Fuck homophobia
Yay for the Nordeens, the Hot Lies and After the Fall. Highlight of the night, though, was the train ride home: watching a drunken homophobe get his arse kicked (literally) by an angry lesbian and her mates.
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What a pity the shadow attorney was not on the same train. But which side would she have joined?
Nicola? Not only would she have come in to bat for the homophobe, she would have declared that the ALP will come in to bat for drunken homophobes on trains in the future.
So mindless violence is OK if it’s one of your favourite minorities doing the kicking? Idiot.
Nice that you can characterise it as “mindless violence” when you weren’t there and didn’t see what happened. It was very funny — almost slapstick — and everyone (including the homophobic “victim” and the security guards) took it in good humour.
Idiot.
I like how wingnuts drop the ‘nuke em all’ stance and get all peace and love when they hear about this kind of thing. Nice one PB.
Are you callin’ PB a wingnut?
I wouldn’t know PB if he fell on me, and I’m sure we both hope that won’t happen. It’s just a general observation.
Oh, it was *humorous* violence.
Well, that’s all right then.
Hmm looks like the defenders of freedom have gone all holding hands and kumbayah on us.
Talk the talk, walk the walk boys and girls.
It is, of course, a complete defence to a charge of assault if one was invited to commit the act of “violence”. In this case, the tosser was mouthing off. He was told to shut up or have his arse kicked. At that point, he mooned the train — dacks down — and said, “go on then”. I don’t think he expected the woman to follow through with it, but he got what he asked for.
If you want to pretend this is the end of the world, go right ahead. But everyone involved took it in good humour, so did all the witnesses, and there was no harm done (except, perhaps, to the dickhead’s inflated ego).
So get over it, and go back to your warmongering. Because non-humourous violence is okay… or something. I can’t pretend to follow your logic.
Murdering 10,000 Iraqis for no reason in particular vs. one drunken yob getting his arse kicked.
Mmm, yes, I can see the moral equivalency. Absolutely.
They must teach an unusual school of crim law in WA- an invitation to violence is a defence to an assault charge? Good grief. I am at least consistent, as opposed to those who preach that violence solves nothing (except when it suits your own twisted beliefs. I bet you think rolling marbles in fron of mounted police and throwing bags of urine at cops at protests is justified, because it’s for a cause…)
I think violence solves a lot, if done right.
I may be a fascist thug, but I’m not a hypocrite.
Where have I ever said that violence solves nothing? Please stop putting words in my mouth.
And here’s a quotation from Criminal Law in Queensland and Western Australia:
Now fuck off.
That covers a fight mutually agreed to by the protoganists- I don’t think a brown-eye is normally regarded as an invitation to fisticuffs- it may be an invitation to some other nasty behaviour, however.
You’re joking, right? Someone says, “I’ll kick your arse”, he bends over and says, “go on then”. That’s not an invitation?
depends on the kicking- are we talking a playful mock boot, or a full scale Doc Marten tattoo? You’re telling the story.
Yes, I am telling the story. I thought my statement that “there was no harm done” covered that. Maybe you should read before shooting your mouth off.
We might be dumb hillbillies here in the north-east, but “getting your arse kicked” in the local vernacular means you’ve had the shit beaten out of you. I had no idea the west was so colloqially different, or was it more some hyperbole to describe some inane street theatre for bored plebs on public transport?
What I want to know is, did the Lesbians pash afterwards?
Or during, and do you have video? Were they porno-style lesbians, or the boiler-suit discus thrower type?