“I was wondering when our first closet racist would turn up. “

I consider anyone who doesn’t know what a race is to be rather more racially offensive than I would ever dream of being. And I am right too! 🙂

However, I am quite sure that associating a religion with people from a particular location is about as racist as it gets.

Now stop being racist on the forum; it disgusts me and makes me feel a little sick! 🙂

cheers jamesy, you can’t see me right now but i’m shutting my eyes and nodding in quiet agreement. with the right lighting and music it’d make a good close up.

lets forget all that though and get back to enjoying this fine forum 😀

looks like this threads about to get interesting with razor’s entry!

it’s a worn out cliche and has probably already been typed in the time its taken me to write this whilst watching a film, but i may need to put the kettle on and find some biscuits..

Anyone know any dead baby jokes?

To me this is the most frightening thing to have happened in the UK in my lifetime. It’s official… we do not have freedom of speech

I was expecting some hysteria like this… We’ve never had “free speech”, you could go to jail for things you said before now, this is no different. Libel, tort, breach of the peace, incitement, conspiracy, to name just a couple.

Why does this guy’s jail sentence “frighten” you more than the Youtube Riot Inciters?

Yoss, was just pointing out that accuracy would have helped your cause!

did you miss the actual terrorist attacks we have had in this country and yet you think this is more frightening

can it really be true that I am responsible for what I do and say and how I act even if it is on a keyboard…that is just so not fair.

Freedom of speech has had restrictions for years – I am not sure we have the enshrined right to be an offensive dick about people we have never met who have just ended their lifes but hey I am sensitive like that.
What about child pornography?
Bomb making sites
etc
This is not really a freedom of speech it is the freedom to be a **** which thankfully we dont have not even on the internet

It was accurate flashy. I just went a step further than the poster, quite accurately I sense too.

Agree 100% with DD. Consequence is a boil that must be lanced. figuratively of course. Not with a pointy thing. 🙂

“Why does this guy’s jail sentence “frighten” you more than the Youtube Riot Inciters? “

Absolutely right Northwind. I know that utter ‘freedom of speech’ is a bit of a myth and rightly so; actually being able to say anything anywhere with no consequences. Yes… very silly idea indeed.

It frightens me more because riot inciters were fairly likely to be trying to gather real people to go out and do real damage. I say ‘likely’ because there were probably a few armchair warriors doing the same who would never leave their safe flats and their Xboxes let alone travel as far as the local town centre.

This truly makes me fear that we cannot speak our minds and comment on a pseudo tragedy. You know the kind… where the media says ‘everyone in the UK is devastated…’. Some of us weren’t particularly devastated and sometimes the media is full of utter cocknockery when far more important things are happening near and far. Yet a lot of grief hijackers jump on anything they can get their rocks off to and along with the afore mentioned modern comedians, I think it is rather fair game to take the piss out of it all.

The guy who was jailed went far for sure, but I firmly believe it is wrong to prosecute him for doing so. Banning people from using the internet on the other hand I am all for. 😉

“did you miss the actual terrorist attacks we have had in this country and yet you think this is more frightening”

No.

Philly actually enjoys being lanced.

In a lay-by.

In Newbury.

This not just a case of somebody pleading guilty and being stupid enough to take any punishment handed down by the courts? Surely it’d be impossible for them to prove it was him that typed the words, easiest defence in the world must surely have been sorry I left my computer logged in at work or something…

And that’s without even thinking up a decent case against jailing people for trolling, which is ridiculous in itself and must be pretty easy to make a case against it…

Behave mate – tactical Aspergers gets short shrift in the court room and was rightly booted into the weeds by the Judge. There’s no way this sort of behaviour (grossly ridiculing the bereaved) comes anywhere near being mitigated by an Aspergers condition.

I don’t know if it was a true playing of the Aspergers card tbf, though, ie integral to the defence. His brief might have just mentioned it in a please-don’t-send-him-to-Wakefield fashion. Crash course in communication available at that institution for the lad if he ever ended up there.

It is – and please start your sentences with a capital 🙂

“EDIT – sorry deluded, i have to save all my capital letters for work, can’t spare them by bandying them about willy nilly on forums! “

I haven’t tested this out so I might be wrong. I have always imagined it is more difficult to change your typing style from childlike to grownup between times and have to remember to press the shift key at the beginning of a sentence ONLY when you are in a particular geographical location than just to do it all the time. 🙂

Again… I may be very wrong.

I have no idea what you lot are talking about. Is it someones job to go looking for nasty letters on the internet or is it just people reporting stuff they deem offensive.
Does someone from singletrack have to read all this rubbish we spout and rate it on some kind of naughty scale? I noticed gypsy threads being closed. If some racist stuff gets through do STW get it in the neck from the man?
Just wondered.

I don’t get this at all..I think it’s because I simply don’t get Facebook, blogging or tweeting.
I think if you decide to put your private grief in a public arena like Facebook then there will always be someone who responds in this fashion: Why would you even be suprised?

A friends son has Aspergers. He’s a nice kid but he has has no friends, it took several months of me visiting his dad before he’d say hello and goodbye to me. He did the special school thing, probably more because the normal school didn’t want him. He’s left school now and knows no one locally. He went to college and they couldn’t be bothered with him. His next plan for his life is the army, which might work for him.
Or he could drift along friendless and jobless until he commits some petty offence and gets banged up.
This guy will be out in 9 months think he’ll be better for it?

Jinges Junkyard..had a party on the day of Diana’s funeral: Nothing against her in particular, just couldn’t bear all the outpourings of deep sentiment from people who were falling over themselves to climb onto the emotional rollercoaster; it just seemed so false.
Have I broken the law too? 😥

“Call me a fascist, but I can’t really bring myself to sympathise… “

That I won’t do… but the population would be a little wiser if you learned what the word ‘random’ means. 🙂

Well, there’s this interesting material called ‘paper’, made from cellulose fibre derived from trees. It actually allows a person to make marks on it with a suitable stylus-like implement, called a ‘pen’, or ‘pencil’.
Using the two together makes it possible to send offensive, upsetting remarks to a particular recipient.