General Chat

Thanks Daff. It was you then Beverley - t'was dark at the time.

Happy nights.

I'm flattered you remember, Harry - :-)))

Thank you Beverley.

wmsl @ Harry... happy days indeed, lolol!

Love

Daff xxx

All a load of nonsense of course - but I did once know a woman who made the earth move.

Happy days

Well said Daff. I'm with you 100% on all you said.

Beverley

Wmsl @Ronald.

I make absolutely nothing of it.... how very amusing, and bless her!

I am sure that you do excellent charity and volunteer work with people of all castes, creeds, colours and Gasps, even Labour.

You know nothing of me, my background or my political leanings.

You do not have any idea what work I do, or have done, Voluntary or paid.

My initial response was to you posting an article that is extremely offensive and controversial, without any indication as to your intended purpose for the posting.

It could have been indignation and horror that women are considered to be to blame for all evil, as this *cleric* has stated. You didn't say. Not one word. Still haven't actually.

It could have been to point it out in support of the *cleric* that women, are, indeed, the cause of all things evil. You didn't say. Not one word. Again, still haven't.

You have just got abusive.... why not just state where you stand? That is all that was being asked of you?

Believe you me, I have first hand experience of how bigotry is stirred up.

Your posting of said article, without comment from yourself, is an excellent example of how it can be stirred... actually, classic textbook stuff. It is the way that organisations such as BNP stir things up... very subtle, at times, but it is aimed at raising the ordinary person's indignation and ire!! I pointed this out, as my response.

I stand by all my comments on this thread, and if you do not like that, then do not put up threads such as this. I have the RIGHT to answer, and state my views, just as you have the right to put up your thread.

If it wasn't meant so..... why are you attacking me? If the circumstances were reversed, I would be very concerned to put my views across, to inform that I found the article offensive, disgraceful, and derogatory towards women. I would hate for people to think I was a bigot, rascist, or whatever other ism or ist you care to throw at me.... I like to take people for who they show themselves to be, and not from which religion/culture/creed and what was that other word? Oh yes caste!! I have had personal experience of caste!

Your response has been to attack. Please, go ahead, as nothing you can write can harm me... you are just a person on a website, with a rather odd way of putting up threads, and still not making it clear what his stance is on the article in question. Of no consequence whatsoever.

I don't just volunteer in multi cultural settings, Ronald. I live the life.

Oh, and please put up whatever you wish about me, it has no effect whatsoever, I have stated my case, and as I said, I stand 100% by what I have written.

Daff

The whole problem was, as I believe somebody else said, you put the story up and it came over as your views. All you needed to have done was put it up and say something like 'what do you think of this' people then would not have assumed that the views expressed were yours.

I too have seen this discussed in a very different way on a different site.

When I am attacked and accused of putting something up and it's rascist/I'm accused of BNP etc I have every right to defend myself and will. .

All this over a simple news story. Put same thing on another site and an interesting discussion started without me being accused of rascism.

That's me do have a nice day

I was going to leap in there and say in Daff's defence that she is the least bigoted person I know. But I think i will let her tackle this one herself. I just want to say I find your attack on Daff nasty and personal.

Not online every night but will look in occasionally as a break from my voluntary charity work for all castes, colours, creeds and even (gasp) them that supports Labour! lol

Boobquake Suppose they also cause I.E.D making as well ..!!!


Here is the gist of an article from news around the world. Must be all those men jumping up and down with glee.

Kathy


An Islamic cleric's suggestion that immodestly dressed women cause earthquakes has drawn thousands to join an American student's busty bid to shake up the world —
by revealing cleavage.


Jen McCreight is the creator of Boobquake, an event scheduled for Monday, which has already garnered the support of more than 40,000 people on Facebook.


McCreight, a 22-year-old attending Purdue University in Indiana, is pushing women to bare their breast cleavage for a day to satirize Islamic cleric Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi,
who recently blamed earthquakes on immodest female clothing.


"Many women who do not dress modestly . . . lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which (consequently) increases earthquakes,"
Sedighi told Iranian media on April 16. Sedighi is Tehran's acting Friday prayer leader.


There UR Daff be interesting to see wot nasty thoughts you have on this one as well

btw Ronald... T & Cs can be found at the bottom of the page....not mine, GR's :))

Ronald, I wasn't "arguing" lol...believe me you'd know if i was ;) I was merely suggesting one way that your motivation in posting the quote might have been made clearer to those who questioned it :) ( I wasn't one of those who did that as I am sure you will have noted, I drew my own conclusions.)

As to whether I have better things to do with my time...the same might be said for you I suppose ... we both used our time to post on a board so presumably we both felt we had sufficient 'spare' time in which to do to do so.

I had a muslim boyfriend for three years when I was in my early twenties.He came from Pakistan where,I believe,the interpretation of Islam is a little at theconvenience of men,he would drink and do one or to other things(very well I might add!)but be a hardline muslim when it suited him.
This left me very wary of muslims until I met a Turkish family of muslims who were very laid back. As it was explained to me, as not all christians are not Bretheren or other extremists neither are all muslims. Just because one bigot talks extremist crap it does not make them all bigots,just like not all Catholic priests are paedoes.

Being the daughter of a Moslem, I could say I agree with everything the Ayatollah said - after all wasn't I brought up to be a 'good' girl/woman?

Fortunately my father wasn't a fascist. I have a good education, wear 'normal' clothes and was pregnant when I got married (to the man I loved - at the time) - no stoning involved!!

This sort of reporting - of the looniest members of life/religion/sexual preferences etc, just adds to the 'pigeonholing of people in society and should be treated with the contempt/sarcasm it deserves!!

The words of this plonker should have remained in his bathroom, and were not worthy of reporting.

The islamic countries were far more advanced than the Western world in times gone by - and knew about the stars, science and volcanoes etc way before the West - unfortunately men's lust for power (via 'religion') got in the way and they are now reduced to ignorant pratts like this uttering total drivel - giving the rest of the world the opinion that they've just emerged from the stone age!

Mmmmmm There you go.... proof of the pudding!!

I just KNEW there was a hidden agenda... and our good Lord was brought right into the fray.

Yep... there are some nutters around.... and do you know, they are often men with an agenda.

RamblingRose - that's your view, but it's yours not mine. Why should I conform to your view? I'm entitled to mine just as you entitled to yours. Pity you've nowt better to do with your time than argue for the sake of it.

Ronald i always find, not being a woman who like to stir things up for no reason, that when posting a quote,or item of news, it always helps to say WHY one has posted it...just a short sentence along the lines of 'Isn't this upsetting/funny/thought provoking' etc.

Perhaps even (heaven forfend), give my own serious opinions on the matter . :) That way there is never any doubt as to my motivation in posting.

You are reading things into the thread that ain't there.

I ain't BNP for a start - some of you women do like to stir things up for no reason.

It was an item on BBC News website and I found it both sad, absurd and funny but thought it would be of interest to people

To me it shows how religion can be 'twisted' to serve a nutters ends.

I trust this response is of interest but no doubt some twisted person will find it offensive just for the hell of it.

Do have a nice day and thank the good Lord that you don't live in such a controlled society as Iran