shame, if that is what's happening. The London thread appears to be very much a place for people to post all the negative stories of the city they can find by the looks of it, so I can see why you're such an enthusiastic contributor. It reminds me a lot of the cultural enrichment thread that was on here some time back, aka the I Hate Muslims thread. A very similar approach, content and contributor, and, peculiarly enough, started by the same poster! One can only wonder there about what the link might be that encouraged such thread generation about muslims and Sadiq Khan's mayoralty of London! Not sure how pointing out negatives about a city and being Islamophobic are similar. I don't recall Hartshill starting that other one either, but I can't find it so can't be sure. It isn’t and he didn’t but let’s not let facts in the way
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Post by thevoid on Dec 20, 2022 19:24:12 GMT
Not sure how pointing out negatives about a city and being Islamophobic are similar. I don't recall Hartshill starting that other one either, but I can't find it so can't be sure. It isn’t and he didn’t but let’s not let facts in the way I wonder if Bluers would have similar qualms about discussing crime in London if Boris was still mayor? Like Foster says, not sure what the ethnicity of the mayor has to do with it, the same issues would surely be present if the mayor was Buddhist? In fact it's Bluers who seems feverishly determined to crowbar race, Islam and a thread from ages ago into it, can't think why 😀 Anyway, I'd better not have a go at the state of Hanley again (on a day when another independent business closes on Piccadilly) as our Lord Mayor is...well, you get the picture. Although he is Conservative so does that cancel his ethnicity out? 😉
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Post by Paul Spencer on Dec 20, 2022 19:27:04 GMT
Because its on a Met Police thread? Talk your way out of that one Deputy Bluers🤣 To be fair, they weren't talking about this thread were they? The question he asked, was specifically in regard to the London thread.
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Dec 20, 2022 19:33:54 GMT
Talk your way out of that one Deputy Bluers🤣 To be fair, they weren't talking about this thread were they? The question he asked, was specifically in regard to the London thread. The fact is Bluers is talking out of his arse as usual. Can’t take an opinion of someone who has worked and friends in London for years because he thinks there’s some kind of racial undertone which of course is utter bollocks. Why is it folk have to try and find some ulterior motive all the time? It’s fine to debate, it’s what the board is for but now it’s being compared to some anti Muslim thread from ages ago which, by the way, must have before my time as I don’t recall it
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Post by Paul Spencer on Dec 20, 2022 19:36:08 GMT
To be fair, they weren't talking about this thread were they? The question he asked, was specifically in regard to the London thread. The fact is Bluers is talking out of his arse as usual. Can’t take an opinion of someone who has worked and friends in London for years because he thinks there’s some kind of racial undertone which of course is utter bollocks. Why is it folk have to try and find some ulterior motive all the time? It’s fine to debate, it’s what the board is for but now it’s being compared to some anti Muslim thread from ages ago which, by the way, must have before my time as I don’t recall it That thread is before my time too but the fact is, that Knype has dived in feet first and not realised that they were talking about the London thread, NOT this one.
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Dec 20, 2022 19:38:45 GMT
The fact is Bluers is talking out of his arse as usual. Can’t take an opinion of someone who has worked and friends in London for years because he thinks there’s some kind of racial undertone which of course is utter bollocks. Why is it folk have to try and find some ulterior motive all the time? It’s fine to debate, it’s what the board is for but now it’s being compared to some anti Muslim thread from ages ago which, by the way, must have before my time as I don’t recall it That thread is before my time too but the fact is, that Knype has dived in feet first and not realised that they were talking about the London thread, NOT this one. That’s fine, I can’t be arsed to go back but I suspect your diligence isn’t unfounded. Bit of a stretch to compare to some kind of anti Muslim thread though don’t you think? I think the argument pool is running dry
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Post by Paul Spencer on Dec 20, 2022 19:41:26 GMT
That thread is before my time too but the fact is, that Knype has dived in feet first and not realised that they were talking about the London thread, NOT this one. That’s fine, I can’t be arsed to go back but I suspect your diligence isn’t unfounded. Bit of a stretch to compare to some kind of anti Muslim thread though don’t you think? I think the argument pool is running dry As I said, that thread was before my time and I don't want to start passing comment on it, without knowing it's actual contents.
