Forests views on the scab baiting

Does anybody think that they like the animosity that we show towards them?

 

I think they find it funny that 16 yr old chavs chant it who have no idea about the history

 

I should imagine it offends them as much as the dingels and scrubbers chants bothers us

 

I don't think it bothers them one little bit.

 

got a point theer mrx

 

But then again everyone is a chav according to you

 

Incorrect assumption
Although I have you down as a white sock white trainer wearer
Tell me brian , when you post comments alleging that I knocked peoples doors in at that point are you sober

 

It's because they lack morals.

 

Maybe theyre just pointing out that the people from Nottingham lacked Morals at that time,or did you mean paintings sorry i cant see still abit larrrrrrgerd up

 

I meant the people of Notts lacked morals.

 

Maybe, just maybe, the history is passed down from the generation who suffered, think that's how history works...

Mind you, can't see the point in yelling scab all afternoon though.

 

Comments like this really annoy me. It was the same when Thatcher died..how can you have an opinion when you weren't around blah blah.
I wasn't born during the miners strike but I do know the history and I'm entitled to an opinion. It's like saying I can't have an opinion on Hitler because I didn't live through his time


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Wow. I agree with you.

I think I've got a bit of sick in my mouth.

 

Ok
Its not about the history its about experiencing the suffering at the time , I did they didn't , I have moved on and find no need to stand chanting scab looking like a moron
Its embarrassing for the area that some cant move forward

 

Not that I'm particularly the type to call anyone a scab but it's not embarrassing to recall a shared geographical and political event in fact some one say it assists the retention of local history and local pride. History is written from the point of view of academics and those who didn't experience first hand the things they write about. Oral history or tradition tends to be more visceral and real though sometimes factually fluid. I taught English for a few months to people on some of the Islands of Northern Australia and pretty much all their retained historically history is through singing or stories. Their perception and version of the history of Australia is very different to that found in the history books. Just as the perception of anyone who lived through the strike or indeed the children and grandchildren who did may be different to that in the recorded history.

What is in fact offensive is dismissing working class kids in that horrible southern media way chavs. It's a nasty snide insult designed by people with little or no experience of working class life and is just unpleasant and narrow minded.

Never forgive. Never forget.

 

Jimmy
Which pit did you work at ?

 

I only refer to smoke bomb throwers / racists/ as chavs , to be honest they dont deserve a name just silence

 

I was 13 when the strike happened my dad worked at Houghton Main with my grandad and 4 more of my grandads brothers. My uncle Matt worked at Cortonwood. My uncle Jim at Redbrook he's still going now as a miner though it'll probably kill him. My uncle Tony was at one of the Donny pits. I'm actually the first male in my family in over 150 years not to be a miner of some sort from Cornish Tin to a Welsh slate to coal.

 

In my view everyone is entitled to an opinion irrespective of age.

to take your analogy one step further though, would you think it right to shout anti German abuse at descendants who themselves weren't involved in the war ?