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Post by The Quito Diet on Mar 3, 2016 22:43:59 GMT
But you can't say that Benneh, they paid their taxes (at a considerably lower rate than any of us have to pay) we should look after them (and their massively inflated pensions whilst the rest of us see ours shrinking) they were alive during the war don't you know.
Though it is a thing that people tend to move more towards the right as they age.
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Post by The Quito Diet on Mar 3, 2016 22:45:23 GMT
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Post by Germany's Top Scorer on Mar 4, 2016 7:07:50 GMT
Old people are by and large self-entitled, rude, obnoxious and ignorant. I loathe the logic that just because they're old we should respect them, like fuck off dickheads grow old as well. In all fairness, so are large amounts of millennials. I daresay there's a good, solid number of people in the middle as well.
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Post by The Quito Diet on Mar 4, 2016 10:14:05 GMT
I'd disagree that they're self-entitled.
And tbf it's an opinion formed mostly from dealing with people at work.
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Post by ChappyHova on Mar 4, 2016 10:44:15 GMT
Why shouldn't Ali get knighthood?
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Post by The Quito Diet on Mar 4, 2016 11:10:16 GMT
To pick just two of many. In a sporting sense I'm surprised he hasn't already had one, but on the contrary I can't ever see someone like Steve Redgrave being allowed to keep his knighthood if he came out with similar views.
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Post by ChappyHova on Mar 4, 2016 11:13:26 GMT
You have to remember when he said those things.
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Post by The Quito Diet on Mar 4, 2016 11:16:38 GMT
Still doesn't excuse them imo. Has he since come out and revoked them or apologised for them?
I'm sure there was some stuff about never losing to a white man etc...
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Post by ChappyHova on Mar 4, 2016 11:21:37 GMT
Course it excuses them. It will have been close to or just after the civil rights movement when he's probably been brought up his whole life being told he is inferior to the white man.
We live in a different time now thankfully and people still talk about racism everyday, imagine what it was like back then.
The white man was pretty much the devil back then.
The man was loved worldwide.
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Post by The Quito Diet on Mar 4, 2016 11:26:52 GMT
Have to agree to disagree, there's no excusing those comments.
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Post by you give me rrrroad rrrrage on Mar 4, 2016 12:35:35 GMT
I thought you had to be from the Commonwealth to be knighted. The story has confused me no end.
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Post by Germany's Top Scorer on Mar 4, 2016 16:18:15 GMT
I thought you had to be from the Commonwealth to be knighted. The story has confused me no end. Knighthoods are, honorary ones aren't. iirc honorary knights can't use 'Sir', just the letters afterwards. I'd disagree that they're self-entitled. And tbf it's an opinion formed mostly from dealing with people at work. Nah I find a lot of people in their 20s (probably largely towards the early end) to be self-entitled. Old people are just vocal because they'll whinge there and then whilst younger people just moan on Twitter/Facebook/Youtube/forums etc instead.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2016 0:08:11 GMT
Jamie Oliver is a fucking cock.
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