Racist grandparentsIt Came From Planet Aylia says: "My husband's mad Auntie Joan accused the man seven doors down of stealing her milk as he was the first black neighbour she had. She doesn't even get her milk delivered." Tell us about casual racism from oldies.
Thanks to Brayn Dedd who suggested this too
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 27 Oct 2011, 11:54)
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A righteous, right on, young, DrainoHad occasion to pull his grandfather up on the use of the word "spook" I told him "That is racist" to which he replied
"I aint racist, I just don't like black people"
(Which, as it turns out was true).
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Top Cat got pulled from the TV for a number of yearsbecause there was a character called Spook who just happened to sound like a harlem jazz hep-cat. They seemed to get away with using it in Back To The Future as well but as they were representing 50s America it was probably argued that they were just representing typical urban attitudes back then.
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Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Sat 29 Oct 2011, 12:32,
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Useless Trivia:In Amerkia, the BBC drama Spooks is renamed MI5 to avoid confusion/offence.
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Snappyuk gets BIGGER with free sample., Sat 29 Oct 2011, 13:10,
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Well, yes.But he's one of them benders.
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He should've maybe remembered his own words on the subjectWhen talking about the whole 'Jan Moir - Stephen Gately' shitstorm. Not that he wasn't within his rights to be offended by it, but still - it does kind of weaken the message. The massive hypocritical bumder
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this implies to me that the apparent remake of Rentaghost in the stateswill probably not incorporate the original theme music. From memory 'We've got freaks and ghouls, and spooks and fools...at Rentaghost'
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Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Sat 29 Oct 2011, 13:38,
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