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RE: Fireman sam creator held for making racist remark.
February 27, 2012 at 6:42 pm
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Getting pulled out of a line because someone was offended? LMFAO. Why are some people getting checked while others go through? Thats stupid? I thought everyone was supposed to get checked before boarding a flight.
Meh, I hate flying on planes anyways. Fuckem, Id rather drive.
As far as Tibs comment on free speech. Dont the airlines get to pick and chose how to run their businesses? I mean, if they have a sign that says "no offensive speech" then dont they have the right to detain people for breach of rules and refuse services? If they hang a "no muslims" sign up, then its a-okay for them to deny services to muslims...right?
Then again I dont know how Brittish airports run their business. Are they partial private? Are they completely private...or if they are like the ones over here win america where the lines between private and public are so blurred that you need a master in law just to weed through it.
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RE: Fireman sam creator held for making racist remark.
February 27, 2012 at 7:01 pm
(February 27, 2012 at 6:42 pm)reverendjeremiah Wrote: As far as Tibs comment on free speech. Dont the airlines get to pick and chose how to run their businesses? I mean, if they have a sign that says "no offensive speech" then dont they have the right to detain people for breach of rules and refuse services? If they hang a "no muslims" sign up, then its a-okay for them to deny services to muslims...right?
1) I think the security check was done by government employees (but I'm not 100% sure).
2) There are no signs (that I know of) at airports banning offensive language.
3) No, airlines don't get to pick and choose how to run their business. This is the UK we're talking about, not my version of a utopia. ;-)
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RE: Fireman sam creator held for making racist remark.
February 27, 2012 at 7:50 pm
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(February 27, 2012 at 7:01 pm)Tiberius Wrote: (February 27, 2012 at 6:42 pm)reverendjeremiah Wrote: As far as Tibs comment on free speech. Dont the airlines get to pick and chose how to run their businesses? I mean, if they have a sign that says "no offensive speech" then dont they have the right to detain people for breach of rules and refuse services? If they hang a "no muslims" sign up, then its a-okay for them to deny services to muslims...right?
1) I think the security check was done by government employees (but I'm not 100% sure).
2) There are no signs (that I know of) at airports banning offensive language.
3) No, airlines don't get to pick and choose how to run their business. This is the UK we're talking about, not my version of a utopia. ;-)
Oh. Well. Do they NEED a sign as well? I mean, can a business owner just instruct his employees to weed out the undesirables and give them the boot? Like if the business doesnt like muslims, then they dont have to hang a sign up (as that would be bad press) but merely just put the prejudice into practice?
Of course I was asking about it in your system in this post....not the british one... I think the way airlines are run here in America to be aggrivating as fuck and avoid them like church
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RE: Fireman sam creator held for making racist remark.
February 27, 2012 at 8:22 pm
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Quote:Mr Jones said he was told: "You've made a remark which someone finds offensive. Come with me.
What? A rent-a-cop detained him for THAT? Did he commit an offence,or was he reasonably suspected of having done so?
Prima facie,sounds like excellent grounds for suing their arses. BUT,all I know is that media report; I have no idea what the guy actually said or did.I smell a rat.
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Poor John Alderton, (I loved "Please Sir!) reduced to doing the voice in some cheesy kids show. Guess it could have been worse,say the Teletubbies. OK,I'm being mean,after all TT is aimed at children whose greatest intellectual achievement has been to discover their own toes.
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RE: Fireman sam creator held for making racist remark.
February 28, 2012 at 3:47 pm
Haven't you discovered the Teletubbies' dark secret yet?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Fireman sam creator held for making racist remark.
February 28, 2012 at 8:08 pm
(February 28, 2012 at 3:47 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Haven't you discovered the Teletubbies' dark secret yet?
Pshaw, everyone knows that Tinky Winky is gay - and does not care, except Rick Santorum and his other frothy buddies.
Oh, wait.
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RE: Fireman sam creator held for making racist remark.
February 28, 2012 at 8:31 pm
Maybe true, but did you click my link? The real secret is even darker than that; Wellesian even.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Fireman sam creator held for making racist remark.
February 28, 2012 at 8:48 pm
(February 28, 2012 at 8:31 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Maybe true, but did you click my link? The real secret is even darker than that; Wellesian even.
Of course I did. 
I just can't pass up an opportunity to poke fun at people who think an androgynous character on a TV program for toddlers might (horrors!) be homosexual. You opened the door, I just walked through it. 
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RE: Fireman sam creator held for making racist remark.
February 28, 2012 at 9:17 pm
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Ok, I was just curious since neither I nor the information I linked to mentioned any kind of sexuality or lack thereof. Wherever this door of yours might be located or where it might lead, I just want it noted that I didn't open it.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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