rickiethecat

Now come be sensible, you are only condoning casual racism if you think its racist which it clearly isn't.

True. "Casual racism" is just another new PC term which effectively means taking offence when none was intended.

I think we're wasting our time arguing with racist ronthenekred though so I'm bowing out of this thread.

There is no proof at all at this stage that the dog was a Staffie.

 

That wouldn't stop you though would it. You have your very own agenda and appear to be not too dissimilar to a mad dog yourself in your crusade to prove the unprovable.

 

TROLL!

And right on cue here's my stalker again.

Little wonder that a keyboard warrior who threatened another poster with "I would teach you a lesson in violence you would be unlikely to forget" turns out to be a defender of violent dog breeds!

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10642048&postcount=45

Needed to see a Doctor in France last week. Easy peasy, walked off the street into one surgery to be told that the Doc was away on holiday, informed by the receptionist that there was another one 100 yards away up the street, walked in 2 other patients in the waiting room, no receptionist. Seen by Doc after 10 minutes, consultation, prescription, problem solved.

 

When I return home I'll have to wait 2 weeks for an appointment or turn up at 8 am following day and queue with half the world while a receptionist seemingly takes forever to sort out appointments. If I phone in I'll never get through.

 

No wonder A&E's are crumbling

Does France have a free national health service?

This week's staffy attack, a defenceless 91 year old pensioner is savaged in the street in an unprovoked act of savagery.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/horrific-pictures-show-91-year-old-grandmothers-4091192

Anyone still think staffys are harmless and it's all the fault of the media? Thought not, you can't defend the indefensible can you?

Is this the same Frankie Boyle who thought Jordans blind son was fair game?

Or Madeline McCann,Simon Weston and a whole load more that have somehow ended up in this idiots sick jokes.

What a pratt.

Frankie Boyle's comedy has always had a degree of shock value. Okay he's lost his way a bit now he's not on TV so much but I'd rather watch his kind of comedy than safe inoffensive PC comedy as typified by BBC favourites like Michael McIntyre and John Bishop.

Yaaaaaawwwwnnnn ... argue, argue, argue, bicker, bicker. Another day on SF.

Why have you got nearly 8,000 posts on here if you find SF so boring?

What did the couple at the centre of the story have to gain by taking offence at being called ting tong??

5 minutes of fame.

http://www.kentonline.co.uk/thanet/news/ting-tong-row-rumbles-on-22346/

That's an oxymoron surely?

No, an oxymoron is a phrase where one part contradicts another. Examples you might use on here might be "responsible staffy owner" or "attractive single mother".

How do you think his comments are consistent with the football governing body's desire to "Kick racism out of football"?

Clearly they're not, but as I have already said, they were private messages not intended for anyone but the mate he texted.

Publically he is a great supported of "Kick racism out of football" as the link below shows, and he's done an awful lot to help black players further their careers. Does that sound like the behaviour of a racist to you?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2730799/Malky-Mackay-attended-Kick-It-Out-s-20th-anniversary-dinner-just-three-months-accused-sending-racist-texts.html

How do you know all these malingerers are sat in the doctors surgeries?...Are you able to diagnose them all just by a cursory glance? Perhaps you should set up a practice of your own and relieve the system a little!

This information comes from my sister who works as a practice nurse. For obvious confidentiality reasons she can't go into specifics but she claims that a sizeable proportion of people who come in for doctors appointments don't really need one.

Oh really?

 

You make a snide unfounded observation about my relationships then add "Thai bride" as a perceived insult which is already covered in another thread, which you could have took there. What seems to be happening here is the possible attempt at getting both threads closed because you are both outed ignoramus meatheads. Keep the significance to the threads concerned rather than overlapping.

Just pointing out your hypocrisy in calling people racist in another thread then using a racist term in this one. Even if it was a crude attempt at humour you're still implying that young women from Thailand will only marry a man if he provides for them in return, which is not just racist but sexist also.

A choice?....I've never heard such tosh! (that's being polite)....I can't believe someone actually believes a statement like that. So I can only assume it's said with the sole intention of eliciting some kind of extreme response.

No, most people who work have disposable income and choose what to spend it on. You can either buy junk food, drink and smoke or you can eat healthily and put a bit of cash aside in case you fall ill or maybe take out health insurance.

If you don't have enough personal income there are many things you can do. You could work more hours, take on a second job, get qualifications to get a better job. Or if you're spending too much you could downsize to a smaller house, get rid of your car, cut down on luxuries like having the latest mobile phone or designer label clothes.

So yes, for all but a few, being poor is a choice.

So if we all live a perfectly utopian 'healthy' lifestyle (whatever the definition of that may be)....We won't need to go to the doctors. That's fine by me...Then maybe me being bog standard Joe Soap...Without all you 'healthy' people clogging up the appointments system, we might get a look in and be able to get and appointment.

Go into your local GP surgery and you'll find plenty of people who don't need to be there. Overprotective mothers who think that just because their baby's sneezed they need an urgent appointment. Pensioners who just want somewhere to go and someone to chat to. Hypochondriacs, pregnant teenagers, the list is endless. If they had to pay £5 a time I think you'd find it a lot easier to get an appointment if you genuine need one.

