Ok So These Vandals Are On Film, I Look Forward To Their Prosecutions...

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52954305
....and don;' give me any "slave trader" ***, It's criminal damage pure and simple.

[weecalf]

Could be the effect of being told to self lock up .lied to on a daily basis ,leaving the European Union under more lies has came to head .

[margarettom]

Very late in the day but, having seen the picture of the statue, my best answer goes to Bobnunton 16.55. ' Don't the idiots realise that black statues matter.'
This gave me the first laugh of the day. Brilliant!

[Mozz71]

//It's = it is
Its = belonging to it.

Not too difficult.//

Actually a possessive apostrophe means it's can also mean "belonging to it".

Example: Jackdaw's grammar isn't as good as he likes to think.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zvwwxnb/articles/zx9ydxs

[Atheist]

You're wrong, Mozz. Of course you may be right in a post-modern world. Traditionally, the possessive apostrophe doesn't apply in the case of "its"

[Jackdaw33]

Rubbish! The apostrophe or lack of distinguishes between the two meanings.

[Atheist]

'Rubbish to' me, Jack?

[Peter Pedant]

// Or, from their POV it’s the removal of an icon of imperial Britain and the oppression of black people.//

erm no - you dont mind me pointing out that slavery ended in the British Empire 1833
but the empire went on?

just a little point that makes your post the usual non sequitur rubbish that I expect on AB ?

as for the Best answer
"and white privilege to blame" no...its white success blacks cant deal with...."
the most white racial supremacist rubbish that I have read for a long time - mods do your duty !

[Jackdaw33]

No, to Mozz. You are right, I know my grammar.

[Atheist]

Jack's comes from the original 'Jack his'; the apostrophe shows that the 'hi' is omitted. It's indicates that the missing letter is 'i' (i.e. it is).

[Jackdaw33]

Spot on, Atheist.

[Mozz71]

I stand corrected in that case, and offer apologies where necessary.

[Peter Pedant]

// Actually a possessive apostrophe means it's can also mean "belonging to it". Example: Jackdaw's grammar isn't as good as he likes to think.//

actually no
good try
it's = its might even be in a dictionary because English dictionaries record use and are NOT prescriptive

we need Miss Sumner your grammarian at primary skool ( sic ) - thwack thwack thwack - and that would only be to the scholards god knows what she did to the slaves round the back

it's shows a missing letter - in this case /i/
its was made up in the eighteenth century cover its lack ( its geddit - its lack) in the same was as his and her

contemporarily there was a movement ( 1750s yup) that views Jack's book as a contraction of Jack his book
and you see it written out in full like that
Miss Sumner would say thatis wrong ( thwack! bad boy - stupid ignorant beast!)

[Atheist]

er... PP didn't I just say that?

[Peter Pedant]

in fact as Miss SUmner might go on

it comes from the old anglo saxon inflected genitive ( here with possessive sense ) - Jackis
all the Anglo saxon case inflections were unstressed short vowels and dropped off the end. In Jackis case, the letter was dropped and replaced wivva an apolstrophe following the usual rules

well done Miss SUmner

well done if you have got down here
but someone DID mis-state the origin of /'s/

[Atheist]

Errr... I think we've lost the thread. Spice might be confused. And TTT bored.

[Peter Pedant]

er yeah you did just say that
but as they do in AB
if a man is down
stay around and give him a good kicking
and then a bit more

and I thought you wd like to hear of Miss Sumner

[Jackdaw33]

Actually I believe it derives from an old Anglo-Saxon genitive Jackes. Otherwise it wouldn't make sense when used with feminine names.

[Peter Pedant]

the white supremacist racist thread
oh no !
it will be back (*)
(*) Arnie - altho by golly it could be Miss S !

[royfromaus]

Jack his?

[Mozz71]

//as for the Best answer
"and white privilege to blame" no...its white success blacks cant deal with...."
the most white racial supremacist rubbish that I have read for a long time - mods do your duty !//

Leaving my lack of English language knowhow behind, I have to agree with PP on this. It wouldn't have sounded out of place coming from David Duke's mouth at a Klan rally.

Ironically, this would be the second bit of racist claptrap 3T has made BA. The first was deleted by a mod, I hope this one meets the same fate.