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Dec 20, 2022 19:41:58 GMT
That’s fine, I can’t be arsed to go back but I suspect your diligence isn’t unfounded. Bit of a stretch to compare to some kind of anti Muslim thread though don’t you think? I think the argument pool is running dry As I said, that thread was before my time and I don't want to start passing comment on it, without knowing it's actual contents. Have a lovely evening
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Post by knype on Dec 20, 2022 19:48:38 GMT
The fact is Bluers is talking out of his arse as usual. Can’t take an opinion of someone who has worked and friends in London for years because he thinks there’s some kind of racial undertone which of course is utter bollocks. Why is it folk have to try and find some ulterior motive all the time? It’s fine to debate, it’s what the board is for but now it’s being compared to some anti Muslim thread from ages ago which, by the way, must have before my time as I don’t recall it That thread is before my time too but the fact is, that Knype has dived in feet first and not realised that they were talking about the London thread, NOT this one. Ha ha, so it's my fault RWB has basically gone balls deep and related it to an anti Muslim thread ? 🤣
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Post by Rednwhitenblue on Dec 20, 2022 19:50:27 GMT
Talk your way out of that one Deputy Bluers🤣 To be fair, they weren't talking about this thread were they? The question he asked, was specifically in regard to the London thread. Shhh, don't let facts get in the way!
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Post by knype on Dec 20, 2022 19:53:07 GMT
To be fair, they weren't talking about this thread were they? The question he asked, was specifically in regard to the London thread. Shhh, don't let facts get in the way! Why reply on this thread then ? And it wasn't clear, but carry on with your agenda RWB
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Post by Paul Spencer on Dec 20, 2022 19:54:46 GMT
That thread is before my time too but the fact is, that Knype has dived in feet first and not realised that they were talking about the London thread, NOT this one. Ha ha, so it's my fault RWB has basically gone balls deep and related it to an anti Muslim thread ? 🤣 What on earth are you on about? That has got absolutely NOTHING to do with what I said.
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Post by felonious on Dec 20, 2022 19:58:29 GMT
I see. That's a shame, if that is what's happening. The London thread appears to be very much a place for people to post all the negative stories of the city they can find by the looks of it, so I can see why you're such an enthusiastic contributor. It reminds me a lot of the cultural enrichment thread that was on here some time back, aka the I Hate Muslims thread. A very similar approach, content and contributor, and, peculiarly enough, started by the same poster! One can only wonder there about what the link might be that encouraged such thread generation about muslims and Sadiq Khan's mayoralty of London! Not sure how pointing out negatives about a city and being Islamophobic are similar. I don't recall Hartshill starting that other one either, but I can't find it so can't be sure. I just wish they'd all show the same enthusiasm for defending the city of Stoke On Trent
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Post by Rednwhitenblue on Dec 20, 2022 19:59:20 GMT
Shhh, don't let facts get in the way! Why reply on this thread then ? And it wasn't clear, but carry on with your agenda RWB Because I wanted to ask Cobham a question and referred directly to the London thread previously! It was clear enough to Paul Spencer, obviously not to you lot but that doesn't surprise me one bit!
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Post by knype on Dec 20, 2022 20:03:44 GMT
Ha ha, so it's my fault RWB has basically gone balls deep and related it to an anti Muslim thread ? 🤣 What on earth are you on about? That has got absolutely NOTHING to do with what I said. Hasn't it ? OK mate
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Post by knype on Dec 20, 2022 20:04:26 GMT
Why reply on this thread then ? And it wasn't clear, but carry on with your agenda RWB Because I wanted to ask Cobham a question and referred directly to the London thread previously! It was clear enough to Paul Spencer, obviously not to you lot but that doesn't surprise me one bit! Which lot ? Please explain ?
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Post by Paul Spencer on Dec 20, 2022 20:05:03 GMT
What on earth are you on about? That has got absolutely NOTHING to do with what I said. Hasn't it ? OK mate Amazed that you thought it had but at least you're clear now.
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