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[Monty92]

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/sep/26/coronation-street-kunta-kinte-eva-price-catherine-tyldesley

[Sir C]

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/sep/26/coronation-street-kunta-kinte-eva-price-catherine-tyldesley

So much silliness. Every day with the silliness. Why so much silliness? :-(

[redgunamo]

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/sep/26/coronation-street-kunta-kinte-eva-price-catherine-tyldesley

I actually inherited a signed early copy of Roots, from an Irish in-law who was a friend of the author.

[Sir C]

I actually inherited a signed early copy of Roots, from an Irish in-law who was a friend of the author.

There was a 'joke' in the 80s that sort of went, "I'm not saying my mate's racist, but he watched Roots backwards so it had a happy ending." But of course, if you watched a film backwards, it wouldn't make any sense and the dialogue would be indecipherable, so it's not funny.

[Burney]

There was a 'joke' in the 80s that sort of went, "I'm not saying my mate's racist, but he watched Roots backwards so it had a happy ending." But of course, if you watched a film backwards, it wouldn't make any sense and the dialogue would be indecipherable, so it's not funny.

Plus, of course, why would it please a racist? Kunta would get his foot back, be unshackled and go back to Africa. :shrug:

All in all, it's a poor joke.

[redgunamo]

There was a 'joke' in the 80s that sort of went, "I'm not saying my mate's racist, but he watched Roots backwards so it had a happy ending." But of course, if you watched a film backwards, it wouldn't make any sense and the dialogue would be indecipherable, so it's not funny.

Very good. It's hard to be much more indecipherable than Swahili or whatever it was, I'd have said?

[redgunamo]

Plus, of course, why would it please a racist? Kunta would get his foot back, be unshackled and go back to Africa. :shrug:

All in all, it's a poor joke.

The back to Africa bit perhaps? And we wouldn't have to read about his life story.

[Burney]

Very good. It's hard to be much more indecipherable than Swahili or whatever it was, I'd have said?

Swahili's a pidgin, isn't it? Or was originally? Only I was listening to someone speaking it on telly the other day and they appeared to refer to bread as 'roti', which is a word that derives originally from the subcontinent.

[Burney]

The back to Africa bit perhaps? And we wouldn't have to read about his life story.


I suppose. It's still one of those jokes that appears clever until you actually think about it.

[Sir C]

Very good. It's hard to be much more indecipherable than Swahili or whatever it was, I'd have said?

Did slaves from east Africa end up in the States? It seems an awfully long way to go. You catch some lad in Tanzania and then, what, schlepp him across country to \nigeria to put him on a ship? You'd have to get through DRC! :fúckthat:

[Sir C]

Swahili's a pidgin, isn't it? Or was originally? Only I was listening to someone speaking it on telly the other day and they appeared to refer to bread as 'roti', which is a word that derives originally from the subcontinent.

Yes, it's firmly Arabic influenced. 'Cos of the Ayrabs nicking all the African lads up and down the coast :-(

[redgunamo]

Swahili's a pidgin, isn't it? Or was originally? Only I was listening to someone speaking it on telly the other day and they appeared to refer to bread as 'roti', which is a word that derives originally from the subcontinent.

**** knows. A roti is that thing you roast pork on, ain't it?

[Burney]

Did slaves from east Africa end up in the States? It seems an awfully long way to go. You catch some lad in Tanzania and then, what, schlepp him across country to \nigeria to put him on a ship? You'd have to get through DRC! :fúckthat:

Nah. Generally West Africa. They made better physical specimens apart from anything. East Africans are a bit weedy aren't they?

[Pokster]

Nah. Generally West Africa. They made better physical specimens apart from anything. East Africans are a bit weedy aren't they?

Good at running though b

[redgunamo]

Good at running though b

Not quite good enough though apparently.

[Sir C]

Nah. Generally West Africa. They made better physical specimens apart from anything. East Africans are a bit weedy aren't they?

Yes. That was sort of the point I was making :rolleyes:

Weedy? WEEDY? Jesus, man. Those people are made of fúcking rocks.

[Sir C]

Good at running though b

Bit racialist, p.

