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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#2921 Post by AtomKraft » Mon Apr 12, 2021 2:48 pm

People are racist. It's the normal condition.

My wife is Indian. She doesn't want to be called 'BAME', because it's a group that includes black people.

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#2922 Post by Pontius Navigator » Mon Apr 12, 2021 2:52 pm

AK, +1. Mrs PN has said that all along. Even in Kenya many years ago I was amazed at the 'racism' although it might have been tribal or even class - and that between hotel reception and Bell Boys.

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#2923 Post by Boac » Mon Apr 12, 2021 3:00 pm

I gather NO-ONE now wants to be called 'BAME' - it's so passé, darling.

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#2924 Post by G-CPTN » Mon Apr 12, 2021 3:05 pm

When did negroes cease to exist?

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#2925 Post by Pontius Navigator » Mon Apr 12, 2021 3:10 pm

How about British, Overseas and Colonials?

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#2926 Post by ian16th » Mon Apr 12, 2021 3:37 pm

Pontius Navigator wrote:
Mon Apr 12, 2021 3:10 pm
How about British, Overseas and Colonials?
When my money was in Barclays Dominion, Colonial and Overseas, it was a better bank than Barclays International.

And I got a higher rate of interest on my savings. o:-)
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#2927 Post by OFSO » Mon Apr 12, 2021 3:50 pm

As men can now claim to be women and the reverse and change their registered sex on documents very cheaply, I was wondering whether I could change from Caucasian to Black. I'd like to be a better guitar blues player and have whiter teeth, and - ahem - a certain other physical attribute. I already like fried chicken and watermelon. And then My Life Would Matter and I could kiss Tracey Emin. (Not sure about that last..)

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#2928 Post by Pontius Navigator » Mon Apr 12, 2021 4:10 pm

OFSO, big tits?

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#2929 Post by Boac » Mon Apr 12, 2021 4:12 pm

I think he only wanted to be black?

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#2930 Post by Pontius Navigator » Mon Apr 12, 2021 4:15 pm

So?

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#2931 Post by OFSO » Mon Apr 12, 2021 4:34 pm

No, don't want to be jumped on by Capt. Slasher one dark night.

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#2932 Post by Pontius Navigator » Mon Apr 12, 2021 4:39 pm

Provided you didn't smile he wouldn't find you

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#2933 Post by 4mastacker » Mon Apr 12, 2021 4:59 pm

FD2 wrote:
Mon Apr 12, 2021 5:52 am
'Woke' pongos may need safe spaces if they hear these trigger words. :))

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... fence.html

'Don't call each other lads': Soldiers are told to be more inclusive and avoid using words such as 'mankind' and 'sportsmanship' over fears they could cause offence

I thought April Fool's Day had been and gone.
Some female RAF Warrant Officer, filling a non-job at Ramstein (Command Senior Enlisted Leader at NATO AIRCOM, RAF Diversity Ally & Gender Advisor) and with nothing better to do, kicked off about the use of the word 'Guys' when addressing a group of people. Must have worked for her because she featured in the NYHL.
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#2934 Post by Pontius Navigator » Mon Apr 12, 2021 5:17 pm

My daughter, RAF Aux Regt rtd, gets my pip when she refers to pater and mater as 'you guys'.

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#2935 Post by FD2 » Mon Apr 12, 2021 8:01 pm

I had a day dream vision of a future combat scene where the Russians, with huge megaphones' shout "Come on out and fight - call yourselves fighting MEN and women?!" All the snowflakes are triggered, drop their weapons and run to their safe spaces.

Can this woke PC stupidity continue forever? Will the whole male world become an emasculated blob of fawning pro-feminist poodle fakers? For those wondering: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dicti ... odle-faker

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#2936 Post by Boac » Mon Apr 12, 2021 8:15 pm

"Newly-commissioned officer who makes a point of.........." Good god - I must have been one. =))

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#2937 Post by FD2 » Mon Apr 12, 2021 8:30 pm

Meanwhile the pubs are open and some are really keen to enjoy the nice atmosphere and someone else's cooking:

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#2938 Post by FD2 » Mon Apr 12, 2021 8:33 pm

Boac - depends on the desirability of the object in sight. Sometimes it really was a case of woof, woof, woof!

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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#2939 Post by AtomKraft » Mon Apr 12, 2021 8:58 pm

Another thing.
I'm fed up hearing, for example, a guy being described as a black author.

You're an author dude. Nobody gives a flying f whether you are black.

You write- it's either good or bad.

Also, I don't want to be informed of your skin colour, at the same time I learn you are an author.

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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#2940 Post by FD2 » Mon Apr 12, 2021 9:35 pm

Maybe the 'black' part is to warn critics that if they say the book is rubbish, they'll be labelled as racists and subject to Twatter storms and damnation.

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