Things That are Racist

[whelk]

As for all this racist abuse of players on social media. Assuming it is actual people why don’t Sky, BBC etc just expose the people who have posted - might not be easy in all cases but sure some of these twats are quite easy to track down.

[trousers]

19 minutes ago, whelk said:

As for all this racist abuse of players on social media. Assuming it is actual people why don’t Sky, BBC etc just expose the people who have posted - might not be easy in all cases but sure some of these twats are quite easy to track down.

Agreed, but the bit in bold is the key. Wouldn't surprise me if it was some kind of 'disrupter bots' (or whatever the correct descriptor is for this kinda thing)...

[Gloucester Saint]

33 minutes ago, pingpong said:

Yeah she got that wrong, she seems the type who should advocate for intersectionality and so be a bit more educated about disability.  

So should Badenoch who is demanding an apology. You first Kemi….https://www.autism.org.uk/what-we-do/news/the-national-autistic-society-has-responded-to-kem and https://www.forbes.com/sites/drnancydoyle/2024/10/15/kemi-badenoch-accidentally-describes-the-social-model-of-disability/

[Gloucester Saint]

6 minutes ago, trousers said:

Agreed, but the bit in bold is the key. Wouldn't surprise me if it was some kind of 'disrupter bots' (or whatever the correct descriptor is for this kinda thing)...

I suspect most are bots although there was an estate agent from Savils who was caught sending them and various un-tech savvy late teens and early 20s.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

48 minutes ago, trousers said:

John Davidson is definitely racist though... 

🤦🏻

 

I'd just like to say, I've never bought a Bombastic Caucacity album, nor even heard any of their music, despite their chart success.

[Weston Super Saint]

1 hour ago, Holmes_and_Watson said:

I'd just like to say, I've never bought a Bombastic Caucacity album, nor even heard any of their music, despite their chart success.

It's better on vinyl for sure.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

16 minutes ago, Weston Super Saint said:

It's better on vinyl for sure.

I heard that Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu was very upset upon hearing about Bombastic Caucasity's limited white vinyl edition.

[ChrisPY]

2 hours ago, Holmes_and_Watson said:

I'd just like to say, I've never bought a Bombastic Caucacity album, nor even heard any of their music, despite their chart success.

I thought it WAS an album.

One of Vanilla Ice’s finest.

[whelk]

The amount of sanctimony on Sunday Supplement about Leeds fans booing the Ramadan break. I suspect a number maybe racists but some might just be annoyed at stoppage when only short-time to half time and can have a drink. If the PL was really concerned maybe move all games to evening time after sunset to respect the fast? 

[Lord Duckhunter]

Looks like Bank Notes are becoming more inclusive. The BoE had some consultation and the recommendation is animals. They are a "safe" move that avoids long-standing debates and potential backlashes over the diversity (or lack thereof) of the historical figures selected for the notes. I think a pony would be particularly fitting. 

[benjii]

33 minutes ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

Looks like Bank Notes are becoming more inclusive. The BoE had some consultation and the recommendation is animals. They are a "safe" move that avoids long-standing debates and potential backlashes over the diversity (or lack thereof) of the historical figures selected for the notes. I think a pony would be particularly fitting. 

Pony and monkey. Beaver on the £5? [Beaver = muff. "Muff diver" > "fiver"].

[Gloucester Saint]

Old people in Halifax https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/yorkshire-racist-assault-fyona-michael-bairstow-b2936368.html

[whelk]

1 hour ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Old people in Halifax https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/yorkshire-racist-assault-fyona-michael-bairstow-b2936368.html

Talking of Yorkshire racists. Some Lee Anderson lookalike that was a Reform candidate, sacked for calling blacks savages,  is handcuffed to a black youth worker from London. Painful but maybe he might be enlightened 

[Holmes_and_Watson]

1 hour ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Old people in Halifax https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/yorkshire-racist-assault-fyona-michael-bairstow-b2936368.html

Don't forget to respect your elders. For example, you can respect the height they reach when catapulted. 🙂

[Gloucester Saint]

Scousers https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ceqwxypz5gvo

[Gloucester Saint]

On 23/03/2026 at 20:55, Gloucester Saint said:

Scousers https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ceqwxypz5gvo

And again, the Evertonian variety. Semenyo was abused by the red half in August when still a Bournemouth player 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cedpnxqwg29o

[Baird of the land]

This apparent fantasist professor story does make me smile.

[Gloucester Saint]

1 hour ago, Baird of the land said:

This apparent fantasist professor story does make me smile.

