What also gets my goat.
Nicer ones this time.
Now, I'm not a racist or anything, but why do black people get their own music, which we are segregated from? Theres the MOBO awards (Music Of Black Origin), Radio 1Xtra (advertised as "1Xtra, the home of new black music")? Theres not an awards ceremony for white music, or openly titled as, and we don't have a national radio station purely devoted to white music. Just asking, thats all.
Oh, and on the roads:
-People who leave their fog lights on, or put them on when its raining, reducing my visibilty to just them. Thanks, felcher.
-The middle lane owners club, who will not move over, even if its totally clear.
-previously mentioned, but reps who like to be on your back bumper when you are in the fast lane. I just brake test them, and then pull over and laugh as they pass spewing a tirade, and red-faced.
-people who sit in the queue for a petrol station, as theres no pump free on their filling cap side. So theres a big queue, but what they cannot fathom is that the pump can reach BOTH sides of a car. Many a time I have got round them, and been shouted at. I just get out of the car and ask them (politely) what their problem is, and explain that the pump reaches both sides- watch me, I'll demonstrate.
-People who park in disabled spaces that aren't. The worst are the ones who do this, and when you say something, say "my Mrs has just popped in to get some fags", thats ok then, is it? Just block the parking of someone who might actually have problems with mobility. And then theres the ones who put their badge on, then hop & skip out of the car. Grrrrrrr.
-people who try to block your lane when it goes down to one lane in about 800 metres, there are 2 lanes there for a reason, chuffhunter. I once saw someone try to block an unmarked police car, needless to say, he was pulled over pronto & given a ticket.
I have more....
Apologies for length, but it doesn't come out very much.
( Duke Of Belmsford has got 99 records, but Jay-Z ain't one, Wed 7 May 2008, 7:14, 7 replies)

I heard a quote once
"anything before the but is rubbish". ;) I think there's no white music awards because there's no real way to define what white music is - rap, R&B and similar IS for the most park black music - so what, morris dancing tunes? Inoffensive pop records? Of course there's exceptions, Eminem springing to mind, but find me a 'white' genre.
( Bats, Wed 7 May 2008, 7:37, closed)

BatDyke
I don't think there's any real way to define what black music is either - I've never listened to 1Xtra, but I'm going to make the massive assumption that they don't play a lot of Diana Ross and the Supremes, Chuck Berry, Barry White, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, reggae or gospel music...

(although I could me wrong)
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Wed 7 May 2008, 8:20, closed)

MOBO
Yes, it's difficult to define a white genre, but the question has to be asked - why bother with MOBO at all? Much of the music in the charts today is 'black' music, if you want to use that term. It's mainstream. We all listen to it every day. It's not a niche market, so why bother singling it out?
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Wed 7 May 2008, 8:21, closed)

PRETTY MUCH ALL POPULAR MUSIC IS OF BLACK ORIGIN
I suppose folk music isn't, but that's all I can think of.




The end.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 7 May 2008, 8:44, closed)

K2k6
That was going to be my point.
I dislike the manner in which we are battered with the message "we're all the same", which is true with regards to skin colour rather than culture, but I don't see the need to label differences even if they're positive.
Music of Blonde Origin, Music of Ginger Origin?
Perhaps that's too far...
(tweebianmonkey Should be known as Widget, Wed 7 May 2008, 10:16, closed)

Surely
any country music station is a station dedicated entirely to white music. And pretty much all Classic Rock (apart from Thin Lizzy, and Phil was of mixed race)
(Bazongaloid, Wed 7 May 2008, 10:31, closed)

MOBO
I agree with this actually. If we're all supposed to be integrated (and I think that for the most part we are) then why bother singling things out?

Positive discrimination really annoys me.
( commiegirl21 Can't think of anything witty on..., Wed 7 May 2008, 10:42, closed)