so that's your reading of history leading to a massive assumption about someone's thoughts

and actions in a terrifying situation, that you've no relevant first-hand experience of?

good, glad that's cleared that up then.

Posted By: Ralf Scrampton on December 15th 2014 at 15:38:42

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State of society. One of the escaped hostages put his hands up and dropped to the floor. (General Chat) - pants, Dec 15, 15:26:55
- Thats a little naughty pants... (n/m) (General Chat) - Goalmusic, Dec 15, 18:35:01
- hands up and dropping to the floor is quite a good way of not getting shot by the police (n/m) (General Chat) - phrankin, Dec 15, 18:12:51
- Funny thing is as an Iranian i'd assume he was Shia, and they are no friends of IS. (n/m) (General Chat) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Dec 15, 17:47:11
  - Converted to Sunni apparently. I didn't know one could do that (n/m) (General Chat) - CB41, Dec 15, 18:01:36
- Command and control (n/m) (General Chat) - ghostof barry butler, Dec 15, 16:55:52
- oh no (n/m) (General Chat) - Charles21, Dec 15, 16:03:46
- the sad state of society is that people jump to conclusions like yours (n/m) (General Chat) - Tony Martin, Dec 15, 15:51:22
  - You mean like a jogger in Leeds? (General Chat) - pants, Dec 15, 16:00:07
    - the flag with arabic writing on probably had something to do with the IS assumption (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Dec 15, 16:13:31
      - and the flag is actually for an offshoot of ISIS anyway so is linked to ISIS (n/m) (General Chat) - Tony Martin, Dec 15, 17:25:05
        
        so people jump to conclusions... This is the era of 24/7 news (n/m) (General Chat) - phrankin, Dec 15, 18:07:19
    - in hostage situations, hostages are treated as potential terrorists until proven otherwise (General Chat) - Tony Martin, Dec 15, 16:07:54
- that is utter fuckwittery from you pants and fuck all to do with race (n/m) (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Dec 15, 15:28:20
  - why did he not run to safety then? (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Dec 15, 15:29:45
    - anyone running towards armed police woulkd do the same if they had any sense (General Chat) - Cheltenham_Canary, Dec 15, 15:34:12
    - what makes you think a white man would've done any different? (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Dec 15, 15:33:34
      - Because of history I suppose (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Dec 15, 15:35:00
        
        so that's your reading of history leading to a massive assumption about someone's thoughts (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Dec 15, 15:38:42
        
        No it was an observation of someone's reaction (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Dec 15, 15:54:30
        
        I mean, you had the opportunity to disagree with me rationally (General Chat) - pants, Dec 15, 15:55:19
        
        absolute bollocks. (General Chat) - Cheltenham_Canary, Dec 15, 15:38:01
        
        You disagree, I understand (General Chat) - pants, Dec 15, 15:39:19
        
        you need to have a word.... (General Chat) - Cheltenham_Canary, Dec 15, 15:45:53
        
        Well if they did do this (General Chat) - pants, Dec 15, 17:39:42

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