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Mod Team says
Can you please put some sort of comment here, Jack, so this can’t be taken out of context
Your helpful Mod Team
retropath2 says
Bloody hell, Les, well said (and well shot of ’em) Their lives certainly don’t matter, at least to me.
Jackthebiscuit says
OK, a perfect example of my computer fuckwittery – I typed up a longish post about the response I received when I called out someone who I used to serve with about a post he put on a facebook group I belong to.
Essentially it was a warning sign on an anthrax contminated island & he said it was somewhere where BLM protesters could/should relocate to.
Predictably all subsequent posts were supportive of him & critical of me.
Just want to add that not ALL of the ex RN/ armed forces sites I belong to are like this, but most are.
Tell me what can a poor boy do?
Baron Harkonnen says
“Tell me what can a poor boy do?”
Fuck them off.
Mike_H says
Be done with them. Forever. Turn away and don’t look back.
From the comments, they apparently loathe you and your opinions just as much as you loathe their racism. They are evidently not worth any more of your attention so you shouldn’t give it. Let them fester in their own shit.
I would report them for offensive content to both FB (who will probably do nothing, as usual) and the police. Then block them all individually from your feed. If you receive any further abuse, I’d report that too.
There will be a gap in your online social circle for a while, but as so much of what they have to say is toxic you’ll be better off in the long run. Take comfort in the good non-toxic relationships that are left, like between you and your wife and family.
Jackthebiscuit says
TBPH a gap in my online social circle would suit me just fine
I like being here, AW on Facebook and that’s about it.
I think some pruning of FB “friends” would be a good thing for me to do.
And WRT my original personal dilemma post, I just want to say that this current group I am having an issue with is not the same one that I had my original issues with.
I am thinking more & more that I have a poor choice in FB so called “friends“.
dai says
Here’s the link (use the box!)
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And what a tosser!
Mike_H says
Reported the above to FB as Hate Speech.
dai says
Well done.
Vulpes Vulpes says
Angry incoherent jock (chips on the side) with shit for brains.
Vincent says
Avoid as much toxicity in your life as possible. And don’t get sentimental about people the other side who are very unlikely to be as sentimental as you, given their nasty attitudes. I cut obnoxious members of my family and friendship network off and it made my life much more pleasant. If it’s colleagues you depend on, rather more difficult, i expect. yes, it means we are in our bubbles, but it also means that drowning men do not pull you down, and the mentally diseased do not make you likewise ill.
SteveT says
You certainly wont miss them that’s for sure and your decision is very much the right one.
My daughter has about 5000 followers on her Instagram account. Last week she posted something in favour of BLM and within half an hour about 20 people unfriended her.
Her comments were that she didnt need friends like that was spot on.
Black Type says
I was most disturbed at the comment near the bottom, “spot on, moose”. Say it ain’t so, theMooche!
Jackthebiscuit says
It most deffo is not MtM.
Jackthebiscuit says
Note – in the post I managed to delete I basically said what I had said at the top of this post & copied in the FB conversation substituting all names with initials.
I would very much appreciate it if any subsequent comments WRT to the FB thread would maintain this (relative) anonymity.
Cheers Y’all.
Barry Blue says
Oh man Les, you’re well out and away from that nest of frightened little men, clinging onto their fast-sinking certainties. I’m reminded of the England football hooligans in 2016 in Marseilles, all beerguts, beer bottles and ‘Who wants some?’ assumptions, whereupon a much smaller group of Russians truly gave them some and then some more. (Please don’t be thinking I’m glorifying what happened) I do hope they have children, or rather, I hope their children show them a better way. I remember when John Peel played the penultimate Sham 69 single, Tell The Children, which, as I’m sure @Colin H knows, features a chorus that goes ‘We gotta tell the children, we gotta let ’em know, if we don’t tell the children, there’ll be no tomorrow’ When it ended, Peel drily remarked ‘I rather think the children should be telling us’.
Jackthebiscuit says
Many thanks for the comments & general support, I appreciate them all. 👍
el hombre malo says
leave them all behind – they look like a rotten bunch, and you deserve a better social circle
Rigid Digit says
Jack – get off that site. It’s not worth the effort to bring yourself that far down the food chain
retropath2 says
And thank you, Les, for maintaining the hope and, please, the reality that most ex-service are not like the arsewipes who try to give you all otherwise a bad name. To be fair, my own experience is of decency rather than LCD shitery, but I guess I have a rarified experience.
Blue Boy says
Your post was a perfect and dignified response Jack, and the response to it (what’s racist about that?) was predictable in the extreme. I think you were right to walk away – you are never ever going to convince someone like that and trying to do so will only cause you stress and upset rather than them. Kudos to you.
Freddy Steady says
Good luck Jack. I spent 9 years in the RAF and can confirm that most of the people I met/served with had right leaning sensibilities but not all of them to the extent of those pond life .
pencilsqueezer says
Life is too short to spend it amongst company that you don’t want to be associated with. The only thing you shared in common with these people was a job. That’s all. Nothing else.
I haven’t bothered with my sister or brother-in-law for three years because I find their attitudes abhorrent. It’s sad. I wish it could be different but there comes a point when some people become intolerable.
All power to you Les. Take a deep draft of untainted air and move on.
bobness says
Amen to that Mr Squeezer.
Power to you Les, standing up for what you think is right in the face of a tide of people who think differently.
Black Celebration says
You’ve definitely landed a punch there. It’s amazing how sensitive people are – particularly the ones who claim (repeatedly) not to give a fuck.
Sitheref2409 says
You saw what I posted on FB JtB.
I’ve lost a couple of “friends” over it. And I realized that my life is in no way impoverished by that fact.
dai says
I have blocked a guy I was at school with for similar posts. Haven’t seen him in 40 years mind.
Gatz says
Likewise the only person I have ever unfriended on Facebook was a guy I was at college with 30 years ago. He posted a racist meme about Diane Abbott. No loss (on either side I assume).