Thoughts about the forum in 2016

[Seabag]

This thread is fun

*insert fish on line emoji here*

[Dulwich Born And Bred]

By the way Bodsier, you can see the comment I left on that thread and draw your own conclusions to how you perceived me to be .

Asking if I'm comfortable there is a very weird term to use ... Comfortable as in what ? Bashing the OP? As I didn't partake in that . As in drawing attention to the man's colour etc? As I didn't partake in that either .

So no idea what you mean .

[Grok]

The whole point on the man allegedly hitting a kid thread was that because in the OP view the man was black african with a london accent but not wearing any odd clothing totally tells you that the OP thinks that black africans mistreat their kids abusively on a regular basis due to cultural differences. No more no less. Otherwise if a description was needed a black man in a red top with blue jeans would have sufficed.

Sue Wrote:

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> I think if somebody is trying to describe someone

> they have seen, for example (on this forum just

> before Christmas) somebody who was hitting a

> child

>

tomskip Wrote:?-------------------------------------------------------?> I found all the chatter about appearance/race and?> culture on that thread somehow rather offensive,?> in the light of the fact that we were discussing a?> young child being hit around the head and face by?> her father and pleading with him to let her go to?> school! THAT was the main point of the thread. I?> sincerely hope someone reading knew who he was and?> that the poor girl has not been suffering more?> physical abuse while the EDF was fretting about?> the niceties of how to describe a violent thuggish?> criminal.?

[Blah Blah]

For goodness sake Grok, give it a rest. Nothing the OP said gave any impression of the sort. Most of us can tell from an accent if a black person is a first generation migrant or not. Some of us can even tell the difference in accents between different African countries. It's a perfectly valid observation to make, despite your attempts to accuse the OP of something other than the face value reason for posting.

Would you say the same about someone referencing a white person with an Irish or Scottish accent? I suggest it's you who has a problem there, not the OP.

[Grok]

Id ref an irishman or scot. Simple. Not an african, as opposed to any other 'black' person from any other continent that wasnt wearing funny clothes. What does an african look like, DJKQ? Pray tell?

[Blah Blah]

'funny clothes'???? There's an insult if ever there was one.

Most people would reference anyone with any accent and most people who live in London have plenty of exposure to accents from the various countries of Africa. But as your post shows, you are more intent on trouble making than diplaying any intelligence.

Go and look a pictures of Ethiopians compared to Nigerians for example. You'll see a physical difference, a difference that black people themselves see, because unlike some white people, they don't see everyone with a different skin colour as all looking the same. They are the same differnces that we acknowledge accross europe btw. Africa is a huge continent that borders the middle east and anthropologically is an area of great difference - if only you open your eyes and look properly. Whilst the OP may not have had the knowledge to pinpoint which African accent she heard, it is perfectly ok to acknowledge an accent, in the same was as we would acknowledge an eastern European or Asian etc accent.

[Blah Blah]

In a final effort to get you to see sense Grok, if you were played audio files of just voices speaking English, you would pretty easily to be able to tell Oriental from Asian from Indian from African from European. Most people could do that. Some people would be able to tell a Chinese accent from a Japanese one, or a Canadian from an American, or a Russian from a German. Some might even be able to do better and pinpoint differences between local accents, like Cockney compared to Brummie and the global equivalents. Being able to do that of course requires local exposure and knowledge. Accent is a defining characteristic that helps identification, that's all. So your whole argument that the OP was somehow wrong to reference that is nonsense, as many have pointed out, and the fact that people have been off the forum over Christmas and come back to find you still banging on about it says something not very rational about you. Move on dude.

[Grok]

If you bothered to actually read the thread and make meaningful comments rather than try to stir things up you will find that the person in question was described as having a London accent so stop your strop, DJKQ?

Your google geography lesson perfectly illustrates my point, what does an 'African' look like?

Lay off the sherry in the tenants hall. Dude - how very dare you!

Blah Blah Wrote:

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> 'funny clothes'???? There's an insult if ever

> there was one.

>

> Most people would reference anyone with any accent

> and most people who live in London have plenty of

> exposure to accents from the various countries of

> Africa. But as your post shows, you are more

> intent on trouble making than diplaying any

> intelligence.

>

> Go and look a pictures of Ethiopians compared to

> Nigerians for example. You'll see a physical

> difference, a difference that black people

> themselves see, because unlike some white people,

> they don't see everyone with a different skin

> colour as all looking the same. They are the same

> differnces that we acknowledge accross europe btw.

> Africa is a huge continent that borders the middle

> east and anthropologically is an area of great

> difference - if only you open your eyes and look

> properly. Whilst the OP may not have had the

> knowledge to pinpoint which African accent she

> heard, it is perfectly ok to acknowledge an

> accent, in the same was as we would acknowledge an

> eastern European or Asian etc accent.

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Half that makes no sense to me either and proves my point of what a moron you are.