Clive wrote to uk.transport.london on Mon, 4 Jul 2005:

In message , Mrs
Redboots writes
It was not I who referred to young mothers on buses as "chav
slappers", yet I notice you don't accuse the person who *did* of bias
and narrowness of mind.
Maybe it's because I based my ideas from one of experience as a bus
driver, whereas you have made a decision just based on an accent.

Do feel free to point out in what respect any such decision was
derogatory? This is what I am objecting to, the fact that you seem to
think that merely because I note a difference between people, as it
might be their gender or their skin tone or whether they are wearing a
T-shirt or a jacket, you seem to think that I think that one is better
than another. Well, I have news for you: I don't.

Violence in the home goes on at all levels of society, although I suspect
you to say "not in middle class families though, they are far to polite for
that sort of thing".

Whyever would I say that? I am well aware of the fact that domestic
violence goes on at all levels of society.

In any event, what has violence got to do with it? Unless I have quite
misunderstood, surely the word "slapper" refers to prostitution, not
violence?
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"Mrs Redboots"
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