14-03-2021, 21:37
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Re: Meghan/Harry
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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
When Charlie Farley becomes king, that ridiculous man will be barely respected by the UK population. It's likely that one of the first things he'll do is to spout off about the environment. You don't hear the Queen spouting off about anything.
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I imagine he'll talk about the environment in an apolitical way. Just generic stuff about the environment being important, keeping it clean, keep the air clean and so on.
Besides global warming is not that controversial in the U.K anymore.
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14-03-2021, 21:47
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Re: Meghan/Harry
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Originally Posted by Hugh
Not outraged?
OK, then...
Please don’t take this the wrong way, but I’m not going to listen to a 28 minute radio programme to see if you heard something correctly - life’s too short.
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Heard this mentioned on Feedback on Radio 4 this evening. The BBC's Royal Correspondent Jonny Dymond talked about the care needed when reporting on Royal events. He mentioned the interview given by Harry and Meghan and said he thought very carefully about the language he used all the time. Someone on Twitter had criticised his use of the phrase "tarred with the same brush" when mentioning the racism allegations. He had reflected and agreed that it was inappropriate.
Here's a good explainer on the phrase: https://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-tar1.htm
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14-03-2021, 22:07
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Re: Meghan/Harry
Most people with a decent quota of intelligence/learning would know the phrase has bugger all to do with racism . . .
Sadly, the majority of Facebook/Twitter users grasp with eager hands anything that sounds as though it might be.
I'm surprised Edward Teach still has his nickname
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14-03-2021, 22:21
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laeva recumbens anguis
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Re: Meghan/Harry
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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
Heard this mentioned on Feedback on Radio 4 this evening. The BBC's Royal Correspondent Jonny Dymond talked about the care needed when reporting on Royal events. He mentioned the interview given by Harry and Meghan and said he thought very carefully about the language he used all the time. Someone on Twitter had criticised his use of the phrase "tarred with the same brush" when mentioning the racism allegations. He had reflected and agreed that it was inappropriate.
Here's a good explainer on the phrase: https://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-tar1.htm
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Thanks - appreciated.
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15-03-2021, 03:12
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Re: Meghan/Harry
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Someone on Twitter had criticised his use of the phrase "tarred with the same brush" when mentioning the racism allegations. He had reflected and agreed that it was inappropriate.
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Yet another spineless grovelling dimwit, he should have told the moron on twitter where to go.
Its a common phrase, even listed in collins dictionary.
e.g. https://www.collinsdictionary.com/di...the-same-brush
I also found this (just to show the origin has nothing to do with race);
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The origin is the verb to tar, meaning to defile or dirty, known from the early years of the seventeenth century. The idiom appears in print first in 1818, in one of Sir Walter Scott’s novels, Rob Roy: “They are a’ tarr’d wi’ the same stick — rank Jacobites and Papists.” Our modern form appears in William Cobbett’s Rural Rides in 1823: “‘You are all tarred with the same brush’, said the sensible people of Maidstone.
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15-03-2021, 05:38
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Re: Meghan/Harry
It's getting absurdly ridiculous now. Fair enough, when Political Correctness first started, it managed to stop minority groups from being insulted eg black people are no longer called the N word by the majority of people.
Then, as is often the case with these things, it started to become a parody of itself by getting ridiculous:
https://www.cableforum.uk/board/show...php?p=36068156
Now we have a situation where people are actually going out of their way to look for things to be 'offended' about, even things that are totaly irrelevant as Paul says.
As I said before, apart from a few who like to stir things up by harping on about issues like African slavery hundreds of years ago where nobody alive participated or was affected by it, it's usually white people who like to virtue signal and out 'anti racist' others in some sort of perverse competition.
The non white people i've come across or have as friends don't behave like this and find it downright embarrasing.
Sadly, if it doesn't stop, these are the very people who will bear the brunt of any backlash.
I think that non white people may become ostracised/alienated anyway as we try to get back to normal because of covid as it is (a lot have been duped into not having the vaccination because of incorrect scaremongering), so people will, once again, become fearful of them, seek to svoid them, not want to employ them etc.
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15-03-2021, 10:02
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Re: Meghan/Harry
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Originally Posted by Paul
Yet another spineless grovelling dimwit, he should have told the moron on twitter where to go.
Its a common phrase, even listed in collins dictionary.
e.g. https://www.collinsdictionary.com/di...the-same-brush
I also found this (just to show the origin has nothing to do with race);
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If you say something you know is offensive, and use it with the intend to offend - then that is your fault.
If somebody takes what you say innocently, and without the intent to offend, and finds offence in it. - then that is their fault
this falls into the latter description and should be discounted and ignored.
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15-03-2021, 11:42
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Re: Meghan/Harry
I think social media is in danger of heading up it's own backside.
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15-03-2021, 12:49
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Re: Meghan/Harry
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Originally Posted by Maggy
I think social media is in danger of heading up it's own backside.
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I think it's already gone there, and no amount of poking about with a cotton bud will remove it
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15-03-2021, 12:55
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Re: Meghan/Harry
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Originally Posted by Carth
I think it's already gone there, and no amount of poking about with a cotton bud will remove it
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Brilliantly put! What's up there renders the cotton bud as no more than a tickler.
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21-04-2021, 10:50
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Re: Meghan/Harry
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Quote from The Sun: Prince Harry's new job title has left people in Japan in stitches as the acronym is slang for 'penis'.
The Duke of Sussex bagged the role of chief impact officer - often shortened to 'chimpo' in the US - at a Silicon Valley startup last month.
Harry, 36, said he wanted to "create impact" after being named as part of the leadership team with BetterUp Inc - a coaching and mental health firm in the US valued at £1.25bn.
Brits thought his new role sounded a little odd, but brushed it off as just a funny word.
But many in Japan had a right laugh due to its phallic meaning in the country.
Social media users highlighted that 'chimpo' in Japanese is the socially appropriate way to refer to the penis.
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The article also says: In Japanese, the sound of the word 'Sussex' sounds like "having sexual activity".
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21-04-2021, 11:06
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Re: Meghan/Harry
There are many products out there that mean something else in different countries.
We have chicken based foodstuff and other countries eat Cockerels, thus "Cock" flavoured foods, which will cause a snigger amiong few.
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27-04-2021, 13:46
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laeva recumbens anguis
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Re: Meghan/Harry
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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
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a royal expert has claimed.
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Claiming the Duke looked ‘very out of sorts’ at Philip’s funeral in Windsor, radio host Kevin O’Sullivan said: I’m wondering whether he received a very, very cold reception? ‘I read that some quarters of the Royal Family literally just blocked him and didn’t even talk to him. ‘I think he may have been a bit shocked by the cool reception he got from his family,
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Looking "out of sorts" at your grandad’s funeral - not really surprising, is it?
More made up click-bait bolleaux...
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27-04-2021, 15:30
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Re: Meghan/Harry
- Flew across 8 time zones
- Attended his grandfather's funeral
- Had an awkward reunion with his brother
- Looked .... 'out of sorts'.
Hold the front page!
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