Black Lives Matter

[Quark]

2 minutes ago, Copperface said:

Nah... probably a bad example quoted there. 

[Copperface]

10 minutes ago, Quark said:

But there is always one loon.......

http://iandriverthanet.blogspot.com/2020/06/broadstairs-anti-racist-graffiti-it-was.html

[Quark]

1 minute ago, Copperface said:

But there is always one loon.......

http://iandriverthanet.blogspot.com/2020/06/broadstairs-anti-racist-graffiti-it-was.html

Oh very dear

[CaledonianGonzo]

Indeed - though as he notes in the blog:

My  actions are  nothing to do with the Black Lives Matter movement, of which I am a supporter, and are purely part of my  own  individual protest for which I  alone am responsible.

[mcshed]

1 hour ago, Copperface said:

Some 29 properties cared for by the National Trust have links to successful compensation claims as a result of the abolition of slavery, such as Glastonbury Tor in Somerset.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54244434

 

Waiting for the queue of efesters rushing up the Tor to pull St Michaels down.............. 

 

11 minutes ago, Copperface said:

But there is always one loon.......

http://iandriverthanet.blogspot.com/2020/06/broadstairs-anti-racist-graffiti-it-was.html

I don't quite follow your point here. You post something pointing out the unsurprising fact that lots of old British stuff has links to slavery and seem to say this shows up eFestivals' hypocrisy. Someone points out the difference between opposing the glorification of slavers(statues) and history with a connection to slavery so you trawl up the blog of some lone nutter.

How does that relate to your original point or am I missing something?

 

[Quark]

Just now, mcshed said:

 

I don't quite follow your point here. You post something pointing out the unsurprising fact that lots of old British stuff has links to slavery and seem to say this shows up eFestivals' hypocrisy. Someone points out the difference between opposing the glorification of slavers(statues) and history with a connection to slavery so you trawl up the blog of some lone nutter.

How does that relate to your original point or am I missing something?

 

I think (although I may be wrong) that CF said about the Tor with a reference to hypocrisy, but recognises it as a bad example.

But the lone nutter then highlights that there will be people who take that "extreme" approach to all things remotely connected with slavery, in response to the recognition that the original point was called out.

Think you're just missing the flow of it there tbh. Made sense to me!

[mcshed]

4 minutes ago, Quark said:

I think (although I may be wrong) that CF said about the Tor with a reference to hypocrisy, but recognises it as a bad example.

But the lone nutter then highlights that there will be people who take that "extreme" approach to all things remotely connected with slavery, in response to the recognition that the original point was called out.

Think you're just missing the flow of it there tbh. Made sense to me!

Maybe I'm missing the point that's always possible but I would only say "bad example" if I thought my point still stood but I'd choosen poorly to illustrate it. 

[eFestivals]

Bristol's Colston Hall has it's new name revealed today.

It's not actually anything to do with Black Lives Matter or the toppling of Colston's statue as the campaign to have it changed goes back over 20 years, and the new name was due to be announced earlier this year but got delayed due to covid.

No idea what they'll go for.

[eFestivals]

"The Bristol Beacon".

A bit naff.  

[Quark]

1 minute ago, eFestivals said:

"The Bristol Beacon".

A bit naff.  

That has the stinky whiff of a focus group all over it

[philipsteak]

2 minutes ago, eFestivals said:

"The Bristol Beacon".

A bit naff.  

Sounds like a rude euphemism

[Quark]

2 hours ago, philipsteak said:

Sounds like a rude euphemism

Stuff like that will always remind me of a colleague some years ago who, when asked what she'd done for her birthday at the weekend, quite innocently told us that her boyfriend had taken her up the Shard.  Bless her.

[fred quimby]

2 hours ago, eFestivals said:

"The Bristol Beacon".

A bit naff.  

That would have been better for the Colston tower

[maelzoid]

2 hours ago, eFestivals said:

"The Bristol Beacon".

A bit naff.  

Yes, Rubbish. But at least the naming rights weren't auctioned. It could have been the "Sports Direct Theatre".

I expect people will refer to it as Cols Naul for quite a few years yet anyway.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

7 minutes ago, Quark said:

Stuff like that will always remind me of a colleague some years ago who, when asked what she'd done for her birthday at the weekend, quite innocently told us that her boyfriend had taken her up the Shard.  Bless her.

My wife's mom is a bit like that. Apparently she once declared to my wife and my wife's brother during a conversation that 'The toilets at Solihull Shopping Centre are quite nice on the whole'! Now, there's a number of odd things about this woman. These are (A) That she said nothing at all when both my wife and her brother (both in their 50's) both burst out laughing in a Finbarr Saunders manner the moment that she came out with the afore mentioned toilet line. (B) That she could possibly think that anybody at all would be interested in what the toilets at Solihull Shopping Centre are like. I mean, she knew full well that her offspring weren't suffering from urinary or bowel incontinence, that they didn't live anywhere near Birmingham, let alone Solihull, so were unlikely to ever go there. 

Guess what? I haven't finished talking about my mother in law, that's what - hence the new paragraph. I just needed to add that she is also, without any shadow of a doubt, the most boring person that I have ever met in my life. When I first started to visit my mother in law with my wife I used to pretend to be asleep on the sofa, and would leave my wife and her mom talking away. It was a pure self preservation move type of thing. I would try to daydream and not listen to the banal bollocks that was being emitted by my mother in law. Sometimes it worked, and at others, not so much. I found out later that my approach was the same one adopted by my wife's sister's husband. 

The problem I've got is I'm beginning to wonder if my wife's mom actually knows that she's boring me to distraction. Both my wife and her brother (and the other siblings) all know that she can be very Machiavellian. She plays (or tries to) each sibling off against the other, using a distortion of the truth which is known as lying. She will claim to several of her children that X,Y or Z child did this or said that to her, when it simply didn't take place. Her children all know this because they communicate well with each other. And it's not Alzheimer's either as she's been acting this way all their lives. 

I fear that she may be a sadist, and a good one at that!

 

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

Back on subject, I thing that 'The Bristol Beacon' sounds alright. 

[Quark]

Anne Widdecombe has cancelled her National Trust membership over their attempts to understand and detail our history a bit better.

Because of course she has.

[maelzoid]

4 hours ago, Quark said:

Anne Widdecombe has cancelled her National Trust membership over their attempts to understand and detail our history a bit better.

Because of course she has.

But clearly still paying full dues to the 'National Society of c**ts'