The EDL

Gourami · **Joined:** Wed Jul 20, 2011 10:51 pm **Posts:** 2005

oboogie wrote:

"get defo in drip" confuses me

The yoot round my way say 'defo' instead of definitely, as a way of demarcating themselves from old losers like me. An understandable motive and a silly method, which works. But might defo refer to Jermain Defoe in this example?

oboogie · **Posted:** Sun Aug 28, 2011 12:11 am

Gourami wrote:

oboogie wrote:

"get defo in drip" confuses me

The yoot round my way say 'defo' instead of definitely, as a way of demarcating themselves from old losers like me. An understandable motive and a silly method, which works. But might defo refer to Jermain Defoe in this example?

Yeah I was actually ok with defo thanks - it was the context which bothered me.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Sun Aug 28, 2011 12:35 pm

The Express (of all sources) reports that the EDL is now being targeted by anti-terrorism officers: story here.

oboogie · **Posted:** Sun Aug 28, 2011 3:29 pm

The comments on that EDL article appear to be unmodderated and a shit storm from Knuckledragger Central - Cameron is a racist, socialist just like Blair etc etc and there's at least one clown pledging his vote to the EDL at the next election. :roll:

Messianic Trees · **Joined:** Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:50 pm **Posts:** 2834

Comments on Express articles always seem to attract the hard of thinking:

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RUNNING SCARED
This article is propaganda and an attempt, yet again, to stifle ANYTHING to do with "right wing" beliefs. Sorry, but the other side of our English coin will reveal itself soon enough. We've had left wing, cente left,centre, and centre right parties and been wrecked by them all. We've had our English identity, and rights to patriotism stolen from under us.
Now perhaps the right wing WILL take over, and THAT is what you all fear. You've pushed us too far, you will see just how far, at the next general election.
Posted by: Steady

The "other side of our English coin"? WTF!?

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EXTREMIST TORIES
This is outrageoue and disgusting,This Tory lead government,+Liberal and Labour.Are hell bent on getting rid of all British Ethnic National Groups,Mainly the BNP and the EDL.These Muslim Exremists must be realy haveing a laugh at the British people,when our own government and police are agianst us haveing a voice.FREE SPEACH IS FINISHED in the UK,IF you happen to be British.The rest can do and say what they like.I have to BEG British People that Care anything at all about their country,to join the BNP donate to their cause,to save Britain.All political parties NEED MONEY if it's only a poud a week,is it worth it to save our country i say it is.I didn't go to war for my country to see it going down the toilet the way it is.God knows what all our dead soldiers would think of Britain to day.What TORY/LIB LAB.have done to this country is a national disgrace.
Posted by: Zebb

davidjay · **Joined:** Tue Feb 17, 2009 8:24 pm **Posts:** 3819

I'm willing to bet Zebb has never gone to war at all.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Sun Aug 28, 2011 3:49 pm

Ah, the old conundrum. It gets boring to point it out every time.

FREE SPEACH IS FINISHED in the UK but Zebb gets his inarticulate and cretinous ramblings published on the website of a national newspaper.

There's no FREE SPEACH at all...

Messianic Trees · **Joined:** Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:50 pm **Posts:** 2834

Malcolm Armsteen wrote:

Ah, the old conundrum. It gets boring to point it out every time.

FREE SPEACH IS FINISHED in the UK but Zebb gets his inarticulate and cretinous ramblings published on the website of a national newspaper.

There's no FREE SPEACH at all...

Ah, yes, but Zebb says that "FREE SPEACH IS FINISHED in the UK,IF you happen to be British", so perhaps he's not British at all, and ... ok, he's just a moron.

oboogie · **Posted:** Sun Aug 28, 2011 4:11 pm

I like Zebb's notion that the BNP & EDL are a separate ethnic group, I'd go further and suggest that they are a separate species.

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Sun Aug 28, 2011 4:29 pm

Free speech is being able to turn up anywhere you like and do what you like. The people who don't understand this are the real facists.

Big Rob · **Posted:** Sun Aug 28, 2011 8:45 pm

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love ellis short like he the fkn man ! get defo in drip gyan see how it feels for him that mite kick him up the arse like !

I love Ellis Short. Get Defoe in and drop Gyan. See how that makes (Gyan) feel as he needs a boot in the behind.

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ftm !

Fuck the mag(pie)s

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Sun Aug 28, 2011 8:47 pm

Thank you, FTM had exscaped me.

Big Rob · **Posted:** Sun Aug 28, 2011 8:52 pm

Malcolm Armsteen wrote:

Thank you, FTM had exscaped me.

The Sunderland Echo once described FTM as meaning 'follow the mackems'. Well... no...

Big Rob · **Posted:** Sun Aug 28, 2011 9:03 pm

As for the way that (some) people write on facebook, I can only speak for the North East, but they are simply writing as if they were speaking (Like the old 'Larn yarsel' Geordie' phrasebook). They are simply putting their speech sounds into word and letter formations that would make sense to their own 'group'.

When I read statements like the ones you posted from the Sunderland banter change I hear a mackem accent as I read them.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Sun Aug 28, 2011 9:07 pm

So, like doctors and engineers, they construct a register, almost a quasi-dialect, understood only by members of their social circle designed to exclude others not accepted in that group? A sort of shibboleth-in-motion. Is that what the EDL is doing, do you think?
Of course it is. Plus, I suppose, there are strong anti-intellectual and class conscious factors. Language has always been one of the most powerful unifying forces for any beleaguered minority.

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