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Discussion in 'Hull City' started by look_back_in_amber, Jan 15, 2015.

  1. bum_chinned_crab

    bum_chinned_crab Well-Known Member

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    Whatever you said was "ok", I wasn't judging - I was interested.
     
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  2. ElTigre

    ElTigre Well-Known Member

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    Quill take your copy to the Muslim area of Blackburn and read it ostentatiously in the street, if you've the balls. :D

    Or upload footage of yourself reading it to youTube. With your name and address.
     
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  3. Quill

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    I never said I wasn't a massive pussy. <ok>
     
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  4. Barchullona

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    Being able to read French is more important than being able to speak it for looking at magazines.
     
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  5. Barchullona

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    Others have mentioned it being a sort of French Private Eye but it is a poor analogy. It is a lot more vicious in its approach. It is a good job Jews don't get as agitated as Muslims.
     
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  6. The Omega Man

    The Omega Man Well-Known Member

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    I support the right of free speech. But I do not believe that there is an equal right to offend.
     
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  7. originallambrettaman

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    No religion remember, stick to talking about Sky. <ok>
     
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  8. ElTigre

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    There shouldn't be any right either to be offended just because your identity is tied up with a medieval religion, or one from the late Bronze Age.
     
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  9. Amin Arrears

    Amin Arrears Well-Known Member

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    Maybe it's because Jews aren't tribal? Possibly due to their lighter skin tone (in general)?
     
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  10. Barchullona

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    Maybe it is because they aren't as hysterical as some others. Don't recall them calling for special consideration here or demand schools and restaurants serve kosher meat to everyone.
    Of course there is the difference in being a Jew defined by race and a Muslim who can be any shade or nationality.
     
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  11. ElTigre

    ElTigre Well-Known Member

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    There's enough Jews who stayed together in New York City rather than move on elsewhere to refute that. It's quite famously the second biggest Jewish city in the world.
     
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  12. The Omega Man

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    Its every persons right to be offended by whatever they find offensive. You cannot stop them being offended, but you can prevent freedom of speech.

    It is what people do about offence that is the problem.

    You cannot live a life without offending someone during it. You can try not to be offensive. If some one offends you, you have a choice, either react or ignore it. On a site like this, some hide behind their user names to be deliberately offensive, they have a degree of freedom to say just about anything that they want, but we still have moderators and on this forum at least rules. So we are just the same as SKY and the rest of the media who are not showing the image. It's all about striking a balance.

    The magazine chose to be offensive and its staff paid the price for it. That was a high price to pay for having the freedom of speech. Whilst I salute their stance, I do not fully agree with what they published, but I uphold their right to do so.
     
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  13. matelot-tiger

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    Not that like the French but you will find that they were the first to join the US during the war on Iraq!
     
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  14. TigerRoo

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    If you have a look at the Sumerian Tablets of Creation you will see where the Bible comes from. Written some 7,000 years before Moses wrote the book of Genesis in the 14th Century BC (almost word for word) you will realize just how much has been lost in translation over those thousands of years.
    The truth is out there if you want to find it.
     
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  15. where's les mutrie now

    where's les mutrie now Well-Known Member

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    I'm against all organised religion. Far be it for me to quote Shankley but didn't he say football was more important?
     
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  16. TigerRoo

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    Before good old my mate OLM corrects you his quote was as follows:

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    Bill came out with some memorable quotes but I like his classic reply to a journalist who questioned him about one of his forwards (Roger Hunt I think) continually missing goals was:

    "Yes, he misses a few but he does get into the right position to miss 'em"!

    Beautiful!
     
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  17. Carmine Galante.

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    Let's be honest, that quote about football being more important than a matter of life or death is a right load of old pony.

    I've read he was being sarcastic but either way he made himself look a bit of a bell cheese by saying it.

    IMO.
     
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  18. TigerRoo

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    Well, let's be honest Mr Mobster, Bill Shankly had more quotes than a solar panel salesman - here's another 35 of them:

    http://myliverpoolfc.org/quotes.htm
     
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  19. bum_chinned_crab

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    Not sure about restaurants but they certainly do in shops. I used to work in food retail PR and there's huge pressure to force supermarkets to sell kosher meat.
     
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  20. Barchullona

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    Nothing wrong with having the choice, whether halal or kosher. Then you know what you are getting. However we haven't had instances of schools or restaurants serving everyone kosher meat without telling people.
     
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