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MN allows racism to stand

605 replies

amillionyears · 13/11/2012 14:50

I have reported it 3 times today, 1 before 9am.
Heard nothing from them.

OP posts:
BlameItOnTheCuervHoHoHo · 13/11/2012 18:36

BOF, because amillion is all-knowing and wise. she knows our own minds better than we, and we all mn the same way as her.

FellatioNelson · 13/11/2012 18:37

No, no, mad as cheese is not ok at all. Don't you know the French are famous for cheese? Angry FFS, just leave the French alone already.

LRDtheFeministDragon · 13/11/2012 18:37

Really not on to name posters when you misunderstood. Angry

HullyEastergully · 13/11/2012 18:39

But she hasn't misunderstood. She stands by what she thinks despite 8 million people telling her it isn't right.

Gotta admire the sheer doggedness.

ScrambledSmegs · 13/11/2012 18:40

You know, there's less shame in graciously admitting you made a mistake and moving on, than pointlessly hammering on about a misconception.

badgeroncaffeine · 13/11/2012 18:41

Do you think in France they report people calling English "rosbif" of whatever stupid, tragic, asinine name they have for us?

LRDtheFeministDragon · 13/11/2012 18:41

Yep, but she's wrong.

Btw, is it frog entrails you're sacrificing?

This is you, right? www.deepthought.org/~efulton/sibyl.html

ScrambledSmegs · 13/11/2012 18:41

She's very tenacious, I'll give her that.

Bloody wrong though.

RandallPinkFloyd · 13/11/2012 18:43

Balls, je suis désolé, j'adore la fromage Grin

(amillion it's ok to get the wrong end of the stick but really not ok to accuse named people of racism, really not ok)

AlienRefluxovermypoppy · 13/11/2012 18:43

amillion honestly, I remember you saying 'the MN elite' all PM each other and FB eanch other to 'pile in' on threads, I really do think you take all this way to seriously, and are ever so slightly paranoid?

Could have had a laugh over your mistake But you are clearly as mad as a .......... bicycle?

MotherfuckingMorrisMan · 13/11/2012 18:44

Apropos of fuck all again, you can genuinely upset people in the forest of dean by calling them bear killers (they hung a bear back in the olden days because the foresters murdered someone, or something)

PickledFanjoCat · 13/11/2012 18:45

Mad as a nail.

Fucking hell someone tell me this is not serious?

MotherfuckingMorrisMan · 13/11/2012 18:46

Foresters thought the bear murdered someone.

Oh balls to it I need a cup of tea.

LRDtheFeministDragon · 13/11/2012 18:46

Ta for the PM alien, hope I'm not late to the game.

JenaiMarrHePlaysGuitar · 13/11/2012 18:47

People in the Forest of Dean are known to be a little odd.

MooncupGoddess · 13/11/2012 18:49

Gosh, really Morris? I wonder when that was. Don't they have fierce ravening hordes of wild boar in the Forest of Dean now?

Mintyy · 13/11/2012 18:49

You simply need to accept you were wrong and apologise amillion. You really must. You misunderstood but you were wrong and it is dishonorable to accuse other posters of something as serious as racism just to save face.

BOFingSanta · 13/11/2012 18:50

LRD Grin

BOFingSanta · 13/11/2012 18:51

Spot on, Mintyy.

IamtheZombie · 13/11/2012 18:51

How gracious of you to accept Rowan's apology, OP.

How nasty of you to publicly name those who used a common phrase that you didn't understand and to accuse them of posting "ethnic slurs" just because you didn't understand what they meant.

How deeply offensive of you to continue to insinuate that MNHQ have done anything wrong in the way they have dealt with this.

It is appalling.

AlienRefluxovermypoppy · 13/11/2012 18:52

Pickled 'fraid so

JenaiMarrHePlaysGuitar · 13/11/2012 18:53

On the subject of west country legend, I so hope the Devizes moonraker story is true. It's ace.

MrsDeVere · 13/11/2012 18:53

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AllYoursBabooshka · 13/11/2012 18:54

I'm baffled.

Do you always associate the word "Frog" with French people? Because you are the only one who has linked the two. The Muppets must horrify you.

I think you are completely out of line naming two posters and accusing them of racism with no proof and even after so many people have explained the phrase to you.

It's not about agreeing or disagreeing, It's about facts and the fact here is that the saying "Mad As A Box Of Frogs" refers to a bunch of amphibians being pissed off because they are in a small confined space, Not the French!

Apologise.

LRDtheFeministDragon · 13/11/2012 18:55

What's the moonraker story, jenai?

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