It isn't racist..apparently, ask Ricky.

No, in your case it is racist as you specifically said a Ting Tong from Thailand. If you'd said a Ting Tong from somewhere it wouldn't have been racist.

 

It makes no sense, so obviously no.

Okay, so calling an Englishman "Mr Bean from somewhere" is not racist yet calling a Thai woman "Ting Tong from somewhere" is?

What an odd sense of values you have, Ron!

There will be a 2 tier health care system like there is in the US. It doesn't work well there for the poor.

Those who can afford it will pay and get a prompt and effective service - those of us who can't afford it will be at the bottom of the pile and get treated as and when possible.

Not good for those without any funds which is a lot us these days.

But for all but a handful of people being poor or not is a choice.

The vast majority of us have a choice in how healthy a lifestyle we lead and also how we spend our income. Perhaps if, as some have suggested, it cost £5 a visit to your GP, people would stop bothering them with trivial complaints and there'd be more appointments for those who genuinely need them?

I think you're definitely divorced in that case?

 

She already made her move then Ron? She didn't hang about did she.

Oh dear, seems like poor Ronthenekred can't find himself a woman! Perhaps he could pop over to Thailand and get himself a mail order bride?

She didn't say "that white woman from somewhere", she didn't even say that "Asian" woman from somewhere, or that Taiwanese woman for that matter, Intaketoo.

 

If she didn't know where she was from her guess at tingtong was pretty acute.

If I called you "Mr Bean from somewhere" would that be racist?

it doesn't matter whether its public or private if racist thoughts are uttered it makes you a racist, the only difference in this case, even tho it was in private he got outed as the dirty racist he is, if he doesn't have racist thoughts racist thoughts wouldn't come out whether in public or in private?

Except that as Cardiff manager Mackay signed and worked with many black players, as well as players of many different nationalities, none of whom have come forward to condemn him. A racist is some one who actively discriminates against people because of the colour of their skin, not someone who sometimes tells a mate a non-PC joke. Personally I'd rather judge a man by what he does rather than what he says.

I would likethink to this that this may happen here but am doubtful

 

I've lived in a Country that only has private healthcare and there is much overprescription of unnecessary drugs

A medical practice in the public sector has no incentive to improve its customer service as regardless of how good or bad it is, they still get paid.

A private medical practice knows that if it's customers are unhappy cause they can't get an appointment, it has to improve its service as if its customers go elsewhere the practice won't get paid.

Yeah, and you can sit alone in an evening, annoying people on a forum and looking at internet porn. What more could you want out of life.

Says the man who's made 52,816 posts on this forum! Oh the irony.

What has working class and a pint have to do with what is or isn't deemed offensive?

 

Amazing you want your "PC freedom of speech" but when "PC freedom of speech" is used to question the content of it you get all anti-PC frothy.

Would you want all your private conversations with your friends (assuming you have any) recorded and to be at risk of losing your job if someone was offended by something you said privately that was never intended for them to hear?

Comments about people like me are water off a ducks back. I don't get upset or wound up about it.

 

However, if I belonged to an oppressed minority (or an oppressed majority for that matter) I might feel different.

 

I don't see it as something that just offends the "PC brigade". I see nothing wrong with highlighting offensive language and criticizing anyone using it, either written or spoken.

 

However, if that person thought of it as "banter" and had not intended to offend, but now realizes that it does offend, accepts that they were wrong (through ignorance), and changes their behavior for the better once they realise, then IMO that should be the end of the matter.

 

They have been educated as to what is and isn't acceptable, and learned from their experience. They are no longer a problem and shouldn't be treated as if they still are.

The issue here isn't what they said it's whether it was intended for public consumption that's the issue here. A private text message is just that - private. The content of the texts may be unsavoury but the comments are no different to what a couple of working class blokes might say to each other down their local over a pint.

Someone has to do the cooking and cleaning too!

That's a fair point and of course if you're a businessman you need an attractive partner on your arm when attending social functions too.

There doesn't seem to be much likelyhood of this service improving anytime soon……

suggest everyone reading this joins the rally to save our NHS in Weston Park at 5pm on Monday 25th August.

A group of Mums from Jarrow are marching from Jarrow to Downing Street trying to save the NHS from privatisation.

On Tuesday 26th August at 10am they will be setting off from Sheffield Town Hall . 10.30am at the Hallamshire Hospital and 11.30 at Nether Edge. lunch time Graves Park. Even if you can only join the walk for 10 minutes, it will help. google Save our NHS for further details.

 

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http://999callfornhs.org.uk

Except that privatisation would actually make the NHS more efficient and more responsive to its customers.

South East MEP Janice Atkinson described Fa Munday, a UKIP-supporting mobile food seller in Ramsgate, Kent, as a Quote,"ting tong from somewhere".

 

 

 

I know ime getting on a bit, so if you can point me in the direction of where she mention's her race i will be eternally grateful.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-28840210

Yes, I'm wondering that too. Out of interest Cyclone, what part of Thailand are you from?