Watch out the preacher man will be on this one in a bitNah WM221, we're all Jeezuzuzez, little sunbeams according to our resident fire & brimstone merchant, so surely he'd be happy with hugging.
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Doubt it Frank, he's on the path of righteousness, no wanderings or turn offs allowed. Unless he wants to come hug us all in here.
This.
Ridiculous IMO. Where do you draw the line here?
I may sound a bit of a hippie here but more love/care/kindness does not do the world any harm, and no children are going to be scarred from seeing affection (if that's in any way part of the issue).
There was a rule at my primary school that pupils were not allowed to touch other pupils. No exceptions. If a friend was upset,you weren't allowed to give him or her a hug or even put your hand on their shoulder.
I thought it was horrible then as a 7 year old, and I still think It's horrible now.
He's a very tactile bloke and only hugs girls/women that he has a good relationship with. NONE of them dislike the experience and one in particular likes the contact (emotionally not sexually ). He doesn't hug the blokes but warm handshakes with left hand on right shoulder/elbow are almost an equivalent.
Group Hug?Doubt it Frank, he's on the path of righteousness, no wanderings or turn offs allowed. Unless he wants to come hug us all in here.
Sounds like that school in Croydon that banned hugs etc threatening detention for Huggers. Was it one we'd know?
I must say I'm tempted to organise mass hugging next week. With any luck, the message may get across loud and clear.
That school was Calverley C of E school, Leeds district.
I hated the school anyway, not least because at that age I had long since decided I wasn't religious. But that rule! You weren't allowed to link arms with anybody etc.
I read about the Croydon school thing-ludicrous IMO.
Humans physically interact as part of socialisation, why that isn't common sense to some people I have no idea.
Some people won't stop moaning until we are all separated and women end up in purdah. What a petty, ridiculous complaint, obviously from someone not accustomed to the normal social interactions that we, in this country, take for granted. If they don't like it then they should keep their eyes to the floor or sod off. Simple. I think sometimes, some people complain because they know they're going to cause a ripple and also,just because they can.
Even I'd draw a line at that and I'm usually not pickyWell I class Less as a very good friend but would not hug him
You see, the more I think about it, the more I get hacked off. Not so much with the complainant, after all parts are parts whatever their cultural disposition. The thing that gets my goat most is the systematic decree that even the most inane of complaints ( and this must be up there in the top 100) needs to undergo due process.
PC can stand for Pain n the Colon as well as politically correct.
PC can stand for Pain n the Colon as well as politically correct.
So, do like the majority of authorities do, pay it lip service, make the right noises, then return a finding of no further action required.
Basically the complainer should wind their neck in, preferably so far that it ends up coming out their arse. That said, if they shove their head up their arse in the first instance, they won't see owt to offend them!
RESULT.
That's easy Jen, some people have no common sense.
Good idea Frank, here you go, now pass it on...
And here's one for Dotti...
I was going to suggest a group hug for the Accyweb clique if it still exists, and if I'm considered a member. What does the Grand Wizard think?
and Sue, Common sense isn't at all common.
Good idea Frank, here you go, now pass it on...
And here's one for Dotti...
I was going to suggest a group hug for the Accyweb clique if it still exists, and if I'm considered a member. What does the Grand Wizard think?
I think the Grand Wizard would go along with that as long as there ain't no coloreds, jews, wetbacks, etc. ... just good Christian, Republican white folks
On a more seriouser note, why is it that folks today seem scared shirtless of offending other folks? ... usually those others wouldn't be offended anyway. I don't suggest that we should go around insulting all and sundry; but we should be allowed to express ourselves as we wish, as long as we don't promote hate (the difference between hate and opinion is not all that difficult to spot) or break some law. In a world where people are starving, where they face off against one another with the best weapons money can buy, where anti-semmites still spew their hatred, where Sunni blow up Shiites (and vice-versa) ... I don't need to go on; y'all know what I mean ... what harm could come from a few hugs?
Marg P beat me to it, I was going to say yes common sense isn't a very common trait amongst humans.
I know, different cultures and all that but we're in England, in our culture contact and interaction involves touching people. Bullying is not going to be stopped by banning people of whatever age, from touching one another. Bullying control is in the hands of parents and other adult influences teaching =kids what's right and wrong.
Think you've got that spot on Eric. GB must be the worst place on earth that's obsessed with not hurting others feelings even if they wouldn't be offended in the first place, we're full to the brim with dogooders
I think the Grand Wizard would go along with that as long as there ain't no coloreds, jews, wetbacks, etc. ... just good Christian, Republican white folks
On a more seriouser note, why is it that folks today seem scared shirtless of offending other folks? ... usually those others wouldn't be offended anyway. I don't suggest that we should go around insulting all and sundry; but we should be allowed to express ourselves as we wish, as long as we don't promote hate (the difference between hate and opinion is not all that difficult to spot) or break some law. In a world where people are starving, where they face off against one another with the best weapons money can buy, where anti-semmites still spew their hatred, where Sunni blow up Shiites (and vice-versa) ... I don't need to go on; y'all know what I mean ... what harm could come from a few hugs?
It's worse than you think. Many minorities are fed up with being singled out for inclusion by the PC brigade, for example they want to be taken seriously at work because they can actually do the damn job instead of being assumed to be there to make up an equal opportunities quota.
I work with a West Indian girl who was telling me last night how offended she finds the 'Baa Baa Rainbow Sheep' thing-says there is now an issue implied, that wasn't there before.
I'm pretty sure verbal and indirect bullying are as common as types of bullying that involve physical contact, too. Perhaps we should make kids be unable to talk to one another.