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Reporting offensive posts

Is there a way to report offensive posts on here?Sarah Vickers recent post is unacceptable, these kind of comments have no place on a community forum.

Phil Spivey ● 2075d27 Comments

I put her name in the Search box here - what is so offensive?  Maybe you're being very thin-skinned.My first employment in late 50ties was in a large commercial art studio - a whirling wonderful world of great creativity and talent - designers, artists, photographers from all classes and ages, toffs to cor'blimeys, and a mixture of sexes.  I can't now remember what if anything we this diverse collection was called, don't think we bothered in our Studios, they were people.  Straights? gays?  don't think those were used then, at most "queers" meaning different was about it.    All I remember is that outside the advertising/art/theatre/music world same-sex liasons had to be hidden away as it was illegal!  What a cruel, ignorant law!    Meanwhile what has got you so wound up that you feel you have been so offended?

Jennifer Selig ● 2075d

Maybe try reading her post under Saturday Night Takeaway.  It is highly offensive in my book.  Shame on her.

Janice Jones ● 2074d

I'm not sure what's the more ridiculous – posts born of banal ignorance or the irate yowls of those so easily offended?Why are some folk are so quick to take offence.  “Report her”!!  who to?  The Pillock Police?  And what's with this oft used forum line “In my book”.  What book's that?  The Art of Clipping a Suburban Hedge?  What's wrong with simply ignoring the Ignorant.Sarah Vickers clearly isn't worth the effort of being grossly offended.  Ignore the lass.  Repeat the famous Oscar Wilde quote a hundred times, take 3 pills and go for a rest:- “Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.”Same goes for the offended storm that brewed up against Brian Coyle the other day.  What do people expect from folk like Sarah and Brian?  Pearls of wisdom?Poor chap doesn't know the difference between a Homophobia and a Hydrangea...

Stuart Kerr ● 2074d

You can contact the Editor and ask for offensive posts to be removed and offenders to be banned.

Lucy Chambers ● 2074d

"Is there a way to report offensive posts on here?"Report them to info@neighbournet.com

Richard Jennings ● 2074d

Sarah Vickers has apologized. Can't we leave it there?

Colin Jordan ● 2074d

OK,can we have a ban button pleaseIve a list

Julian Pavey ● 2074d

We are all different creatures with personal likes and dislikes, who find many things that offend us in everyday life I imagine. This is a public Forum and we really should make allowances for those differences, and anyway no-one around here is backwards in coming forwards to say their piece, and get their objections off their chests.

Vanessa Smith ● 2074d

Totally agree with Stuart, just ignore and the fact Sarah apologies perhaps she was having a bad moment easy done, freedom of speech. Banning people says more about you!

Jayne Thorburn ● 2074d

Oh yes I see Janice - I remember reading that and thinking totally nasty and probably libellous remark - later saw she'd apologised.  Very definitely a bad day.  Not my cup of tea but Ant & Dec seem perfectly affable cheerful young chaps - seen them in the past enjoying a pint in the Station House Grove Park.

Jennifer Selig ● 2074d

Stuart Kerr" Repeat the famous Oscar Wilde quote a hundred times, take 3 pills and go for a rest:- “Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.”Rather more to the point in this instance surely is -if only Oscar Wilde had followed his own sage advice in repect of the Marquis of Queensbury !Regardless of anyone's finer feelings there "may"be material being posted on this forum which if actedupon by people with reputations to defend, could potentially lead to its closure.Whether it's that aspect which the OP is referring toI'm not sure.  michael adams...

Michael Adams ● 2074d

She did apologise, many get away with far worse.

Janice Evans ● 2074d

Janice Jones explained in respect of Sarah Vickers" Maybe try reading her post under Saturday Night Takeaway.  It is highly offensive in my book.  Shame on her."The original post on that thread from Jon Morris was as follows" Has Ant had few drinks Just  the Expressions on his face he seems to be in a bit of dazedOr is just me."That post clearly implies that Ant McParltin had been drinking.In 2018 Ant McPartlin pleaded guilty to drink driving,was banned for 20 months and was given the largest ever fine ever imposed for the offence.Can you please explain why you don't in any way find it  offensive for Jon Morris to suggest that Ant McPartlin is appearing on TV showing signs of drink ?  Whereas you do find it "highly offensive" and shamefulfor anyone to suggest that McPartlin may engage in an activity which is allegedly quite common in showbusiness circles, and has far fewer links with car crashes.Leaving the legal aspects aside why is the latter so shameful, and the former not ?michael adams...

