Lack of class and respect sadly lacking in this board

No offence intended Nosmo, but I've looked back at the thread and most people aren't actually being childishly abusive to him. One called him a crook, one called him 'another Tory scumbag' (not especially personal), and one did use the naughty C word. Everyone else has mostly tried to be respectful, which I suppose is the common decency you speak of being exercised.
 
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it passed me by that Lawson had died...I remember him very well..and I think exactly the same of him now as I did then but I wont put on here what I still think of him in case it upsets anyone ......but 2 guesses 😡
 
It's more of a general decline in respect for the dead in society - rather than particular to this forum, caused by groupthink and reactionary behaviour associated with social media use. This is social media, albeit a more antiquated anonymous version.
 
Colin Warnek said:
It's more of a general decline in respect for the dead in society - rather than particular to this forum, caused by groupthink and reactionary behaviour associated with social media use. This is social media, albeit a more antiquated anonymous version.
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Well yeah, maybe people are realising that not everyone who dies was a nice person? This whole 'don't speak ill of the dead' thing is just a saying isn't it, from yesteryear, it doesn't stand up to any rational thought.
 
atypical_boro said:
Well yeah, maybe people are realising that not everyone who dies was a nice person? This whole 'don't speak ill of the dead' thing is just a saying isn't it, from yesteryear, it doesn't stand up to any rational thought.
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What? That sounds like a load of tosh. People from 'yesteryear' didn't realise that people who died did wrong in their lives? No, I think there was just a different level of respect/manners.
 
Colin Warnek said:
What? That sounds like a load of tosh. People from 'yesteryear' didn't realise that people who died did wrong in their lives? No, I think there was just a different level of respect/manners.
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Yes, an outdated level that didn't stand up to any sort of scrutiny. Different to going into a funeral service listing people's faults, its a football message board that no one of any significance will ever read. "Don't speak ill of Genghis Khan, think of his family".
 
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sounds like we’re now trying to censor people using the guise of ‘manners and decency’
 
atypical_boro said:
Yes, an outdated level that didn't stand up to any sort of scrutiny. Different to going into a funeral service listing people's faults, its a football message board that no one of any significance will ever read. "Don't speak ill of Genghis Khan".
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Now you're just on the wind up. We're speaking about somebody just passed, not long dead.
 
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to be fair 30 years ago we would all be down the pub, and someone would pick up a rag of a red top with a gushing headline about what a great chancellor he was, and everyone around the table would say "what a load of shyte, he was an ass that destroyed our economy". Yes things are amplified to a greater audience, but the same vitriol would have existed 30 years ago.
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Oh I am sure you are right, but my comment was a general one rather than person specific. I was not a fan of the former chancellor or those in his political cohort either tbf and I doubt his family and friends will ever read the thread in question, but like I say my post was more generalised and i guess with the new worker protection bill passing through Parliament, regarding employees being able to be potentially suing employers where employees are offended by customers, may mean an awful lot of rethinking what is and isn’t acceptable in the real world, even down at the local pub. If it becomes law in its current guise everyone is going to be offended by everything.
 
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