Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

[tikay]

Sigh....


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8277378.stm

Is today the 1st of April?

[boldie]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/bbc-says-gypsy-is-a-racist-word-says-comic-1792428.html

Sigh @ this. Read this in the Times last week (they used the uppercase for the G).

Didn't know it was a racist term Red,...apologies won't call you a Gypsie anymore.

[bolt pp]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/bbc-says-gypsy-is-a-racist-word-says-comic-1792428.html

Sigh @ this. Read this in the Times last week (they used the uppercase for the G).

Didn't know it was a racist term Red,...apologies won't call you a Gypsie anymore.

you cant say half caste anymore, you have to say mixed race apparently?

I know a half caste girl and she said that the teachers had told her children at school that they couldnt use that term anymore and it had to be mixed race, she said it was all bollox and that she'd always use the term half caste, i'd rather listen to her on the subject.

[Dingdell]

Sigh....


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8277378.stm

Is today the 1st of April?

Failed one of the Alzheimers tests there Tikay. Any idea who the prime minister is?

[RED-DOG]

Last night on my way to DTD, I was listening to Alan Titchmarsh on Radio 4, when I heard this for the first time.

I just love these lyrics.

It's by Richard Stilgoe & Peter Skellern. I would love to see them perform it, so if anyone can find a link.....


Joyce the librarian
Strict vegetarian
Forty and living with mum.
Wears sandals and glasses
Attends evening classes
And wonders if romance will come.
Though she'd never been kissed
It's not something she'd missed
Until some weeks before;
When George, a rotarian,
Handsome lotharian,
Walked through the library door.

George was unmarried
And the torch that Joyce carried
Was burning a hole in her heart
She wanted to show him
But didn't yet know him
She didn't know where to start
So with growing abhorrance
She read D.H. Lawrence
To glean a few ideas . . .
Which she turned down flat
She couldn't do that
Not in a million years!!

Joyce the librarian
Strict vegetarian
Was burning with animal lust
Alarming sensations
Strange palpatations
A mix of delight and disgust
So she busied herself
Rearranging the shelf
To try to control her dreams.
Joyce the librarian
The disciplinarian
Was falling apart at the seams.

The very next day
She kept out of the way
When George returned his books
But with growing conviction
She wandered through "Fiction"
And threw him some longing looks.
And when George joined the queue
She knew just what to do,
She smiled and removed her specs . .
Then looked in horror
'Cause he'd come to borrow "
The Further Joy of Sex".

Perhaps because latterly
She'd read "Lady Chatterley"
Something just snapped in her head;
She gave herself gladly,
Wildly, madly,
To George that night in his bed.
But then just as she'd feared
George disappeared
Some other librarian to woo.
Now there's a sob in her voice
As both book and Joyce
Are a fortnight over due.
 

[tikay]

Sigh....


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8277378.stm

Is today the 1st of April?

Failed one of the Alzheimers tests there Tikay. Any idea who the prime minister is?

Yeah - he was at DTD for the EPO.

[RED-DOG]

While I'm on about lyrics, why do these, from the late great Jake Thackray (One of my most favouriteist Yorkshiremen)  always remind me of tikay?

[tikay]

While I'm on about lyrics, why do these, from the late great Jake Thackray (One of my most favouriteist Yorkshiremen)  always remind me of tikay?

Good grief - I never knew he had died.

[titaniumbean]

Sigh....


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8277378.stm

Is today the 1st of April?

Reading that has put me on insane life tilt. So so so so stupid

No common sense left anymore.

[RED-DOG]

[HOLDorFOLD]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/bbc-says-gypsy-is-a-racist-word-says-comic-1792428.html

Sigh @ this. Read this in the Times last week (they used the uppercase for the G).

Didn't know it was a racist term Red,...apologies won't call you a Gypsie anymore.

you cant say half caste anymore, you have to say mixed race apparently?

I know a half caste girl and she said that the teachers had told her children at school that they couldnt use that term anymore and it had to be mixed race, she said it was all bollox and that she'd always use the term half caste, i'd rather listen to her on the subject.

Sigh yes, the teachers at my sons school come down on kids like a ton of bricks for using the term Half Caste - however, they turn a blind eye when a group of kids corner my son and tell him he's not a proper muslim because his mum is white (oh, and that she's going to die soon because she touches a bible) 

[RED-DOG]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/bbc-says-gypsy-is-a-racist-word-says-comic-1792428.html

Sigh @ this. Read this in the Times last week (they used the uppercase for the G).

Didn't know it was a racist term Red,...apologies won't call you a Gypsie anymore.

you cant say half caste anymore, you have to say mixed race apparently?

I know a half caste girl and she said that the teachers had told her children at school that they couldnt use that term anymore and it had to be mixed race, she said it was all bollox and that she'd always use the term half caste, i'd rather listen to her on the subject.

Sigh yes, the teachers at my sons school come down on kids like a ton of bricks for using the term Half Caste - however, they turn a blind eye when a group of kids corner my son and tell him he's not a proper muslim because his mum is white (oh, and that she's going to die soon because she touches a bible) 

Ooooh! That post spawns a lot of questions. I'll start with this one.

Are you a Muslim?

PS- Please tell me to bugger of if I'm being too nosey.

[tikay]

Beautiful!

[titaniumbean]

Beautiful!

haha last line is excellent.

[RED-DOG]

While we're on the subject, I didn't realise until ther other day that Rasta (Rastafarianism) was a religion.

(I thought it was just a term used to describe people who wore their hair in dreads and ate beer can sandwiches)