Lenny Rider
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- Sep 15, 2010
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9883071/MCC-NOT-rename-Lords-famous-Warner-stand.html
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[Cricket] MCC show common sense
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Papa Lazarou
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Anyone got a summary, I don't want to open a Mail story.
Baker lite
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This will be a red rag to a bull for the professionally offended, hoards of unwashed smellys will be descending on St John’s wood,pitch forks sharpened,knee pads on, demanding reparations.
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So....nothing happened today.
Was there a clamour for a name change, or was it a single issue organization fulfilling their constitutional duty, or one individual, or perhaps nobody at all?
Was it a victory for common sense, or political incorrectness gone mad?
I will nip off and see if it has been reported by a reputable news outlet....
Edit, story in Mail and Telegraph only. The bits not behind the paywall simply say the MCC committee investigated and decided to not blah blah.
Boring thread so far....
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BBassic
I changed this.
- Jul 28, 2011
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At a guess: more ammo for the culture war when what we should be doing is concentrating on important stuff.
Like the planet being shafted, without lube, in the anus, by the human collective.
At a guess.
severnside gull
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So it’s yet another Daily Mail non-story whose sole purpose is to stir up division & hatred………..and of course the usual suspects pile on
Looks like it was only reported by the Mail and the Telegraph. They were just trying to convince their readers that the "Lefties" had been defeated in trying to make the MCC all woke.
In fact, it's a non story.
Unfortunately other 'usual suspects' (e.g., you and I) will now be accused by the original usual suspects of piling in with our 'woke' snowflakery.
Bit disappointed in the OP to be honest. He does let himself down from time to time, as do we all, and all in our own tedious fashion.
This thread is tedious and heading for the pit so I'm out.
Sid in the Sharknado
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You can tell if a thread's about political correctness or racism or whatever, if it's notionally about cricket but has more than about 5 of the usual posters on those threads writing stuff like "11/3, ffs".
So far as I can tell it is a story about something that hasn't happened and isn't going to happen.
It must be August.
It must be August.
severnside gull
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clapham_gull
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Sid in the Sharknado
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When you mentioned this there were 6 posts, 2 from you
You know what kids today are like, they all want instant gratification.
Indeed. The stinking Gammon will be redder in the face than ever whilst squealing:
“This art work is history, you can’t re-write history”
And
“I suppose you want to pull down all works of art and statues now”
With a bit of
“This is all far left woke PC nonsense, leave history alone”
All over this snippet:
“……the directive to remove artwork associated with the club's first secretary Ben Aislabie from the MCC's Long Room and Pavilion.
Aislabie, who owned slaves in Antigua and Dominica, had directly profited from the vile practice, the review found.”
To be honest, you can often guess that a thread is about political correctness, purely by who has started it.
- Apr 5, 2014
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Common sense did not prevail as there was never a move to rename it anyway
They were right about the portraits though. Not sure a West Indian cricketer should have to see a portrait of someone who 'owned' an ancestor when he walks through the long room.
Folk looking for a fight when there isn't one to be had.
They were right about the portraits though. Not sure a West Indian cricketer should have to see a portrait of someone who 'owned' an ancestor when he walks through the long room.
Folk looking for a fight when there isn't one to be had.
Sid in the Sharknado
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Yes, but I try not to let the names of those posters take up space in my head.