My mate the Nazi

About a year ago I was at the far reaches of a Victorian park in the next village throwing sticks in the river for doggo (Bert). Bloke wanders down and rolls a ciggy – bikers leather chapter vest, tats, piercings. My Spidey senses start tingling but I can’t judge a person I don’t know on their appearance – we get talking about dogs (he’d had a Husky) and general stuff for 20mins or so till I wandered off. Bert isn’t happy with the guy though.

Bumped into him a few times in the park over the next few months – had a quick chat each time.

Fast forward to the other day and one of the Manchester airport links I noticed another headline – it’s my ‘mate’ but it turns out he’s a wrong ‘un and has been sentenced as per the link below.

I think the moral to this story is to trust your Spidey senses and to be more Bill Murray

https://www.burytimes.co.uk/news/24481949.ramsbottom-man-sentenced-sharing-offensive-posts-online/

I would happily be more Bill Murray….

Hitler’s dog, Blondi, loved him right up until he tested his cyanide capsules on it.

Even dogs can be fooled.

I think the moral to this story is to trust Bert

FTFY

Beaker wants his hair back

Looking like he does – handsome, intelligent, debonair, urbane, sophisticated – I cannot for the life of me imagine why he might be attracted to an ideology that transfers blame for personal failure onto others based on race.

Puzzling.

My parents told me not to talk to strangers. For good reason!

of course the other way to interpret this anecdote is that 50% of dog owners are wronguns 😉

My parents told me not to talk to strangers. For good reason!

Is it because you’re a wrongun’?

And yet I look so normal ..

Cats hate everybody

Animals are more intelligent and sensitive than humans give them credit for – this single idea has been giving me nightmares ever since I realised it about 40 years ago :o(

It’s always the ones you never suspect.

The comments section is exactly what I expected it to be

“no place for him in our society, get rid of this terrorist, send him back to where he came from”

“Send him back to Ramsbottom?”

“That’s harsh”

The more I meet people, the more I love my dog.

Nice dogs (there are wrong’un dogs too) are excellent judges of character.

Our 1st Lab was as nice as pie, didn’t bark or growl, tolerated our baby daughter climbing all over him, pulling his ears, displacing him from his bed,  shoving her fingers up his nostrils like he was a bowling ball, etc.  … until one day 2 ‘caravan occupants’ (is that an accepted term now?) came up our driveway… he went absolutely bonkers, growling, snarling and barking from the pit of his stomach at them, with his hackles up.

Good boy. Extra biscuits that day.

Also – sagely advice given to me by a friends father, decades ago… “never trust a man that has more hair on his chin than on his head”.

Holds surprisingly true.

My hound went through some ‘roid rage when younger a hated a lot of people. Now she reserves that hate for very occasional people, i.e. a youth, hood up approaching the local shop, as covered the lower half of his face with a buff, she didn’t growl or offer any signs before she lunged straight at his face. She’s trained me to be aware of and react to things like this so it’s ok, no teens faces were harmed, his underwear maybe not so good.

She does also protect random women, so a guy with his arm around a woman the other day had to separate from his partner, then she was all happy and willing to say hello to them.

I reckon if that guy from your story approached her in a park she’d politely decline any advances!

Also – sagely advice given to me by a friends father, decades ago… “never trust a man that has more hair on his chin than on his head”.

Holds surprisingly true.

Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! That rules out most of this forum, including me. I never trust a clean shaven man. Hasn’t let me down yet. Doubly so if they also wear polo shirts. Something sinister about grown men with faces like children.

Always trust a dog if it doesn’t like people. Apart from when the dog is an absolute dick.

Also – sagely advice given to me by a friends father, decades ago… “never trust a man that has more hair on his chin than on his head”.

Holds surprisingly true.

Well that’s a bit baldist* isn’t it?

*if that isn’t a word, well it is now.

“My hound went through some ‘roid rage when younger a hated a lot of people. Now she reserves that hate for very occasional people, i.e. a youth, hood up approaching the local shop, as covered the lower half of his face with a buff, she didn’t growl or offer any signs before she lunged straight at his face. She’s trained me to be aware of and react to things like this so it’s ok, no teens faces were harmed, his underwear maybe not so good.”