Michael Adams ● 2074d

Bleedin' eck, you're on good form today Michael.Thoughtful post that and absolutely on the button re the original suggestion of boozeJust to say (can't remember where) but I was disappointed by your first effort this morning on some other thread.Bit of a sitting duck I thought.  And this genre you've created should avoid ducks of any description.  Starlings too, if they're sitting down.OK – enough fan mail..I'm off for a walk...

Stuart Kerr ● 2074d

An apology is worth everything . So many people find it difficult - but it's so good when someone does.

Helen Bamberger ● 2074d

Not like most of the Government who find it impossible .

Helen Bamberger ● 2074d

Phil the message is back off and move on

Jayne Thorburn ● 2074d

Napoleon Bonaparte reputedly said "In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake."In my experience following this advice only makes a bad situation worse. Of course when you retreat, retract or admit a mistake you will be excoriated but in the long run so what if you end up doing the right thing.

Cllr Sam Hearn ● 2074d

Perhaps you could speak to Matt Hancock.? Found guilty in the High Court of breaking the law. No apology . No resignation. No conscience.

Stewart Jones ● 2074d

Mr Stewart, you obviously didn't watch the Andrew Marr show on Sunday morning.He answered Marr's usual abrupt accusations with no little relish and shut the presenter up.Try to watch the programme on catch-up TV.

Denis I. Fox ● 2073d

"Leaving the legal aspects aside why is the latter so shameful, and the former not ?"For once, Michael, I agree with you. Jon Morris should have been asked to apologise just as much as Sarah Vickers was. What prompted him to start such a thread is beyond me.

Richard Greenhough ● 2073d

Matt Hancock has done an amazing job in unprecedented circumstances. His department worked 18 hrs days to source PPE the paperwork was 2 weeks late, not an issue given we are in a pandemic. This is politics, he is a decent chap, human no less......doing a massively difficult job that most people would not.

Jayne Thorburn ● 2073d

I have come to the conclusion that there are some people who post on this forum who will defend their political party of choice come what may. Hancock has stumbled from one sod-up to another. Yes, we were in a pandemic but that is no excuse for by passing the legal requirements for issuing contracts - are we supposed to believe that it was just a series of massive coincidences that nearly all the contracts went to mates of one minister or another? Plus not many of these companies that won the contracts actually had any experience or background in providing the equipment. I thought Andrew Marr skewered Hancock yesterday when he asked why, if the government and Mr. Hancock accepted that the judgement was right - they then went on and spent public money fighting it?I do wonder if the Tories suggested eating new born babies for Sunday dinner - how many of their supporters on here would find an excuse for them?

Vanessa Smith ● 2073d

Tomorrow, the Good Law Project (that I am pleased to support) has a hearing about cost capping. The government is deploying 4 barristers and 8 lawyers in a none too subtle attempt to intimidate them.

Carl Wynne ● 2073d

Stuart, starlings, as you should know, do not sit down, and  ducks only quack. Fan mail? Why write to yourself? Narcissism perhaps?  Don't walk too far.

Brian Coyle ● 2073d

Vanessa given the circumstances I would prefer civil servants spent their hours getting the job done to save lives rather than complete paperwork by a specific date. They have all done their best competing alongside the rest of the world doing the same. You only have to look at the EU procurement process for vaccines which is bogged down in process and paperwork. Vanessa you do the job and watch us all attack, just shocking behaviour!

Jayne Thorburn ● 2073d

If Hancock knew he was breaking the law because his dept was under pressure, then he should have stated it when he missed his statutory deadline. It hasn’t stopped his dept from publishing a huge NHS reform in the middle of the pandemic and there must have been plenty of people working on that. At the very least, he is unable to ensure that his dept complies with the law. It is a failure. I understand that no one resigns these days from the government but people still recognise failure even if ministers are unable to acknowledge it.

Stewart Jones ● 2073d