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๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ Social ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ Gibberings ver. CCXIX - "what's new, c*nty chops?"

Sincerely considering picking up a pair of Crocs. They're ยฃ30 quid and seem like they'd been good for work. I'm looking at the cloggy kind not the ones filled with holes.

I'd like some DMs but they're expensive and it would be a shame to ruin them by showering them kitchen detritus day in day out.
 
Shinji Ikari said:
Sincerely considering picking up a pair of Crocs. They're ยฃ30 quid and seem like they'd been good for work. I'm looking at the cloggy kind not the ones filled with holes.

I'd like some DMs but they're expensive and it would be a shame to ruin them by showering them kitchen detritus day in day out.
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I despise Crocs but I suspect I'd wear them indoors and love them secretly.

I've always wanted a good old Lancashire style clog. This guy's work is unbelievable.
 
I remember in kindergarten when I was there, we got one black boy over and they was considered a bit freak. I did too. Immigration got more common over here at some point, but back then there was era where blacks, for example, were, best said, rare.
 
Pissed_and_messed said:
I remember in kindergarten when I was there, we got one black boy over and they was considered a bit freak. I did too. Immigration got more common over here at some point, but back then there was era where blacks, for example, were, best said, rare.
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My father was born in the early forties in the (very) south of Ireland.

One day he ran home from the docks to tell his father he'd seen a 'darkie'. My granddad's reply was "Oh, he'll be one of those from the university".

Probably one of few examples of 'positive' stereotyping in that era.
 
My grandparents spoke about โ€œdarkiesโ€ and โ€œgolliwogsโ€ all the time. I consider it granny racism though as I honestly donโ€™t think they were being hateful so much as just using outdated language.

Some of the - entirely mainstream - British TV shows were using similar language, heavily utilising racial stereotypes, even actual blackface well into the 2000s :\
 
Shambles said:
My grandparents spoke about โ€œdarkiesโ€ and โ€œgolliwogsโ€ all the time. I consider it granny racism though as I honestly donโ€™t think they were being hateful so much as just using outdated language.

Some of the - entirely mainstream - British TV shows were using similar language, heavily utilising racial stereotypes, even actual blackface well into the 2000s :\
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Oh I know. But at least that is >relatively< oldโ€ฆ ish.

Canโ€™t recall the name of the channel but I posted it in the YouTube thread - fella posts vids on British TV exposing extreme racism right up until at least the 2000s as I mentioned above.

This country has a deeply glossed over history - recent and even current - of racism so extreme it would make America jealous.

My partner is American and is consistently gobsmacked at how jaw-droppingly racist British TV - which, obviously, reflects wider British culture - was until very, very recently.

This country needs to take a very long and very hard look at itself in the mirror imo.
 
Haven't watched much TV in a couple of decades, but things like David Baddiel blacking up as Jason Lee - and putting a pineapple on his head - come to mind.

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Poor guy then had to endure chants of "He's got a pineapple on his head" to the tune of "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands" for most of his career. It took Baddiel until 2022 to apologise.

Monkey chants were still alive and well when I stopped going to football regularly in the nineties. They've thankfully died down, but they were directed at the team's own players sometimes as well as the opposition. And the tabloids used to constantly insinuate that John Barnes didn't make a sufficient effort for the English football team because he was black and was born in Jamaica.

I made the mistake of accepting a free ticket for an England match (friendly vs Japan, 2004) and a large section of the England crowd was singing provocative songs - not even watching the match - to a row of police who no doubt had better things to be doing.

Although we did get people calling it out. RIP Graham Taylor.

 
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The thing about British humour is that it takes the piss out of anyone who acts or looks like a dick.

I've no idea who Jason Lee is, but it does look like he's got a pineapple on his head.

Fair game imo... ๐Ÿ˜ƒ
 
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Don't you think the blacking up was going a bit far? And obviously pineapples are a bit 'black'?*

Jason Lee played at the elite level, but was a bit 'shit' by many people's standards. So many of Baddiel's jokes were about that. But still, it was just a bit off, even for the time. British Jewish guy impersonating a black British guy.

*I've never known a self-identifying white pineapple.
 
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