Why? Did he prove to be a wrong’un? Hiding a machete down his trackies perhaps?

before she lunged straight at his face

Erm..A dog that randomly attacks complete strangers doesn’t seem like a good dog to me (unless it’s the way you tell it)

Something sinister about grown men with faces like children.

If your dad doesn’t have a beard then you’ve got two mums.

Alternatively, my dad was a ****. He also had a beard and hair. Makes you think.

Paul Whitehouse has let himself go a bit.

Did you not realise that patch club = ****?

I think the guy in the report went to the same school as me at one point. Same name. Age is about right. Not far away either. ?

Always trust a dog if it doesn’t like people. Apart from when the dog is an absolute dick.

Which is the problem really. When to trust the dog?

After all as a rule they seem to treat the posties with suspicion?

Erm..A dog that randomly attacks complete strangers doesn’t seem like a good dog to me (unless it’s the way you tell it)

It’s certainly not ideal, she’s a rescue with a lot of issues we’ve had to work through. Mostly, she’s lovely to people and far calmer than when we got her, there are moments though when she goes and at close to 30kg it’s not subtle. Her current list is mostly made up of electric scooters and skateboarders, there’s also a local kid who is likely dealing drugs with an electric moped and she barks at him without fail.

She used to react to anyone in camo, but there’s a local cadet who she adores and this has helped train her out of that particular response.

She’s always on lead and we use a Halti harness to help keep her under control. But on reflection I may never get another dog let alone another rescue.

Yep they can be a nightmare but sounds like you’re doing the right things

My in-laws had a rescue that absolutely loved me. They used to call me her boyfriend. She would growl and bark at my wife if she hugged me. But was fine with her any other time. Mind you, she **** hated cyclists. The dog, not my wife.

After all as a rule they seem to treat the posties with suspicion?

Which is completely reasonable. Who wants a dog who isn’t suspicious of strangers who come up to your front door and push unknown objects through the letterbox?

Occasionally, just occasionally someone looks like what they really are, you know?

Bloody annoying as I don’t like stereotyping people. 🙂

Who wants a dog who isn’t suspicious of strangers who come up to your front door and push unknown objects through the letterbox?

Whereas my boy is so chilled complete strangers can walk into the house and he doesn’t react at all.  He might, just might, get out of bed to say hello.  I honestly think a burglar could walk in and empty the place and he’d just gently wag his tail at them.  He’s barked 3 single barks in 2 years.

Bloody annoying as I don’t like stereotyping people. 🙂

Yeah that’s it – I made a conscious decision to not stereotype due to his appearance. Its his choice to look the way he wants to look. This is the world we live in nowadays. I think I was disappointed when I saw the news report that historical stereotypes I may have harboured (and that people have touched upon above) have been ‘correct’.

My dog is un-phased by posties/parcel delivery folk, which also means she’d be un-phased by intruders. Win some, lose some.

That said, If she doesn’t let somebody stroke her that’s a good indication to me they’re a wrong un.

Your girl and my boy sound alike, must be a groo thing.

Animals are more intelligent and sensitive than humans give them credit for – this single idea has been giving me nightmares ever since I realised it about 40 years ago :o(

I hope you’re not fond of eating octopus, because it’s increasingly obvious that they’re incredibly intelligent. As are Corvidae, particularly Ravens. They have a large vocabulary, are tool users, and can adapt objects to make them more suitable for a given task, they’re self-aware, they can count out loud, and if threatened by a person, they will remember that person, and can pass on their knowledge to their offspring. They hold a grudge.

Also Portia, jumping spiders, are surprisingly intelligent, they hunt other spiders, and if attacking moving prey, are capable of tracking and adjusting their trajectory ‘in flight’!
I’m not sure quite what this one’s intentions were when I took the photo, it may have been eyeing up its reflection in my camera lens and thinking “dinner!”