Not safe to walk the streets.

[anotheoldgit]

http://tinyurl.com/34y8cxr

Now it is not safe to walk some British streets, especially if one is elderly and happens to wear an ex-serviceman's blazer.

These two cowardly and knuckle-dragging scum, should be hunted down, and feel the whole weight of justice rained down upon them.

[modeller]

This was a digusting attack but I was a little puzzled by the remark that he served in the RAF and was wearing his campaign medals . I wonder what campaigns there were in the 1960s and involving the RAF. I think the Northern Ireland troubles started about 1968 but that's about all.

[magma]

Aden 1955-67

[optics2b]

Britain was involved in numerous global conflicts around the 1960's

[modeller]

Yes I remember now the General Service Medal was awarded to cover the period 55- 2007.

[anotheoldgit]

NazNomad

What did you post about, at the beginning of December?

No cheating now, by having a look at your records, but then it is easier for you isn't it? you have only posted 29 questions against my 2,181 haven't you?

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.

[Quizmonster]

Anotheoldgit seems to be the only person I 'know' who believes that posing a vast number of QUESTIONS enhances one's overall value. I've always taken that to be a sign of ignorance. In addition, at a guess, I'd imagine the bulk of his supposed ANSWERS are little more than his own replies to the responses of others..eg the half dozen listed on this very thread.

[jackthehat]

Hmmmmm...........quality or quantity..........it's a difficult choice.

[Gromit]

My guess is that this man was wearing a RAFA (Royal Air Force Association) badge on his blazer, although the news reports seem very confused about what he was actually wearing. Also, going off the dates and his age, he was almost certainly conscripted into National Service. I am sure it was all very character forming, to such an extent he is celebrating the fact 50 years later.

The attack itself was very cowardly but somehow, I don't think we are being told tne whole trufth. Fallowfield has a large Asian community, and there could be some anger at our two misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq and the large number of innocents killed there.

It was probably ill judged attire to wander about Fallowfield in. Bit like wandering around a Jewish area in your Gestapo uniform.

[ludwig]

// It was probably ill judged attire to wander about Fallowfield in. Bit like wandering around a Jewish area in your Gestapo uniform. //

No, not really.

[THECORBYLOON]

Looking at aog's questions, I see I contributed to one of his first questions in which he asked how the t-shirt got its name. A quality question indeed...

[NazNomad]

"... you have only posted 29 questions against my 2,181 haven't you?"

It's a crying shame when the monkey on your back is out of control, I agree.

[jno]

Naz, it's not so much 2,181 questions as one question asked 2,181 times.

[jaydah]

Beating up an OAP for wearing a poppy - that's cowardly, and more so if they haven't the guts to own up or apologise.

Scum is what they are and would be treated worse if they were identified in their 'mother land'. I hope they live in fear of discovery.

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

/// It was probably ill judged attire to wander about Fallowfield in. Bit like wandering around a Jewish area in your Gestapo uniform.///

Would it also seem ill judged for a Muslim woman to wander about a predominate white area dressed in a Burka ?

Could you imagine the outcry if one did, and was attacked in the the same way as this old chap was?

[ludwig]

There's no comparison between wearing an RAF blazer and wearing a Gestapo uniform and there's no comparison between wearing a Burkha and either of them. You're both talking complete b0llux.

[Gromit]

Yes, people would say it was a cowardly attack but question the style of dress. It does not make either incident right, but the style of dress is a personal choice, but there is the possibility that that could make the wearer a target. When the country is full of Knuckle draggers, attacks such as the one on the RAFA gentle, Asian Ladies or gay men are a possibility, there only crime, dressing the way they do in the wrong area.

I must have missed your post on this Asian woman being attacked
http://www.thisisexet...2-detail/article.html

[anotheoldgit]

/// Anotheoldgit seems to be the only person I 'know' who believes that posing a vast number of QUESTIONS enhances one's overall value. I've always taken that to be a sign of ignorance. In addition, at a guess, I'd imagine the bulk of his supposed ANSWERS are little more than his own replies to the responses of others..eg the half dozen listed on this very thread. ///

Are you and others that thick that you didn't catch on to the reason I quoted the number of questions that I had asked?

Well let me type it really slow so that you may try to understand, It was in reply to a person who tried to belittle me because I happened to have forgot what I had posted in early December.

My answer was to ask him what he had posted in early December, bearing in mind it would be easier for him seeing that he only had 29 questions to remember, it was in no way bragging on my part that I had posted 2,081.

But I also imagine that this explanation will fall on deaf ears, seeing that we have got the standard of posters on this site such as jno, whose latest contribution is to state:

/// it's not so much 2,181 questions as one question asked 2,181 times ///

I ask you ? one could not make it up.

[4846]

Gromit
# Also, going off the dates and his age, he was almost certainly conscripted into National Service. I am sure it was all very character forming #

My friend served in Aden and he was certainly NOT conscripted into National Service.
You would do well at The Guardian they like to make things up.

[NazNomad]

"It was in reply to a person who tried to belittle me because I happened to have forgot what I had posted in early December."

Not at all, other members had remembered you posting it, why couldn't you? Obviously the content was ''right up your street'' and needed further exposure.

[anotheoldgit]

NazNomad

/// other members had remembered you posting it, why couldn't you? ///

Obviously they have nothing better to do than to stalk me, and note my every movement.

Me, I have better things to do, winding some of you up is a pretty pleasing pastime.