to want HATE campaigns against foreigners in the popular Press to stop...

and Chortle McChortle, cees!

It was nelliemoser who said of POGS you appear to me to be racist, then denied that she meant that POGS was a racist...

Well done, Ceesnan!

Now English is not my language, I know - but it seems to me that sentence is not really gramatically well formulated:

'Why I answered durhamjen's question is for me to wonder about.'

I'd say that 'the reason why ...' would be gramatically better. But thanks.

Yes, got the bags, of course.

All diversions of course to the real issues.

STOP FUNDING HATE by buying newspapers that peddle hate and racism. Simple.

Drip - drip - drip - drip - drip - drip

www.tinyurl.com/JoinStopFundingHate

Off to Cape Town tomorrow to visit the place where my OH was born 70 years ago- and where his family was destroyed by Apartheid in 1948, when his parents emigrated to the UK (which they could do as grand-father was Brtish). Will visit Robben Island- and see what it was like, to live with hate- and as Trevor Noah says, to even be born a crime. Lest we forget.

Wow I love this guy - why can't we have Pierre Trudeau as Prime Minister, please: solutions, not hate and fears:

www.facebook.com/NowThisElection/videos/1284228804941940/

Er.....Because he's dead?

"By returning your Lego you are implying you support a newspaper that prints racist articles on its front page." implying almost exactly the opposite, I'd have said.

Were you interpreting a post so as to reinforce your opinion of the poster? I hope not.

Ah yes Merlot, thanks. This is Justin of course, Pierre's son.

Back to my first post:

STOP PHONING OR TEXTING AT THE WHEEL - be you Polish, or British, or a dad or mum on the school run, or a Trader, or ... ANYONE - JUST - STOP - IT - please.

Wonderful to hear on the news that the police is started a new campaign to prosecute all who use phone at the wheel- irrespective of nationality! Perfect.

I think the message got lost in translation because it was obscured by the title and the rest of the OP and subsequent posts.

I thoroughly agree that it is Wonderful to hear on the news that the police is started a new campaign to prosecute all who use phone at the wheel granjura

Let's hope they can carry this out and the sentence is a good enough deterrent, long overdue.

Glad you agree Jalima.

I don't think it was lost in translation at all - I mean I didn't write it in French did I ;) my point was clear - it is a very real problem, which is not just about foreign drivers - but mis-represented and distorted by the polulist Press to keep on their campaign of 'hate' towards foreigners- which became a real component of the Brexit vote.

It was highjacked and distorted and misconstrued, in about 280 posts - what a shame.

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Well, even if it is POGS at least even more of us will have read Nelliemoser's offensive rant.

POGS
Glad to see you back
Anyone who read your post properly could see exactly what you meant about why you returned the Lego
However, some people are so high up on what they perceive to be the moral high ground that their perceptions are often clouded and they fail to see logic clearly.

durhamjen

You jumped on the band wagon didn't you!

" I didn't actually call POGS racist. I said by returning her Lego she was implying that she supported a racist newspaper.

That's actually calling the DM racist.
POGS KNOWS ALL ABOUT SEMANTIC GAMES".

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"I think you'll find, jalima, that POGS and bags are pastmasters at drawing fine lines between what they say they mean and what some of us think they mean".

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"POGS hasn't been bullied off before. Why would she leave now?

SHE LIKES THE SPARRING. She will be back later with a very long post."

You are correct I do not get bullied easily and I am glad your post made a note I had been bullied before so why would I leave now, certainly not because of anything you or Nelliemoser can spew out.

Long enough post to make your point!

POGS most of us on here know that the above posts you mention are total rubbish.

But welcome back anyway.

you just can't help yourself can you (lot) sigh- how sad.

Moral high ground oh dear. As said- my OP was clear- and even now, you still want to go on justifying your ranting.

In the meantime in the USA, a different hate campaign has began- a black woman has been set on fire and burnt 60% by KKK members in white hoods, in her car. Welcome to the new world of hate.

It's not all about you, granjura.

Leave you to it - logging off for a good long rest- there is enough hate and ranting and sadness at the moment in the world.
Keep it and hold it tight to your heart!

Stupid point, roses. POGS never went away.

And as I said on another thread, I think, Granjura, Trump's second in command in the White House is a member of a white supremacist group.

It's a bit worrying that Trump has had to tell Americans that they shouldn't be frightened of him.
There have been lots of presidents in my lifetime, five of them are still alive, and not one has had to say anything like that before. He lives on threats, has done so in his businesses, and is obviously going to continue to do so.

You certainly know how to 'win friends and influence people' djen