To think throwing milkshakes over people is disgusting?

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So apparently it’s okay to chuck milkshakes over people we disagree with?

Now, I do not like Tommy Robinson, Carl Sargon, or Farage. However, I think that chucking cold food at them, or threatening to, is pathetic. If you disagree with them, then debate them. Take down their argument intelligently. Chucking a cheap milkshake makes you look like a toddler.

So long as they are scorned and made to look stupid and 'unpopular' then I don't mind how.

Yep, carry on. Let's throw milkshakes at everyone we don't like, or disagree with, because they deserve it, don't they? Then our children can learn from us, and grow up to do the same thing to their friends in the playground. And if they ever get a job, they can bully the people they don't agree with and throw things at them. What's the point of reasoned argument?

Way. To. Go. So clever.

I don't think the people who are throwing milkshakes care if they look like toddlers. They're mostly anonymous and this does pretty much nothing for their reputations. That's part of the point, I would guess, when dealing with people one can't really debate, not in any meaningful way, then it's easy for meme-like meaningless actions to happen out of frustration and amusement for a bit. It's not the cleanest or most sensible option, but I really can't get worked up about milkshakes.

Really, it makes those affected look like toddlers even more with their reactions to it, especially when so many others have dealt with pies or eggs or actual threats and harm far better. As much as I agree that the better route is to ignore these three lying assholes as much as possible, their complaints on it do feel a bit 'If you can't handle the heat, get out...', especially when Carl Benjamin particularly as well as the others have made such public complaints about the ridiculousness of safe spaces and the weakness of those to the left of them.

Also, while some radical feminists have been extremists in that some have called for and done and celebrated senseless violence done for their causes, "radfems" does not mean extremist feminist. It just means someone who follows one of the dozens of variants of feminism, one that uses radical to mean root as it believes it is dealing with the root of women's oppression. Unless you think all radfems should follow in the footsteps of those like Valerie Solanas, I'm really not seeing what is extreme there.

Bessie - fascists are quite different - these aren't people " everyone who we don't like or disagree with" - like a liberal option card. I wouldn't egg or milkshake anyone, BUT for someone who means and enables direct violence and restrictions on me and my loved ones then yes, they are eligible.
Not clever, no, but demonstrable.

Milkshake is the only language they understand.

@BessieBumptiousness I hope you do a little more than dislike or not agree with the evil cunts that are having milkshakes thrown over them. They are utterly appalling human beings, and a bit of milkshake doesn’t even come close to the hate and vitriol they poison our country with.

an no, fascist DON'T respond to reasoned argument. It's all frenzy and lies to appeal to the lowest common denominator. Politics of fear.

Some people are so fecking naïve.

I am not a fan of Farage. Hes a twat. I am not a fan of throwing milkshakes on people either, dont see the point - hes still a twat, just one covered in milkshake.... No one does their cause - whatever it is, any good by behaving like this.

Equating throwing milkshake at someone with the murder of Jo Cox is bloody disgraceful.

Well it's not really. They are just different degrees of the same mentality, and that is it's ok to physically attack someone whose political views you don't like. The bloke who killed Jo Cox thought she was a dangerous left wing extremist. Just like I think Yaxley Lennon is a dangerous right wing extremist.

If we agree a milkshake is ok but a bullet isn't, can someone tell me what the limit is. Is an egg ok? How about a hard boiled egg. If that's ok, what about a stone, or a rock, A brick perhaps. Can we stab someone but not shoot them? Or shoot them once but not twice?

Lifecraft - don't be ridiculous. The intent of the fascist murderer was to take life. The milkshaking was to provoke mockery in a fascist.

Very, very different.

Anonymous thugs love to get involved in a righteous cause. It emboldens them. It gives them an excuse.

an no, fascist DON'T respond to reasoned argument

Fuck them, what about the people they are trying to recruit to their cause? If a fascist says "white people aren't even allowed to speak in their own country now" and then he's hit by a flying milkshake, do you think might make the unemployed white teenager think "he's bloody right you know, look what just happened!"

Lennon and Farage may appear to be irritated by milkshakes, but when the cameras stop rolling they are rubbing their hands with glee. They know they've just become more popular.

The milkshaking was to provoke mockery in a fascist.

Bring back the stocks

If we agree a milkshake is ok but a bullet isn't, can someone tell me what the limit is. Is an egg ok? How about a hard boiled egg. If that's ok, what about a stone, or a rock, A brick perhaps. Can we stab someone but not shoot them? Or shoot them once but not twice?

Where does it stop? Are you assuming that the idiots throwing the milkshakes automatically know when to stop?

I was agreeing with Lifecraft btw!

If you watch the footage, you can see the alleged 'assailant' complete with his banana beverage in direct line of Paypal and his security for several seconds, and the Paypal walks towards him.

On the Channel 4 Matt Frei section about his funding last week, they stated he has 5 security men on £5k a day. Only one was with him there, in Newcastle.

"It was a complete failure, you could have spotted it a mile off." says the strangely calm Man of the Paypal, as he is led away.

www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2019/may/20/nigel-farage-hit-by-milkshake-while-campaigning-in-newcastle-video?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR2yg-fHnygWZyJbvENiIqcaEIvFBqqvqS1PufpaVfLbMlFyo7fUD_HYxLM#Echobox=1558360573

At his rallies he's ranting about victim hood.

I presume his footage is already up and out on his sites, doing very nicely.

Well it is.

But I dont class Farage and Robinson as people so meh.

Inciting racial hatred and hysteria is far more repulsive........Robinson did a rally in my town recently..........he repeatedly pointed into the audience and shouted 'the youth'.......reminded me of someone 🤔🧐

Stocks are too good for them.

It’s not acceptable to throw things at people, but to suggest this is in any way the thin end of the wedge and link it to the murder of Jo Cox is ludicrous. Throwing a milkshake over someone makes them look ridiculous but isn’t in any way harmful (dairy allergies aside.) It’s only an attack on their dignity.

Wasted milk

I saw Tommy Robinson campaigning recently.

I really, really wanted to milkshake him.

I think anything which gets them public sympathy is a very bad idea. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Farage makes sure he gets targeted because it will discredit his opponents.

Dangerous territory - who gets to decide who is in the wrong? er...the law?

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did this thread begin before or after today's incident?

I actually agree with OP, it's not on. I also think the moment of someone throwing something at you must be really scary - you have no idea what it is.

Ironically, I think we end up with more politicians like Farage if we consider it a normal part of what they should have to put up with.

Also only Mumsnet could be up in arms about science egg experiments and cake smashes for food waste but support this shit 😂🤷

Paul Crowther of Throckley doesn't sound like much of a Muslim gang.

Presumably, it would be ok if Farage retaliated and threw soft icecream back at this person, then? Because, y'know, it's harmless and only meant to humiliate.

The only reason I think it’s wrong is the fact it’s a waste of a good milkshake, I’m not sure how people can afford to chuck away a milkshake 😕