Re: Bigotry on the web.
 

First quote of whom? I've just quoted you, do you mean your first post? I only ask because I'm not going on a search again with dye in my eyes if I'm not sure what I'm looking for :D

Re: Bigotry on the web.
 

Have done & it still doesn't really elucidate matters, if you wish to make a stand (equally & fairly) against bigotry, there are "instances" aplenty here if you so choose How about Muslims, the Police, the Judiciary & many more to boot, they all come in for a slating why aren't you defending them ?

And Tealeaf, NO ! the closest I was to Holiness & Alter boys was being on the lash outside Köln Cathedral, many moons ago. :)

Re: Bigotry on the web.
 

Me niether I might get lost in it all n drown.


Can see the Obo snippit

Accrington man dies in religious soup on a local forum trying to find a quote that shows what the poster who started a thread was on about. He was last seen wallowing around and went under with a burble not to be seen again. Due to H & S (Hell & Satens) rules he could not be rescued.

Re: Bigotry on the web.
 

My first post.

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Re: Bigotry on the web.
 

Can you show us which posts you are referring to please? :D

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Well here it is n I am more confused than the 3 blind mice in a 10 square mile maze that keeps changing.

Re: Bigotry on the web.
 

Better give JCB time to consult with yon big un as to which was the whatever and why it was placed. If that makes ant sense. :confused:

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Google News : "No-holds barred Cameron ditches Queen's Speech etiquette."

How dare he treat what HRM , head of our national Church , says without his using proper etiquette?

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Excuse me but it is an international church!!! Besides he must have told her first. Free speech etc.

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Iv'e told you. The first one.

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Owd Lizzie may be the head of the church but she dosnt make its policy. :p

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This for 10 points? :D:mosher:

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I know you mean your first post but in that you refer to reading other posts on Accyweb that you don't seem too keen on. I just wondered which posts you had perused that had upset you or caused you to think they were bigoted.

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Well I cant fall into the bigot fold based on my convo with my mate wiki;

The exact origin of the word is unknown, but it may have come from the German bei and gott, or the English by God. William Camden wrote that the Normans were first called bigots, when their Duke Rollo, who when receiving Gisla, daughter of King Charles, in marriage, and with her the investiture of the dukedom, refused to kiss the king's foot in token of subjection - unless the king would hold it out for that specific purpose. When being urged to do it by those present, Rollo answered hastily "No, by God", whereupon the King, turning about, called him bigot, which then passed from him to his people.[1] This is quite probably fictional, as Gisla is unknown in Frankish sources. It is true, however, that the French used the term bigot to abuse the Normans.[2].
The twelfth century Charlotte B J Anglo-Norman author Wace claimed that bigot was an insult which the French used against the Normans, but it is unclear whether or not this is how it entered the English language.[3]
According to Egon Friedell, "bigot" is of the same root as "visigoth". In Vulgar Latin, the initial v transformed into b (a phenomenon today encountered in Iberian languages, such as Spanish and Portuguese; visi had truncated into bi in Vulgar Latin (a phenomenon common in French and Portuguese).[1][2]

A bigot (in modern usage) is a prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from their own or intolerant of people of different ethnicity, race, or class.