Corax
Luke 5:16
I thought I'd made it pretty clear I had no sympathy in this particular case. Let me check...
Yep, looks like it.
The word 'precedent' was rather key to the question I was asking I think.
Golliwog in the window - should this really be in court?
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The word 'precedent' was rather key to the question I was asking I think.
Lo Siento.
Second As Farce
having grown up in suffolk, I've lost count of the number of klan members you come across.
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The word 'precedent' was/is the issue though corax. This is hardly the first case of offence cause by golliwog displays...it is clear from the story this one is more an attempt to offend being as the doll appeared during a neighbour's dispute.
You are suggesting that this neighbour being pulled up for being a racist pig could mean you have less rights to express your political affiliations...now unless you are BNP/EDL ( which I know you are not) I don't see how you think that the race relations act/associated laws or considerations are going to infringe on your personal rights and freedom of speech.
You are suggesting that this neighbour being pulled up for being a racist pig could mean you have less rights to express your political affiliations...now unless you are BNP/EDL ( which I know you are not) I don't see how you think that the race relations act/associated laws or considerations are going to infringe on your personal rights and freedom of speech.
friedaweed
Me and me girl named Jane
Dorset innit
What president? Making a racist gesture isn't some new offence. I don't get how you've read that story and linked it to potential curtailment of political expression. you might have had the shade of a corrolation had they stuck a BNP poster in the window. Even then, it would be pretty bloody obbious it was a racist not to say stupid, gesturr, rather than a longstanding expression of political opinion.
This is just some daft old racist twat being offensive.
goldenecitrone
post tenebras lux
My neighbours, the Cohens, have never complained about the bronze bust of Hitler I keep on a plinth in my front garden. It's political correct...shoots self.
Corax
Luke 5:16
No doubt. Mens Rea dead easy to demonstrate, hence the prosecution I presume.
But - I've not come across another case before where someone displaying an item in their window, which isn't legally considered offensive itself (ie golliwogs aren't illegal), leads to a prosecution.
I've no objection to the woman being buggered by a shark in punishment tbh, I was just wondering about that aspect. And I'm not claiming to be particularly informed about how the law works in that area either.
ItWillNeverWork
Messy Crimbobs, fellow humans.
Fascist!!!
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
The thing is constructive in the case you knob
goldenecitrone
post tenebras lux
Er, nobody thinks you're defending this woman. Just you've got crossed wires reading what the case was about. AA racist gesture. Not a stuffed toy. Context etc a&ce as per.
ItWillNeverWork
Messy Crimbobs, fellow humans.
Of course they did it on purpose to cause offence. That's part of the definition of rudeness.
Treacle Toes
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Many years ago, a friend of mine, left some stuff at my place when he moved abroad, promising he would collect at some point. I stored it in the cupboard for quite a few years, he came and went, each time taking more things with him. In the end I was left with this very large, bronze-esque bust-like picture...of someone or other...it was cheesy but i liked it. I put it up in my spare room in the end.
A few years later, a Polish friend came to stay...I was happy to offer him my spare room...I met him at the station, we went straight out to eat and then drink, got drunk and stumbled home. He went to bed that night in his clothes on top of the bed, too drunk to check his room out. The next morning I woke up to him swearing an stomping around.... the bust/picture- bronze-esque-thingy on the wall was of Lenin...I had no clue until then.
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jakethesnake
In bed for Britain
There was a chap who got threatened by the police for displaying a poster in his window at the last general election that was rude about the tories (can't remember what it said, but it wasn't that offensive iirc).
goldenecitrone
post tenebras lux
Many years ago, a friend of mine, left some stuff at my place when he moved abroad, promising he would collect at some point. I stored it in the cupboard for quite a few years, he came and went, each time taking more things with him. In the end I was left with this very large, bronze-esque bust-like picture...of someone or other...it was cheesy but i liked it. I put it up in my spare room in the end.
A few years later, a Polish friend came to stay...I was happy to offer him my spare room...I met him at the station, we went straight out to eat and then drink, got drunk and stumbled home. He went to bed that night in his clothes on top of the bed, too drunk to check his room out. The next morning I woke up to him swearing an stomping around.... the bust/picture- bronze-esque-thingy on the wall was of Lenin...I had no clue until then.
At least it wasn't Uncle Joe.
Mr Moose
What the hell are we supposed to tell the kids?
My Grandparents lived in v rural Suffolk. I like it very much but let's be fair you wouldn't have to go far for a barbed comment about Brixton, so Suffolk has to take it on the chin.
_angel_
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Not just there either, Robin Hood's Bay.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Stop defending the Reich, Corax.
Corax
Luke 5:16
First they came for the nazis,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a nazi.
Then they came for the racists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a... etc
likesfish
You can't park here sir
like the womens fince collection of porcelain pigs that only appeared in the window after getting into an arguement about people from a mosque parking badly or something.
tbf think she got off as religions are not covered. it was a snide attempt to insult.
Neighbor already pissed off called the cops.
cops turn up racism flagged up as a target attempt to reason with old bat get "I pay your wages go catch some proper criminals etc etc HEY guess what your a proper criminal now
your nicked"
tbf think she got off as religions are not covered. it was a snide attempt to insult.
Neighbor already pissed off called the cops.
cops turn up racism flagged up as a target attempt to reason with old bat get "I pay your wages go catch some proper criminals etc etc HEY guess what your a proper criminal now
your nicked"
Schmetterling
I saw something nasty in the woodshed!
Are you Father Ted?Many years ago, a friend of mine, left some stuff at my place when he moved abroad, promising he would collect at some point. I stored it in the cupboard for quite a few years, he came and went, each time taking more things with him. In the end I was left with this very large, bronze-esque bust-like picture...of someone or other...it was cheesy but i liked it. I put it up in my spare room in the end.
A few years later, a Polish friend came to stay...I was happy to offer him my spare room...I met him at the station, we went straight out to eat and then drink, got drunk and stumbled home. He went to bed that night in his clothes on top of the bed, too drunk to check his room out. The next morning I woke up to him swearing an stomping around.... the bust/picture- bronze-esque-thingy on the wall was of Lenin...I had no clue until then.
'My neighbours, the Cohens, have never complained about the bronze bust of Hitler I keep on a plinth in my front garden. It's political correct...shoots self.'
In Sicily, I saw large busts of Mussolini on sale everywhere in the shops and they are dispayed in the windows, i wonder what partisans and the their families and other victims think of that?
In Sicily, I saw large busts of Mussolini on sale everywhere in the shops and they are dispayed in the windows, i wonder what partisans and the their families and other victims think of that?
Fozzie Bear
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In Wareham there's a shop which basically just sells Golliwogs. Key rings, fridge magnets, dolls of all sizes, pictures, you name it.
Going in there was like being in a scene from Darius James' Negrophobia.
Going in there was like being in a scene from Darius James' Negrophobia.
frogwoman
No amount of cajolery...
In Wareham there's a shop which basically just sells Golliwogs. Key rings, fridge magnets, dolls of all sizes, pictures, you name it.
Going in there was like being in a scene from Darius James' Negrophobia.
Ah jesus
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Whareham by poole?
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