To black guy in a black car (Dunstans Road, 5/9/11 6:20am)

[tallulah71]

miss noodles whatsername has been very quiet of late....probably off poodle-bashing.

[JohnL]

bovver boots :)

My Doc Martins are over 30 years old and in that time i've seen them popular with student girls and gay lads as well as the original skinhead types from the 80s.

You're more likely to get the gay comment than the skinhead white nazi one to be honest if wearing doc martins/leather/cropped hair.

camberwell70 Wrote:

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> How short is your hair, NowAndHere?

>

> And what type of bomber jacket were you wearing?

>

> Can you describe the colour of the jacket and, if

> possible, the type of footwear you were wearing?

>

> Were you wearing 'bovver boots?'

[JohnL]

mind you, in this case my first thought would still have been that the guy was 'testing me' to see if I acted like a victim or could be intimidated.

The gangs go after easy victims - so it's best to grin at them as if that sort of stuff will never scare you in a month of sundays - don't argue or say anything however.

[binary_star]

JohnL Wrote:

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> You're more likely to get the gay comment than the

> skinhead white nazi one to be honest if wearing

> doc martins/leather/cropped hair.

I was thinking that too - very RVT. Maybe he was a homophobe NAH? Or maybe, thinking you looked 'a bit like a gay' he thought you might be a heterophobe...

[DJKillaQueen]

My reading of the OP is that he felt the bottle was deliberately thrown at HIM (which is bit different to just chucking rubbish out of a car window). With no verbal comment to give him a clue as to why, I think it's only natural he would come to some conclusion (whether correct or not) as to why the bottle was thrown at him. Racism, or homophobia, or just antagonist bullying may well have been at the core, or maybe not - it's impossible to know for sure, but entirely possible. I do wish that some people would be more polite and thoughtful in the way they post though, before assuming the OP is a pot calling the kettle black.

[MissNoodlesHats]

No just can't be arsed with some masquerading activist with an imaginary poodle, posting for weeks in the for sale section before popping up with a " i was wronged by a black boy thread " .

And next time you want to send me a PM calling me a C**T, if you quickly fake an ID to do it don't bleeding talk to someone directly about how dare "they say this and that to you". It kind of defeats the object of doing it behind a fake id....muppet.

Anyway people who walk cute poodle's should not use the C word, it does not really go.

[large7]

Sounds to me like you have a problem with HIS colour - not the other way round.

When he threw the bottle, did he shout racist abuse at you? If not, consider him an idiot rather than assuming just because he was black and you're white, that HE'S racist.

Get over it - it was a plastic bottle, not a brick...

[large7]

KidKruger Wrote:

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> I had a guy throw an empty Coke can at me from his

> car a few months ago as I crossed the side road by

> the garden centre next to ED train station. The

> guy was speeding into the side road and presumably

> felt I didn't scurry out of his way quick enough

> to make him feel big and tough.

> I believe he did it because I was white and he was

> black. I don't believe he would have done it if I

> was black.

> I believe this for the same reason that I believe

> every instance of (attempted) intimidation I've

> experienced in South London has been anti-white.

> I never had it from a white guy, so it's a natural

> conclusion. Or ridiciulous coincidence.

> Generally you know what's going on in a situation

> like that, it's based on what you've personally

> experienced, there's fools trying to 'disprove'

> what the OP felt. You can't, you weren't there.

> Next someone will be branding the OP racist, which

> ironically will back-up the OP's original point

> about what he suspected the perpetrator thought of

> him.

Oh no, not an empty coke can! You must have been traumatised!! Get a grip.

I've been intimidated more by white trash than black people - being white myself, am I to assume white people have a problem with me being white? Of course not.

Who's racist here? I wonder if you might be...

[Jeremy]

I think the conclusion KidKruger came to is an incorrect one, but I guess it's an understandable reaction to his experiences.

