Bigoted "friend"

FuzzyPanda

Yeah I've unfollowed rather than unfriended, because I need to keep the link for some reason (or they're a relation!).

Find it funny that a wiccan is ranting about Christmas. She could also be talking out of her backside re. the store

I regret ditching one that annoyed me, because her rants were amusing! Sometimes I'll comment with an extreme opposite example, then often not bother following up. Sometimes I'll just put "well that's just silly"

Treat it as a laugh. You're very unlikely to change their opinion, so might as well "feel superior" about it

FatVonD

BunnieJ wrote: »

Right she has been unfollowed!

Just checked my FB and she's at it again, this time sharing a "Britain First" moronic video of Muslims burning poppies.

What. A. !!!!!!!!

What was the point of unfollowing her if immediately you've gone back to pick at the scab?

FatVonD

margaretclare wrote: »

I'm in an evening class learning German. Mainly we're learning it practically - how to say who you are, where you come from, ask the way, buy a kilo of tomatoes etc but we do learn some grammar. Last week I was amazed to find that others in the class didn't know what is a verb, a noun etc - in English! If they ever learned any basic grammar they've long forgotten it. 'I live, thou livest, he/she/it lives' etc. If you don't know that, how can you hope to progress to 'ich wohne, du wohnst, er/sie/es wohnt'.

I think I'm fairly literate but when I was taking evening classes to learn Greek (in my 20s) it totally threw me when people started discussing 'past participle' in Greek when I didn't know what it was in English (despite speaking correctly.)

I'm sure the people that couldn't tell you what a noun or a verb was were the same, they use them correctly as it's their native language but don't know the correct term for them.

To be honest it was the grammar obsessive that insisted on calling it 'past particible' rather than 'something you've already done' that put me off going in the end, I wanted to passably speak the language (I was thinking of living there), not have an English lesson.

It didn't help either that our own particular grammar obsessive was only doing the class because she had nothing better to do in the evening and would waste a whole chunk of the lesson drawing the teacher into a 15-minute discussion of her last Greek holiday.

rachiibell

Oh gosh I have a few "friends" that spout utter rubbish like this! And it's scary to see how many terrible obviously fake articles they read and repost! And these people can vote! And keep posting about how they're gonna vote BNP or some other bigoted party without reading half the manifesto. The ones that make me laugh the most are the ones on benefits ect that I know could get a job if they actually tried boasting about how they'll vote for them in order to get the "scrounging muslim scum" out of Britain without actually reading about how it's going to affect their own claim :')

Oops that turned into a bit of a rant. Blame my dissertation it's on race relations and I get overly worked up about these issues!

BunnieJ

FatVonD wrote: »

What was the point of unfollowing her if immediately you've gone back to pick at the scab?

I may not have been clear. I went on FB, daw she had shared a Britain First video and was spouting more carp, so then I unfollowed her. I didn't unfollow her and then go back to her profile. That would be silly!

I don't know much about politics, but I do know idiots like this are making a real difference by voting for awful parties like UKIP/BNP

Pollycat

BunnieJ wrote: »

I may not have been clear. I went on FB, daw she had shared a Britain First video and was spouting more carp, so then I unfollowed her. I didn't unfollow her and then go back to her profile. That would be silly!

I don't know much about politics, but I do know idiots like this are making a real difference by voting for awful parties like UKIP/BNP

No, you certainly weren't clear in the sequence of events!

You said this:

BunnieJ wrote: »

Right she has been unfollowed!

Just checked my FB and she's at it again, this time sharing a "Britain First" moronic video of Muslims burning poppies.

What. A. !!!!!!!!

1. You unfollowed her.

2. You checked your FB and saw she's been at it again.

You're right, it was silly.

I think you've just shown that you don't know much about politics by lumping UKIP & BNP together. :rotfl:

lostinrates

gettingtheresometime wrote: »

I hate the word Xmas as well ....but there again perhaps I should be thankful that we haven't started using 'Holidays' to describe the festive period

I've taken the coward's way out of dealing with these sort of people.....unfollowed them so I don't get the daily dose of dross but can keep in touch if needs be

I often use 'holidays'.

My husband's family are of a different religious denomination background, and while my husband's immediate lot celebrate Christmas ( culturally) lots of his religious family most certainly do not. similarly we have friends who are of other faith background. No one really minds if I say Christmas, they are well aware of the date. More that I can say for all of their dates.

Georgiegirl256

gettingtheresometime wrote: »

I hate the word Xmas as well ....but there again perhaps I should be thankful that we haven't started using 'Holidays' to describe the festive period

A lot of people do call the festive period 'Holidays'. I do it myself sometimes. I don't know if it's because I come from a retail background, and all talk about opening hours, offers etc was mentioned as 'over the holidays'?

Pollycat

I use the 'Xmas' word but only as a written abbreviation e.g. if I'm making lists such as 'check last posting dates Xmas' or if I'm sending a text.

I would never say 'Exmas' IYSWIM.

Izadora

Pollycat wrote: »

No, you certainly weren't clear in the sequence of events!

You said this:



1. You unfollowed her.

2. You checked your FB and saw she's been at it again.

You're right, it was silly.

I think you've just shown that you don't know much about politics by lumping UKIP & BNP together. :rotfl:

I thought the sequence of events was perfectly clear and saw it as "Right she's been unfollowed" due to "Went on FB and she was at it again..."

And lumping UKIP and BNP together as awful parties doesn't mean that somebody has no clue about politics and thinks they have the same policies/are particularly similar parties, just that they're both awful parties.