[Pokster]

Bit racialist, p.

I think you will find it has shown to be true... look at very own Mo F

[Burney]

Yes. That was sort of the point I was making :rolleyes:

Weedy? WEEDY? Jesus, man. Those people are made of fúcking rocks.

Weedy in the sense of having to cut cane, tote barges, lift bales and whatnot, I mean. Need big strapping chaps for that sort of caper.

[Sir C]

I think you will find it has shown to be true... look at very own Mo F

Drugged to the eyeballs. FACT.

[Burney]

I think you will find it has shown to be true... look at very own Mo F

Surely that's mostly all the drugs, though?

[redgunamo]

I think you will find it has shown to be true... look at very own Mo F

Is Hounslow in East Africa nowadays? Would explain alot.

[Pokster]

Surely that's mostly all the drugs, though?

You can fish as much as you like

[Burney]

You can fish as much as you like

Yes. It's funny how many of these athletes about whom there are drug rumours also happen to have TUEs, though, innit?

[SWv2]

**** knows. A roti is that thing you roast pork on, ain't it?

I had a roti on saturday night from the curry house.

[Pokster]

Yes. It's funny how many of these athletes about whom there are drug rumours also happen to have TUEs, though, innit?

Keep fishing... will give you a little nibble (ooh err), Mo F last had a TUE in 2011 wasn't it?

[redgunamo]

I had a roti on saturday night from the curry house.

The world is full of confusion and misunderstanding these days.

Decent curry though, I trust?

[Burney]

Keep fishing... will give you a little nibble (ooh err), Mo F last had a TUE in 2011 wasn't it?

And his training partner's got TUEs as well, it turns out. Another asthmatic, don'tcha know? Quite the coincidence.

I remember when asthma used to be a reason to get out of games. Now it seems de riguer if you want to be a top endurance athlete. Isn't modern medicine wonderful?

[World's End Stella]

And his training partner's got TUEs as well, it turns out. Another asthmatic, don'tcha know? Quite the coincidence.

I remember when asthma used to be a reason to get out of games. Now it seems de riguer if you want to be a top endurance athlete. Isn't modern medicine wonderful?

And if he finds the overhead of applying for a TUE to be too much for him, he could just miss the tests. Like the two he missed in the year prior to the London olympics, the second one because 'he didn't hear the doorbell ring' :hehe:

[Ash]

Keep fishing... will give you a little nibble (ooh err), Mo F last had a TUE in 2011 wasn't it?

Frimley says Mo has definitely been on the magic beans. And he knows a lot about this sort of thing. :-(

[Burney]

And if he finds the overhead of applying for a TUE to be too much for him, he could just miss the tests. Like the two he missed in the year prior to the London olympics, the second one because 'he didn't hear the doorbell ring' :hehe:

Deaf and a bit short of breath, eh? Shouldn't the poor chap be competing in the Paralympics with all these disabilities?

[World's End Stella]

Frimley says Mo has definitely been on the magic beans. And he knows a lot about this sort of thing. :-(

He's the most glaring example, but hardly the only one. I'd be surprised if there has been a single gold medal won by a clean athlete in athletics for over 20 years. The drugs are just too effective so unless someone destroys all the competition, the only logical conclusion is that all of them are doping, or none of them are.

And we know that the 'none of them are' option is nonsense.

[Burney]

He's the most glaring example, but hardly the only one. I'd be surprised if there has been a single gold medal won by a clean athlete in athletics for over 20 years. The drugs are just too effective so unless someone destroys all the competition, the only logical conclusion is that all of them are doping, or none of them are.

And we know that the 'none of them are' option is nonsense.

I tend to agree. The Team GB cyclists are just fúcking ridicules if you ask me.

[Ash]

He's the most glaring example, but hardly the only one. I'd be surprised if there has been a single gold medal won by a clean athlete in athletics for over 20 years. The drugs are just too effective so unless someone destroys all the competition, the only logical conclusion is that all of them are doping, or none of them are.

And we know that the 'none of them are' option is nonsense.

