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Homophobic attack on London bus - mod warning, please see OP

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  • #122
    Sonny noggs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭Sonny noggs


    DubInMeath wrote: »
    Because it only matters to some ***** with issues.
    Now if they turn out to be white English assholes you won't be interested.

    Let’s wait and see before jumping to conclusions.


  • #123
    Odhinn
    Registered Users Posts: 8,136 ✭✭✭Odhinn


    Sonny noggs wrote: »
    Black teenager criminality seem to be out of control in London.




    ...really? All the rest are saints then?


    In a place as ethnically diverse as london its a fools gambit to try and predict the ethnicity in situation like this.


  • #124
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    the attackers appear to be kids so dont expect any further info tbh


  • #125
    Hal3000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 818 ✭✭✭Hal3000


    The issue here is our lack of any political will to flog thugs like this in the center of every town square the length and breath of the country. The generations coming up now have never known discipline as their snowflaked parents medicate them with phones instead of dealing with bad behavior. It's time to bring back discipline... Have them out picking up rubbish, cleaning chewing gum - anything but stop stop letting these types off with a stupid slap on the wrist - suspended sentences. Unless we do something this behavior and other thuggery will get worse.


  • #126
    Odhinn
    Registered Users Posts: 8,136 ✭✭✭Odhinn


    Sonny noggs wrote: »
    Let’s wait and see before jumping to conclusions.




    ...sez mr "they're bleck".


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  • #127
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Hal3000 wrote: »
    The issue here is our lack of any political will to flog thugs like this in the center of every tian square the length and breath of the country. The generations coming up now have never known discipline as they're snowflaked parents medicate them with phones instead of dealing with bad behavior. It's time to bring back discipline... Have them out picking up rubbish, cleaning chewing gum - anything but stop stop letting these types off with a stupid slap on the wrist - suspended sentences. Unless we do something this behavior and other thuggery will get worse.



    which country now


  • #128
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,643 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    Sonny noggs wrote: »
    Thanks for the heads up, i’ll keep an eye out for them.

    Something tells me.you only need to go as far as the bathroom ;)


  • #129
    FunLover18
    Registered Users Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    Sonny noggs wrote: »
    Yeah, I suppose we didn’t need to know the gender or sexuality of the victims either.

    The gender and sexuality of the victims is the reason they were attacked. I would say that's a crucial part of the story. Are you suggesting the attackers' ethnicity may have been a contributing factor in why they decided to attack these two innocent people?


  • #130
    Hal3000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 818 ✭✭✭Hal3000


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    which country now

    England - Ireland every bleedin where


  • #131
    Sonny noggs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭Sonny noggs


    Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »
    Something tells me.you only need to go as far as the bathroom ;)

    Why, you in there taking a dump?


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  • #132
    Sand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,605 ✭✭✭✭Sand


    DubInMeath wrote: »
    Because it only matters to some ***** with issues.
    Now if they turn out to be white English assholes you won't be interested, other than to perhaps make a snide comment or two as to the victims sexuality.

    Its West Hampstead, and the victims claim at least one had a foreign accent. Its highly likely that if they are not English assholes that the incident will never get media attention again.


  • #133
    TCM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 736 ✭✭✭TCM


    I read the article and while it could be classified as a homophobic attack, I saw it more as an opportunistic episode, in that those thugs would gave attacked any vulnerable person(s) that they might have come upon at that time.


  • #134
    Hedgelayer
    Registered Users Posts: 530 ✭✭✭Hedgelayer


    It doesn't matter whether they were attacked because they were of any sexual orientation.

    Or whatever type of person the attacker's are to be honest.

    An attack is an attack, unfortunately for these two young ladies they met up with the wrong crowd and got slagged off and a hiding.

    Myself and the brother got attacked by a bunch of scobes on holidays in Wexford back in 1993 and were badly beaten.

    We were attacked in an arcade/pool hall because we had a western lilt in our accent's by a few Dublin lads...

    They called us ******'s too and culchies.....
    One girl in the group kicked me while on the ground...

    Just got up after and dusted ourselves down, had a laugh about it and got on with the holidays in ****ty Courtown.

    Big effen deal, it's over in the UK get over yourselves for being outraged.....


