serf
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Ain't that just spot-on
Doesn't make it alright
- Thread starter delilah
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Chae1
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If anyone's offended or doesn't like comments on here I suggest they logout. Viewing isn't compulsory.
I see much more racism and homophobic comments on Instagram than here.
I see much more racism and homophobic comments on Instagram than here.
serf
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Whateva that is
Fixed that.
ollie989898
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TFF is a heck of a lot friendly than some places on the web!
Red Fred
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Just for clarification, can we still have a go at "Ex public school boys?" After all, "We all know about them"
Chae1
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Soggy biscuit game?
M-J-G
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Then don't read this thread, because Delilah has drawn a target on on your back and it's going down hill fast!
M-J-G
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To control speech is controlling one's ability to think, so some are already making attempts at controlling thought.
Hamza Useless for one.
I totally agree with it being odd to allow text on a screen from an anonymous and potentially non existent character to upset you.
Some folks just look for something to upset them, which usually means that their life is pretty comfortable.
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Something I was quite hot on when I was a moderator - it's against the forum rules and also more importantly against common decency
I largely now let it go by without comment (or reporting) because you often get the predictable and often twisted washback. It's not a great advert and definitely re-enforces the misguided view that farming isn't welcoming or inclusive
The most frequent and most venomous posts on here used to be (and presumably still are but I can't say for certain due to having the offenders on ignore) the anti-British ones, and which were always accepted with a remarkable degree of tolerance and inaction given that they were (and again presumably still are) aimed at the vast majority of forum users.
By internet standards this is a remarkably well-mannered and tolerant place and a credit to most of the regular posters.
No you bloody well can’t (as an ex PSB and mod on here - although I have no idea why)
interestingly, I recently watched the latest Jimmy Carr release on Netflix and whilst he was happy to have a go at just about anything, he refused to tell anti Muslim jokes - “I’m not that **** stupid”
TBF to the vast majority of TFF, I would say that you are pretty good at self moderating but @delilah has raised an issue which is worthy of debate and I am happy to leave it in Agricultural Matters PROVIDED you boys & girls keep it civil please
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Yep and if isn't civil, it should remain in ag topic but be moderated
There comes the challenge - time , nuance, sense of fair play to all
In other matters I've had occasion to report posts that break rule 1 very clearly but then received a PM asking what the issue was - go figure ......
I plead that I was attempting to research what I assume to be one of the posts that prompted this thread.
serf
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Red Fred
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I'm one as well, but ever since a member WHO USED TO TALK IN CAPITALS said that we should all be shot, I have been in the closet.
And no, I don't know any cabinet ministers, my mates are all perfectly normal members of society and I was never propositioned by the history teacher behind the boat shed. The only Earl I ever met is my landlord. In fact it was a hoot but it seems to have become a sort of general slur after the actions of our politicians and in interviews, former pupils feed the common perception by apologising and pretending they suffered in some way.
Just for clarity … it was a very minor public school for thickos but it did introduce girls when I was 16 so that was the end of schooling for me
Red Fred
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Same here, they decided that it was a good idea to test the water with girls by letting in 4 per year to see how they got on with 100 randy schoolboys. Whenever I brought up the subject with an ex young lady pupil and asked how she liked it, she just used to look dreamy and say "Just fine..."
primmiemoo
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Fascinating how a thread about a greenwashing business (dodgy ethics runs deep in its highly crowdfunded, beery veins, imv) turned into something very different. Why would anyone steer a topic away from admonition of a dodgy business?
Danllan
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What if we really don't take 'offence' at any of it because we are grown up and happy to live in a pluralistic democracy of which freedom of thought and expression are a fundamental aspect?
I've no qualms in stating that I think religion absurd, always misguided and potentially - sometimes actually - a very dangerous thing; nor that I find homosexual acts revolting. But so what? That's what I think and I've every right to think it and express it, just as both of these groups can think and act differently and are free to condemn me as they wish. Some of them - hopefully all, but I really doubt that - will be as prepared to defend my rights as I am to defend theirs, and good on them for it.
The only well-known advocate for 'gay rights' that I've come across in person is Peter Tatchell; I disagree with him on loads of things, but we found common cause in the campaign to see Robert Mugabe publicly shamed. Peter has remarkable moral and physical courage and I admire him very greatly for that, but him kissing another bloke would still turn my stomach, because it does.
Please offer a working definition of 'formal' racism and homophobia; and, while you're at it, let us know if a homosexual hating Islam for its literal death sentence on him and every single other one of his fellow homosexuals is 'islamophobic' and - by your measure - makes him a nasty racist, or merely a rational human being. Thanks in advance...
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