I think I,m pretty tolerant, but I'm really struggling with this equality and diversity thing, it may be diverse, but it certainly isn't equal. My local police force recruited an asian officer to the post of superintendant recently, over a white candidate who was not only a lot more experienced, but more suitable for the role, they had the bare faced cheek to admit to him that he didn't get it because currently the are actively recruiting from 'minority' groups. Another thing that boils my piss is those people who need to be offended on your behalf, like when somebody jokingly calls me an old git in the pub and somebody jumps in, "hey, you can't call him that, it's not nice". Believe me, I'm big enough and tough enough to deal with it myself if someone offends me. BAME is another one, it stands for Black And Minority Ethnics, yet were constantly told we can't call someone black, they're a 'person of colour' ! Pansexual, whats that about? I googled it, apparently it's a person of no sexual preference, isn't that a bi-sexual? OMG, I'm getting too old for all this crap. lol
You're not getting too old phil1965. The way that I see it is the world is in a sloppy predicament at the moment but it will settle once everyone learns to keep their head down to concentrate on driving their own vehicle and returning to a state where everything was not to be acknowledged. Think of how peaceful the people once were when breathing was not a debate.
Too right, I've got a mate who's been gay for years, as he says, he was gay before it became fashionable, he goes batshit when people start all this gay rights stuff, as he says, most of them aren't even gay anyway. I do hanker after the good old days, when common sense was alive and asking you're best mate if he was coming out ,meant meeting for a pint at the local pub. lol
That's the problem, people don't go out, and that has a lot to answer for. A survey showed that increases in pub alcohol prices lead to a rise in domestic violence, a tenner in a pub would get a couple 2 drinks each at the most, however a tenner in the local supermarket would buy a bottle of vodka, people bought this and stayed in and got pissed and started fighting. Plus there's a loss of social skills, how to behave, how to respect, people will say a lot to someone over the internet that they wouldn't dare say face to face! back when I was young, you knew your neighbours and even people 4 or 5 doors away, and you'd pass the time of day with them, now people don't know the couple next door.
I was sat in my house one day and a bloke came to my neighbours house, he was out at the time, and attempted to take his trailer, I went over and asked what he thought he was doing, he said he was the chaps brother and was borrowing the trailer. I detained him and rang my neighbour as I knew who came and went over there and had never seen this bloke. I described the bloke and it turned out he was actually the guy's brother, the reason I didn't know him was simple, in all the 10 years I'd known my neighbour, his brother hadn't visited once! Needless to say he didn't get the trailer, his brother wouldn't lend it him. in our street my neighbours, well those next door on both sides, and the ones opposite keep an eye out for each other, we know our comings and goings, we're not nosey, we look out for each other, if we see anything dodgy, we look into it, not just pretend we didn't see it.