[Misc] Horrible thing to happen to a decent person

[BadFish]

Do we really need threads like this on NSC?

Don't say that! The permanently outraged will get all snitty about opinions like that on their threads

 

[BN9 BHA]

Do we really need threads like this on NSC?

Yes.
I have already pointed out, this is in today's news and it's about a footballer.
This is a football forum BTW.

Do we need threads about politics, cooking and someone going on holiday every 5 minutes?

 

[Buzzer]

Don't say that! The permanently outraged will get all snitty about opinions like that on their threads

"permanently outraged" - Code for people posting about stuff I disagree with.

 

[mothy]

The thread police have spoken.

There are plenty of self righteous in the know thread police who can't stand someone questioning there opinion on here - generally i would expect most people who can't cope with someone with a different opinion to be snowflake students - but having read the threads they are mostly fat & old

 

[BadFish]

There are plenty of self righteous in the know thread police who can't stand someone questioning there opinion on here - generally i would expect most people who can't cope with someone with a different opinion to be snowflake students - but having read the threads they are mostly fat & old

These threads are usually full of them. It amuses me that they don't see the irony.

 

[BadFish]

"permanently outraged" - Code for people posting about stuff I disagree with.

indeed. Same for 'generation snowflake', 'virtue signalling' etc etc

 

[darkwolf666]

There are plenty of self righteous in the know thread police who can't stand someone questioning there opinion on here - generally i would expect most people who can't cope with someone with a different opinion to be snowflake students - but having read the threads they are mostly fat & old

Oi, who you calling old?

 

[BN9 BHA]

"permanently outraged" - Code for people posting about stuff I disagree with.

He would be jumping up and down if McLean was a racist rather than a terrorist sympathiser.

 

[Buzzer]

These threads are usually full of them. It amuses me that they don't see the irony.

Or indeed the irony of saying people with closed minds are 'mostly old and fat'.

 

[mothy]

He would be jumping up and down if McLean was a racist rather than a terrorist sympathiser.

Yep saying something bad is far worse than actually doing something

 

[darkwolf666]

He would be jumping up and down if McLean was a racist rather than a terrorist sympathiser.

Said it before, but one mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter - ***cough*** Nelson Mandela.

 

[BN9 BHA]

Yep saying something bad is far worse than actually doing something

Sorry you have lost me.

 

[BadFish]

Or indeed the irony of saying people with closed minds are 'mostly old and fat'.

I don't know his age or his body shape.

 

[BadFish]

He would be jumping up and down if McLean was a racist rather than a terrorist sympathiser.

I am far too old and fat to be jumping up and down, my ticker would give out.

 

[BN9 BHA]

Said it before, but one mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter - ***cough*** Nelson Mandela.

Yes, but the IRA are a bit closer to home for some.

 

[darkwolf666]

Yes, but the IRA are a bit closer to home for some.

I appreciate that, just trying to get over the point that there are two sides to every story - just depends on your stance and how outraged you want to be about it.

 

[mothy]

Sorry you have lost me.

No worries. My point is - It's that the perenially offended get worked into a lather about what someone might have said - but then laugh at anothers actual misfortune (as in this case) -which seems to be disproportionate responses

 

[Hampster Gull]

Said it before, but one mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter - ***cough*** Nelson Mandela.

And that of course that is true.

He makes his views on NI and on this country pretty clear, and for reasons that will make sense from his perspective. The point for me is he chooses to make his living, or his fortune, in this country. In doing so he puts himself up for abuse and claims of hypocrisy. I am sure when he looks at his bank statement he doesn’t worry too much about his political beliefs though

 

[BN9 BHA]

I appreciate that, just trying to get over the point that there are two sides to every story - just depends on your stance and how outraged you want to be about it.

I'm not outraged.
But i have read the story and thought I don't like people that break into houses, and I also don't like IRA sympathisers either.

 

[wellquickwoody]

Why do the snowflake generation have to share with the rest of us their outrage an indignation about every bloody thing?

You don't like the bloke, we get it, why the need to start thread after thread about him?

This sort of shit belongs on facebook.

Good but flawed attempt to turn the term snowflake on its head.