Why report it, I think its all the better to remain here unedited for people to form their own opinions.
Hopefully it will give you a chance to reflect on what you've actually said yourself! 
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Posted 9 months ago #
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Noel Corbin's family and friends WILL search for his name on the internet. This won't be the first result a search engine throws up but it doesn't matter. From personal experience I can promise you that they will try and get as much information as possible and often go through pages and pages of results.
Just as people have speculated about how Noel Corbin was as a worker, David's sister found a forum where people speculated about him not being on the right side of the road, not wearing a helmet and not having lights- all untrue and it wasn't dark.A fair point tyredbiker. And on the basis of that, and your personal experience, I am more than happy for the mods to delete the thread. However tragic I think Noel Corbin's death was.
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Cheers mate, but it doesn't need to be deleted for my benefit, maybe to cover your tracks though...
And sorry to those who thought it preachy, I didn't mean it to sound like that, just a heads up.
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My foster nephew who is black has worked as my side-kick just to give him a job - his wages came out of my money.
Did you make him call you 'Boss', too?
That has to be the most patronising post in a long career of patronising posts. It looks like you are saying the poor lad was so worthless you could only make up a job to make him feel better about himself?
Goodness me.
Posted 9 months ago # -
@ tyredbiker
Well make your mind up ! I thought you said that this thread would be upsetting for Noel Corbin's family and friends ? I accepted that you might be in a better position than me to make that comment. But if you don't think this is the case then I am more than happy for it to stay.
I personally can't see any problem with the subject matter. It's a story which has been covered by the local press, and to point out the failure of our justice system in speedily resolving the issue (3 years) or the failure to punish anyone responsible, hardly sounds to me particularly upsetting for his family and friends. Nor does the suggestion that job insecurity can lead people to take risks - as I pointed out, I've done it myself. I was simply going by your comment, maybe I shouldn't have ?
Of course if you're referring to the point scoring by Zulu-Eleven in which he describes my post as the most racist thing he has ever seen written on STW, or him falsely quoting me, and my response to all that, well then that's another matter. I do generally ignore Zulu-Eleven but on this occasion I didn't. Probably a mistake which I will bear in mind for the future. But yeah, other than that, I'm perfectly happy with the thread.
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It looks like you are saying the poor lad was so worthless you could only make up a job to make him feel better about himself?
Giving someone a job makes them 'look worthless' ?
I learn something everyday.
Yeah he couldn't get a job anywhere. And the job as my side-kick wasn't made up, he was doing something useful by increasing my productivity, although not always, so that I could pay him some money out of my wages - which I always did. He was my foster nephew/part of the family.
And it did make him better about himself. A lot better.
Posted 9 months ago # -
Ernie - stop trying to make this about me, its not - I picked you up on why it was necessary to even mention race, and I did it politely and without point scoring.
You dug your own hole from that point on, you small minded, patronising, racist idiot!
and if you're going to accuse me of misquoting you, then I'll pick you up yourself, my quote was "the most patronising, offensive, racist thing" and I'll stand by that (three point) quote.
Posted 9 months ago # -
Giving someone a job
is not the same as making up a job, which is what I said. I think you are doing what you have accues Z-11 of doing; misquoting. Isn't that ironic?
I could try and make my point of view clearer for you, but I don't think it is worth it. I don't think you are going to, in any way, accept that your attitude is not as perfect as you think it is.
Posted 9 months ago # -
I picked you up on why it was necessary to even mention race
I didn't even mention it in the OP, it was one comment, along with the fact that he lived in New Addington, in a subsequent post. The only person who's made a big issue of his race is you.
And there I go again, not ignoring you Z-11.....will I ever learn ?
Posted 9 months ago # -
I don't think you are going to, in any way, accept that your attitude is not as perfect as you think it is.
Not at all. I fully accept that my attitude has been far from perfect, I've allowed Z-11 to take me down a blind ally with his sad point scoring. I should have known better. This was a pretty serious topic in which Z-11 got one over me and messed up the thread.
Posted 9 months ago # -
This was a pretty serious topic...
...that has been dragged down to score shitty little STW points.
So why not stop now?
Posted 9 months ago # -
well said crikey.
Posted 9 months ago # -
You should get out more, Ernie.
Oh, and "intellectually challenged"..... nice. Well done. Most pithy.
Posted 9 months ago # -
I think this is a good point to close this thread.
Time to ride bikes?
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