"Mrs Redboots" wrote in message
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Dashe wrote to uk.transport.london on Fri, 1 Jul 2005:


"Mrs Redboots" wrote in message
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I hate to tell you, but your prejudices are showing.
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"Mrs Redboots"

So are mine, because I agree with Ian all the way!
Dave G


You mean that you agree that any mother who takes her child on a bus is
automatically a prostitute and/or dole fiddler, with the child born out
of wedlock? Which is what Ian is *saying*, even if it isn't what he
*means*! And it is that to which I take exception.
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"Mrs Redboots"
http://www.amsmyth.demon.co.uk/
Website updated 23 May 2005


Must have a computer glitch - can't find anywhere that Ian said that
Dave G

"Colin Rosenstiel" wrote in message
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In article , (Dashe) wrote:

"Mrs Redboots" wrote in message
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Ian F. wrote to uk.transport.london on Fri, 1 Jul 2005:


It's her choice to bring her whingeing brat onto public transport. I
had no other choice of seat, and precious little standing space.

a) Why is someone else's child automatically a "whingeing brat"

b) Was it not equally *your* choice to use public transport?

c) What about, as I saw yesterday evening, when a middle-class father
brings *his* child on to a bus in an unfolded pushchair? I suppose
*he's* a "chav slapper" and the articulate, intelligent 19-month-old
is a "whingeing brat"? Yes?

I hate to tell you, but your prejudices are showing.

So are mine, because I agree with Ian all the way!

You should be ashamed of yourself.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

That's a bugger - cos I'm not!
Dave G

"Alek" wrote in message
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Ian is being left out people......Can we have Ian back in please....???


Methinks Ian is sitting back enjoying this
Dave G

In message , Mrs Redboots
writes

And you really intend me to think that class/education indicators are
not often very obvious as soon as someone opens their mouth?

I think you are wrong to pre-judge people by their accents.

--
Paul Terry

"Mrs Redboots" wrote in message
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I do resent your use of the words "chav slapper". You can only go by
appearances - many young mothers are in their 20s and 30s, and the way
people dress in this hot weather, you have no idea where they are from!

I live here. I know exactly where they're from, which post office they
collect their benefits from, which mobile phone shops, cheap fag outlets,
tattoo parlours and off licences they use, and which branches of McDonalds
they hang out in. Sorry if the term upsets you, Annabel, but they are, I do
assure you, as described.

Nor, despite their accent and the way they dress, can you have any idea
at all of their moral standards - or do you actually *mean* to imply
that only prostitutes use buses? Which is more or less what you *said*.

Twaddle - I said no such thing. I use buses, my friends use buses, my wife
uses buses. We have to now - it's Ken's law! ;-)

Moreover, would you, a 55-year-old man, *really* remain seated while a
mother with a young child in her arms was standing?????

The squealing, emaciated, ear-ringed brat was not in her arms, it was in the
wretched buggy.

Ian

"Mrs Redboots" wrote in message
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You mean that you agree that any mother who takes her child on a bus is
automatically a prostitute and/or dole fiddler, with the child born out
of wedlock? Which is what Ian is *saying*, even if it isn't what he
*means*! And it is that to which I take exception.

Utter twaddle. Is this correct: "A cow is an animal, therefore all animals
are cows"? No? Well, that's what *you're* saying!

Ian

"Mrs Redboots" wrote in message
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Not only that - the way he interacted with his child, the way the child
interacted with others on the bus..... you can't always tell, I agree,
but quite often you can.
I saw the way the girl on my bus interacted with *her* child - mainly by
blowing fag smoke over it just before she got on the bus!

And I heard her accent too - but I wouldn't judge people by that.

Ian

"Dashe" wrote in message
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Methinks Ian is sitting back enjoying this

I'm here and I'm sort-of enjoying it. ;-)

The thing is, I *know* the kind of people I have to put up with. I live in
an area of south London that is very much up and coming, but we have an odd
mix of young City-types and chavs living here. My friends locally include a
doctor, a journalist (like me), a dustman, a lawyer, a truck driver and two
accountants.

Interestingly, Mrs. Redboots (Annabel) lives about two miles from me, so we
have pretty much the same things to contend with. I can only put her
twisting of my words and/or misunderstanding of my reasoning down to the
typically blinkered approach to life that the new-agers have - everybody
must love everyone else, all life is beautiful, smile, big hugggggggs, and
we'll all live happily ever after.

Sadly, as we know, that just ain't true. Still, I'm happy the way I am.

Ian

"Colin Rosenstiel" wrote in message
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Why not? I haven't lost my sense of courtesy by being 55.

If you'd seen her, you'd know what I meant, Colin!

Ian

"Jason" wrote in message
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Just to lighten the mood, from 'The Age' newspaper in Melbourne:

"Brace thyselves for Pram Wars

LOL @ pavement Panzers

Thanks, great fun.

Ian