Houdini Logic Posted 29 February 2012 Posted 29 February 2012 20s? 50s? This happened to me in Cardiff about 5 years ago for not being able to speak ****ing Welsh!
Raw Dykes Posted 29 February 2012 Posted 29 February 2012 Today at my house, , seriously I believe they were common in the 50s* in England, but I wouldn't like to swear to that, I don't think that changes from the poinancy, nor the implication that Blacks and Irish are on a similar level to dogs. *Edit, on second thoughts probably earlier, maybe the 20s, I was basing the fifties estimate on an article about such signs in the US. Sadly, I think you were probably right with 1950s. Even as recent as 1964, the Tories ran an anti-immigration campaign, benefiting from the infamous slogan "If you want a n***** for a neighbour, vote Labour". 20s? 50s? This happened to me in Cardiff about 5 years ago for not being able to speak ****ing Welsh! Seriously? What happened? My ex went to uni in Aberystwyth, and there's a halls of residence there that only accepts Welsh-speaking people (i.e. Welsh people only, please).
Saxondale Posted 29 February 2012 Posted 29 February 2012 20s? 50s? This happened to me in Cardiff about 5 years ago for not being able to speak ****ing Welsh! Thinking about it, me and a mate got turned away from a nightclub in Köln for being English!
I am Rod Hull Posted 29 February 2012 Posted 29 February 2012 20s? 50s? This happened to me in Cardiff about 5 years ago for not being able to speak ****ing Welsh! Its only racist if you`re black. I`m an expert on racism because I have Sky Sports.
StanSP Posted 29 February 2012 Posted 29 February 2012 Cannot believe that people are putting Michael Jackson pictures in the same thread as holocaust, disaster pics etc. Shocking really, especially considering he was a paedophile. It's not a competition. Poignancy is a subjective view. Any moments in history can be poignant. They are defining. They leave their mark. It doesn't always just have to be associated with massacres or the like. The reason why I posted the picture of Usher standing next to MJ's coffin? It was poignant TO ME. TPH said this on the 2nd post of the thread: Anyone else got any particularly poignant pictures which do it for them - or just in general? Well, we've all responded in kind to that. So just because people post pictures associated with one of music's greatest artists and a legend in his own right thanks to all his efforts, doesn't make it any more or less poignant than anything else. If a picture or lasting memory of Michael Jackson is poignant to someone, then so what? Why do you seemingly take offence to it and why do you have to compare it to the other pictures like the holocaust? To be fair, I think the picture can probably be described as poignant. Maybe poignant isn't the word. I mean picture which are loaded with meaning and emotion and have become really much more than just a collection or different bits of pigment Nah, poignant was the word. Some people understand it alright and the thread was going fine really, in my opinion. Just that some other people feel like they have to pick arguments just for the sake of it and not actually be productive to the thread.
davieG Posted 29 February 2012 Posted 29 February 2012 How did I forget this! I have it on my wall! Not forgetting where the photographer must have been and the equipment he was probably using.
jonlcfc1990 Posted 29 February 2012 Posted 29 February 2012 1913: Protesting suffragette Emily Davison was killed after diving under the rails and throwing herself in front of the King's horse, Anmer, at the Derby
MikeyT Posted 29 February 2012 Posted 29 February 2012 Not forgetting where the photographer must have been and the equipment he was probably using. Wouldn't have got me up there, as a person that is scared of heights. Ha
MikeyT Posted 29 February 2012 Posted 29 February 2012 Just thought of the photos of the Jack The Ripper victims as well. Didn't want to post them as they are quite grisly, especially his last victim who he mutilated beyond recognition. Will leave it to others if they want to Google the images.
jonlcfc1990 Posted 29 February 2012 Posted 29 February 2012 Jamie Bulger CCTV footage... Just seeing this sends chills down the spine looks so innocent and yet what they were planning to do with that poor child is just pure evil.
MikeyT Posted 29 February 2012 Posted 29 February 2012 Just seeing this sends chills down the spine looks so innocent and yet what they were planning to do with that poor child is just pure evil. He'd be turning 22 next month.
jonlcfc1990 Posted 29 February 2012 Posted 29 February 2012 He'd be turning 22 next month. Just one of those things that you can't ever imagine how could two young boys even have thoughts like this to act out so much pain on to one innocent child taken from his mother. Repeated interventions from people who spotted them they fed calculated lies to get away from adults and then even having the unbelievable rationality of putting the poor boys body on the tracks to make it look like an accident. I don't think anything this evil will ever be repeated or at least i pray it won't very very sad.
FoxesAreBlue Posted 29 February 2012 Posted 29 February 2012 In the same way that everybody remembers where they were as the 11th September unfolded (in my case, the medical room at school). I remember studying the Jamie Bulger case at school too and can almost remember every detail, about that class, who was there, the teacher, even the old tv trolley we watched it on.
Webbo Posted 29 February 2012 Posted 29 February 2012 I love this pic and I'll have to get the poster one day. Working class males at their best.
Zingari Posted 29 February 2012 Posted 29 February 2012 I love this pic and I'll have to get the poster one day. Working class males at their best. i bet you'd love to go out on that girder and give it a few coats of dulux
Webbo Posted 29 February 2012 Posted 29 February 2012 i bet you'd love to go out on that girder and give it a few coats of dulux I don't mind as long as can reach it from a step ladder.
jonlcfc1990 Posted 29 February 2012 Posted 29 February 2012 Again Pripyat and the Chernobyl disaster springs to mind. 50,000 people used to reside there now it's a ghost town
skinnydipper Posted 29 February 2012 Posted 29 February 2012 I love this pic and I'll have to get the poster one day. Working class males at their best. Or perhaps not such hard workers after all !
stripeyfox Posted 29 February 2012 Posted 29 February 2012 "Pale Blue Dot" - a photograph of Earth taken by the Voyager Probe in 1990 The "dot" is circled in this image Summed up beautifully by Carl Sagan (below) That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam. The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known. —Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space, p. 6
Webbo Posted 29 February 2012 Posted 29 February 2012 Or perhaps not such hard workers after all ! Like I said working class males.
Captain... Posted 29 February 2012 Posted 29 February 2012 "Pale Blue Dot" - a photograph of Earth taken by the Voyager Probe in 1990 The "dot" is circled in this image Summed up beautifully by Carl Sagan (below) That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam. The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known. —Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space, p. 6 Love these kind of things, great words to accompany a truly humbling picture.
Darkon84 Posted 29 February 2012 Posted 29 February 2012 "Pale Blue Dot" - a photograph of Earth taken by the Voyager Probe in 1990 The "dot" is circled in this image Summed up beautifully by Carl Sagan (below) That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam. The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known. —Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space, p. 6 Quality stuff, fantastic accompanying words from the great Carl Sagan as well. The man truly had such an infectious passion for astronomy.
leicsmac Posted 29 February 2012 Posted 29 February 2012 Love these kind of things, great words to accompany a truly humbling picture. Outstanding stuff. The more I learn about space (and as much as I do I'm learning all the time)...the more it awes me. It's brilliant.
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