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This is at best a mischaracterization of the payments Germany is voluntarily paying to the remaining Jews who were imprisoned during the holocaust in the way the UK paid reparations to people incorrectly imprisoned as terrorists. There are no payments being made to Israel. Where did you find...

Really? You KNOW that do you? I have no idea how....

Firstly, I don't believe 99% of the people on this forum think it's OK to characterise people of a different race by the way they speak or look. But some do - because they keep posting this stuff. So I could set up a forum for the perpetually offended... or the people posting these comments...

That tells me one or more of three things about you must be true 1. You haven't seen the comments because the mods have deleted them yourself 2. You don't see anything wrong with broad sweeping statements about the national characteristics of others or the use of the word n1gger in the forums...

I had the same issue at the beginning of the year but there was no stock for air filters anywhere. I ended up making my own out of a sheet of 12mm plywood, a couple of panel filters, a 2nd hand 8 inch incline duct fan and a smart plug (so I can shout at the Amazon Echo I have in the garage to...

I think you have to go back and read the posts from the 2 women who posted in this thread (and interestingly had chosen to post very little before). One of them said that the jokes didn't bother her but the banter about "the missus" did. My experience is that women find the jokes pretty dull and...

Just a final attempt to come back to the original point... There are forum members posting old fashioned racist and sexist jokes and comments. I'm not talking about people wanting to refer to tradesmen as tradespeople or insisting on herstory instead of history. The mods do a very good job at...

The stuff that I was originally referring to is not "woke" type things. There aren't people referring to "tradesmen" rather than "tradespeople". There are people openly feeling it is OK to post jokes or other comments based entirely on the colour of someone's skin or the country they come from...

You mean in the days before Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney +? No. The Clarkson top gear shows are pretty boring once you know a lot of the stunts are staged. I can't bear the false "banter" between them. It's all too pantomime for me.

Just to be clear, I am not talking about anything "woke" (which I think is a pretty dumb word by the way!). I am talking about what my grandfather would have described as "good manners". The jokes and comments I am talking about are not as borderline as Garno is suggesting (though Garno, you do...

It is now - because the mods do a very good job of removing the truly offensive content. But I'm depressed to see it keep coming back because it tells me this community has a significant number of people who think that jokes or generalisations based on the colour of someone's skin or they...

I've lived all over the country and in various countries in the world. People do now seem to be better travelled and more exposed to other cultures than they were 30 or 40 years ago. In my experience, those regional stereotypes don't hold true. I think it's a good thing some of those very...

I wonder... am I alone in feeling there are too many comments that make generalisations about a particular group's ethnicity or gender and the forum mods should take stronger action? In the past 24 hours on the joke thread there's been a "joke" suggesting that women are better suited to a...

Well the new top gear still has 3 million or so viewers so some people evidently like it.

The new version also became dull, predictable and full of puerile jokes. Well past its sell by date

Agreed. But that's a reason to keep on moving past this thread if you feel that way rather than wanting it to be shut down. I think you can ignore individual threads - at the very least by not clicking on them!

There is a small body of very vocal anti-vaccers anti lockdown people out there. I would think any thread around response to Covid is likely to appeal to them. I think this is what the "controversial" forum was created for. I don't see anything wrong with the discussion up to now and if people...

Selwyn, you are arguing from a parallel universe. Current NHS training (I know - my daughter just completed it 3 months ago and I helped her revise the materials) is that masks are worn by healthcare works to catch some of the water droplets they exhale as those may contain viral particles. A...

If you say so! :) I don't see it myself!

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