Bad manners.

[jongooligan]

Thought the thread was about Stoke Newington's finest. See them at the Great Northern Mod Festival this summer.
Sorry if this has been done previously but ICBA to plough through the whole thread.

 

[glenn forger]

Ah well, I guess youre incapable of interpreting a sentence that doesnt include the word rude, doesnt IMO imply rudeness, hasnt upset anyone else as far as I know...its only you Glenn. Perhaps you should ask yourself why ?
Nothing personal, I'm sure you're a nice fella...but I can't do any more to convince you. If you take it to the extreme, your kind of political correctness, that will not tolerate ANY observation, thought, words etc that YOU consider to be racist...is the kind of intolerance that really is dangerous.

You seriously don't think there's anything wrong with applying sweeping pejorative generalisations to people based on nothing more than where they came from?

 

[gbb]

No. Not if they're based on the reality you (i) see .
Take my word for it Glenn, there's no hatred,pno antagonism etc toward east europeans. Ill walk through that door the guy in front effectively closed in my face, and then chat with him if I know him. Many of those guys that do that don't see it as rude, its just the way they are, just the way they've been brought up. These are people I know, ive worked with probably thousands of these guys and girls over the years...there are currently around 500 in our workforce at the moment. My reality is quite different from yours..or what you think it should be.
Nothing more to say, subject closed for me.

 

[glenn forger]

No. Not if they're based on the reality you (i) see .

Now you're claiming you've met every single Eastern European? You didn't say "the ones I've met behaved rudely". You claimed they are rude because of where they're from. Which is a dumb racist thing to say.

 

[gbb]

Of course, you can be too polite, as I found one day...
Driving to the shops, a car is impatiently sat on my rear, too close for safety. No problem, I'll be turning off in a minute...bugger, he's turned as well, still on my bumper.
He followed for another mile, and pulled up outside the shop I was going in. I climbed out the car at the same time as he, we both walked toward the shop door, I said as we walked almost side by side....didnt get you here any quicker did it, no point sitting on my arse was there ?...and as we arrived at the door, I held it open for him !!!!
Bugger I thought..and said...'dunno why I'm doing that either'..nodding toward the open door.

 

[classic33]

[QUOTE 3722804, member: 259"]Blimey, if ever a thread went ashtray - no mention of grammer Nazi's or helmet's yet though! [/QUOTE]
Can you use that word on here?

 

[Houthakker]

Blimey, Bet you didn't think you would start all this off did you Sara_H?

 

[stephec]

Can you use that word on here?

Which one, helmet?

 

[classic33]

Which one, helmet?

Grammer, with no mention of Grammper

 

[threebikesmcginty]

[QUOTE 3722804, member: 259"]Blimey, if ever a thread went ashtray - no mention of grammer Nazi's or helmet's yet though! [/QUOTE]

If I were a pendant and if I knew that you weren't just buggering about...

 

[rich p]

. Poles, for instance, are generally far more polite and respectful than Brits. .

sweeping pejorative generalisations to people based on nothing more than where they came from?

Are sweeping generalisations only wrong if they're pejorative?

 

[rich p]

You seriously don't think there's anything wrong with applying sweeping pejorative generalisations to people based on nothing more than where they came from?

By the way, you still haven't answered the question as to why you consider Polish youth to be more polite when the old geezer on the bus needs to demand them to give up their seat for him.

 

[Sara_H]

Blimey, Bet you didn't think you would start all this off did you Sara_H?

It has come as somewhat of a surprise to me, I must admit!

 

[rich p]

It has come as somewhat of a surprise to me, I must admit!

Get to the back of the queue, if you wanna start whingeing, Sara

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

I'm getting to the stage that I hope someone bad mannered enough tells them to STFU