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When Can Stating The Obvious Ever Be Construed A Hate Crime?

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anotheoldgit | 15:58 Sun 13th Dec 2015 | News
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3358047/Paul-Gascoigne-faces-police-probe-racist-joke-stage-not-able-black-security-guard-poor-light.html

It is a fact that black faces are hard to see in the dark, why else would troops black up their faces etc. when they wish to camouflage themselves?
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and does Divebuddy's sense of humour extend to wearing a tee shirt

ACAB ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.C.A.B.

at law school 1970 someone had been fined for wearing a leather jacket with ACAB on it - I cant remember his defence
the um judge didnt see the joke....

I cant recollect the charge - Public order act 1936 possibly
Jackdaw may remember the case
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We've all gone mad !
I know of someone who lived next door to a tink, they called themselves tinks, he was an upstanding member of the community, they had a very minor neighbourly tiff, he called them tinks, he spent time in jail because of this,he was fined.
People need to get a blooming grip....ridiculous.
Someone got a prison sentence for calling someone a 'tink'?


Have you got a link to that?
PP
My humour extends to wearing a pin badge with a policeman's helmet on it with A.S.P.O.M underneath during the Miner's Strike.
ACAB was small change to me. :-)
^Seem to recall an OAP in Scotland being jailed for that.
Not for wearing a helmet, obviously.
We need to see these links and protest.
I always wear a helmet.
Svejk
What for wearing a pin badge without a helmet or calling someone a tink?
Thanks Jo - so no prison sentence , phew !

Silly ***.
s od s
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No jail sentence, quite right - ta for links.
:)
db
I believe one police forces instructions are for officers to remove their footwear when entering their caravans. I suppose that is where the expression,"have it on their toes" comes from. :-(
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divebuddy

Here's hoping your antipathy to gypsies doesn't impact on your decision to vote for Tyson Fury in the BBC Sports Personality of the Year.

And by the way - to clarify something. The reason I said that Gascoigne's comment made no sense was in answer to AOG's position that he was 'stating the obvious'.

If the joke was reported accurately, then it wasn't stating the obvious. To whit:

'Spotting a black security chap in a darkened corner of the stage, he says he can't tell if he's smiling or not.

Unless the security guard had black teeth, then of course you could tell if he was smiling or not...because whether someone is white or black...you can still tell if they're smiling.

...which leads me to think that Paul was simply - 'refreshed' at that moment.

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