Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ 3rd June 2025, 8:38 AMHumans like most animals are territorial and prefer to live with their own kind..
This sounds like some weird dystopia in which there are streets where only mousy haired women or ginger men live.
I read the news today oh boy! Page 2,995
No, no just plain good old bigotry
Quote: chipolata @ 3rd June 2025, 2:18 PMThis sounds like some weird dystopia in which there are streets where only mousy haired women or ginger men live.
That's no way to talk about Glasgow!
*runs away*
Quote: Lazzard @ 3rd June 2025, 11:45 AMSo let me get this right.
People who don't have a problem with multiculturalism & who aren't bothered about living amongst people who aren't "their own kind", are unpatriotic?
Interesting take.
See what i mean about people like him and others I could mention ?
Skirting around the issue
Too chicken to actually say what they really mean
So transparent
The cowardice makes it even more pathetic
Personally I couldn't give a shit who I live amongst- but I would definitely draw the line at living next door to the Alf Garnett fan club members on here
Yuck
Quote: lofthouse @ 3rd June 2025, 3:56 PMPersonally I couldn't give a shit who I live amongst- but I would definitely draw the line at living next door to the Alf Garnett fan club members on here
Yuck
Contradicting yourself in one sentence.
Quote: Lazzard @ 3rd June 2025, 3:55 PMThat's no way to talk about Glasgow!
*runs away*
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THOUGH......................all my wife's relatives in Glasgow are long gone now, but we had lovely holidays with them twice in the 60s, and you couldn't find a nicer, pleasant AND generous people
Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 3rd June 2025, 4:47 PMš
THOUGH......................all my wife's relatives in Glasgow are long gone now, but we had lovely holidays with them twice in the 60s, and you couldn't find a nicer, pleasant AND generous people
Said in jest - the set-up was too good.
Visited Glasgow quite a few times, as well as Edinburgh - where my daughter lived for a while.
Great cities, both.
Imagine if this set of clueless idiots had to run an actual government....
"A flagship council won last month by Nigel Farage'sĀ Reform UKĀ has cancelled a third of its upcoming council meetings, amid claims the new administration has no idea how to run a local authority.Ā
As of May, Kent County Council is now run byĀ ReformĀ UK, one of 12 in England led by the party.Ā
Since the election a swathe of crucial council meetings have been either scrapped or postponed as the new administration tries to work out what it is doing, with seven out of 20 meetings this month put on hold.
OppositionĀ LabourĀ councillor Alister Brady toldĀ Byline Times: "The administration are not ready yet. At the moment there are induction meetings and the experienced councillors are getting on with case work but there is a decision free zone within KCCĀ atĀ theĀ moment.
"They don't know what they're doing."
Wakefield Labour member quits party with blistering attack: "Keir Starmer is the worst Prime Minister of my lifetime. He is completely out of touch - he just doesn't get it."
www.placeyorkshire.co.uk/wakefield-labour-member-quits-party-with-blistering-attack/
Quote: Lazzard @ 3rd June 2025, 4:58 PMSaid in jest - the set-up was too good.
Visited Glasgow quite a few times, as well as Edinburgh - where my daughter lived for a while.
Great cities, both.
Yes, I saw that, that it was screaming out for summat, hence me š
Also went to Edinburgh a few times, stopping off on the Forth Road Bridge, which had just been opened by the Queen, but my sister in law wouldn't walk to the middle with us, as large lorries made it dip so very slightly
And coming back to Glasgow - the only thing they warned us about was to avoid any of the areas that had "Tongs" graffiti as that was their territory, but the most shocking thing to an Ipswich boy from the sticks, was when we arrived and were driving through the city, you would see a drunk sound asleep in the middle of the pavement, with people walking round them as a normal part of their day?!
Quote: Lazzard @ 3rd June 2025, 11:45 AMSo let me get this right.
People who don't have a problem with multiculturalism & who aren't bothered about living amongst people who aren't "their own kind", are unpatriotic?
Interesting take.
Well, less patriotic, in the traditional sense of the term it appears, yes. Look around you at today's society. The old Great Britain is being torn apart by people in power who are ashamed of it and some of them actually hate this country.
Councils ban our own flag being waved, and anyone who does is called a racist, our own history has been rewritten by revisionists, schools are indoctrinating pupils with anti British rubbish (while making them anxious about what gender they are) the result being the majority of young people say they wouldn't defend their own country if it was attacked by another. This is a vast change from 80 years ago, and mass immigration is the root cause of it.
Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ 4th June 2025, 6:48 AMWell, less patriotic, in the traditional sense of the term it appears, yes. Look around you at today's society. The old Great Britain is being torn apart by people in power who are ashamed of it and some of them actually hate this country.
Councils ban our own flag being waved, and anyone who does is called a racist, our own history has been rewritten by revisionists, schools are indoctrinating pupils with anti British rubbish (while making them anxious about what gender they are) the result being the majority of young people say they wouldn't defend their own country if it was attacked by another. This is a vast change from 80 years ago, and mass immigration is the root cause of it.
As ever, you confuse Patriotism with Nationalism and Nostalgia.
Which is your right.
I think it's more a case of the word patriotism having had its meaning changed by the liberal elite, while making the notion of National pride seem wrong. If you don't have a unified identifiable British culture anymore then what are you being patriotic about, exactly? Why don't the pro Palestine protesters also wave the Union Jack, like the pro Israel supporters do, where's the patriotism on that one?
And by your logic, we only fought Hitler because we were similarly Nationalistic, not patriotic.
Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ 4th June 2025, 8:52 AMI think it's more a case of the word patriotism having had its meaning changed by the liberal elite, while making the notion of National pride seem wrong. If you don't have a unified identifiable British culture anymore then what are you being patriotic about, exactly? Why don't the pro Palestine protesters also wave the Union Jack, like the pro Israel supporters do, where's the patriotism on that one?
And by your logic, we only fought Hitler because we were similarly Nationalistic, not patriotic.
A lot to unpick there.
Let's start with an easy one.
Two reasons Palestinians don't wave Union Jacks
1) It's impractical whilst also holding a Palestinian flag - which after all, is the main point of the march
2) they might bot be feeling too enamoured of the British government for its rather ambivalent response to the war in Gaza. Conversely Pro-Israel marchers have every reason to look kindly on the UK govt.
A unified identifiable British Culture? British culture changes - and it's more than possible to be patriotic about this ever-changing place that is Britain. Why lock it in the past? The 2012 Opening Ceremony was fantastically patriotic (though hated by the Right). I felt immensely proud - as I did when our winning athletes of every colour and sexuality draped themselves in the Union Jack - used as a symbol of celebration - not anger and defiance.
We fought Hitler to defend Europe and, ultimately, this country against Fascism and Nationalism.
And I'm not sure who the Libera Elite are - apart from being people you don' like.
But whoever they are, there's only one person here trying to change the meaning of the word Patriotism.
Quote: Lazzard @ 4th June 2025, 9:21 AM...there's only one person here trying to change the meaning of the word Patriotism.
"When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'