British Expats - In To-day's Newspapers

A lady after my own heart!

Migrants are having big families to claim benefits, says Asian baroness
â€˜Nobody likes to accept that, nobody likes to talk about it because it is supposed to be very politically incorrectâ€™

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz1XvVUeopH

fatbrit

Sep 14th 2011 2:02 am

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Originally Posted by noni (Post 9620362)

Dear All
Please pass it on to all hard working,tax paying people & ask if we are tired like Mr Cosby or not.If yes can Lobby our counsillors & MPs.?

I suppose it's only a small step from quoting the DM to circulating the output from the Utah bunker.

The piece was written by Robert A. Hall, a little known marine, Massachusetts state senator, not Bill Cosby.

fatbrit

Sep 14th 2011 2:10 am

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Originally Posted by noni (Post 9620402)

Yep, my sort of lady, too.

"I hope that in the future we can move towards a more open European process as that will provide greater safeguards in the sensitive and important area of human rights"
Baroness Flather
Asylum and Immigration Appeals Bill
HL Deb 26 January 1993 vol 541 cc1147-225

SteveKingswear

Sep 14th 2011 4:35 am

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Originally Posted by fatbrit (Post 9620662)

Does it matter? Regardless of who wrote it the sentiments remain the same!

fatbrit

Sep 14th 2011 4:41 am

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Originally Posted by SteveKingswear (Post 9621076)

Does it matter? Regardless of who wrote it the sentiments remain the same!

Bill Cosby wraps it up in a nice, cosy feeling; the original writer does not.

But please don't let facts get in the way of your opinions.

noni	Sep 14th 2011 4:49 am

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Originally Posted by fatbrit (Post 9621098)

Bill Cosby wraps it up in a nice, cosy feeling; the original writer does not.

But please don't let facts get in the way of your opinions.

It was meant as a nice cosy feeling - it should have been taken as such, so many people here nitpick trying to show their superiority instead of reading what is written.

Anyway I have had the best news in the world to-day, the kind that money cannot buy. :wub: :drinkwine: :drinkwine: :drinkwine:

fatbrit

Sep 14th 2011 4:59 am

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Originally Posted by noni (Post 9621113)

It was meant as a nice cosy feeling - it should have been taken as such, so many people here nitpick trying to show their superiority instead of reading what is written.

It's terrible when people use their brains instead of their emotions, isn't it?

SteveKingswear

Sep 14th 2011 5:12 am

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Originally Posted by fatbrit (Post 9621098)

Bill Cosby wraps it up in a nice, cosy feeling; the original writer does not.

But please don't let facts get in the way of your opinions.

It wasn't an opinion it was a question, hence the question mark and heres another, question again this is not an opinion (there are far to many highly self opinionated people on this forum as it is) does it matter, surely the sentiment remains the same regardless of who wrote it?

fatbrit

Sep 14th 2011 5:19 am

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Originally Posted by SteveKingswear (Post 9621159)

It wasn't an opinion it wasa question, hence the question mark and heres another, question that is not opinion, there are far to many higly self opinionated people on this forum as it is, does it matter, surely the sentiment remains the same regardless of who wrote it?

The way you perceive the statements made is influenced by who you believe wrote it. Bill Cosby is generally thought of as a nice guy. Therefore, if you read and agree with the statements, then you can be no worse than that nice and cuddly Cosby fellow. Now imagine the piece was signed off as: Adolf Hitler (translated from the German). Now, even though you read and agreed with the sentiment, you'd be less inclined to associate yourself with it.

Honestly folks, this is elementary stuff!

SteveKingswear

Sep 14th 2011 5:24 am

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A truth is a truth, regardless of origin; now that my FatBrit friend really is elementary stuff.

fatbrit

Sep 14th 2011 5:33 am

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Originally Posted by SteveKingswear (Post 9621174)

A truth is a truth, regardless of origin; now that my FatBrit friend really is elementary stuff.

Show me a truth in there and I'll gnaw my left toe off with my own fangs.

It is someone strongly expressing his opinions, not the truth. It contains a biased and cherry-picked fact base to bolster his opinions.