The Saffa lad who won the 400 metres was way too far ahead :sherlock:

[Ash]

I tend to agree. The Team GB cyclists are just fúcking ridicules if you ask me.

But, but ... they have hairy muffs and so on.

[Burney]

The Saffa lad who won the 400 metres was way too far ahead :sherlock:

Look, I think it's increasingly the case that all major sport has to be a process of suspension of disbelief on the part of spectators from here on in. To paraphrase Bismarck ""If you like sporting success and sausages, it is better not to see them being made."

[redgunamo]

But, but ... they have hairy muffs and so on.

Pic :sherlock:

[Burney]

But, but ... they have hairy muffs and so on.


I doubt that, a. They seem depilated to within an inch of their lives to me. I doubt Laura Trott's private pussy area has seen a hair for years.

[World's End Stella]

I tend to agree. The Team GB cyclists are just fúcking ridicules if you ask me.

Amazing how quickly certain members of the media turn the focus on the Jamaican sprinting team (with good reason) but completely ignore the dramatic change in the fortunes of the GB cycling team.

Cycling, athletics, weightlifting and other sports which focus almost entirely on endurance and power are really competitions to see who dopes the most effectively. Like red says, the only solution is to not care and enjoy them anyway. Or to ignore them entirely, I suppose.

[Sir C]

But, but ... they have hairy muffs and so on.

:-( Surely you jest, a?

[redgunamo]

I doubt that, a. They seem depilated to within an inch of their lives to me. I doubt Laura Trott's private pussy area has seen a hair for years.

I see that he's been about again lately, claiming that that nice Michael Vaughan had bantered him off. Nutjob, imo.

[Pokster]

I doubt that, a. They seem depilated to within an inch of their lives to me. I doubt Laura Trott's private pussy area has seen a hair for years.

NONO, there was a study from Lancaster Uni I beleive that worked out that women who shave/wax lost more days training to saddle sore than those who didn't... so all the female cyclists in the GB team were banned from shaving or waxing. The result was they didn't lose 1 days training in the run up to the Olympics.

[Ash]

I doubt that, a. They seem depilated to within an inch of their lives to me. I doubt Laura Trott's private pussy area has seen a hair for years.

But no. Sweaty groins were causing saddle sores, I read, so the pilots were ordered to go the full jungle to soak up the sweat.

[Pokster]

But no. Sweaty groins were causing saddle sores, I read, so the pilots were ordered to go the full jungle to soak up the sweat.

: Noah : imo

[redgunamo]

NONO, there was a study from Lancaster Uni I beleive that worked out that women who shave/wax lost more days training to saddle sore than those who didn't... so all the female cyclists in the GB team were banned from shaving or waxing. The result was they didn't lose 1 days training in the run up to the Olympics.

Christ. Women just need to man up, imo.

[Burney]

But no. Sweaty groins were causing saddle sores, I read, so the pilots were ordered to go the full jungle to soak up the sweat.

I hope you realise you've just made Sir C curl up in a corner and start rocking back and forth, a? :-(

It's bad enough talking about hairy muffs in front of him, but when you mentioned them 'soaking up sweat', you've triggered him completely. He's had to go to his safe space now.

[Ash]

I hope you realise you've just made Sir C curl up in a corner and start rocking back and forth, a? :-(

It's bad enough talking about hairy muffs in front of him, but when you mentioned them 'soaking up sweat', you've triggered him completely. He's had to go to his safe space now.

Not the most pleasant image, I agree. And one of the chaps just married one of the girls with us all knowing that ....

[Burney]

Not the most pleasant image, I agree. And one of the chaps just married one of the girls with us all knowing that ....

Imagine attending a wedding where all you can think about is the bride's impenetrably hirsute growler. :-(

[eastgermanautos]

Imagine attending a wedding where all you can think about is the bride's impenetrably hirsute growler. :-(

:hehe: .

[redgunamo]

Imagine attending a wedding where all you can think about is the bride's impenetrably hirsute growler. :-(

To be honest, at every wedding I've ever attended, it's been that or the strong drink. That's why they're such meagre, insubstantial affairs nowadays, I suppose; alot of people have renounced the booze.