Replicant wrote:This thread reminds of an experience I had when I was working the ticket barriers at Paddington tube station a few years ago. It went something like this...
[Very well dressed couple with a large suitcase]: Open this gate.
[Me]: Pardon?
[Couple]: Open this gate. Now.
[Me]: A "please" wouldn't go amiss.
[Couple]: Why don't you open this gate and then f*** off back to your own country?
[Me]: No need for that, you racist b*****. And if you must know, I am in my own country because I was born here. You stupid c***.
[Couple]: How dare you speak to me like that?! I demand you open this gate so we can get our train.
[Me]: And I demand that you f*** off out of my station. You're not going anywhere near a train.
After a few minutes of fruitless arguing on their part, they left in a right state. His stiff upper lip was definitely a bit flaccid after that. tw*ts.
And that's why racism doesn't work...
"Go back to your own country" is a pointless argument when the black/asian/south american looking chap or chappess actually happens to have been born in the UK.
Besides which, the country is full of lazy, arrogant people anyway.
I'd rather have immigrants who came and worked than lazy tw*ts who sit on their *rse claiming benefits because they're too lazy to get a job, because they think "their" country owes them something, complains about "the foreigners" like they're some kind of disease and groans that English people can't get jobs because "the immigrants have taken them all".
Funny how I don't see many English people cleaning the toilets, doing the washing up or working 12 hours picking lettuces in a field for minimum wage...
They're not stolen jobs - just jobs that lazy English people wont take, but will complain when somebody else does.