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@pepsi wrote:

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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

:shock: :lol:

You nicked my quote!

It’s ok, I nicked it off of Oscar Wilde. :P

@cheekylittleminx wrote:

a greggs buffet in a circus tent woooooohooooo

It sounds like one hell of a classy do! :wink:

@Terry wrote:

Isn’t there a middle ground which most normal people stand on. On either side though there is a racist area and an anti-racist area.

The racists and anti-racists annoy the hell out of me.

I remember reading about a woman who’d complained to the police that a shopkeeper had a golliwog on display in a shop window. I don’t see what the…

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@kent f OBE wrote:

I don’t think the product (the doll) as such is offensive at all, nor do I think the doll lost it’s job because it was black.
Why is everyone skirting round the issue of the name? It’s the name that IS offensive. The name of the product is gollywog. For some reason Panda doesm’t mention this in her opening post. Why would anyone…

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@jen_jen wrote:

Poli at times your naivety astounds me…at least I hope it is naivety.

My thoughts exactly.

@sceptical guy wrote:

if it wasn’t Richard, it was some other bug ger.

Unless of course, they committed suicide.

@desmondy wrote:

History is written by the victors, as they say.

Whoever “they” maybe, they are talking bollards – you only need to look @ Anne Frank to realise that.

@sceptical guy wrote:

@pepsi wrote:

I remember the Robinson’s golly badges ,,, they were retired in 2002 apparently due to them not being popular any more with families and nothing to do with pc…. :lol:

I also recall there being a mainstream entertainment show in the late 70’s called ‘The Black and white Minstrels’ ….. eeek !

:shock:

I saw…

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@rogue trader wrote:

this bloke scares me more

Bloke? It’s bear cosy, ffs!

:D

@tinks wrote:

now that is one really scarey looking person ……i can’t believe how long it’s taken to get him out.

Wasn’t this a song by Randy Crawford where she sings,

“Hamaz, You lucky lucky thing.”

:D

@Terry wrote:

@(f)politics? wrote:

i watched it, now i still think it was a pointless exercise,

You may think so but if it uncovers a paedophile ring – and it looks as though it may – then you’re going to look spectacularly stupid by making those kind of remarks.

I agree with you, Terry.

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@tinks wrote:

@panda12 wrote:

Anyone watch the programme?

yes panda i’ve just watched it on itv player……….i’m actually lost for words right at this moment…….i will edit when my head’s a bit clearer

It was very unpleasant viewing.

@minim wrote:

I just don’t understand how people didn’t know. I was trying to remember a time when I didn’t know.

:shock:

@anc wrote:

@panda12 wrote:

@rogue trader wrote:

yes panda,thank you,but do you see what i mean? its all ifs and butts
i.e could have gone
would have gone
should have gone

well i tell you what folks i wont offer again,sort your own meets out
i was even gonna invite martin and ld

yours disappointingly
billy no mates.

Ifs and buts indeed.

If I’d…

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@Terry wrote:

Freddie Starr has been named/shamed as being involved. He is denying any allegations made against him.

Well he is alive and can be investigated.

On Tuesdsy, he applied and was granted a gagging order for the story.

A judge subsequently over turned it.

Hmmm, why apply if you have nothing to hide?

:-k

@tinks wrote:

@panda12 wrote:

This is Jack, my golly:

I bought him a few years back.

Is he offensive or racist?

i had a golly as a child……….he was my favourite toy for a couple of years……..where i went, golly went……….hes was my best bud

i also had a doll that had dark skin………..she actually had a smell quite like chocolate…

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@sceptical guy wrote:

Why, panda, what else could it mean???

Well, washing lines have pulleys, don’t they?

Cars as well, I think.

:P

@sceptical guy wrote:

me and Mrs T in the same shameboat. I had a ickle brooch to stick on me pully. Was very proud.

I am assuming that pully here means pullover? :shock:

@Mrs_Teapot wrote:

@panda12 wrote:

@Mrs_Teapot wrote:

Me too retake…I never took to the James Bond thing… if I had to pick one out though I would probably pick Roger Moore… he has a nice eyebrow :D

That eyebrow, it was a caterpillar:

Its a very sexy caterpillar though :D

Stop crawling, Teapot! :P

@Mrs_Teapot wrote:

I had a golly when i was a little girl… like you panda I often wonder whatever happened to him. I loved him to bits…. him and a doll named Susan :D Are they offensive? Hard to say as Im not a black person…. I hope they are not, because as a child golly was just golly in my eyes….. he wasn’t black white pink or blue….…

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