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I despair at the human race sometimes...
BillieTheBot
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http://uk.news.yahoo.com/050606/80/fkist.htmlItalian court says gay man can drive
ROME (Reuters) - A Sicilian court condemned road authorities on Monday for suspending the driving licence of a man after finding out he was gay.
The court on the Mediterranean island said being gay was merely "a personality disturbance" which had no bearing on a person's ability to drive, Ansa news agency reported.
The 23-year-old man, who was identified as Danilo G., got into trouble with the road licence authorities in the city of Catania after they discovered he had been exempted from military service because he was gay.
The authorities suspended his driving licence ahead of further checks on his "suitability" to take the wheel.
Thank god for the sanity and tolerance of the Sicilian judicial system for recognising homosexuality is "merely a personality disturbance" that should not affect driving skills.
:rolleyes:
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A name is spelt with a capital letter, Lamp Boy.
Can anyone translate this for me?
Perhaps he thinks Aladdin should have used a capital 'G' for god? If that is what he means, then I've never seen a worse case of nit-picking.
you talking in relation to god, does it have to be spelt with a capital letter? and if so, why the pedanticness
anyways thats pretty funny. But then again it is Italy and Rome likes to decide the outcome of human lives by setting guidelines and one of them being anti-homosexual. In other words, a bunch of bible thumpers who can't realize gays are practically harmless and who cares what they do?
Such breathtaking ignorance and bigotry is truly astonishing. Can't believe such things can still happen in Europe today.
And women can't drive.
Innit.
nope it's very real...and i hear Welsh people are next on their list of hate!
Projecting your ill informed ideological delusions on others again Mat? Seems you have no real experience of Continental Europe, nor the fact that there is no homogenous culture that one can simply call "Continental Europe" as you are wont to do.
FYI, Holland is perhaps the finest example of institutionalised tolerance on the planet. Belgium too is lightyears ahead of either the UK (with its tabloid regurgitating neanderthals like yourself) or my own US (with its jackboot, totalitarian funadmentalist conformists).
How strange to hear you suggesting that other people's intolerance is so distasteful when you are the very mouthpiece of intolerance yourself.
Might shock you to learn that upwards of 65% of civil servants working in the EU institutions are avowedly homosexual. Might give you some fuel for later posts on yet another reason to hate the EU (in demonstration of your own well recognised tolerance, of course!)
I never honestly knew that homosexuality made you incapable of driving... A personality disturbance? Like an illness?
um, could you give a source for that statistic?......
Sexist pig.
ban women from driving ...no need for congestion charges ...
Would this be the same continent where a racist bigot came 2nd in the French election? Or where the far right Austrian freedom party is in the political mainstream? Or perhaps the Netherlands where the Fortyn List party (far right) was stopped only by the murder of its leader?
No. 40 years of race relations laws in the UK have made it a far more welcoming place for ethnic minorities than the massive racism and bigotry that exist on the continent.
I can certainly ask if there are any online figures and get back to you on that though. Its hardly the main point I am addressing in my post however. More a matter of Mat's seeming hypocrisy calling other's intolerant when he himself routinely displays intolerance on almost any issue under discussion.
Holland = Theo Van Gogh....
And btw, I CAN DRIVE! Just got a compliment on my parking today
Hmm, far right candidates whose views would echo all the very similar intolerances you have routinely spouted on these boards, perchance? How much further will you carry your hypocrisy Mat?
Be that as it may, you have listed three countries (and one - Holland again - in which fortyn's party would not have been the governing party by any stretch regardless of its leader's ill fortune) out of 25. Hardly indicative of this homogenous delusion you wish to subscribe to to avoid confronting the reality of your own bigotry.
No, dear boy, I think you are again conflating your delusions with the spun claims of the Daily Hate Mail rather than any verifiable data on the situation of immigrants to differing EU countries.
Address your own clear deep seated hatred and bigotry first and stop projecting on societies of whom you obviously know absolutely nothing.
Owned.
Any what the fuck? Oh well. Seems like people are being arses again.
What if it came to light Michael Schumacher was gay? Is that how you spell his name?
Gayness in no way affect driving ability. Except if you are one of those annoying twats who puts on make-up in the mirror whilst driving.
God with or without a capital? No one cares. Perhaps he isn't a religious perfectionist? Perhaps in the context as a saying it is not refering to "God" as such but just an exasperated statement?
Either way, no one cares.
Van Gogh was murdered by one man's intolerance translated into criminal action, just one can countless examples of in any country in the world. Shall we examine more idicative cases of the sort of institutionalised xenophobia and racism by the UK MET for which Mat would like to condemn his homogenous "continental" boogeyman?
Oh, and it is said that Theo Van Gogh was himself racist to the bone, and not just "critical" of Islam.
That in itself did more to demonstrate the risk when too great a percentage of any democratic society, our own notwithstanding, disregards its civic duty to maintain active participation in their nation's governance. Actual adherents to Le Pen and his message in France remains a minority, however vocal they may be.
I thought he was a frog?
"Polarised" is a far cry from Mat's suggestion of "homogenised".