Mary Poppins is a racist

dowie · 4 Feb 2019 at 13:04

Yadda said:
I heard she was a transphobe too...

That's Mary Beard, not Mary Poppins.

Yadda · 4 Feb 2019 at 13:05

dowie said:
That's Mary Beard, not Mary Poppins.

Nasher · 4 Feb 2019 at 13:10

Yadda said:
I heard she was a transphobe too...

I heard she was an Islamaphobic terrorist too.

Chris Wilson · 4 Feb 2019 at 13:11

Is now the time to mention Julie Andrews was born illegitimate and her grandmother was in servitude? Thread needs stoking, now the sweeping seems to be dying down ....

I always thought she was Jewish, but apparently not, so I can't toss that in as well...

wolfie138 · 4 Feb 2019 at 13:26

robfosters said:
scream gammon

no one has yet been able to explain that one to me.

robfosters · 4 Feb 2019 at 13:42

ignore

The_Abyss · 4 Feb 2019 at 13:44

diamount said:
It's not funny though and you bringing light to idiocy are just as bad as metro as publishing it. Nobody cares.

Precisely. And look at the thread title - gives the complete opposite indication to the point the OP claims to be making. Click bait reporting on click bait. Utterly pointless waste of pixels and bandwidth.

Irish_Tom · 4 Feb 2019 at 13:46

wolfie138 said:
no one has yet been able to explain that one to me.

Gammon?

Usually a fat, white, middle aged man, red in the face over something (like the EU) so that they resemble a joint of gammon.

wolfie138 · 4 Feb 2019 at 14:23

Irish_Tom said:
Gammon?

Usually a fat, white, middle aged man, red in the face over something (like the EU) so that they resemble a joint of gammon.

still makes no sense :-/ unless all the gammon i've seen has been a different type that doesn't match that description.

dowie · 4 Feb 2019 at 14:25

The_Abyss said:
Precisely. And look at the thread title - gives the complete opposite indication to the point the OP claims to be making. Click bait reporting on click bait. Utterly pointless waste of pixels and bandwidth.

Yet you're in here posting in the thread, why not just read one of the other threads? No one forced you to read this one.

wolfie138 said:
still makes no sense :-/ unless all the gammon i've seen has been a different type that doesn't match that description.

Eh?

Yaayuh! · 4 Feb 2019 at 14:27

Diddums said:
I'm confused.

She's racist because chimney soot.

Does that mean if you don't have chimney soot you're exempt?

I believe the focus is specifically on the powdering of soot on her face ("Blackface").

bliss · 4 Feb 2019 at 14:30

Rimsy said:
Ignorance was bliss from what I recall...

In the spirit of this pointless thread I'm now offended you called me ignorant. :mad:

robfosters · 4 Feb 2019 at 14:30

Irish_Tom said:
Gammon?

Usually a fat, white, middle aged man, red in the face over something (like the EU) so that they resemble a joint of gammon.

And it’s just as bad, if not worse, than calling someone a SF. It’s mocking.

muon · 4 Feb 2019 at 14:56

Django x2 said:
40, and educated well enough to know that Mary Poppins is not putting black stuff on her face in some epic show of racial hatred. I am also not a professor, yet I know this.

My point was more that its your generation then.

doodah · 4 Feb 2019 at 15:11

BowdonUK said:
The story reminds me of an Ali G sketch were he went to the Welsh coal mines, and being shown around a museum he looked at the wall display and said "Why is it mainly the brothers working down here?" The guy said "brothers", Ali G "yea, the black man.. isn't that a bit racialist?"

Bahahahahahahahahaha this really tickled me

!.

Fancy that - this happens to be Ralph Northam's favourite film.

The_Abyss · 4 Feb 2019 at 15:29

dowie said:
Yet you're in here posting in the thread, why not just read one of the other threads? No one forced you to read this one.

Is there a limit to or definition of threads we should be critical or have an opinion of?

Em3bbs · 4 Feb 2019 at 16:06

robfosters said:
And it’s just as bad, if not worse, than calling someone a SF. It’s mocking.

This thread aside, the last time the work 'gammon' was used in that context was nearly 2 months ago, by known troll @loltim

LabR@t · 4 Feb 2019 at 16:11

The_Abyss said:
Precisely. And look at the thread title - gives the complete opposite indication to the point the OP claims to be making. Click bait reporting on click bait. Utterly pointless waste of pixels and bandwidth.

Yet, you choose to post. thx

Yadda · 4 Feb 2019 at 16:16

So, some folk that call others SF for being offended at words are offended because they, in turn, are being called "gammon".

It's a very strange world we live in. :confused:

The_Abyss · 4 Feb 2019 at 16:20

LabR@t said:
Yet, you choose to post. thx

Yes, to criticise an inane thread.