Carjackings today

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Kudos to the EY binmen who sat on the guncarrying chap.
Not sure if they were Hull folk working for EY or EY folk employed by their own council (Castro to confirm), but they acted quick and courageously as did others nearby to disarm and apprehend the felon.
This is not London.

Hull people coming into EY and taking money out and going back to their houses in Hull? Thought that only happened the other way?
Seriously, wherever they are from, good on them.
 
Similar complaint from an American tourist visiting Windsor Castle recently. When asked if she liked the castle she replied "It's beautiful but why did they build it so near to the airport?" True story.

That one has whiskers on it. Unless it was a different American to the one who supposedly said the same donkey's years ago. My dad reckoned there was a story about a Yank saying the same when he was a lad, and that was before the war, about it a shame about them building it so close to the railway line.

More recent true story. Amongst the gems on Trip Advisor was someone, don't know their nationality, who marked the National Portrait Gallery
down as boring as all it had was paintings of people in it. Stonehenge was described as just a bunch of rocks. What were they expecting?
We aren't a lot better. Someone wanted a refund on their holiday because it rained too much. Their holiday was to the Costa Rican rainforest.

One of my favourites was in a series about the Beefeaters. In one episode an American woman was talking to one of them inside the Tower Of London and told him she was interested in history and costumes as her daughter worked in a recreation of the settlement in Jamestown in the 1600s. "Do you have anything that old around here?" she asked him. His face, as he informed her that yes we do, was a picture.
 
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That one has whiskers on it. Unless it was a different American to the one who supposedly said the same donkey's years ago. My dad reckoned there was a story about a Yank saying the same when he was a lad, and that was before the war, about it a shame about them building it so close to the railway line.

More recent true story. Amongst the gems on Trip Advisor was someone, don't know their nationality, who marked the National Portrait Gallery
down as boring as all it had was paintings of people in it. Stonehenge was described as just a bunch of rocks. What were they expecting?
We aren't a lot better. Someone wanted a refund on their holiday because it rained too much. Their holiday was to the Costa Rican rainforest.

One of my favourites was in a series about the Beefeaters. In one episode an American woman was talking to one of them inside the Tower Of London and told him she was interested in history and costumes as her daughter worked in a recreation of the settlement in Jamestown in the 1600s. "Do you have anything that old around here?" she asked him. His face, as he informed her that yes we do, was a picture.
I must confess, I do like telling Americans "We have pubs older than your country..."
 
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What bright spark in this ****ing useless council thought it was a good idea to put a homeless hostel opposite a children's play ground, the ****ers sit outside that place all day drinking and across the road in the park right opposite the kids.... ****ing moron who ever you are....

Why is that a problem?
 
I ask again - why is it a problem? These people aren't peadophiles, they just haven't been able to house themselves.

Probably because people don't want their children playing opposite a building full of people who were deemed too dangerous to be allowed in mainstream society. They might not be murderers either, it doesn't mean they're a solid choice as a neighbour to a 4 year old.
 
Probably because people don't want their children playing opposite a building full of people who were deemed too dangerous to be allowed in mainstream society. They might not be murderers either, it doesn't mean they're a solid choice as a neighbour to a 4 year old.

I don't know the background to this place, the poster said it's a hostel for the homeless. Is there something about it that makes these people 'too dangerous to be allowed in mainstream society'? If so the poster should've focussed on that part rather than the homeless part.
 
I don't know the background to this place, the poster said it's a hostel for the homeless. Is there something about it that makes these people 'too dangerous to be allowed in mainstream society'? If so the poster should've focussed on that part rather than the homeless part.

It is indeed a hostel for homeless people, of which there's very few dangerous ones and that's not a label I'd ever apply. But the building has recently become home to a few more released criminals and drug rehabs as a half way house, it's really not very nice.
 
It is indeed a hostel for homeless people, of which there's very few dangerous ones and that's not a label I'd ever apply. But the building has recently become home to a few more released criminals and drug rehabs as a half way house, it's really not very nice.

What were the criminals guilty of?
 
My personal favourite is white Americans complaining about immigration and saying "we want our country back".

If everyone is descended from a dispersal of people from Africa then the Native Americans were immigrants as well. In fact, everybody, everywhere is an immigrant. Muslims want areas back which were occupied by other religions and people for thousands of years before Islam came into being.
Of course only the Yanks get mentioned by some in that regard. What about the Danish and Portugese invaders of South America?
 
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I'm afraid you don't know the realities of this place BCC. I live nearby and I promise you, that hostel is full of the worst kind of arseholes.

Yeah you're right, I don't know it. It was described as a hostel for the homeless and I questioned why it's such an issue to have that near an area where kids play? If it is used as a place to house people who pose a threat to society and / or juveniles then maybe it should've been described as such and therefore I wouldn't have questioned it.