Audaces Fortuna Juvat Posted August 2, 2017 Share Posted August 2, 2017 I'll start the bidding with these potential Mastermind winners....................... https://uk.yahoo.com/news/anti-immigrant-group-ridiculed-mistakes-empty-bus-seats-women-wearing-burkas-095344639.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCelt67 Posted August 2, 2017 Share Posted August 2, 2017 These bus seats, coming here, stealing our jobs, sleeping with our women. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killiefan27 Posted August 2, 2017 Share Posted August 2, 2017 It's no laughing matter, they could be members of i-sits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8MileBU Posted August 2, 2017 Share Posted August 2, 2017 I'd have thought these fuds would have that award sewn up quite comfortably.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dindeleux Posted August 2, 2017 Share Posted August 2, 2017 https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/01/seven-priests-walk-barand-asked-leave-mistaken-stag-do/amp/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milton75 Posted August 2, 2017 Share Posted August 2, 2017 6 hours ago, Audaces Fortuna Juvat said: I'll start the bidding with these potential Mastermind winners....................... https://uk.yahoo.com/news/anti-immigrant-group-ridiculed-mistakes-empty-bus-seats-women-wearing-burkas-095344639.html If you analyse this it becomes a bit depressing. It is funny, and my first reaction was to laugh at the silly far-right goons, but then I saw a comment challenging my reaction, because really I was partly laughing at myself. Here's the full picture: The point that I read was this: The uncomfortable fact is that everyone can see the "funny" likeness, otherwise this story wouldn't be going viral. Which potentially opens the questions as to whether this clothing really does dehumanise, doesn't it? If that's the case, the only difference between the idiots on the far-right and everyone else is not that there isn't a shared observation that there is a likeness between inanimate objects and burqa clad women, but their disgusting and predictable reaction ("send 'em home" "they've probably got bombs under there" etc.). Is the fact that so many people are sharing this on social media is therefore a tacit admission that they share this observation (and what it therefore implies about this clothing) even if, when pressed, they'd probably claim not to? It reflects poorly on both Western society's ability to accept difference as a component of society, and also on stupid religious mores that encourage non-integration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diegomarahenry Posted August 2, 2017 Share Posted August 2, 2017 5 hours ago, 8MileBU said: I'd have thought these fuds would have that award sewn up quite comfortably.... I didn't know this guy existed until the weekend, now I know he is a professional right wing irritant with a book to sell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8MileBU Posted August 2, 2017 Share Posted August 2, 2017 I didn't know this guy existed until the weekend, now I know he is a professional right wing irritant with a book to sell He's a professional fud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HenryHill Posted August 2, 2017 Share Posted August 2, 2017 1 hour ago, milton75 said: If you analyse this it becomes a bit depressing. It is funny, and my first reaction was to laugh at the silly far-right goons, but then I saw a comment challenging my reaction, because really I was partly laughing at myself. Here's the full picture: The point that I read was this: The uncomfortable fact is that everyone can see the "funny" likeness, otherwise this story wouldn't be going viral. Which potentially opens the questions as to whether this clothing really does dehumanise, doesn't it? If that's the case, the only difference between the idiots on the far-right and everyone else is not that there isn't a shared observation that there is a likeness between inanimate objects and burqa clad women, but their disgusting and predictable reaction ("send 'em home" "they've probably got bombs under there" etc.). Is the fact that so many people are sharing this on social media is therefore a tacit admission that they share this observation (and what it therefore implies about this clothing) even if, when pressed, they'd probably claim not to? It reflects poorly on both Western society's ability to accept difference as a component of society, and also on stupid religious mores that encourage non-integration. I'm confused. If I think the chairs look like dearth vaders so who or what am I offending? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Audaces Fortuna Juvat Posted August 2, 2017 Author Share Posted August 2, 2017 The Empire? