Eednud Posted September 28, 2023 Share Posted September 28, 2023 34 minutes ago, SlipperyP said: 20/24 for the quiz. Am i allowed to return? Also got 20/24 but I don’t want to return. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeTillEhDeh Posted September 28, 2023 Share Posted September 28, 2023 12 hours ago, GNU_Linux said: One thing that's always bothered re: the subject at hand is the concept of 'integration' that no-one seems to ever define or elaborate on. The irony is any given definition would show normal island to be a smidge hypocritical if your stereotypical ex-pat in Spain is anything to go by. Tebbut's cricket test probably being the worst measure. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted September 28, 2023 Share Posted September 28, 2023 13 hours ago, BTFD said: I've been hearing the "Scotland's lucky, it doesn't have to put up with them" stuff from racists for decades. We had one on here who memorably told a terrifying story about the time he was on a bus in London and realised that nobody else on the bus was white! The story finished there, but I assume they all must have jumped him and twisted his nipples or something. I was once on a bus in Dingwall when I realised everybody else was a County fan! Still I lived to tell the tale! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted September 28, 2023 Share Posted September 28, 2023 5 minutes ago, Fullerene said: I was once on a bus in Dingwall when I realised everybody else was a County fan! Still I lived to tell the tale! Aye, but who was their big team? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted September 28, 2023 Share Posted September 28, 2023 16 hours ago, oneteaminglasgow said: Not wanting to have a go at you, but this is a deeply off thing to say. Leaving aside the fact that “grooming gangs” in itself is a dog whistle term, I don’t think it should be incumbent upon anyone to root out problematic behaviour within immigrant communities any more than they would in non-immigrant communities. Also, if you see, for example, child sexual abuse by some men of Pakistani origin, and that inspires hatred towards all men of Pakistani origin, do you not think that that maybe says something about you or the way in which the media have reported the crime, as opposed to saying something about the wider Pakistani community? I didn’t read that as a criticism of immigrant communities, but of British society. There have been failures to tackle grooming gangs that were found to have been failures in part because of a fear of causing offence. Those were failures of UK institutions to deal appropriately and impartially with a crime. Those failures do feed in to the narrative in the lopsided reporting that political correctness has gone mad. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Jean King Posted September 28, 2023 Share Posted September 28, 2023 Dog whistle pish and she knows it. The thought Little Englundur / White Van Man wants more integration is laughable. We all know who she is blaming for the lack of integration yet it suits a large swathe of the "indigenous" (sic) population just fine. Ideally they wouldn't have them here at all but if they must let them have their own wee enclave in some run down Northern towns is basically policy and has been for decades. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Quitely Posted September 28, 2023 Share Posted September 28, 2023 2 hours ago, coprolite said: I didn’t read that as a criticism of immigrant communities, but of British society. There have been failures to tackle grooming gangs that were found to have been failures in part because of a fear of causing offence. Those were failures of UK institutions to deal appropriately and impartially with a crime. Those failures do feed in to the narrative in the lopsided reporting that political correctness has gone mad. That was exactly my point and you've put it a lot better than I did. As further examples, I don't wish to live in a society which routinely apprehends young black men on suspicion of crime, but neither do I wish to live in one which turns a blind eye to arranged marriages for fear of upsetting cultural sensibilities. The former will find favour with racists, but the latter will provide ammunition. Neither situation is acceptable. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted September 28, 2023 Share Posted September 28, 2023 1 hour ago, Billy Jean King said: Dog whistle pish and she knows it. The thought Little Englundur / White Van Man wants more integration is laughable. We all know who she is blaming for the lack of integration yet it suits a large swathe of the "indigenous" (sic) population just fine. Ideally they wouldn't have them here at all but if they must let them have their own wee enclave in some run down Northern towns is basically policy and has been for decades. I’d like to see more integration, but one of the biggest hurdles to this is religious affiliation. Not a problem limited to immigration as a quick look at Northern Ireland will show. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEADOWXI Posted September 28, 2023 Share Posted September 28, 2023 Got 19, despite knowing this was the wrong answer but the answer they wanted, since when has the UK gave a turd (would have said poo but that would cause issues for some) sliding into a river about the environment, 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted September 28, 2023 Share Posted September 28, 2023 20/24 for me 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherrif John Bunnell Posted September 28, 2023 Share Posted September 28, 2023 Prepare for a hard-hitting interview 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted September 28, 2023 Share Posted September 28, 2023 Test 10 was a bit of a pisser. Imagine getting deported for not knowing which wives some guy executed five hundred years ago. Andy Murray must have turned shit at tennis because he’s back to being Scottish 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvo Montalbano Posted September 28, 2023 Share Posted September 28, 2023 1 hour ago, Sherrif John Bunnell said: Prepare for a hard-hitting interview "Exclusive scoop" as if it was the hard hitting journalism and hard yards of shoe leather that secured the interview for a fellow Tory MP, Deputy Chair of the party and right wing dog whistler. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Khaki Posted September 28, 2023 Share Posted September 28, 2023 The fact that Braverman is willing to sit down and do an "interview" with Anderson as if he's a credible person, nevermind credible politician or journalist, says everything about the pair of them. He's a useful idiot for the far right of that party that facilitates them chucking out more and more obscene ideas while still having plausible deniability. Said as much when he was made Deputy Chair, and here we are witnessing that in action. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Jean King Posted September 28, 2023 Share Posted September 28, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, Sherrif John Bunnell said: Prepare for a hard-hitting interview They have been "done" at least twice before by OFCOM for impartial interviews. Not that being done by OFCOM would stop anyone ! Edited September 28, 2023 by Billy Jean King 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakedee Posted September 28, 2023 Share Posted September 28, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, Sherrif John Bunnell said: Prepare for a hard-hitting interview Is GBNEWS not under investigation by the watchdog over this kind of shite? Edited September 28, 2023 by jakedee Answered by BJK. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Jean King Posted September 28, 2023 Share Posted September 28, 2023 Just now, jakedee said: Is GBNEWS not under investigation by the watchdog over this kind of shite? See above, pretty sure they are / were 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted September 28, 2023 Share Posted September 28, 2023 (edited) 2 hours ago, Sherrif John Bunnell said: Prepare for a hard-hitting interview “Right Suella, people say us Brits are racist but we’ve got your kind in No 10 and at the Home Office”. “Well Lee…” ”I’d prefer if you’d call me Mister Anderson” Edited September 28, 2023 by Granny Danger 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted September 29, 2023 Share Posted September 29, 2023 18 hours ago, BTFD said: Aye, but who was their big team? Are you suggesting their big team was ICT? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvio Tattiescone Posted September 29, 2023 Share Posted September 29, 2023 12 hours ago, Granny Danger said: “Right Suella, people say us Brits are racist but we’ve got your kind in No 10 and at the Home Office”. “Well Lee…” ”I’d prefer if you’d call me Sahib” Maybe what he's thinking. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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