Congratulations. You're able to pull up individual cases of crimes committed by immigrants. Would you like me to start pulling up cases of locals committing crime as if that's some sort of "gotcha" moment?
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Show posts MenuQuote from: Look-Up! on January 16, 2024, 12:08:41 PMThe All or Nothing series I found very good. Watched a few of them. All the PL ones were good. Enjoyed the Pep one the best. Ice hockey one very good too. Found no problem watching multiple episodes with them.
For drama, Man in High Castle on Prime springs to mind, don't know if you've seen it. Carnival Row was ok.
Quote from: burdizzo on January 23, 2024, 10:02:28 PMNotice that I said "In many European countries with longer experiences of migration than we do, immigrants - and those of a non-national background - are over-represented in the prison population.", and you quote the Guards and refer to asylum seekers. Look up The Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Italy... Or just come back here in 15 years.
Quote from: thewobbler on January 23, 2024, 10:03:01 PMQuote from: Eamonnca1 on January 23, 2024, 09:54:04 PMQuote from: thewobbler on January 23, 2024, 06:31:38 PMQuote from: ThomasMullan on January 23, 2024, 05:47:36 PMQuote from: thewobbler on January 23, 2024, 05:39:12 PMThankfully I'm not overly familiar with A&E over the past few years.
I tell you who must be a giant big bastard of a xenophobe though; the court reporter for the Newry Democrat. Every week he manages to fill his couple of pages with a string of offences by people with Eastern European names.... some weeks there's twice as many of these names as local names. As they represent a small demographic among Newry's population, it must be the court reporter's bias.
Not once have you counted the Eastern European names vs the local names and concluded that there is twice as many.
This has happened many times. Our local Poles have a habit of getting drunk and beating man, woman, child and car.
When you see it you will call it anomaly.
Then when it happens regularly you'll ignore it, as you do anything that doesn't fit your politics and passions.
Then when anyone brings it up, you'll cry racism.
This is the way.
It is racism if you're selective about it. The courts are full of people with Irish surnames beating their wives and getting drunk. People like you only get bent out of shape when it's a foreigner doing it.
Au contraire Eamon.
I'm not bent out of shape about it at all.
What I'm suggesting here is this. Whilst there's a stream of anecdotes above about how nobody ever sees a foreigner using A&E, there's hard and cold written records that they are using a disproportionately high level of another key public service.
Are there "natives" fighting, stabbing, drink driving, etc in Newry every week? You bet your life there are. There's plenty of Irishmen are unable/unwilling to control their emotional or physical states. But the headcount of incidents involving "natives" should absolutely dwarf those of foreign nationals.
Yet it doesn't.
It just doesn't.
It's there in black and white.
Quote from: thewobbler on January 23, 2024, 06:31:38 PMQuote from: ThomasMullan on January 23, 2024, 05:47:36 PMQuote from: thewobbler on January 23, 2024, 05:39:12 PMThankfully I'm not overly familiar with A&E over the past few years.
I tell you who must be a giant big bastard of a xenophobe though; the court reporter for the Newry Democrat. Every week he manages to fill his couple of pages with a string of offences by people with Eastern European names.... some weeks there's twice as many of these names as local names. As they represent a small demographic among Newry's population, it must be the court reporter's bias.
Not once have you counted the Eastern European names vs the local names and concluded that there is twice as many.
This has happened many times. Our local Poles have a habit of getting drunk and beating man, woman, child and car.
When you see it you will call it anomaly.
Then when it happens regularly you'll ignore it, as you do anything that doesn't fit your politics and passions.
Then when anyone brings it up, you'll cry racism.
This is the way.
Quote from: burdizzo on January 23, 2024, 06:13:05 PMQuote from: ThomasMullan on January 23, 2024, 05:47:36 PMQuote from: thewobbler on January 23, 2024, 05:39:12 PMThankfully I'm not overly familiar with A&E over the past few years.
I tell you who must be a giant big bastard of a xenophobe though; the court reporter for the Newry Democrat. Every week he manages to fill his couple of pages with a string of offences by people with Eastern European names.... some weeks there's twice as many of these names as local names. As they represent a small demographic among Newry's population, it must be the court reporter's bias.
Not once have you counted the Eastern European names vs the local names and concluded that there is twice as many.
Even if it were half as many, it'd still be an over-representation. In many European countries with longer experiences of migration than we do, immigrants - and those of a non-national background - are over-represented in the prison population.
Quote from: Applesisapples on January 12, 2024, 03:20:59 PMKevin Conway's dad originally fell foul of the IRA for allegedly breaking into the homes of OAP's. He moved to Kilwilkee where he fell foul of the dissidents for supply cigs and booze to underage again allegedly. So the son didn't really have much example.
Quote from: Olly on January 09, 2024, 09:58:41 PMAnother of people here being quite blasfemous. Around the year 2000 I had an awful time with the runs and visited a nun in Portglenone. She had a good look and hoke about, put her hands over me and said something in Latin. Within 3 weeks my bowels were hunky dory and since then I've only had the runs about 10 times. These things work if you are open minded. Her name was Sister Bradley but she was since derobed over a betting scandal but still does cures from her home in Stranocum.