  • #135
    FunLover18
    Registered Users Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    Sand wrote: »
    Its West Hampstead, and the victims claim at least one had a foreign accent. Its highly likely that if they are not English assholes that the incident will never get media attention again.

    She also claimed that the other three were Britsh.


  • #136
    Sonny noggs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭Sonny noggs


    FunLover18 wrote: »
    The gender and sexuality of the victims is the reason they were attacked. I would say that's a crucial part of the story. Are you suggesting the attackers' ethnicity may have been a contributing factor in why they decided to attack these two innocent people?

    Hard to say without the facts. Then again we wouldn’t be hearing about it at all if the victims were straight.


  • #137
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,643 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    Sonny noggs wrote: »
    Why, you in there taking a dump?

    Run along child, you bore me.


  • #138
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,917 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Sand wrote: »
    Its West Hampstead, and the victims claim at least one had a foreign accent. Its highly likely that if they are not English assholes that the incident will never get media attention again.

    One had a Spanish accent the others were described as British.


  • #139
    Sand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,605 ✭✭✭✭Sand


    FunLover18 wrote: »
    She also claimed that the other three were Britsh.

    British is a fairly catchall term these days.


  • #140
    Sonny noggs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭Sonny noggs


    Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »
    Run along child, you bore me.

    Jog on mate.


  • #141
    klaaaz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,628 ✭✭✭klaaaz


    Sonny noggs wrote: »
    Black teenager criminality seem to be out of control in London.

    You need to look up the demographics of London. Blacks account for about 13% of over 8 million people there, about 1m. From that number there must be a couple of hundred thousand black teenagers from which a tiny minority are involved in crime.


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  • #142
    FunLover18
    Registered Users Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    Sonny noggs wrote: »
    Hard to say without the facts. Then again we wouldn’t be hearing about it at all if the victims were straight.

    So until you know the attackers' ethnicity, you're unable to say whether it was a factor?

    I think if a straight couple got attacked for being straight, it would make the news, don't you?


  • #143
    FunLover18
    Registered Users Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    Sand wrote: »
    British is a fairly catchall term these days.

    Only slightly moreso than English.


  • #144
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    FunLover18 wrote: »
    So until you know the attackers' ethnicity, you're unable to say whether it was a factor?

    I think if a straight couple got attacked for being straight, it would make the news, don't you?

    id say they came afoul of a group from one of the lower socioeconomic classes


  • #145
    Sleeper12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,155 ✭✭✭✭Sleeper12


    Sand wrote:
    British is a fairly catchall term these days.


    Jasus wept


  • #146
    Billy Mays
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,253 ✭✭✭Billy Mays


    Sonny noggs wrote: »
    Hard to say without the facts. Then again we wouldn’t be hearing about it at all if the victims were straight.
    Yeah, the thing is we would though


  • #147
    InTheShadows
    Closed Accounts Posts: 727 ✭✭✭InTheShadows


    London is a very dodgy place these days. The scum seem to rule the day.


  • #148
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Billy Mays wrote: »
    Yeah, the thing is we would though

    yeah as i said the boards are clogged with the threads about every assault on london public transport alright


  • #149
    Sand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,605 ✭✭✭✭Sand


    FunLover18 wrote: »
    Only slightly moreso than English.

    Not really. English is a specific ethnicity, like Scottish or Welsh. British is not. I am Irish. If I lived in the UK for 5 years, I could become British. But I would still be Irish, not English.


  • #150
    4068ac1elhodqr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    klaaaz wrote: »
    You need to look up the demographics of London. Blacks account for about 13% of over 8 million people there, about 1m. From that number there must be a couple of hundred thousand black teenagers from which a *tiny minority* are involved in crime.

    You need to look up the correlation with ethnicity and crimes, many reports and stats clearly suggest that young black people were over-represented at all stages of the criminal justice system.

    Similar can be said of some certain religions, again 'over-representation' is very apparent (circa +300%+) compared to all other groups, with one exception.

    Likely there is complex factors at play including poverty, peer pressue, enviromental factors and so on, and no quick and easy solutions available (just as Major Khan who is now has unprecedented crime levels under his watch).


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  • #151
    Hedgelayer
    Registered Users Posts: 530 ✭✭✭Hedgelayer


    No need for an agitator here that's for sure lol


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