An Easy Mistake To Make, Don't You Think?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4751340/Anti-immigrant-group-confuses-Muslim-women-bus-seats.html

[mikey4444]

Mamy.....looks like the beer talking, if you ask me !

[Lie-in King]

Ah, it's the time of day for supercilious claptrap on AB - don't bloviate too hard v_e, you'll strain something.

Night.

[Mamyalynne]

It would be nice and indeed respectful if you could also address the OP as most others have too V_E.


I don't go down that route Mikey.

[mikey4444]

Me neither !

But I have had enough, so I am off to bed !

[anotheoldgit]

mikey4444

/// AOG.....what a pity that this light-hearted thread of yours disintegrated into such
sourness ! ///

/// As I said earlier....stupid Norwegians. ///

Yes I can see what you mean, and you are also prepared to condemn all Norwegians as stupid, yet when one condemns all Muslims you are soon up in arms.

[-Talbot-]

mikey4444
Mamy.....looks like the beer talking, if you ask me


"I don't go down that route Mikey."



mikey4444
Me neither !




Clasic AB lol.

[mikey4444]

AOG....you know exactly what I meant, so please don't obfuscate the issue.

Like almost everybody on this thread, I am condemning the Norwegian people that thought that the bus was full of Muslim women, not all Norwegians.

[Togo]

//As I said earlier....stupid Norwegians.//

I suppose that if one tried hard enough, this could be construed as "racist". You certainly couldn't substitute the Nationality for certain other ones now could you.

[mikey4444]

Togo, like AOG, you knew exactly what I meant !

[naomi24]

I'm wondering if Mikey thinks the Norwegians are as stupid as he thinks the Americans are? If I didn't know better I could be forgiven for thinking he was xenophobic. ;o)

[vulcan42]

mikey, whether you like it or not , "stupid Norwegians" refers to all of them.

[mikey4444]

No it doesn't Vulcan....my meaning was perfectly clear,
But if you want me to spell it out .......

The Members of Fatherland first group, a Norwegian anti-immigration organisation were stupid to make this mistake.

Everybody happy now !

[Togo]

Of course I knew Mickey. (&_*). Just pointing out how easy it is to deliberately misunderstand. We of the centre right have learned that little trick, after being subject to it for a number of years. You would have been much "safer" just calling them Facists.

[mikey4444]

Togo....glad that my remark is now understood at last !

[-Talbot-]

Why mention their nationality?
(That's the often asked Q isn't it?)

[anotheoldgit]

mikey4444

/// Togo....glad that my remark is now understood at last ! ///

It is now that you have changed what you actually said in the first place.

[Gromit]

Mikey's first post at 10:42 qualified them as
// Remarkably thick Norwegians //.
Clearly that insult was to the thick Norwegians who complained, not all Norweigians. Later, he then referenced his earlier comment and said they were
// Stupid Norwegians. //
So the racism and xenophobia charge does not stand.

[Islay]

No not an easy mistake to make!

[Togo]

Mikey used an adjective, followed by a noun. He did not use an adverb, or a determiner. Left his phrase wide open to "misunderstanding" .

Nouns are people, places, or things, They tell us what we are talking about.

Adjectives modify, or describe, nouns.

Adverbs modify adjectives, verbs, or other adverbs.

Articles, quantifiers, and other determiners modify nouns.

[-Talbot-]

Well I'm glad you've cleared that up, Togo.