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  • CyclefreeCyclefree Posts: 25,596
    rcs1000 said:

    A friend of my gave me his Pity the Nation (about the Palestinians), but I must confess I haven't actually read it.
    Mostly about the Lebanese civil war as I recall. Read it years ago.
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 59,031
    Cyclefree said:

    It’s probably not anti-semitic in the classic sense but alarming nonetheless that someone should feel free to view “Jewish” as a pejorative, use “bitch” about a woman in power and feel it ok to say it in public.

    There have also been cases of people racially abusing black people on public transport.

    As a matter of interest, how did others react and what type of guy was he? Smelly loon or apparently respectable? Old? Young?
    Also, I didn't think TMay was Jewish. Or am I just horribly ignorant?
  • The_ApocalypseThe_Apocalypse Posts: 7,830
    Cyclefree said:

    It’s probably not anti-semitic in the classic sense but alarming nonetheless that someone should feel free to view “Jewish” as a pejorative, use “bitch” about a woman in power and feel it ok to say it in public.

    There have also been cases of people racially abusing black people on public transport.

    As a matter of interest, how did others react and what type of guy was he? Smelly loon or apparently respectable? Old? Young?
    Tbh there was no reaction per se but I sensed that we were all uncomfortable. I pretty much got away from him as soon as I could. He looked to be in his 40s or 50s. Didn’t look ‘respectable’ had a t-shirt and trousers on and looked a bit unkempt (had a messsy beard). Kept on talking about ‘anarchy in the UK.’
  • The_ApocalypseThe_Apocalypse Posts: 7,830
    rcs1000 said:

    Also, I didn't think TMay was Jewish. Or am I just horribly ignorant?
    I also thought that at the time. I sensed that he’s one of those conspiracy theorist types.
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 59,031

    Tbh there was no reaction per se but I sensed that we were all uncomfortable. I pretty much got away from him as soon as I could. He looked to be in his 40s or 50s. Didn’t look ‘respectable’ had a t-shirt and trousers on and looked a bit unkempt (had a messsy beard). Kept on talking about ‘anarchy in the UK.’
    Oh, it was probably just Rod Crosby. Don't worry about it.
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 59,031
    By the way, can I just thank @FrancisUrquhart for posting the link to the Guardian article about instagram and binary options. Scary stuff.
  • AnorakAnorak Posts: 6,621
    edited April 2018

    I also thought that at the time. I sensed that he’s one of those conspiracy theorist types.
    Classic antisemitic tropes. The world is run by a shadowy cabal of Jews fronted by the Rothschilds. Anyone complaining of antisemitism is in their pay. Anyone not vehemently against Israel is in their pay. Their tentacles are everywhere!!!

    May is supportive of Israel, in a position of power, and not of the left, therefore is part of this conspiracy. Casting a daughter of a vicar as a secret jew was merely the icing on the bonkers cake.

    Disagree with Cyclefree; this is very much 'classic' antisemitism of the centuries-old variety.
  • Richard_NabaviRichard_Nabavi Posts: 30,822

    They could arrange some quantitative sleazing for the Ashes tour.
    Bravo!
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 75,867
    Cyclefree said:

    Mostly about the Lebanese civil war as I recall. Read it years ago.
    He used to be a fine writer, but he's a partial, and sometimes fanciful journalist, who has not improved with age.
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 50,757
    Cyclefree said:

    I would love a hedgehog. I have dark undisturbed corners for them. Occasionally I get toads. But hedgehogs need to move from garden to garden and my neighbours on one side have a tidy “outdoor room” with an artificial lawn (I know, it’s ghastly, vulgar and not at all “green”) and won’t countenance any sort of wildlife friendly arrangement. Sigh.

    When I am Dictatrix, artificial lawns will be on my “Taxed at 5000%” list, even ahead of chocolate sprinkles on cappuccinos.
    I get quite a few hedgehogs, but still have slugs. Keeping poultry is good for slug control, but may not be preactical in a small urban garden. Or perhaps invite round a hungry frenchman :)

    But perhaps you need a change of mindset, slugs and snails are part of our wildlife too. The British Conchological society does some useful fieldguides for a micro-safari in your front garden.

    http://www.conchsoc.org

    Weeds are not all bad either:

    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/464728.Weeds

    Stand against the biological cleansing of indigenous British wildlife!
  • CyclefreeCyclefree Posts: 25,596
    Foxy said:

    I get quite a few hedgehogs, but still have slugs. Keeping poultry is good for slug control, but may not be preactical in a small urban garden. Or perhaps invite round a hungry frenchman :)

    But perhaps you need a change of mindset, slugs and snails are part of our wildlife too. The British Conchological society does some useful fieldguides for a micro-safari in your front garden.

    http://www.conchsoc.org

    Weeds are not all bad either:

    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/464728.Weeds

    Stand against the biological cleansing of indigenous British wildlife!
    If slugs were to eat my aphids rather than my plants I would welcome them with open arms. But they don’t. So they can bugger off and be wildlife somewhere else.

    Your garden, perhaps? :)
  • RecidivistRecidivist Posts: 4,679
    Just watching the coverage of the Windrush debacle. Can all the Corbyn knockers on here really believe deep down that he could really have done any worse?
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