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to think this is the most stupid comment yet in relation to Woolwich?

248 replies

CookieMofo · 23/05/2013 20:56

Someone wrote a status in relation to Woolwich and the comment that followed it .... I was Hmm

"Should off left th die like their left our soilder too die all people who work should refuse too pay tax. Apparently we gone too war its all over the news"

eh? Confused

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IneedAyoniNickname · 24/05/2013 01:13

Oh good, glad you didn't think I was weird posting random irrelevant shite!

All I was told was that he had to get permission to wear it, and that he looked fit

crazynanna · 24/05/2013 01:24

this is funny

vintagecakeisstillnice · 24/05/2013 01:26

Just to clarify, yes they would have e to get permission from their senior officers, but it isn't illegal.

If they did wear full or dress uniform without permission, well they would have to accept their fine/ punishment in line with army rules and regs, but a police officer couldn't arrest a soldier for walking down the street in uniform.

AKissIsNotAContract · 24/05/2013 06:54

When the EDL came to Brighton to demonstrate a few weeks ago, they posted pics of the 'huge mosque', how were Muslims allowed to build such a huge mosque etc. It was the Brighton Pavillion FFS.

JakeBullet · 24/05/2013 06:59

Stupid comment?

The EDL supporter who tweeted

"Let's burn down a Mosque and kill a few Sikhs"

A Sikh friend of mine said "I don't know whether to laugh or cry".

FrankellyMyDearIDontGiveADamn · 24/05/2013 07:20

When we got married in 2008 DH didn't need permission to wear his dress uniform (RAF No1s), but we did have to notify the police out of courtesy as we had a Guard of Honour carrying ceremonial swords.

DH has worn his uniform to the local Remembrance Parade several times and has never had to ask permission. They are actively encouraged to do so for such occasions. We also have 2 US Airforce bases near here. The American servicemen always come into town at lunchtime in their day to day uniforms. It's highly encouraged in the US and there have been plenty of cases of US servicemen/women being allowed to travel for free/jump queues etc.

ImTooHecsyForYourParty · 24/05/2013 07:30

Most stupid comment I've come across is the woman on my fb who said that they should be 'sent back'

stupid enough but the full thing was she knows they're british born but they should be sent back!

To WHERE?!

So if we commit a terrible crime we get sent back to where our parents, grandparents, great grandparents etc were from?

Bloody stupid woman.

I just deleted her.

loofet · 24/05/2013 07:47

Sadly my own Mum has to be the stupidest i've come across... She came over yesterday and said how awful it was so I agreed expecting the conversation to end there but she went on..

'They should be sent back where they came from'.. They're British mum. 'Yeah exactly and they do that to their own. The police should have killed them, if they were in America they wouldn't still be alive. Now they'll be getting all the hospital treatment and go to prison paid for by our taxes. Should just have killed them there and then'.

This is my mother ffs, this is what i've had to deal with. I did correct her but she won't listen to me. This is the same woman who is of the thinking we shouldn't donate to Africa because they shouldn't have kids if they can't afford them though. Her views are abhorrent to me tbh, I just wish she'd open her mind.

Spice17 · 24/05/2013 07:55

Someone I'm 'friends' with on FB said:

People can and will argue that Muslims aren't all bad, but from my experience they are!! And they are here for one reason,, to take advantage of our soft ass government that are to scared to shut the gates and send the fuckers dancing around in the dresses saying fuck the British home, I've had enough of seeing them take the piss out of this once great country, and to be honest would enjoy nothing more than seeing the evil bastards get sent back to the shit rat infested holes they came from!!

I come from a village and am really saddened that a lot of the younger people there i.e. my age seem to hold these uneducated, despicable views.

Spice17 · 24/05/2013 07:57

Oh and I've seen lots of 'send them back' stuff too but said that my Black great grandfather came over here many years ago, so should I be 'sent back' too? That shut a few people up Grin

fanjoforthemammaries7850 · 24/05/2013 08:23

The guy who tweeted about burning a mosque and killing Sikhs was being sarcastic and doing an impression of an EDL tweet..he even used hashtag #EDLtweet, thankfully.

