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So, for a bit of variety, here's
...a selection of moments from the weekend : - On Saturday, I hauled ass to my home town to go to a cancer benefit gig in what used to be my first ever local (it has since become an O'Neill's). Despite the sombre undertone of the gig, myself and pals spent the afternoon weak with laughter. Always a sign of a good time. Although the compere managed to rub several of the punters up the wrong way when he singled out smokers in his introductory 'serious speech'. "If you want to get pious about smokers, don't host your gig in a pub - host it in a fucking church hall," declared Busty Farm Girl, just before sparking up in protest.
- We retired to a buddy's house, where things degenerated. One chum said something extemely sacreligious, and spilt his red wine over himself immediately afterwards. "I'm man enough to know when I've been smote by The Lord," quoth he.
- I woke up with a load of seeds having mysteriously found their way into my hair. "Good thing I just checked my shoes," said the host; "They're full of grapes."
- When discussing the elder generation's use of the word 'nigger' as a descriptive term (someone's mother had described an object as "nigger brown", and defended her use by saying that - in this particular instance - it had no racial overtones), a good friend of mine said "It used to be commonplace for 'Nigger' to be used as a pet name. For example, Douglas Bader had a dog called Nigger. And they had to censor it from that film. You know the one. It was called... Er... Not 'I Don't Have Any Of My Legs Anymore'..."
All in all, a turboskill weekend. Today, however, I will be mostly shaking slightly, and staying out of trouble.
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foxinthesnow
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(15.1.07 14:31)
Douglas Bader's racist dog doesn't necessarily make him a racist, but his racist opinions and his fraternising with racists probably does, n'est-ce pas?
Spam captcha says ARYAN. Honest!
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foxinthesnow
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(15.1.07 14:35)
Shit, wait - am I thinking of Baden-Powell? One of them hated the Jews, anyway. God, I love FACTS.
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lemonsquash
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(15.1.07 14:40)
Are you thinking of Enoch Powell ? Or maybe Billy Powell from Lynyrd Skynyrd ?
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foxinthesnow
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(15.1.07 14:46)
No, I was right the first time - that bastion of accuracy, Wikipedia, backs me up. I looked up the other two on it and it turns out that Enoch=racist and Billy=not racist. Just so's you know.
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lemonsquash
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(15.1.07 14:53)
I've just done a miniscule amount of research, too. Although Baden-Powell may well have been a big fan of 'Mein Kampf', he was by no means a fan of clubbing the seal. Quoth Wiki :
"Baden-Powell believed strongly in the harmful effects of masturbation - a view not shared by all educators of his time - and counseled Scouts to restrain the sexual impulse as far as possible. An exhortation against masturbation, written by Baden-Powell for inclusion in an early Scouting manual, was so graphic that his printer refused to print it unedited."
I also love FACTS. w00t!
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foxinthesnow
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(15.1.07 15:00)
I love the Wikipedia entry about Baden-Powell's sexuality. It's all, oh, he wasn't a paedo although he liked watching boys swim naked and wrote diary entries like ""Stayed with Tod. Tod's photos of naked boys and trees. Excellent." And oh, he wasn't a gay neither, although he had a relationship with a man and also made his wife cut her hair, bind her breasts and wear a scout's uniform. Nothing funny there. No sirree. Nope.
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foxinthesnow
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(15.1.07 15:16)
That post made me laugh so much I had to listen to Joy Division to balance my humours.
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undercovercookie
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(15.1.07 15:18)
I'm no expert in Freudianism, but didn't he also write a book called 'Scouting for Boys'?
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Kate
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(16.1.07 22:32)
When you say you had seeds in your hair, I hope you don't mean white wee-wee.
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