As it's Retro Day on Saturday...

[Lady Whistledown]

...I wondered if the person who threw bananas at Doncaster's Darren Moore during the last Goldstone game will be doing so again, and if so, whether he'll be able to purchase his fruit from Tesco at 1997 prices?

 

[Mendoza]

Will we get retro rain and be protected by retro southern sound cardboard hats

 

[dougdeep]

Beer at retro prices?

 

[Bakesy]

Has anyone contacted the local pubs to see if they'll be selling beer at '97 prices?




EDIT........GREAT MINDS THINK ALIKE, LOL

 

[FalmerforAll!**]

Is there a retro echo in here?

 

[dougdeep]

Great minds.

 

[Bakesy]

'CHO IN HERE?

 

[Mendoza]

Doesnt this all seem like not long ago?

1997


Top Films:
Titanic, Men in Black, Jurssic Park II

Music:
Bands formed -
Coldplay, 5ive, The White Stripes
Top Songs -
Prodigy - Firestarter, Everybody - Backstreet Boys, I'll be missing You - Puff Daddy and Faith Evans

TV:
New Programmes
Buffy The Vampire Slayer, South Park, Teletubbies

News:
O.J. Simpson is found liable in civil court for the death of Ron Goldman and for the battery of Nicole Brown Simpson. Simpson is ordered to pay $35,000,000 in damages to the families of the 2 victims.

Serial killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan shoots fashion designer Gianni Versace to death outside Versace's Miami, Florida residence.

Scotland votes to create its own Parliament after 290 years of union with England.

Google was invented

Moors Murderer Myra Hindley arrives at the High Court to contest a recent Home Secretary's decision that she should remain in prison until she dies.


Sports:
Man U won premiership
Chelsea won FA Cup with Ben Roberts letting in the fastest cup final goal

 

[empire]

...I wondered if the person who threw bananas at Doncaster's Darren Moore during the last Goldstone game will be doing so again, and if so, whether he'll be able to purchase his fruit from Tesco at 1997 prices?

heard they were not thrown at him,when after the game,i spoke to one of the chavs in the pub,when him and beardo got sent off,he had some in a bag and just threw them in frustration,infact he said he was with a friend who was half cast,and he found it funny

 

[Rougvie]

There was more than one involved if memory serves.

 

[Jam The Man]

Re: Re: As it's Retro Day on Saturday...

heard they were not thrown at him,when after the game,i spoke to one of the chavs in the pub,when him and beardo got sent off,he had some in a bag and just threw them in frustration,infact he said he was with a friend who was half cast,and he found it funny

Who brings bananas to a football match anyway?
At the time it was incredibly embarassing particularly as just 20 mins before, the Donny players had unveiled a

...personally i can't see any way that the guys actions can be condoned.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Re: Re: As it's Retro Day on Saturday...

heard they were not thrown at him,when after the game,i spoke to one of the chavs in the pub,when him and beardo got sent off,he had some in a bag and just threw them in frustration,infact he said he was with a friend who was half cast,and he found it funny

That is the most ridiculous/lame excuse I have ever heard. Even if his 'half-caste' friend did find it funny, does not make it acceptable.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Sorry, but are you saying he expects anyone to believe he just happened to have some bananas on him, which he just happened to think to throw on to the pitch, and they just happened to land alongside a black man as he walked off?

As JtM says, Doncaster's players had just unveiled a banner illustrating their support for our struggle- and I doubt many teams would do that nowadays. To throw anything towards their players that day would have been pretty crap (both players got themselves sent off anyway, it wasn't as though it was Moore's fault any more than Ian Baird's), but to lob bananas??

I was standing a few feet away from where they were thrown, and I was totally embarrassed.

And even if the "half-caste" (your words not mine- word of advice: plenty of people find that term offensive too) friend found it funny, a lot of other people didn't. White people can be offended by racist actions too, you know.

 

[Dancin Ninja BHA]

And even if the "half-caste" (word of advice: plenty of people find that term offensive too)

Honestly



Don't think they do.....

In you PC world, how would you politely refer to a person with both white and non white parents then?

Mixed?

 

[Superphil]

Take a pinch of white man
Wrap him up in black skin
Add a touch of blue blood
And a little bitty bit of red indian boy
Oh like a curly latin kinkies
Oh lordy, lordy, mixed with yellow chinkees, yeah
You know you lump it all together
And you got a recipe for a get along scene
Oh what a beautiful dream
If it could only come true, you know, you know

What we need is a great big melting pot
Big enough enough enough to take
The world and all its got
And keep it stirring for
A hundred years or more
And turn out coffee coloured people by the score

Rabbis and the friars
Vishnus and the gurus
We got the beatles or the sun god
Well it really doesnt matter
What religion you choose
And be thankful little mrs. graceful
You know that livin could be tasteful
We should all get together in a lovin machine
I think Ill call up the queen
It s only fair that she knows, you know, you know

What we need is a great big melting pot
Big enough enough enough to take
The world and all its got
And keep it stirring for
A hundred years or more
And turn out coffee coloured people by the score

Coffee coloured people
Coffee coloured people
Coffee coloured people by the score

 

[Yorkie]

Honestly



Don't think they do.....

In you PC world, how would you politely refer to a person with both white and non white parents then?

Mixed?

Mixed race.

 

[Questions]

Honestly



Don't think they do.....

In you PC world, how would you politely refer to a person with both white and non white parents then?

Mixed?

Dont even go there mate. You will have Chesney on here in a minute preaching about what you can and cannot say to people with different colour skin.

Stick with ''mixed race'' or they will drag this thread out for over 100 pages.

or you could just say fcuk em and reply that they are too sensitive.



I stood next to the guy who threw the fruit ( no I did not know him )and I can assure everyone that it was a spontaneous gesture and not a premeditated act of racism.

Good job he never threw that potato he had or their Irish centre forward would have gone balistic.

 

[empire]

thats my point,racism my arse,if my memory is correct the kid that chucked it,was about 12,and he throw them at the tunnel,b4 any sendings off.It was the argus and fans that didnt see anything that gave it the big r word.

 

[bobbyzam]

Honestly



Don't think they do.....

In your PC world, how would you politely refer to a person with both white and non white parents then?

Mixed?

How about if you weren't in PC World, maybe if you were in Curry's or Dixons. Would that make any difference?

 

[Jam The Man]

Sorry, but are you saying he expects anyone to believe he just happened to have some bananas on him, which he just happened to think to throw on to the pitch, and they just happened to land alongside a black man as he walked off?

As JtM says, Doncaster's players had just unveiled a banner illustrating their support for our struggle- and I doubt many teams would do that nowadays. To throw anything towards their players that day would have been pretty crap (both players got themselves sent off anyway, it wasn't as though it was Moore's fault any more than Ian Baird's), but to lob bananas??

I was standing a few feet away from where they were thrown, and I was totally embarrassed.

And even if the "half-caste" (your words not mine- word of advice: plenty of people find that term offensive too) friend found it funny, a lot of other people didn't. White people can be offended by racist actions too, you know.

YAY! Finally we agree on something! LOL