One Can Show Respect For The Victims Of This Tragic Attack, But Isn't This Show Of Togetherness And Solidarity Now Going A Little Too Far?

[anotheoldgit]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6840741/The-hijab-wearing-female-police-officer-striking-picture-holding-rifle-went-viral.html

[anotheoldgit]

agchristie

I googled it and found that one would have to click on their TV & Showbiz section, I never do, I am only interested in the News Section.

[Bigbad]

I only look at the Mail (or any other newspaper) if there is a link from AB.

I do find myself strangely drawn to the sidebar thingy, and end up saying “who are you?/never heard of you?/oh, you’re a celebrity are you?/do people really care about you?”

[agchristie]

AOG

In Tuesday's newspaper edition she was on the front cover and P.11

In Wednesday's newspaper,the photo and commentary appeared in Sarah Vine's column p.19.

What news eh!!

[agchristie]

AOG,if I could divert slightly for a moment,on the subject of Sarah Vine,what an awful gushing defence she gave of the PM in stark contrast to Richard Littlejohn yesterday!

[bainbrig]

Pedant: your answers veer from the mildly barmy (normally) to the close-to-the-knuckle racist (your constant "what dat den?" is far too close to the Daily Mail-type cartoon 'black talk' for my liking).

You're very clever, but try communicating rather than just showing off.

BB

[-Talbot-]

I see Andy Hughes didn’t answer the question but did manage to take the thread well off course.

[anotheoldgit]

agcristie

If you mean this it is typically sexist and what most of us have come to expect from feminists.

/// SARAH VINE: Why every woman will salute Mrs May's true grit in standing up to preening, pompous men ///

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-6858133/SARAH-VINE-woman-salute-Mrs-Mays-true-grit-standing-preening-pompous-men.html

[agchristie]

AOG - that's the one! Dreadful piece!

[Peter Pedant]

// close-to-the-knuckle racist (your constant "what dat den?" is far too close to the Daily Mail-type cartoon 'black talk' for my liking). //

BB thank you for reading and analysing

"what dat den?" comes from the threads of our very own AB ! not much black talk there, hey AOG !
if I write a word "hypothetical" - Abers would latterly and instantly 'quip' 'datta a long word, I got tired after two syllables n gave up!'
then I realised they were serious

Roll back to the halcyon days of 'I put it fooda google translayer an it didnt fink narfin!' - at least once a day !
and you will say - that is not Street Caribbean ( you know that they learn it in London? They arent immigrants but English boys who learn it darn een Breekstarn) - that is not Street Caribbean but Canvey Island.
Essex - Mockney

The first instance - years ago - was over the Return of the Cossacks ( to Stalin and their deaths) and the Betrayal of Yalta
in which I was deluged with a grossly ignorant and stupid flood of:
"who dey den ?" "Foo cossacks foo !" "I put Yalta fooda google translayer ...." which went on day after depressing day ( foo he on abart Yalty again!)

see:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repatriation_of_Cossacks_after_World_War_II

On 1 June 1945 the British placed 32,000 Cossacks (with their women and children) into trains and trucks and delivered them to the Red Army for repatriation to the USSR.[17] Most Cossacks were sent to the gulags in Russia and Siberia, and many died. Some, escaped, and others lived until Khrushchev's amnesty in the course of de-Stalinization .

this disgraceful episode in our history was treated to AB one liners like - what dat? who day? and other mirthful quips showing spiky attention to detail by readers

BB if you have got down here - well done - a depressing historical episode narfin to do wiv Street Caribbean yeah?
Most ABers will have bailed an said - o gawd yaltee again!

[woofgang]

Taking this back to the original question I think that people act from the heart and there is nothing wrong with that. This officer's intention was good and surely that counts for something?