[KidKruger]

large07 - the fact that it was a Coke can is irrelevant (as you seem to say yourself), a missile was thrown as an act of aggression. The act of aggression was the misdemeanour. And if you're going to construe racism (or pretend to imply to do so, such a non-commital way to insult someone - grow a pair and either make the accusation or be big enough to restrain the silly impulse) based on what you've read, then you're doing exactly what you've 'accused' me of !!

Doh !! Hyprocritseville, TN, here we come...

[NowAndHere]

large7 Wrote:

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> If not, consider him an idiot rather

> than assuming just because he was black and you're

> white, that HE'S racist.

could you, please, show me where I called him racist?

[Frankito]

Saucy, I forgive you... >:D

[guna nua]

MissNoodlesHats Wrote:

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> No just can't be arsed with some masquerading

> activist with an imaginary poodle, posting for

> weeks in the for sale section before popping up

> with a " i was wronged by a black boy thread " .

>

> And next time you want to send me a PM calling me

> a C**T, if you quickly fake an ID to do it don't

>bleeding talk to someone directly about how dare

> "they say this and that to you". It kind of

> defeats the object of doing it behind a fake

> id....muppet.

>

> Anyway people who walk cute poodle's should not

> use the C word, it does not really go.

I don't like this especially the poodle and the c-word bit, I did retire to the lounge but they were talking about chopping onions (no really) hmm.this can't be for real , there must be something underlying.

[tallulah71]

I agree guna nua....very odd.

[northlondoner]

Yes a nasty undertone developing....

Actually more of an overtone.

[Voyageur]

MissNoodlesHats Wrote:

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> having said that , and looking at your previous

> posts its a shame it was not a brick that hit you

> straight in your gutless .....cashews

Yikes MissDoolalyHats...... Better have a word with nurse and get your meds ramped up :(

[Take Note]

I have read this post through and through. At what point did MissNoodlesForBrains ascertain the dog on the 'scene' was a poodle? Did I miss something?

And I really feel for you NowAndHere. Not a good thing to happen to anyone. And I appreciate that what you gave was a description of the guy, and the car he drove. That's it. He could well have been 'To ginger guy in an orange car'. If you'd put 'guy in car', you BET people would have been on it saying...."well, what did he look like? what was the colour of his car?"

Doesn't make you racist. Ignore posters who try to make you feel guilty for what was a horrid thing to have happened to you.

[malumbu]

Some blokes jumped out at me the other day when I was driving topless down by the Gowlett (normally people actually say nice things).

I got chased by some guys on bikes about ten years ago up by the estate near Champion Hill

A Man City fan shouted at me to 'come back you bastard' in about 1982

30 years ago some Welsh teenagers tried to beat me up because I was an innocent 16 years old drinking in their pub.

Is there any sort of pattern here?

[NowAndHere]

@Take Note

I am afraid none knows answer to your question and actually my dog is not a poodle, not to mention imaginary poodle...

[v_the_gelfling]

Edited below posted twice in error

[v_the_gelfling]

Ah well, joining the bandwagon a guy shouted racist abuse at me and my partner yesterday, apparently because my bald husband is a white racist skinhead. Nice. Loving coming back to London from a relaxing holiday to meet this kind of bull s :)

[Ridgley]

v_the_gelfling wrote

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Ah well, joining the bandwagon a guy shouted racist abuse at me and my partner yesterday, apparently because my bald husband is a white racist skinhead. Nice. Loving coming back to London from a relaxing holiday to meet this kind of bull s smiling smiley

Him in doors looks like that as well but also Jewish I do have a giggle especially when we visit friends and family in Golders Green and Finchley.

[Frankito]

So, it's got me thinking; is it acceptable for people of other races to be openly racist and hostile towards white people? Perhaps that would have been a more appropriate title for this thread as it is an interesting argument.... And I would love to hear from anyone who thinks it is acceptable, not in any provoking way, more because I like to hear other people's points of view..

Anyone?

[DJKillaQueen]

No form or racism or xenophobia is ever acceptable, irregardless of who is perpetuating it.

[Voyageur]

DJKillaQueen Wrote:

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> No form or racism or xenophobia is ever

> acceptable, irregardless of who is perpetuating

> it.

Amen to that!