He’s been caught out very publicly and as Saints found out last season, cheating has serious consequences. Empathy with his colleagues who have been caught up in this mess and some of whom seemingly suspected he was not what was claimed. Cambridge University leadership have further questions to answer. 

The positive is that Jack Grove, the journalist who investigated, brought the fraud to light, has been exonerated and it was very wrong that he was ever reported to the police https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/i-was-reported-police-over-arday-case-i-was-just-doing-my-job

Nathan Confas is still vile though, blogging in 2024 that if Harvard was a true meritocracy, there would be no black Professors. Ghent are welcome to him. Now he IS racist. 

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[Baird of the land]

37 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

He’s been caught out very publicly and as Saints found out last season, cheating has serious consequences.

Nathan Confas is still vile though, blogging that if Harvard was a true meritocracy, there would be no black Professors. 

Where's Saints £1.4M book deal. 

Sadly other people, not him will face the effects of the lack of any rigour from the institutions.

[Gloucester Saint]

15 minutes ago, Baird of the land said:

Sadly other people, not him will face the effects of the lack of any rigour from the institutions.

On this agree, and yes, I don’t have any sympathy with him personally. Claiming others work and profiting from it is low grade behaviour and conduct. 

[Holmes_and_Watson]

6 hours ago, Baird of the land said:

Where's Saints £1.4M book deal. 

Sadly other people, not him will face the effects of the lack of any rigour from the institutions.

On this agree, and yes, I don’t have any sympathy with him personally. Claiming others work and profiting from it is low grade behaviour and conduct.  

[AlexLaw76]

9 hours ago, Gloucester Saint said:

On this agree, and yes, I don’t have any sympathy with him personally. Claiming others work and profiting from it is low grade behaviour and conduct. 

of course, when it was first suggested in public something was off with this bloke, the usual suspects - James O'Brien and the like - all circled the wagons and called anyone who dared question him a racist. 

Strangely, I do not believe this was covered that much on his show on LBC yesterday.

[Gloucester Saint]

1 hour ago, AlexLaw76 said:

of course, when it was first suggested in public something was off with this bloke, the usual suspects - James O'Brien and the like - all circled the wagons and called anyone who dared question him a racist. 

Strangely, I do not believe this was covered that much on his show on LBC yesterday.

I think the media environment has become far too American and partisan - O’Brien is part of that issue as well - where genuine investigative journalism gets mixed up and misdiagnosed as the type of brown-nosing client journalism we see from the likes of the Mail and Guardian for political customers/donors.

With this case, Jack Grove’s excellent work was written off in some quarters as a political hit job because THES and the Times Group is Murdoch owned. Whereas actually they are showing their independence as Farage has found out as his network of criminals funding him are being exposed by the Times. 

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[AlexLaw76]

He apparently has beaten both Cancer and Locked in syndrome

 

is there anything he can’t do?

[Weston Super Saint]

23 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

He apparently has beaten both Cancer and Locked in syndrome

 

is there anything he can’t do?

Keep his job?

[Holmes_and_Watson]

24 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

He apparently has beaten both Cancer and Locked in syndrome

 

is there anything he can’t do?

Return the advance on his book?

[iansums]

35 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

He apparently has beaten both Cancer and Locked in syndrome

 

is there anything he can’t do?

He apparently made all sorts of claims that were plainly false, sounds like he had some sort of mental health issue.

[Baird of the land]

5 minutes ago, iansums said:

He apparently made all sorts of claims that were plainly false, sounds like he had some sort of mental health issue.

Sounds like being his ghostwriter would have been a hoot, trying to keep track of the changing stories and new claims.

[Weston Super Saint]

11 minutes ago, iansums said:

He apparently made all sorts of claims that were plainly false, sounds like he had some sort of mental health issue.

Let that be a lesson to NOT let AI write your CV for you  

[Holmes_and_Watson]

24 minutes ago, iansums said:

He apparently made all sorts of claims that were plainly false, sounds like he had some sort of mental health issue.

Perhaps received, when he returned from the dead?

"Arday being hit by a car as a teenager before "miraculously" reawakening,"

[AlexLaw76]

29 minutes ago, Holmes_and_Watson said:

Perhaps received, when he returned from the dead?

"Arday being hit by a car as a teenager before "miraculously" reawakening,"

His story would make a great Netflix drama.

Maybe someone like Damion Lewis or Cilian Murphy could play him?

[Holmes_and_Watson]

26 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

His story would make a great Netflix drama.

Maybe someone like Damion Lewis or Cilian Murphy could play him?

Decent casting choices. But Julie Andrews does have the experience of Mary Poppins behind her, and I see this as a musical of the unbelievable.