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Old Dec 14th 2017, 3:10 am
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Originally Posted by morpeth
I was referring to Europe not the UK, and certainly some press has on occasions exaggerated the issue- but that doesn't negate the fact there are now areas of several European cities that have become "no go" type zones.
Can you name them? Any direct experience?

I can imagine there is some German somewhere posting on the internet about all the no-gos In the UK.

There are shit holes, but not exactly no-go.
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Originally Posted by Norm_uk

It's a disaster and I would put money down that within 30 years we we see some parts of either Britain or France declare their own state or autonomous state. And I would bet they will grant it without a shot being fired. The policy is appeasement. A people who fear death more than slavery quickly become slaves.
A touch of the old hyperbole creeping in there Norm. These kind of posts read like a curtain twitcher's over active imagination getting the better of them.
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Portsmouth is a no-go area for me. Especially awful places surrounding it like Gosport. Christ alive, I'd rather walk through a Swedish immigrant camp with a gay pride flag carrying a pig than along an unlit road in that hell hole.

People are scumbags.
Not Muslims or Jews or Blacks or Whites or Pakistanis or Polish etc. People. The nastiness is in the human part of the make up, not the superficial or surface differences.

If you want to rant about no-go areas then include the council estates full of white British folk too.
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JBR should be made a 'no go' zone area
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Originally Posted by mission
JBR should be made a 'no go' zone area
Yeah, a Special Status Tautological No-Go Regional District Zone Area
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Originally Posted by mission
JBR should be made a 'no go' zone area
I think for the first time ever, we may be in agreement Mission. If they made JBR pedestrian only, it would function far better and become a more pleasant area.

Have you seen ho many BMWs drive in JBR??
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Yeah, a Special Status Tautological No-Go Regional District Zone Area
I had to look up what the hell 'tautological' meant 'Tautology is useless restatement, or saying the same thing twice using different words. ā€œSpeedy sprint" is a tautology because sprint already means "speedy running." The noun tautology originates from the Greek word tautologos, meaning ā€œrepeating what is said.ā€'

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I think for the first time ever, we may be in agreement Mission. If they made JBR pedestrian only, it would function far better and become a more pleasant area.that whole one way system is truly a nightmare

Have you seen ho many BMWs drive in JBR??
HA!
but none like mine
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HA!
but none like mine
They have salik tags correctly displayed?
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Originally Posted by mission
I had to look up what the hell 'tautological' meant 'Tautology is useless restatement, or saying the same thing twice using different words. ā€œSpeedy sprint" is a tautology because sprint already means "speedy running." The noun tautology originates from the Greek word tautologos, meaning ā€œrepeating what is said.ā€'
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Sorry ... when I took my hard hat off this morning I automatically put my pedant's panama on ("zone area")
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Have you seen ho many BMWs drive in JBR??
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Originally Posted by Miss Ann Thrope
It's not popular because (or maybe even in spite) of the fact that it is a load of paranoid bollocks <snip> This hate-mongering bullshit needs to be called out for what it is.


And given the diction and sentence structure used in the previous post, it looks like there's some considerable experience in astroturfing on display there.
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Originally Posted by Scamp
Portsmouth is a no-go area for me. Especially awful places surrounding it like Gosport. Christ alive, I'd rather walk through a Swedish immigrant camp with a gay pride flag carrying a pig than along an unlit road in that hell hole.

People are scumbags.
Not Muslims or Jews or Blacks or Whites or Pakistanis or Polish etc. People. The nastiness is in the human part of the make up, not the superficial or surface differences.

If you want to rant about no-go areas then include the council estates full of white British folk too.
You're right about Gosport, what a dump.
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Originally Posted by carcajou
Yes, the Saudi bureaucracy will freak out. Are you still technically married or not? If not she has no chance to come with you.

While Saudis break their own cultural norms with regularity and often just for sport - not to mention, Westerners often don't understand what really is a norm and what is just gossip or long-ago tradition - as anyone in the Middle East knows there are one set of rules for locals and a different one for foreigners (and then different ones again depending on where the foreigner is from).

Do as they say and not as they do.
No, no longer married and havenĀ“t been for close to two decades.

But talking about No-go areas, I originate from Blackburn or Blackburnistan as it is now known and there are areas where, although they do not have a gate and a barrier they are not good places for a white man to be, areas like around corporation park or the aptly named "Khyber pass." Now I live on Malta and even here are places where I would not want to be alone at night, Albert Town and Marsa are for all practical reasons African black ghettos with non of the happy and colourful ambient of African culture.
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But talking about No-go areas, I originate from Blackburn or Blackburnistan as it is now known and there are areas where, although they do not have a gate and a barrier they are not good places for a white man to be, areas like around corporation park or the aptly named "Khyber pass." Now I live on Malta and even here are places where I would not want to be alone at night, Albert Town and Marsa are for all practical reasons African black ghettos with non of the happy and colourful ambient of African culture.
I used to work in Blackburn; I was never there at night, but some parts I saw during the day weren't intimidating but they certainly weren't culturally diverse. I was barked at one day on a customer site by a colleague (I was a director, he was an project manager in his late 50's), and he later came to apologise after it was explained to me that he was born, grew up and worked his whole life in Blackburn, but had seen the value of his house decline each year to the point where it was virtually worthless, and lived surrounded by men in pyjamas and women whose faces he couldn't see, which affected him 24/7.
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