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Post by convertabull on Sept 5, 2015 10:11:32 GMT
The only people who are embarrassing themselves are those who would prefer to let fellow humans suffer because they were born a long way from London (or Hereford). If an innocent family were being attacked outside your house, would you not let them in to protect them? If a family of migrants knocked on your door and demanded to be able to help themselves to your possessions would you let them in? If they were a family who had come from a war torn country, had risked life and limb, had only what they were wearing, given all their money to get to my front door then yes. Yes I would let them in. Would I want them to stay permanently? I probably don't have the room but they could certainly get some time to sort their lives out, let their heads stop spinning and feel human again. Then again, if they improved my home life then I'd consider a longer term solution. |
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Post by convertabull on Sept 5, 2015 10:15:51 GMT
Nobby, I've always held this view. I just haven't felt the need to discuss it in public. Now that I am it doesn't mean I'm jumping on the bandwagon.
I'm sure others are the same.
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Post by somnambulist on Sept 5, 2015 11:15:21 GMT
Regrettably I wasn't an early adopter with smart phones. I didn't really get on board until the iPhone 5. Does that mean I don't really have the right to one? Should I stop typing now and hand it in to the nearest Apple branch?
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Post by bullish on Sept 5, 2015 11:23:27 GMT
Regrettably I wasn't an early adopter with smart phones. I didn't really get on board until the iPhone 5. Does that mean I don't really have the right to one? Should I stop typing now and hand it in to the nearest Apple branch? i still don't like them. i would like a phone with buttons again. confused now. does that mean i have an issue with refugees? |
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Post by nobby on Sept 5, 2015 11:25:37 GMT
Regrettably I wasn't an early adopter with smart phones. I didn't really get on board until the iPhone 5. Does that mean I don't really have the right to one? Should I stop typing now and hand it in to the nearest Apple branch? No...it means you have wasted your money on an over hyped product  |
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Post by somnambulist on Sept 5, 2015 11:29:06 GMT
Remember those big old phones that were attached to the wall by a cord. You had to drag your index finger in a clockwise circular motion to dial and if you were lucky you wouldn't get a crossed line?
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Post by somnambulist on Sept 5, 2015 11:38:16 GMT
Back to refugees. Extraordinarily moving scenes of thousands walking to the Austrian border. And well done to all those decent Hungarian folk providing food and water. This situation is about common decency; no more, no less.
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Post by nobby on Sept 5, 2015 11:42:22 GMT
Nobby, I've always held this view. I just haven't felt the need to discuss it in public. Now that I am it doesn't mean I'm jumping on the bandwagon. I'm sure others are the same. Again completely missing the point, nothing wrong with discussing anything but then you've not made out that you're a saviour like some (by this I mean in general not on a forum) whereas these people could have done something when atrocities were happening but found it "easier" to turn a blind eye. I'm sure some have jumped to their own opinions about me and my posts, never have I said that genuine refugees should be turned away but I don't subscribe to the media hype, in the future when pictures appear of life in Dharavi , Kibera and so on and then the saviours appear I will ask again....where have you been and what have you been doing. There are many who could use their power to help, they don't and it's fairly easy to see why. If Milliband, Cameron etc had said if they get into power they will form an alliance with Europe to send troops into Syria to help the people do you think they would have turned the voting public in their favour. All my opinions, people have many different ones. |
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