I'm waiting for the McDonald's ad
It might actually have something to say
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After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Sat 22 Jan 2022, 20:59,
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What, like homogeneity and uniformity is best perhaps?
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Sat 22 Jan 2022, 21:08,
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We should all be the same
Except people that would prefer to know the latest McDonald's menu rather than that pregnant black women support Man City too, despite what you racist fucking scum proletariat may think.
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After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Sat 22 Jan 2022, 21:15,
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I thought it was a better painting than an ad for an already ubiquitous company.
You seem very angry that I mentioned it. A very particular form of anger as weĺl, interesting how very important putting others down is to you.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Sat 22 Jan 2022, 21:34,
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Working class people - very specifically - are bombarded with targeted messages assuming they are racist fucking scum. You get a 'you're racist' warning before BBC sport clips. Not so much news or arts... only sport. I'd much rather have an ad for fast food than a message from my superiors telling me what a terrible person I am.
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After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Sat 22 Jan 2022, 22:19,
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Working class people get bombarded with promotions for diets that lead to obesity and diabetes
Both of which are hugely significant problems for ordinary Britains
. I see platitudes about tolerance, however disingenuous and condescending, as probably the lesser of two evils. But I hate all adverting, particularly ads on the landscape like billboards that you can’t avoid. Many cities now have no billboard/outdoor advertising bans, ones you wouldn’t expect like São Paulo, and I’d advocate for none at all than argue about the content
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sat 22 Jan 2022, 22:46,
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^THIS
If they turned all the billboards to canvasses for arts/crafts, it would be a different atmosphere than the advertisers trying to out-shout or out-manipulate each other.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Sat 22 Jan 2022, 23:05,
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Cardiff has a few murals like this
They're not usually trying to make a point. This particular one is in Butetown, 'Tiger Bay', probably Wales' least white area that has been either demonised or ignored at various times as a result. People who live there seem to like the mural.
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If it brightens the place up and people are okay with it.
I'm uncomfortable with overtly political murals though.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Sun 23 Jan 2022, 0:31,
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The political murals in Yorkshire are the worst
Ayup the ‘RA
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sun 23 Jan 2022, 0:42,
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Those people who do their own home improvements.
The Provisional DIY
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Varmint, Sun 23 Jan 2022, 20:36,
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I don't think it's particularly political
People from Cardiff of different politics don't seem to have had a problem with it, but /links can find the politics in anything.
At worse it's probably a bit of an empty platitude. I think the local outrage also ties in with a broader feeling in Cardiff that anything a community likes, industrial heritage etc, inevitable gets steamrollered by developers.
Was the 'soulless' in your title accidental then? I thought maybe it was a pun on soul crew.
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No, purely, someone blanking out her image with yellow paint looked horrific.
It can be read as a govt sponsored PC diversity message or as a threat to the white working class culture of Britain!!! *cue flag waving, spitfires overhead, Elgar, etc*.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Sun 23 Jan 2022, 1:06,
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Yes, it is political propaganda aimed at football fans.
I don't see most of it because I don't follow Sport at all and watch YT rather than TV.
Her face looks well rendered*, they can paint over the rest.
*pun intended
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Sat 22 Jan 2022, 23:00,
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That assumption wouldn't have to be made if it weren't proven true so depressingly often.
I dunno about you, but a message of 'try not to be a bellend' doesn't particularly irk me. Mainly because I try not to be a racist bellend.
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I don't give a fuck, that's the thing.
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After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Sat 22 Jan 2022, 21:46,
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Well, as long as you weren't trying to score points off the misidentification of a sports shirt, then we're A-fucking OK.
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After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Sat 22 Jan 2022, 22:14,
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Context matters.
As does the context of the part of Cardiff the mural was in: Butetown. Possibly worth looking up before ranting about how it's aimed at denigrating white working class people.
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Bear in mind that he felt oppressed by some tiny words on a travel document he doesn't even own
Now that egregious wrong has been righted he's angry about a picture of a black woman on a wall in a city he's never even visited.
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Context matters.
Except the context that Butetown is 66% white working class. I feel rather stupid for even looking that up.
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After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Sun 23 Jan 2022, 8:34,
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Pretending to be bothered about the plight of the working classes
Whilst endlessly wanking off Jacob Rees Mogg on here. It just doesn't stack up does it?
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Says the voice of the people, Benito Vaselini.
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After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Sun 23 Jan 2022, 10:24,
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True, but you clearly know fuck all about the place, its history or how its residents feel.
And I imagine that demographic captures the wider area of 'Cardiff Bay', rather than the specific area around Bute Street that people deride as "you can't walk down the street there if you're white" (which is bullshit).
People in Butetown, black and white, seem to like the mural. They're not feeling 'dictated to', except when something they like is replaced by a fucking advert.
But you have taken it upon yourself to have a meltdown on their behalf because someone painted a picture of a black woman.
Hopefully if I tell you they recently built a statue of a black female headteacher from there, you'll have a heart attack.
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Tell me more about Butetown, I'm fucking fascinated
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After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Sun 23 Jan 2022, 10:53,
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Given your love of aristocratic land owners perhaps you'd be more interested in Bute himself
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great
you don't care about the context the mural was in, the city, club, or local sentiment.
That's fine. But maybe don't wade in with some anti-"woke agenda" culture war bollocks where it doesn't exist. There are plenty of genuinely better targets for that.
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Have you not got any more sweet Butetown material mate? I've been sitting here pressing refresh for hours
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After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Sun 23 Jan 2022, 14:53,
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