Rather unsurprisingly, 92 per cent of the readers of this 'blog associate Islam with extremism and repression of women, which is a much higher figure than the percentage considered newsworthy by the BBC yesterday.
Thanks to everybody who took part. I've nothing to add, apart from pointing out that this poll was marginally more interesting than asking "Do you associate water with wetness?"
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I accept that I sometimes ask leading questions or forget to include an obvious answer in my Fun Online Polls, which is why I usually include an option for 'other' or 'none of the above'. The Guardian does not appear to credit its readers with any such imagination and/or is guilty of presenting a Hobson's Choice with this one.
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OK, time for your World Cup predictions:
How many violent deaths will be directly linked to the football World Cup in South Africa?
0
1 - 10
11 - 100
More than 100
Other
Vote here or use the widget in the sidebar.
UPDATE: how do we define 'linked'? TBH, everybody will have their own definition; fans crushed in stadium = linked; wife of football fan kicked to death by giraffe = questionable. Before you cast your vote I recommend you read Anon's comment as to how things are on the ground down there.
UPDATE 2: and read TDK's comment.
Dear Barclays
1 hour ago
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I hadn't thought of that, but as a Premiership murder location, South Africa could get quite interesting. Even if I was a football fan, I wouldn't go there!
It rather depends who is doing the linking. If the links are like the "links" between passive smoking and cancer, for instance, then I'd guess about 100% of all deaths that occur during the World Cup.
'How many violent deaths will be directly linked to the football World Cup in South Africa?'
Linked by whom? UK media?
If so, any deaths that occur anywhere in SA for the duration of the World Cup, ESPECIALLY if UK sourced scrotes are involved.
With a bit of luck several will involve lions, elephants, giraffe, hyenas and similar inhabitants of the savannah with world ranked scrotitude.
Violent deaths ?
100 +
Loads of em.
Iv'e been there .
People getting shot dead in bars and restaurants is not uncommon.
People getting shot dead in car jacking and burglary is not uncommon.
An observation of security there.
How to fill up a cash machine in a shopping mall in SA.
1.Drive up in an armoured personell carrier.
2.Deploy at least three guards with machine guns.
3.The fourth guard walks through the middle and loads the machine.then walks back into the armoured personell carrier.
The other three guards then cover their retreat.
Example.
Go to a restaurant in a city there.
Press the bell then the waiter shows you the way in then closes a huge iron gate behind you .
Example.
Supermarket security guards are all armed too.
GOBSMACKING.
Gobsmacking?
Sounds fairly laid back compared to many parts further north.
MW, I'd say it will be fairly self evident whether it is World Cup related, at least for your refined and discerning readership here, if not for the UK media.
To add to anon's comment. Let me furnish a typical example:
You see lots of minibuses - these are called taxis but work more like buses albeit with a slightly flexible route. Different routes belong to different companies. If one company moves its taxis into another's territory then a gun fight will break at the interchange (bus station). About half a dozen died in such an incident while I was staying in Sandton and they recur periodically.
In general, white people do not travel on these taxis, and you wouldn't hail a cab in the street.
To be fair the violence of Johanesburg contrasts with the relative relaxation of elsewhere (eg Pretoria).
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