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How Stupid Are The City Council? Warning, Mention of Gollywogs.
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maltaseagull
Well-known member
Answer - Very stupid. If the word was used in an offensive way it is very wrong, but not in this context.
Dave the OAP
Well-known member
Diversity training!!!
Sounds very Orwellian
Sounds very Orwellian
It's a witch hunt co-ordinated by a couple of council officers who Cllr Barnett has upset in the past. Complete waste of time and money ( OUR MONEY !!!!!!!!! ).
Icy Gull
Back on the rollercoaster
- Jul 5, 2003
- 72,015
I always liked Golliwogs and have never considered them even vaguely racist, but then the world went mad around the time it was decided that Bigs Ears could no longer get into bed with Noddy 
I particularly liked the Robinson's Golliwog tail fin on their company jet which I saw a few times.
I particularly liked the Robinson's Golliwog tail fin on their company jet which I saw a few times.
Albumen
Don't wait for me!
Who didn't have one as a kid? It doesn't mean to say they're a good thing. The name itself lost the golly part in the UK and was used as slang and the Councillor is an idiot defending it.
A conservative you say? Well I never.
A conservative you say? Well I never.
Seagull on the wing
New member
If Golliwog is banned,what about Chinese dolls with slanted eyes,or Cindy does it suggest she is a white supremist,or Action man being called a Honky..Cabbage Patch Kids...that's very racist against cabbages.
Really what planet are these people on, my two toys as a three year old during the WW2...were a Panda and a Golliwog...it taught me that people are different outside their skin...I never knew there was a black race till I saw some American soldiers...and it wasn't a shock at all.
Those councillors must have skin like tissue paper jumping on the racist theory of a doll...grow some you weak pandering idiots and take your 'Look at me,standing up for other peoples rights because it's deemed the correct thing to do' elsewhere.
Really what planet are these people on, my two toys as a three year old during the WW2...were a Panda and a Golliwog...it taught me that people are different outside their skin...I never knew there was a black race till I saw some American soldiers...and it wasn't a shock at all.
Those councillors must have skin like tissue paper jumping on the racist theory of a doll...grow some you weak pandering idiots and take your 'Look at me,standing up for other peoples rights because it's deemed the correct thing to do' elsewhere.
Greg Bobkin
Silver Seagull
- May 22, 2012
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Do you think it's run by Ashley Banjo?
Return of the Rev
Well-known member
Worked with dawn around 18 years ago i'm sure no offence was intended.
Found not guilty of 'breaching the equality act'.
What act is this? UK law? If so, then why was Ms Barnett not facing a criminal charge? Hardly up to a local government commitee to enforce UK law as far as I am aware.
Otherwise it must be a BHCC act, if so, it is a load of PC bo**ocks. An 'act' dreamed up by someone in a role that needs to be justified to others.
To be honest, all local government has become a gravy train for the those higher up the scale, just wish I had the sense to have joined it 20 years ago.
What act is this? UK law? If so, then why was Ms Barnett not facing a criminal charge? Hardly up to a local government commitee to enforce UK law as far as I am aware.
Otherwise it must be a BHCC act, if so, it is a load of PC bo**ocks. An 'act' dreamed up by someone in a role that needs to be justified to others.
To be honest, all local government has become a gravy train for the those higher up the scale, just wish I had the sense to have joined it 20 years ago.
Jimmy Grimble
Well-known member
Sounds like The Office!
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Tell you what I am deeply offended on behalf of my mum at the way the puppets in the Dolmio stereotype Italians.
Going to make a complaint, hopefully the marketing company will have to take diversity training too. Not on, deeply deeply offended.
I upset people on here by starting a thread about golliwogs a while back. As another poster says, if golliwogs are not OK, then what about chinese dolls etc, etc. Maybe all depictions of people should show a green skin colour so we can be sure no one ethnic group will be upset .... oh, but then we'd have complaints from the Martians.
And Diversity Training
Who exactly is paying for this?? I would LOVE to sit in on one of these sessions. PLEASE.
And Diversity Training
Who exactly is paying for this?? I would LOVE to sit in on one of these sessions. PLEASE.
Seagull on the wing
New member
Ah,but is your Mum deeply offended...
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She is not offended in the slightest. It's always the silly fools who get offended for everybody else.
We had a good friend in Luton who was from Cameroon. One afternoon we had a good chat about offending people, political correctness, extremists.
Our friend was just amazed at how politically correct the UK had become and said it was pathetic.
I have had the same conversation with friends who are gay, and we came to the same conclusion.
When I mentioned it on NSC I was told that I must be lying!;shrug;
pastafarian
Well-known member
And Diversity Training
Knock yourself out,only £30 from the comfort of your home and a shiny certificate at the end.
http://www.highspeedtraining.co.uk/...-course.aspx?gclid=CIfiv-DMvrsCFWbLtAodmVgAfA
Personally i would prefer the live training,all those nazis and the odd 70 year old councillor in the same room getting brainwashed........whats not to like
Buzzer
Languidly Clinical
- Oct 1, 2006
- 26,121
Labour Shadow Cabinet Minister Jack Dromey referred to someone as a 'pikey' last week. http://news.sky.com/story/1182006/pr-blunder-over-labour-mps-pikey-tweet He claims it was auto-correct that got it wrong. Chinny reckon.
Lib-Dem councillor in Bristol refers to an Asian as a 'coconut'. http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/jun/28/councillor-court-coconut-jibe-bristol
Labour councillor uses the phrase "n*****r in the woodpile". http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news...ee-councillor-bill-jeffrey-apologises-4700420
I think it's less to do with party politics in the case of the Labour councillor and the Tory from Brighton and more to do with the generation that they belong to. Dromey's not even got the courage to admit that he meant to use the word pikey, the coward. There's no excuse for the Lib-Dem comments. Interesting to note that the Asian is a Conservative councillor. A Conservative you say? Well I never.
Tricky Dicky
New member
It would seem to me to be quite an odd thing to call someone a coconut, whatever the context. Does that mean the old popular saying "... my old fruit" would now also be verboten ?