Re: Guardian Commentators
Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2023 1:33 am
She means people who work in working class professions.
I think it represents a cross section of society.
I think it represents a cross section of society.
Malcolm Armsteen wrote: ↑Fri Sep 15, 2023 1:13 am What are 'roadmen'?I’d always took it to mean, very low level gang members
Is TikTok now a major polling organisation?
British slang. a young and gregarious member of a street gang, often involved in selling drugs.From the Urban Dictionary (out of many funny definitions, all along a common theme):
A roadman is a deluded big headed chav, who spends their saturday mornings sitting outside Poundland next to the hobos smoking joints. They wear charity shop Adidas joggers and bin bags as coats found in a council lorry down the road. They scrapped their 2 years of education ( only made it reception) and can’t speak a word of English apart from “ I’ll shank u bruv” with a bent butter knife they stole from their mums knicker drawer.
Fat joe: did u see that roadman down the road matey
Big bill: yeah mate he said he’d shank me so I gave him 50 p and a wedgie and he was on his way
Starmer must do more than reverse the Tories’ cruelties. He should lead a global rethink on refugeesI mean, by all means make your case for what Labour should do domestically, and wha iinternational cooperation could look like. But why do some people on the left think that the word is sat there waiting for a lead from the UK? Seems a bit like an old CND vicar.
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Snowdrop wrote: ↑Sun Sep 17, 2023 11:06 pm How are American Bully XLs American, by the way? I'm an American and a dog lover and I've never seen or heard of them here. They seem to be purely British.Bit of info here on the American bully among this rogue’s gallery of dodgy dogs
Snowdrop wrote: ↑Mon Sep 18, 2023 10:06 pm That video looks gigantically silly to me.The evidence would seem to suggest that pit bulls are not always “complete love bugs”. In fact, sometimes they’d seem to want to rip your throat out at the drop of a zombie knife. And there’s the rub. The dogs are only dangerous and lethally vicious when kept by nasty, malevolent humans whom it would appear, are often happy to strut around with a dog capable of inflicting serious injury or worse on other dogs and/or humans, which such malevolent humans may even encourage.
American pit bulls are darling dogs. They really are. They're complete love bugs. It's not the breed's fault that some jerkoffs maltreat them and make them fight, often by using steroids and other illegal
Snowdrop wrote: ↑Mon Sep 18, 2023 10:43 pm Why blame the dogs for having terrible owners?Well, you don’t. The “blame” is entirely on the owners. But as I just said, the dogs, by dint simply of being those sorts of dogs, owned by those sorts of inadequates, are, however regrettably, collateral damage.
FWIW, Chihuahuas are extremely bitey and nervous dogs. They're just less likely to kill someone than a bigger animal.Well, precisely. Which is presumably exactly why inadequate fuckwits prefer a bigger, more lethal beast. It really does boil down to the type of dog.
American Bully XL’s are the heavyweight result of breeds born out of brutal human practices that sculpted generations of dogs to respond with terrifying violence. This is a terrible, awful shame. It is not the dogs fault, anymore than it is the fault of a sighthound to chase squirrels, or for pointers to point. They bear no responsibility. But it does not change the reality. The foundational breed for American Bully XL’s were bred for violence and we should not be surprised to find that this new, muscular, massive version still exhibits these behaviours, and to the horrifying cost of children’s lives.
Snowdrop wrote: ↑Mon Sep 18, 2023 11:10 pm Sorry, I do not think it's OK to kill animals just because some inadequates tortured their dogs into being vicious. I don't think it's OK to call them collateral damage or to imply they're better off eaten. But as I said, I'm a dog lover.So what do you suggest? You can't say train the owners because they don't want to be trained. They want to strut round the streets with the biggest, strongest, nastiest looking dog they can find because that's the way you get respect innit? And if the dog gets loose and someone dies that's just their bad innit?
The Weeping Angel wrote: ↑Mon Sep 18, 2023 11:34 pm The thing is these dogs are breed to be aggresive.And it’s some very admirable benevolent traits that can make them ultra aggressive like loyalty to their owner.
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American Bully XL’s are the heavyweight result of breeds born out of brutal human practices that sculpted generations of dogs to respond with terrifying violence. This is a terrible, awful shame. It is not the dogs fault, anymore than it is the fault of a sighthound to chase squirrels, or for pointers to point. They bear no responsibility. But it does not change the reality. The foundational breed for American Bully XL’s were bred for violence and we should not be surprised to find that this new, muscular, massive version still exhibits these behaviours, and to the horrifying cost of children’s lives.
Still, there’s one thing no one can take away from her. She has at least advanced the cause of women in politics. Sort of. Not so long ago, women had to be twice as good as men to succeed to the top jobs in government. Truss has shattered that particular glass ceiling. She is living proof that a woman can now be every bit as useless as a man and still become prime minister. What a legacy. Admittedly May had nudged us in that direction, but Truss is an icon of incoherence. Radon – “she’s a gas, but she’s inert” – Liz is a beacon for the brainless everywhere. Oxford should be rethinking its PPE course as we speak.