1A St James Street reopens...

[PeeJay]

18 give or take.

That's hard to swallow in a modern society

[searsa1]

And in how many states is oral sex illegal?

18 give or take.

[PeeJay]

Don't blame the places, blame the people what live there guv'nor.

[ValeTudoGuy]

This is why we should make sweeping generalizations about places very few people live. Take for example Mississippi....they didn't outlaw slavery there until 1995. No seriously look it up.....1995. Mississippi: Bringing slavery into damn near the 21st century.

Benjamin Disraeli would have been spinning in his grave.... 1995... oh lord.

[rascal]

If I had such opinions about Yorkshire I would keep them to myself.

God look at some of the places in yorkshire plenty of shitholes and if you know the place I stayed and choose to call it that from personal experiences that would be your choice if thats the impression it left you with. One thing I would not do is try and change your mind or call it rude as pretty pointless as if someone develops a opinion of a place from spending months there someone telling them they are wrong on a forum is not going to change that. Oh someone giving up a seat for elderly/ pregnant people is not something to be amazed at should be the norm as basic manners. Same as holding the door open for someone behind you or coming the other way

[sheppsea]

This is why we should make sweeping generalizations about places very few people live. Take for example Mississippi....they didn't outlaw slavery there until 1995. No seriously look it up.....1995. Mississippi: Bringing slavery into damn near the 21st century.

It was later than that here (according to a QI I watched recently), apparently it was 2010

[PeeJay]

And in how many states is oral sex illegal?

[searsa1]

This is why we should make sweeping generalizations about places very few people live. Take for example Mississippi....they didn't outlaw slavery there until 1995. No seriously look it up.....1995. Mississippi: Bringing slavery into damn near the 21st century.

[PeeJay]

Shouldn't have expected anything else.... from a Londoner!

Born in Swindon actually and spent most of my childhood being dragged round the world with the RAF so not a Londoner really

[MarkLondon]

If I had such opinions about Yorkshire I would keep them to myself.

[MarkLondon]

Say whatever you feel Rsacal....I still find it rude.
I would not generalize in such a way.
To say that a city the size of London is a cesspit....well....that is your opinion.

Marc, when my wife was expecting I can tell you many people let her sit down on buses etc and my parents regularly have people get up for them on public transport.

This is where I step out of the debate.

[ValeTudoGuy]

Fight, fight ....

Shouldn't have expected anything else.... from a Londoner!

[rascal]

Please feel free to say if I have insulted your cigars. In the same token I will point out when you a sweeping generalisation about 11 million people that I find a bit rude.

Of course this is a forum for discussing cigars so different opinions on cigars are probably reasonable.

The thing I have learned is that if my opinions offend others I cannot argue that they should not feel offended, that is purely for them to decide.

Always worth remembering that plain txt forums are a very poor medium for expressing crass generalisations.

I just want to point out I never once said anything about the people living in any city! Txt is a hard way to communicate some people jump to certain conclusion but think of the amount of people who move from where they grow up due to them believing the area is crap like Sean. Is he making a sweeping generalization of himself and all his family or is he talking about a inanimate place?

Ps apologies about using you as the example sean easier to explain that way.

[PeeJay]

Fight, fight ....

[monkey66]

Please feel free to say if I have insulted your cigars. In the same token I will point out when you a sweeping generalisation about 11 million people that I find a bit rude.

Of course this is a forum for discussing cigars so different opinions on cigars are probably reasonable.

The thing I have learned is that if my opinions offend others I cannot argue that they should not feel offended, that is purely for them to decide.

Always worth remembering that plain txt forums are a very poor medium for expressing crass generalisations.