Look Milton Keynes is in the news
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1278387/Milton-Keynes-hires-15-times-interpreters-decade-ago-cope-residents-84-mother-tongues.html

and it's spawned racist comments from Mail readers.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 25 May 2010, 11:50, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

Best comment is:
"WHY!!, tell them to learn our language at there expense, it's cheeper."
302 people didn't spot the irony.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 25 May 2010, 11:51, Reply)

marvellous stuff
"No speekie Engleesh, no gettee benefits. No gettee nothing.

This madness of providing everything for everybody must stop!"

I like the way they have put a list, with numbers, so that their stupid readers will go "my god! english is 28th on the list! that must mean that more people speak all those other languages!"
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 25 May 2010, 11:55, Reply)

"That's three hundred useful productive jobs wasted!"
I'm assuming that these interpreters actually want to do that job, and are appropriately skilled to do it.

maybe they should be made redundant and start working as plumbers
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 25 May 2010, 11:57, Reply)

Yeah and they've all totally ignored that it's cost neutral
and doesn't cost taxpayers anything.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 25 May 2010, 11:57, Reply)

PEDANT ALERT
Cost neutral to the council - billing the NHS and other public services still costs the taxpayer.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Tue 25 May 2010, 12:05, Reply)

do you just google Milton Keynes on a daily basis?

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 25 May 2010, 11:55, Reply)

I have a iGoogle news gadget, stories about Milton Keynes are one of the sections.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 25 May 2010, 11:58, Reply)

wow.

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 25 May 2010, 12:07, Reply)

don't pretend like you're not impressed.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 25 May 2010, 12:13, Reply)

"One day I'll find something to totally prove how exciting it is.
They'll all come move here. I'll have friends and everything!"
( djtrialprice, Tue 25 May 2010, 11:59, Reply)

Quite a nice photo in the article I thought.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 25 May 2010, 12:00, Reply)

A good friend of mine
is from MK and his dad was one of the town's planners. Consequently I'm well versed at taking the piss out of the place but also I've grudgingly accepted that it's not that bad really.
( djtrialprice, Tue 25 May 2010, 12:04, Reply)

I saw a really pretty old bit with a canal when I was on the train

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 25 May 2010, 12:06, Reply)

sounds like simpson

(PsychoChomp, Tue 25 May 2010, 12:17, Reply)

OJ?

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 25 May 2010, 12:17, Reply)

Jessica

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 25 May 2010, 13:19, Reply)

Like in apocalypse movies
where there's always one town that's supposedly untouched by the horror, and everyone who meets in the movie is trying to get there. That'll be Milton Keynes.

In his dreams.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 25 May 2010, 12:24, Reply)

Aw man, I would LOVE that.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 25 May 2010, 12:31, Reply)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3yOhPqYw44
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 25 May 2010, 12:31, Reply)

Got this link from ifyoulikeitsomuchwhydontyougolivethere.com
youropenbook.org/
As they suggest, do a search for "not racist but". I'd say it was depressing stuff if I hadn't already realised decades ago that most people are (a) bastards and (b) simpletons.
( djtrialprice, Tue 25 May 2010, 11:57, Reply)

"why is the movie "white men can't jump" not racist but when you try to make a movie called "black men can't swim" it is? "
haha
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 25 May 2010, 12:05, Reply)

hahaha
that made me officelol
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 25 May 2010, 12:09, Reply)

IM NOT RACIST - BUT WHT IS IT WITH ASIAN? U TALK TO THEM IN ENGLISH THEY LOOK AT U LIKE TUR AN ALIEN WITH HORNS, BUT AS SOON AS U MENTION THE WORD DIM SIMS OR FRIED RICE OR BOK CHOW THEY GET ALL HAPPY AND EXCITED. WTF PPL!!!!
(PsychoChomp, Tue 25 May 2010, 12:18, Reply)

most racist use of "I'm not racist" ever
Kelly Farrow is a bit weary got new neighbours gona b movin in im not racist but fockin africans r just as bad as the pakis lol
(PsychoChomp, Tue 25 May 2010, 12:21, Reply)

yeah I'm linking her real name so any prospective employers can find this with google.
lol jk, she hasn't got a job.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 25 May 2010, 12:23, Reply)

I love the words Bok Chow
what is it?
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 25 May 2010, 12:25, Reply)

I think he means Bok Choy
which is this urbanyhc.com/urbantalk/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/BokChoy.jpg
and lovely.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 25 May 2010, 12:26, Reply)

thanks
additional thanks for not linking me to 'letmegooglethatforyou'
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 25 May 2010, 12:34, Reply)

He's softening in his old age

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 25 May 2010, 12:35, Reply)

That would be more effort than just telling you.
My motivations were purely lazy
(PsychoChomp, Tue 25 May 2010, 12:38, Reply)

Pak Choi for stupid people?

(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Tue 25 May 2010, 12:29, Reply)

That's what confused me,
I've heard of, and cooked, pak choi, but not bok choy. I guess they're the same thing, or at least from the same family?
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 25 May 2010, 12:34, Reply)

they are the same thing
but no one can decide how to spell it

fwiw I go with pak choi
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 25 May 2010, 13:10, Reply)

I'm losing my will to live

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 25 May 2010, 12:31, Reply)