First impressions
So earlier today I'm walking up the Balmoral Road in Gillingham with my brother and some friends. I'm unshaven (through laziness), wearing a baseball cap (because it's sunny and the Sox won last night), a leather bike jacket (I'd ridden part of the way) and a football shirt (we were off to see the Gills play). As I'm walking along I bump into a darker skinned gentleman wearing a Turban who is with some similar company.

Everyone freezes. The few Gills fans behind me tense up, perhaps expecting trouble and Phil told me afterwards that this chap's group were similarly worried. I look at this fella. He looks at me.

"Sorry, sir, have a good Easter" he says to me.

"Thank you," I reply, "I hope you all have a nice weekend" and we go our merry way.

A few paces down the road the comments start up about Muslims et al (yes, I know. They're Gillingham fans, it generally doesn't equal intelligence) until Phil points out that they were probably just as scared of the motorbike riding football hooligans.

"But we're harmless!"

"But we're stereotyped. Stop labelling people and they might stop doing it to you."

(Postscript - we won 3-0, and Rene Howe *finally* scored his first goal for us.)
(jamesthegill opens new tabs with his scroll wheel, Mon 5 Apr 2010, 20:30, 8 replies)

Weren't they Sikhs if they had turbans?

(MSB Load universe into cannon. Aim at brain. Fire., Mon 5 Apr 2010, 20:42, closed)

I was thinking that.

( Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Mon 5 Apr 2010, 20:46, closed)

If you read the brackets after "muslims"
I think he knows that too.
( Greenbat, Mon 5 Apr 2010, 21:08, closed)

I know.
It wasn't intended as pendantry.
I just thought "that's sikhs, isn't it?", as the chap above me did...
( Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Mon 5 Apr 2010, 22:23, closed)

Loads of people wear turbans
not just Sikhs.

I prefer a Fez myself but that's cos I'm a contrary cunt.
(Wagane, Mon 5 Apr 2010, 23:39, closed)

I think this explains it
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cVqA8qBOlQ
( Tedium Alduce me to interlow myself., Tue 6 Apr 2010, 1:17, closed)

Well,
he might just have fallen over and hurt his head...
(robbersdog, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 10:14, closed)

Go Gills!
Jackooooo! :D
(I Am Plague @Mistication92, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 1:22, closed)