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That video of Chelsea fans on the train - looked to me like that they were just stopping
a man getting on an already crowded carriage who happened to be black.
Well, until they started singing "We're racist and that's the way we like it", anyway :-
But seriously, the reporting of the incident has been a little naughty, as it made it sound like they ejected a passenger already on the train, when in fact they simply did something that probably happens on busy train systems every day of the week.
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and you would be fien if he was a heebeejeebee and they started chanting about trains to aushwitz
or similar ? you anti black racist big nose goon :-)
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The whole "We're racist and that's the way we like it" is the bit that seperates it from an every
day incident, and there was enough room for him to get on so the argument there wasn't any room is bull****.
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10 Hours Walking in Paris as a Jew
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AltyhmrIFgo
Not massively sure "Viva Palestine" counts as abuse, but there you go
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Of course there was room. They were just being belligerant football fan scum
but not necessarily racist scum.
If it wasn't for that pesky song they'd have gotten away with it, imo.
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Was a crime actually committed, though? Telling people you're racist and you like it is not illegal,
as far as I am aware. I have not heard that they actually said something racist.
I guess pushing a man off a train could be considered a crime but given it was a busy train it's not a crime that would be worth pursuing, I wouldn't think.
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I've spent 10 hours walking in Paris as a Jew and everyone was perfectly friendly to me
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90 seconds out of 10 hours, and not much jew bashing. I feel like he failed at making his point

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Re: That video of Chelsea fans on the train - looked to me like that they were just stopping
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Yes, all of he reporting suggests there was "racist chants"
which raises the question of whether declaring yourself racist is, in and of itself, racist :rubchin:
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I presume you weren't kippah'd up though
Mind you, the nose might outweigh that.
I think it's probably worth mentioning at this point just how f**king awful a place Paris is. I used to regularly work there and I found it distinctly unloveable, especially as soon as you were away from the usual tourist bit.
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It might not work so well in the banlieues, tbh.
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He probably got more abuse from his wife when he got home
after walking around the city all day for his stupid little project.
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I'd say not - if I were to chant I'm a dealer and I like it in London then I might get arrested and
questioned but there would be no charges to press considering I am not a dealer.
Are you saying that they did other chants that actually were racist, though?
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Indeed, the thing that interested me was that the girl from the NY film was also jewish, I think
Well, I imagine with a name like Shoshanna se was anyway.
I wonder, were she to spend 10 hours walking in Paris as a sexy jew, would she get more abuse for her red sea pedestrianism or her gender.
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The reporting suggests so. But I have not heard any other chants in the video released.
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The club has issued a strong statement condemning 'such behaviour', apparently.
'except if our captain does it.'
Bit of satire there for ya. I've been Ben Elton, good night.
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I can't help but feel we've failed, fmadmin
PS, if you're responsible for the adverts can you go pour a boiling kettle over yourself, please.
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Well seeing as the Police haven't got involved then that is OK!
Chelsea are going to ban them, which is up to them, and in my mind the correct thing to do.
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It was a joke.
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It was?
Would you care to define 'joke'?
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Um, I doubt you'd be arrested, they'd be far more likely to search you on grounds of reasonable suspicion
You've not had much to do with the Mettards, have you?
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Yes, I forgot my kippah that day.
The nose comes with me everywhere.
Yes, Paris is notoriously inhospitable to outsiders. I'm sure someone cleverer than me has an explanation as to why.
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I say, well done, I liked that
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They are getting better tbf. Back in the '70s/'80s he'd have got a shoeing or worse.
I knew some Headhunters back in the day. Not nice chaps.
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The joke was in the fact that I walk everywhere 'as a jew'
I was playing myself up, you see.
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That reputation is undeserved. Parisians are as welcoming as the inhabitants of any European big cit
Like us, they're usually in a hurry and stressed, but they're no mor impolite than Londoners. In fact, given that the French invariably have far better manners than the British, they're probably politer.
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Maybe just a bit niche for me to appreciate. I'm not disrespecting your culture or anything.
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I'm going to go with 'Parisians', Clive.
You should try doing it as someone who only did a year of french, and in one of the worst schools in London, at that.
There are no words, not in the English language anyway, to describe how preferable Spanish is.
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ty j.
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No less rude than Londoners? Don't set the bar too high, c
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I can see how Londoners might appear rude to the uninitiated,
slack-jawed yokel, j. But we who grew up in the Big City with the Roads and the Cars and the Buses and so on share a common language and don't feel we are impolite to each other.
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Nope - Thankfully not. Why do you call them Mettards?
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I watched a man struggle for breath having a heart attack on the tube
I sat there and watched everyone else either ignore him or just watch and realised I didn't want to be here any more. Of course, I myself was just watching too. I needed to get out
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You don't know he was having a heart attack though.
It may have just been attention seeking. These people are best not encouraged.
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No, I grew up with the corrupt, incompetent bastards
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I think I was at an all time zenith of existential angst that day
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The don't have better manners for me, Clive, especially in and around Paris.
Even the rest of France consider Parisians to be insufferably arrogant. Londoners might not be friendly but I don't think we are particularly rude. There are rules, you know. I had some Northerners on the tube carriage the other night. They talked loudly in Northern all the way to Euston. Now that's what I call bad manners.
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I fell over on the steps up from Embankment tube once, and lay there for a moment
to recoiver my breath.
I remember seeing the shoes as people physically stepped over me. Not a single person stopped to even ask if I was ok :hehe: