It is, but it was both fair game and remarkably fresh. I couldn’t resist.
I’m not upset, as I hoped this smilies at the time indicated.
Boris speaks for me
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I could just as easily claim that 5%-10% of Remain voters were coerced into voting the way they did. Take your pick. Big companies saying they’d pull out, George Osborne, or stuff like this, which would be delicious if it weren’t so unpalatable.
"I was called a Nazi. My friend had his foot stamped on… it was scary.
“We had our stall kicked, punched, we had leaflets taken from the table, someone tried to knock the table over.”
Robert, who said he was from nearby Dulwich, continued: "The weird thing is, I’m half Caribbean and my friend is Jamaican.
“All these people over the course of the day, every single person who called us racist or a Nazi – and there were many – were all white, middle-class people.”
He continued: "Someone threatened to stab me – because I was handing out leaflets outside Brixton tube.
"One guy just stood a foot next to me and every time I went to hand out a leaflet, he said ‘He’s a racist’.
Tricked, shamed, threatened - whatever. I can just as easily claim that percentage, seeing as we’re both just pulling shit out of the air.
No-one, apart from racists, is comfy with racists. In the age of smartphones and in a society where most people would fight racism instead of propagate it, we’re not in a bad place to face it head on.
Now that’s a real bunch of kind-hearted fellows right there. Clearly looking to help people less well-off than them. You probably all vote Labour as well I’m sure!
If your attitude to people struggling several rungs beneath you on the ladder is ‘fuck you, you deserve it’, then how can you expect me to vote for what essentially entails my being worse off?
I do love how I’m ‘spoilt’ for just hoping to earn £35k one day. Or whatever it takes just to rent a place and maybe have a family.
Originally posted by @Bearsy
I think you’ve all become a lot more angar since Brexit. It was alright when you was just all blaming pap, but now ur turning on any old randomer who wanders in off the street.
Rein it in, you turds. I’m srs.
I think the thread would be better titled “Have we become more angar since Brexit?”
OP’s call, tho’ 
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I have a further question actually - because you’re probably right in that we should move the conversation away from myself specifically.
What would you say if I didn’t have a degree, wasn’t ‘underachieving’ or whatever - and was just a common-or-garden uneducated and unskilled kid?
Would a vote to Leave the EU have been legitimate or understandably selfish? Or would the onus still be on such a person to vote against their own self-interest?
Is there anyone in any situation where you’d at least understand their reasons to vote to leave the EU?
Its the internet. I’m not fussed. I may well pop down to one of the drinks meetups if I’d be welcome. Pap seems like a very nice guy - I say nothing online that I wouldn’t say face-to-face - that isn’t the same for everyone but it doesn’t bother me.
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Look forward to meeting you Mr T. Just for you I’ll have a half.
Brexiters don’t have a monolpoy on stupidity. There was a goodly amount in the remain camp as well, it just has not been highlighted because there has been no need. However, I recall an interview where the fuck nugget in question said, I am voting to remain because I like going on holiday to spain and would like to continue to do so. Like the Spanish are going to turn away 12 million Brits that visit each year.
The issue that I have with saying the Brexit vote was won only because of the stupid gullible few, is that they people saying this ignore the fact that their side had their fair share of numpties. You are in effect implying that all remainers were these bright enlightened brainiacs.
As for selfish reasons, well this goes both ways as well. I think we have done to death tramps reasons. But remainers have got selfish reasons too some of which were posted on here such as, wanting to retire to France or having a EU girlfriend that they would now have to marry.
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Boy, do we need a fucking drinks meetup.
It’s close season, no football of note, and not much going on in the way of transfer activity. Close seasons are normally fractious on most footy forums, but we have been particularly hit by disagreements over Brexit too.
We need our common goals back. Need to see real people again. August 13th can’t come soon enough.
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Originally posted by @MrTrampoline
Pap seems like a very nice guy
Pap is sound until you point out that Jeremy Corbyn only brushes his teeth fortnightly, and then you see the Iron Finger beneath the Velvet Glv srs.
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Originally posted by @CB-Saint
As for selfish reasons, well this goes both ways as well. I think we have done to death tramps reasons. But remainers have got selfish reasons too some of which were posted on here such as, wanting to retire to France or having a EU girlfriend that they would now have to marry.
That was my fave.
Or voting to remain because “I don’t like change” as somene told me recently.
True, no doubt, but there is abig difference between being stupid with repsect to holidaying in Spain, and being 'stupid with respect to blaming immigrants for your woes… when I read about numpties shat worry about holidays I can laugh… when I read about numpties who are xenophobic at best, I cant… and seriously does anyone really believe that the 4 million or so sun readers who swing nearly all elections in this country were not seriously influenced by Murdochs POV?
Upvoted for not including the word “unelectable” at any point.
Except I’ve just ruined that.
Shit.
Sorry, Jezza
That was JC.
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Originally posted by @Goatboy
Originally posted by @Bearsy
Originally posted by @MrTrampoline
Pap seems like a very nice guy
Pap is sound until you point out that Jeremy Corbyn only brushes his teeth fortnightly, and then you see the Iron Finger beneath the Velvet Glv srs.
That was JC.
Upvoted for referencing that story without the usual context-free explainathon I have to go on.
I’m not going to ruin this post with detail.
I have learned my lesson in previous post to Bear.
I think you should direct your ‘anger’ towards Murdoch then GA.
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Think you will find most on here would be more than happy to say it face to face… it obviously does nott bother you so much you felt you had to mention it… its actually quite a nice agressive phrase that nice mr Pap will encourage no doubt…
Originally posted by @Goatboy
Or voting to remain because “I don’t like change” as somene told me recently.
People fear change. One of the first things they teach you in A Level politics is that if a voter is doing alright under the present government personally, he or she will probably vote for them.