O/T Well it looks like White Lives don't matter.

[Slimchance]

Have you noticed that the shape made when "taking the knee" looks a bit like a swastika?

No

[Slimchance]

Ladies and gentlemen I give you the story of " Bubba's Noose"

I missed this story somehow, but it just shows why trial by media is never a good idea

[CAMiller]

I missed this story somehow, but it just shows why trial by media is never a good idea

It is rather ironic that someone vying to not be judged by people on the way he looks jumped to make a judgement simply on the way something looked. I could guarantee that growing up in the 60s/70s in Rawmarsh he would have seen a 'noose' hanging from a tree in any woods. We called them 'tarzans' and used them to swing on.

[ragingpup]

Have the lefties listed any BBC bias, they claim it exists but I've not seen any evidence from them.

Stand by for a flood of posts showing I'm wrong

Two minute google search using "BBC right wing bias/anti labour bias" brought up these in the first page.

(not saying I agree with any of them by the way re: the BBC. Just showing that extremists on both sides have the same complaints over Auntie

https://theconversation.com/bbc-caug...n-story-128639

https://www.culturematters.org.uk/in...ight-wing-bias

https://www.theguardian.com/media/20...s-of-tory-bias

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/arti...ainst-bbc-bias

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis...-legal-action/

https://www.counterfire.org/articles...it-for-purpose

[CAMiller]

Two minute google search using "BBC right wing bias/anti labour bias" brought up these in the first page.

(not saying I agree with any of them by the way re: the BBC. Just showing that extremists on both sides have the same complaints over Auntie

https://theconversation.com/bbc-caug...n-story-128639

https://www.culturematters.org.uk/in...ight-wing-bias

https://www.theguardian.com/media/20...s-of-tory-bias

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/arti...ainst-bbc-bias

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis...-legal-action/

https://www.counterfire.org/articles...it-for-purpose

Ah the good old Morning Star. Is that still going? I used to work in a newsagents as a ****ager and it's funny how almost 50 years on I still remember the 'odd' folks who took delivery of non mainstream publications including an old gentleman who had The Morning Star and a lovely old couple who had Bellringers Monthly.

[Scum-Triumphant]

My 2 pennies.

There isn’t a problem with race at a ground floor level but that doesn’t fit into the rhetoric of the left wing or the right or indeed the media.

Glastonbury last year there was thousands of white people of all ages watching grime artists. Google Dave Ft Alex doing Thiago Silva.

As football fans we cheer on our players for club and country. I have never heard anyone say “ I do like player X but it’s a shame he’s black”


We live together, work together and go to school together. Music and films are enjoyed on tastes and whether they are any good. Not if they are diverse enough.

To me forcing a black person into a job to meet a criteria is just as shameful as forcing one out.

But if the media and the two extremes cannot create a divide then they have no reason to be.

[KerrAvon]

Ah the good old Morning Star. Is that still going? I used to work in a newsagents as a ****ager and it's funny how almost 50 years on I still remember the 'odd' folks who took delivery of non mainstream publications including an old gentleman who had The Morning Star and a lovely old couple who had Bellringers Monthly.

I used to have two morning rounds and only had one house that took the Morning Star - on Clifton Lane as I recall. I'm not sure if newsagents still stock it. I occasionally see it being hawked outside railway stations along with free sheets and Jehovah's Witness publications.

[KerrAvon]

Interesting that certain people on both the right and left are obsessed that the BBC is biased against them. They can't both be right, yet people from either camp will swear to their God and obsess about it til they're blue in the face. Tends to be the more extremist supporters of both camps that obsess about this.

The new DG of the Beeb, a fully paid up and long serving Conservative Party counselor will do doubt fuel the lefty fire, but can't see even his values pacifying the far right either. Posts will continue on here no doubt. As you were.

Lol. I recall you getting all hot and bothered about the beeb when they wouldn't join you in getting moist in the gussett for Corbyn.

[ragingpup]

Lol. I recall you getting all hot and bothered about the beeb when they wouldn't join you in getting moist in the gussett for Corbyn.

Ah but that was just showing how BBC can be perceived to show bias on both sides, not just to the left. I also showed that there was a bias against the left in choice of guests on their daytime political guests with the left vastly under represented against centre and right candidates. That still holds true, but if i recall you refused to engage with the argument simply as it was presented in a left biased media.

But at the same time, I acknowledged throughout that other BBC departments show political biases towards the left. It's call balance Kerr - you often struggle with that along with your like minded posters Gristy and Fire

[CAMiller]

I used to have two morning rounds and only had one Morning Star - a bloke on Clifton Lane. I know if newsagents still stock it. I sometimes see people hawking it outside railway stations next to the Jehovah's Witnesses and people giving away free samples of new products.

I used to mainly do collections so got to go inside many houses as especially the older customers searched around for the money, good job I was an honest lad as I often got to see where their 'secret' hiding places were. Morning Star guy was on Rockliffe Road in Rawmarsh and bell ringers were on Ingshead Avenue. Got to see many sights doing that job, including one woman who had a couple of big dogs and so would literally "hang out" of the living room window in her negligee to pay me. Scandalous to still be in her nightwear at midday on a Saturday