The insanity of politics

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  Hiya Leapy,
  Couldn't agree more, there are a lot worse things to be called than a pleb. (Isn't that just Latin for an ordinary person, i.e. not a celebrity?)
  
  I'm also troubled by all the fuss about racial abuse on the football Pitch. Personally I don't think there is room for racialism anywhere in the world,
  but it exists and there are people of all colours that suffer terrible abuse because they don't fit.
  The difference for me is that the vast majority don't take home a weekly pay packet counted in tens of thousands.
  For that kind of money they can call me whatever they like. I'll take solace from my bank account.
  My mum's advice when I told her that some nasty person was calling me names, was that age old adage....
  "Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me" (nearly the same as yours)
  
  Tension is obviously high in a match and tempers will flare and words will be emitted that regretfully should not have been, apologies are usually impossible from big egos but surely there's no need for such a palaver as we have recently seen. Or is it the media blowing it up out of all proportion to sell papers.
  My opinion is that the emotionally injured should just count their blessings, which start with damn good health and superb talent, that's without mentioning the tens of thousands of new ones every week and learn to live with the slings and arrows of outrageous name calling.
  Cheers
  Leo

  Report Roy Leon Sunday, 28 October 2012 08:47 Comment Link
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  Hi Lee
  Don't think many people (including me) knew what Pleb meant & I doubt Copper did either.
  Think Julius Caesar was last one to use Word when he was Done By Brutus.
  As You say Lee whole Government 3 Party's it is Down to Scoring Brownie Points instead of Sorting out the Mess They & Bankers got us in
  Cheers Colin (UK)

  Report Colin Brown Friday, 26 October 2012 23:11 Comment Link