AKissIsNotAContract · 24/05/2013 08:30

The give away was the correct spelling, EDL members would spell Sikh 'Seak'

TolliverGroat · 24/05/2013 08:32

That does seem a bit harsh on Romford, Spice17...

Amrapaali · 24/05/2013 08:45

This thread is giving me a much needed chuckle.

Chuckle? Hell, I laughed out loud many times! Aslan? EDF?

I am on Page 3. Back to the thread to finish. Don't disturb me please...

eminemmerdale · 24/05/2013 09:05

The 'muslamic ray Guns' is actaully 'Muslamic Rape gangs' - ds has the video on his phone as it is just so insanely hilarious.

Spice17 · 24/05/2013 09:07

Trolliver Grin

PeterParkerSays · 24/05/2013 09:20

My favourite is still the twerp from Woolwich saying "we should sen them back to where they came from".

In the case of the man with blood on his hands, would that be Lambeth or Romford then? Go for Lambeth as the hospital in Romford is crap and he'd have a reasonable chance of dying before he gets on trial.......

They just don't see how cretinous these agruments are. He was born here, and converted from Christianity. Where would we send him back to?

If these people want to send people who convert to different religions "back to where they didn't came from, well DH and I converted to catholicism as adults. We were pondering in bed last night whether we'd prefer to be "sent back to" Rome or Ireland. Grin No more preposterous than espousing sending law abiding British muslims to some random country because of the behaviour of 2 bigots with machetes.

PeterParkerSays · 24/05/2013 09:21

Kinda cross posted with Spice17.

Free airfares for us then..... Grin

pinkballetflats · 24/05/2013 09:42

I was challenging some people on FB yesterday and this one particular girl couldn't understand my analogy regarding me being a practising Christian doesn't necessarily mean I hold the same belief as the congregation at the Westboro Baptist Church ergo just because someone is Muslim doesn't mean they hold the same beliefs of extremist muslim ideals. Her reply to was:

Well I'm a Christian because I was Christened but I don't believe in it. All Muslims believe the same thing because they believe completely in their religion."

Im still scratching my head.

Ironically this girl was spouting that she's extremely well educated, that Im a dumb ass, and with regards to religion and Islam especially, she knows just about all there is to know. Apparently Living in Leicester has enlightened her with this knowledge and I should come and live there if I "love Muslims so much." I didn't have the heart to tell her I already do.

Booyhoo · 24/05/2013 10:08

Oh pink that is funny! You should have told her!

Honestly though i really am depressed by some/ most of these comments.

insancerre · 24/05/2013 10:22

with regards to servicemen and women not being able to wear uniform in the street, this was the case when my dh was in the RAF in the 1980s and 1990s
it was because of the terrorist threat from the IRA

fanjoforthemammaries7850 · 24/05/2013 10:24

Well..fair enough but my point was it was compared to people wearing islamic dress which the picture said "shouldn't be allowed as it threatened our security".

OxfordBags · 24/05/2013 10:33

I'm struggling to understand how two sick idiots killing one person constitutes a terrorist attack. It's bloody awful, but it's hardly terrorism. And it also pisses me off how everyone is fetishing the fact that the deceased was in the army. Does that make his death more tragic than if they'd killed a builder or a bloke who works in B&Q?!

What about all the white people who would identify as Christian who attack or even kill non-whites for racist reasons? These must be terrorist attacks too, if we use the logic of this tragic case, and yet, strangely enough, the media is not screaming about this form of 'terrorism', which is far more common.

I'm lucky that I don't have any friends who have posted ignorant things on FB, but that's possibly because I won't associate with anyone who doesn't have even a rudimentary understanding of grammar and punctuation. You pedantically weed out the thickos, you automatically get rid of the racists and twats.

I do, however, know someone who thought Brighton Pavillion was a mosque, although they didn't have a problem with that.

xylem8 · 24/05/2013 10:40

it doesn't look as though they were acting alone, Oxfordbags, there have been other arrests

OxfordBags · 24/05/2013 10:52

Well, until everyone involved has been found guilty, then it is still irresponsible to categorically call it terrorism. It's just lazy, inflammatory racism until then.

What about all the counter-attacks on muslims, or, indeed, anyone that idiot racists believe is 'to blame'? Surely that is terrorism too.