I live in England.
I just went outside with a tiny amount of eyeliner, no foundation, no lipstick and my hair up. A roadman in a balaclava rode his scooter past me and said "gorgeous"
I live in England
Are roadmen exclusively black, or?
wtf is a roadman? A guy who builds roads?
Predominantly. You do get Asian or white guys that are on road. It effectively means bad boy or drug dealer, a thug type person lol.
Yes the guy who complimented was black. I unzipped my coat and screamed into it, I was very happy
Last week I was walking home from the psychiatrist and I think I looked mental (not cut hair or shaved for three months, had visible fresh cuts on my arm), and two black men were walking in my direction, and I got a rush of adrenaline and my knees were weak and my heart was racing and I was ready to fight in case they attacked me but they just said "alright, mate". Sometimes black people are a-okay.
a roadman is a man on road init
Lowest rung in the bong social caste
No, that's us! Lol. But yeah they're not associated with middle class behaviour, more underclass
Hell ye, just try not to get fucked up (the bad way)
Ahhhh bad boys are no good though but I felt so happy lol
Ahhhh I'm sorry anon, I hope things getting better, I'm self harming a lot too, not handling life well but I went for a walk and then felt a bit better after that compliment. I'll remember that for years.
I'm glad they said hello to you and nothing bad happened
picrel
I feel like black people catch a lot of the minority hate thats more deserved to be at muslims, and also the racism we've inherited from America, but I imagine them seeing how you describe yourself, no one's gonna fuck with you if you look like a nutjob
I hope you get better tho
Its complex, race relations in the UK have always been fraught, I remember the race wars in 2005, blacks and asians were fighting and there were police stationed everywhere. No good, scary times.
yeah I feel like I don't know shit about actual racism in this country, cos I'm in Scotland looking into England and the only minorities are delivery drivers
but I was 5 in 2005 and the main target for propaganda since has been muslims, it's something that kinda fascinates me tho
Lol that comic.
My city is about 60% Muslim. I have to be honest, I've had bad experiences with every race, and I've had every race try to sleep with me.
I think people are very complex and one size fits all definitely doesn't apply. But in an outsider and there is definitely an apartheid sense to where I live, this is a black area, this is a white area, this is an asian area, and people know not to wander into them if they don't belong.
I belong to no group, so it's different for me, not really accepted anywhere, but I have been called beautiful by a Muslim man in an area where every house had a Palestine flag lol. Englands biggest issue is and always will be class though
Sleepy time, feel happy thanks for letting me share my happy moment with you all
Lol that comic.
:D
Englands biggest issue is and always will be class though
yeah I say this to my English bf a lot, that the Racism can wait till after we sort the hierarchy issues in this country, but it's kinda depressing watching so many stories be pushed, and the general sentiment lean towards reform which is more an actual concern for me
but I have no experience with these people outside of headlines, thanks for sharing <3
that the Racism can wait till after we sort the hierarchy issues in this country
And that's where you will fail, to be honest.
Class and money will always be too important on an island to give up easily.
In the meantime, you are just dividing everyone
you’re less likely to get clocked from someone of a different race and poc guys love pale feminine skin
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what do you even mean, or did you not understand a word past that??
I grew up post 9/11 western media push for islamaphobia, it's is the most baked in thing that media has ever pushed I am gen z, this is the current norm, it is still being pushed to this day, every day
I don't do anything to other people cos I'm a fucking tranny, I know my place as a freak to the average baz, but the rhetoric of the entire country feels anti muslim cos of the rellentless onslaught of shitty news pieces about them, and valid complaints and plain racism get the same immediate negative response from the left when these people giving the response to these articles and stories are getting more deprived and desperate, so they're just lashing out
if any sentiment is shut down as racist and not discussed people get pushed to reform, and we all suffer
if everyone in this country was a whole lot wealthier, no one would care what religion people where, but we live in the world where everyone is poor and it's being blamed on the browns
I grew up in a city with lots of muslims but few blacks, and then moved to a city with lots of both. I find muslims are less likely to randomly be pricks on the street. Blacks in my experience are loud and prone to ill manners and insulting strangers to look cool. Muslims are mostly a non-issue as they're too busy grooming white teenage girls to fuck with a random white guy in his thirties.