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted August 2, 2017 Share Posted August 2, 2017 2 hours ago, milton75 said: If you analyse this it becomes a bit depressing. It is funny, and my first reaction was to laugh at the silly far-right goons, but then I saw a comment challenging my reaction, because really I was partly laughing at myself. Here's the full picture: The point that I read was this: The uncomfortable fact is that everyone can see the "funny" likeness, otherwise this story wouldn't be going viral. Which potentially opens the questions as to whether this clothing really does dehumanise, doesn't it? If that's the case, the only difference between the idiots on the far-right and everyone else is not that there isn't a shared observation that there is a likeness between inanimate objects and burqa clad women, but their disgusting and predictable reaction ("send 'em home" "they've probably got bombs under there" etc.). Is the fact that so many people are sharing this on social media is therefore a tacit admission that they share this observation (and what it therefore implies about this clothing) even if, when pressed, they'd probably claim not to? It reflects poorly on both Western society's ability to accept difference as a component of society, and also on stupid religious mores that encourage non-integration. The whole point of a burqa is to become invisible to lecherous men, which maybe only works on a bus. Myself, the flash of ankle sock in a trainer below a burqa with a glimpse of headphone leads gives me an enormous stiffy. My only wish is that more women in Inverness would wear them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hk blues Posted August 3, 2017 Share Posted August 3, 2017 If you analyse this it becomes a bit depressing. It is funny, and my first reaction was to laugh at the silly far-right goons, but then I saw a comment challenging my reaction, because really I was partly laughing at myself. Here's the full picture: The point that I read was this: The uncomfortable fact is that everyone can see the "funny" likeness, otherwise this story wouldn't be going viral. Which potentially opens the questions as to whether this clothing really does dehumanise, doesn't it? If that's the case, the only difference between the idiots on the far-right and everyone else is not that there isn't a shared observation that there is a likeness between inanimate objects and burqa clad women, but their disgusting and predictable reaction ("send 'em home" "they've probably got bombs under there" etc.). Is the fact that so many people are sharing this on social media is therefore a tacit admission that they share this observation (and what it therefore implies about this clothing) even if, when pressed, they'd probably claim not to? It reflects poorly on both Western society's ability to accept difference as a component of society, and also on stupid religious mores that encourage non-integration. I think you're over-analysing it.It's gone viral because it's funny. It's funny because most (me included) see the seats as women. Life can be fun if you let it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Audaces Fortuna Juvat Posted August 3, 2017 Author Share Posted August 3, 2017 11 hours ago, welshbairn said: The whole point of a burqa is to become invisible to lecherous men, which maybe only works on a bus. Myself, the flash of ankle sock in a trainer below a burqa with a glimpse of headphone leads gives me an enormous stiffy. My only wish is that more women in Inverness would wear them. When I lived in the Middle East I was often bemused by the fact that local women covered themselves totally, as is the tradition, yet thought nothing of whipping out a tit to breastfeed their crustgrabbers, as and when required. I would often see this in the gardens of the hospital as I went into work, yet you couldn't see a single solitary inch of them at other times. I guess the breast is seen as a food pump rather than a sexualised area of the body.................................... but not by me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted September 7, 2017 Share Posted September 7, 2017 This Fud. School sends 'wrong trousers' pupils home. Pupils were lined up at the gates of a secondary school while their trousers were checked to see if they were the right shade of grey - with some failing the inspection and being sent home. Quote Head teacher of the Wearside school Nicky Cooper says she is "very, very particular" about uniform Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lambies Doos Posted September 7, 2017 Share Posted September 7, 2017 Is that the RIP Rangers edition? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throbber Posted September 7, 2017 Share Posted September 7, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8MileBU Posted September 7, 2017 Share Posted September 7, 2017 Is that the RIP Rangers edition? No idea as I can't see what you're quoting...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackbirdonthewire Posted September 7, 2017 Share Posted September 7, 2017 1 minute ago, 8MileBU said: No idea as I can't see what you're quoting...? Why did you throw your own jobby at someone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aubrey Maturin Posted September 7, 2017 Share Posted September 7, 2017 2 minutes ago, Blackbirdonthewire said: Why did you throw your own jobby at someone? Mating ritual perhaps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackbirdonthewire Posted September 7, 2017 Share Posted September 7, 2017 Just now, Tynieness said: Mating ritual perhaps? What's wrong with a box of Milk Tray and a bottle of Blue Nun? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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