Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Allusion

Possibly one of the reasons for the uproar, is that many reflect back to the Germany in late 20s, as the rise of Nazi Fascism through the 30s and WW2,.

The Jews, Gypsies and other minorities who appeared different were used as scapegoats for discontent and economic problems and failings of government. This helped organise the rabble and was utilised, by Hitler and his cohorts to rise to power.

The problem is that discussions of “social” problems are difficult to discuss, unless you are able to nominalise groups in order to examine possible problems.

However, many of the remarks being made, appear to me, to be deliberately inflammatory and based on prejudice, intolerance and bigotry.

Again focussing the public on minor social problem areas and deflecting the public from the real problems.

As far as the use of coloured, black, brown, daft is concerned it depends in which way the remarks are being made, to me it seems often to be an obvious way to group individual, the problem is that again it relates to the periods, past and present of White or underlying Racial Supremacy and the underlying beliefs and ideology.

(Seen in the present attitudes that the Arabs are not fit , or responsible enough, to have Nuclear Competence, while all others are capable of the responsible.)

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Depends what you mean by "friend" !

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N.

I did and he remained a friend.

But, once somebody called called me English and I was really offended for at least 30 secs.

Sometimes, I am sometimes confused by racial groupings.

I am racially "pure", but my wife's family started off being Yugoslav and now its members are Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian plus a few others nationalities.

All apparently different, but speaking the same language and getting on with one another.

My family often suggest I am from a different planet. Perhaps Mars while she is from Venus.

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Again, my knowledge of geograpthy is pretty appalling.

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Iranians are not Arabs. They cannot even speak or understand Arabic. I fact they hate to be called Arabs.

It took them 3o years, after invasion by Arabs, to change the language back to Parsi (called Farsi by Arabs first and the rest of the world).

Even Egyptians and Syrian and Lebanese are not Arabs. They only speak Arabic, like Canadian, Americans etc, these are not British and English, but speak English.

Even BBC and other media are mixing up and follow American media with no attention to the reality...

Ah think t' whole wut 'ood be betta o' it we orl spoke Yorksha.
Everyone could then understan' apiece otha, we 'ood orl be friends 'n theear 'ood be neya mooar wars.

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Fowl more like.

Original 4 Yorkshiremen Sketch

Four Yorkshire Men sketch.

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Hi Skinny,

Aye thee wor t' days.
A brilliant sketch!

Mnamreh,

Your gramar and spelin is apaling, their shud be an exclamashun mark at the end off yur centense.

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Coloureds.

I was once a member of a puckka Tennis Club.

For part of the time there was a strict dress code on clothes which could be worn on the courts once the games had started.

Players were allowed to “warm” up in track suits, but playing “garb” had to white once the game had commenced.

One day in view of the Club House and elderly foursome of the gentry were playing their usual foursome, but because it was cold continued to play in their multicoloured tracks suits.

The Club women’s captain seeing this flagrant breach of the rules marched out and shouted to them “No coloureds on court!”

With that, one of the four walked off and towards the dressing room.

As you can probably guess, he was an Asian doctor.

It was hilarious to see the “lady’s” face and embarrassment, when she realised what she had done. Also, the amusement and the laughter she had produced.

The doctor, who was friend of mine, had seen the amusing side of the situation and was “taking the mickey”.

The “rules” and their application were later modified.

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The yangs are playing with share prices in the US, even though the market is closed these affect available margins in CFD accounts.

One of my US shares shows a drop of 20% reducing my available margin in my CFD account.

They says they are rectifying the error!!! (Manipulation)

Not many non-American hold securities in America.
I think, they don't want Americans to invest abroad.

N.

Shssh!

Corrected for you!

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