Not sure if it's different in those areas of Birmingham for example where it's 80% muslim and they have sharia vigilantes.
I grew up post 9/11
That's the issue there.
You have little to compare.
I'll explain what I mean as you didn't seem to grasp it well enough.
"Several U.S. states are larger than the United Kingdom. Ten states, in particular, exceed the UK's land area: Alaska, Texas, California, Montana, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, Wyoming, and Oregon.
These states, from largest to smallest, are significantly bigger than the UK, with Alaska being the largest and Oregon the smallest of these ten."
"The United Kingdom (UK) has a significantly higher population density than the United States (US), with the UK having approximately 287 people per square kilometer (745 people per square mile) compared to the US's 86.16 people per square mile (33.27 people per square kilometer).
This means the UK is about 8.6 times more densely populated than the US."
Wealth, directly linked to class, generally depends on resources.
The UK has much less opportunity to gather resources.
Let's take a house, for example.
A crappy 1 bedroom flat within the M25 circle could cost up to around £250,000 and, as the UK imports more welfare immigrants, that number will only go up.
Unbeknownst to some, it seems, the truth is that you can't just "grow more island space".
Land is finite, opportunity to build on a finite amount of space is... restricted.
What you CAN do, is stop listening to the media telling you that everyone else is out to get you, and that you should be out to get everyone else.
If that happens, and everyone bands together and picks 2 or 3 topics of interest that ARE potentially in their control and raises them as a collective to the wolves in Parliament, they are more likely to have to listen.
Chasing class/wealth is literally a pipe dream in the meantime.
It means bottom rung street thug
You wouldn't refer to a white Liverpool gangster as a roadman he's just a gangster
aww :) road gentleman sounds so cute
I like this doggy
I'm falling for bait aren't I??
you're not adressing my points, just telling me shit I already know
if everyone in this country was a whole lot wealthier, no one would care what religion people where, but we live in the world where everyone is poor and it's being blamed on the browns
till after we sort the hierarchy issues in this country
I know this shit, that doesn't change 2 and a half decades of propoganda, and I'm certainly not voting for any anti immigrant shit, cos my mums one, but the average brit has these worries, cis people I talk to have brought up how scary this shit is
just bury your head in the sand and hope the propaganda goes away
fukin brilliant
Muslims are mostly a non-issue as they're too busy grooming white teenage girls to fuck with a random white guy in his thirties.
lel
I'm curious, if you're a dude in his thirties how are you here, what flavour of gay are you and has that impacted how they see you?
Been on Anon Babble since 2007. Anon Babble, Anon Babble, and Anon Babble were my haunts over the years, but now I'm more of an Anon Babble and Anon Babble guy (both have funny memes and shitposting, Anon Babble has cute trans girls like Olive).
I'm cis bi - mostly attracted to women and cute MtF passoids, though when I was in my early 20s I met a 70 year old dude on Recon for BDSM and didn't like it. So it's bi but more straight leaning.
I did once get spat on and called a faggot by a fat muslim teen when I was about 15. I think because I was wearing a brightly coloured asymmetrical Topman hoodie (this was sort of Skins era fashion) and shoulder length blonde hair, so I probably looked a bit zesty.
I've dated bad boys, plenty of white boys can be described as roadman lol. Also gangster refers to a broad category. It implies a slightly more sophisticated form of thuggery but it's too broad, since it can apply to both footsoldiers and kingpins.
You'd be surprised how many thugs love trans women lol. I wouldn't date one now because it's no good when they go to prison, end up heartbroken.
Oh you know what I'm gonna message my ex and see how he is
He's cute, he is disabled but still trying his best
He blocked me
:(
It’s over
why is he on a giant CRETURE
He is riding it into battle
Britain is doomed
Got a source? I don't trust twitter 1%
You can just google stuff. Britain is dead, there’s no hope. The empire has fallen
Sparkhill is such a shithole. The foodbank there discriminated against me
How come?
Gave everyone else 2 full bags of food but they only gave me one. Hate how people treat me
Also this is old news, all areas of Birmingham are defacto apartheid. Asians can't go to Weoley Castle.