BBC News - Sudan woman faces death for apostasy but it is an unfortunate surname. The Middle Ages is alive and well and living in Africa. Death for believing in the wrong sky-god. Tssk tssk. You couldn't make it up.
Ishag , one of our X pollies turned radio star got hammered in the press because he took the piss on some woman coz her name was Sheila Dikshit , seriously , if your dumb enough to get into public office AND keep that name then you gotta expect.... any how , death for NOT marrying a muzlin , or marry a mizlam...............she obviously aint dumb
Yes, some people are born with funny names which raise a smile, like Dikshit, Lipshitz, Reamsbottom, Cocks, ... Grown-ups laugh once and move on. To keep on and on making fun about a name which the person had no choice about is just nasty, thoughtless bullying. It reflects more on the bully than upon the person with the funny name.
Surely it is ok to laugh as much as you like , perhaps in private though. After all we cant choose what makes us laugh and how much and how often any more than choose to like the taste of carrots but not olives for example. Bullying someone is a different thing altogether and I`m in agreement with you there.
bullying and banter is a fine line. the stuff iv done to apprentices you wouldn't beleave. but you don't pursue it if it causes distress.
There is a guy on US tv who's name is Dick Buttkis....... now what would you do Pete, if you were born with that name ? change it , or go on national television. Every time he reports on an incident 10 million yanks piss themselves , how do you think he feels to think that 10 million people are laughing their bitts off at him...................he aint bovvered My name is Hamish Savage, not that funny but the only people that call me that are Mum and the various policemen and judges I have "met", mostly it Haim or Haimo, but I get ham sandwich , ham savoury , Haggis, Homer, sav, savaloy, Ham bone ,....................from the day I started kindy................an I aint bovvered either Years ago I had 2 employee's named Angela , the 1st to arrive we called Angela , the second ( who arrived 2 years later ) we called Ange or Angie , so as not to get them mixed up( not that you would, one was quite pretty and slim, the other ......ah .. wasn't.......wanna take a wild guess which was which). Ange ( Angie ) didn't like this and petitioned me incessantly , there was wailing and crying , and days off...........................I sacked the silly bitch in the end , she wasn't worth the trouble she caused . AND she took me to the employment relations court ..................and lost
I can't see how we can continue giving aid (money) to regimes that support these views. Here, we bend over backwards to accommodate every view and everyone. There, you fit in or you're punished. On the one hand, withdrawing aid seems like a good idea, on the other, withholding it from starving people is almost as barbaric as killing people for choosing to mathe regimes we support.
Yeah I agree , I think that this is why we have the " Not my problem" dept. The world is a diverse place , with wildly different opinions on things depending on where you are.............where you are There are places where they do female circumcision, kill you for daring to be raped by some coward of a man. In India they worship the cow , in New Zealand we eat them. The age of consent is appallingly low in some countries , everywhere you look people are doing terrible things to each other , but this aint a new thing , we are just getting to hear more about it Each to their own . If some north African country wants to mutilate their baby girls, and everyone there is happy about it , leave them to it, but don't you fucking dare come over here and do it. The problem is immigration, when people try to bring their customs to a new country things can turn ugly. I don't understand why a person in a country thinks to himself " fuck this , Im sick of being poor , sick , oppressed, my family being murdered by government troops , Im outa here , mmmmmmmmmm New Zealand looks pretty cool , Ill go there , but the minute they get here they start trying to turn it into the place they just escaped from .... muslims wanting Mosques built , Asians moaning that they are underrepresented in parliament ............ The reason that NZ looked so good was because we weren't doing things your way I don't go to your house , and insist that you rearrange the furniture , diet and customs to suit me , if I didn't like it the way it is I probly wouldn't be there in the 1st place People who think alike should live together, rugby players join a rugby club , golf players join a golf club and everyone is happy until the forward pack leap out of the bunker and have a scrum on the green while your trying for a birdie
