Originally Posted by HonestLee:
“Nothing like the threat of getting a slap to re-evaluate your approach to people
Wth the 'safe space' litigious culture we've grown in to that threat is now removed
Hence your 'Ryans'
It's 'totes ok' to scream anything you want in someones face now without fear of physical retaliation, it's now such the norm that your 'Ryans' have got taking it to the extreme down to a fine art
I don't think violence solves anything in general, usually it's the last means of a lost argument
But the threat or 'possibility of' forces one to filter and encourages other angles of conduct/emotion/response and sometimes you do find yourself mourning its loss
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“Nothing like the threat of getting a slap to re-evaluate your approach to people
Wth the 'safe space' litigious culture we've grown in to that threat is now removed
Hence your 'Ryans'
It's 'totes ok' to scream anything you want in someones face now without fear of physical retaliation, it's now such the norm that your 'Ryans' have got taking it to the extreme down to a fine art
I don't think violence solves anything in general, usually it's the last means of a lost argument
But the threat or 'possibility of' forces one to filter and encourages other angles of conduct/emotion/response and sometimes you do find yourself mourning its loss
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Indeed. It would seem some of that lot have made it their life's work to be as foul and hateful as possible, effing and jeffing and badmouthing anyone not in their malevolent little gang and yet everyone else must watch their Ps and Qs. I think not. Ryan is a goading little toad. I'm not one for violence but if he gets through life without a slap it is a credit to the restraint of others.




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In my head, Jayne is sitting with Andy or Jason, away from the others as part of the top 3, intermittently glancing in the direction of Natalie and hoping the security will hold and smiling smugly at Chelsea for making it further than him.
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