You might have heard during the week about Carol Thatcher, daughter of Maggie, being fired by the BBC for referring to a French tennis player as a ‘golliwog’.
Not particularly clever, let’s face it, and whatever you might think about ‘PC going mad’ the fact that it was a Thatcher means I have no sympathy whatsoever for her.
Today, the presenter of the One Show, Adrian Chiles, spoke about hearing Thatcher’s comments back-stage. He said:
I looked at one of my colleagues — a young woman of Mauritian origin — and gave quiet thanks that she appeared to be out of earshot. It’s been alleged that I was shocked. Well, I was. In my view, the G-word is offensive.
Not as offensive as the n-word, but offensive nevertheless. And I was pretty horrified to hear her use it.
The ‘G-word’? THE ‘G-WORD’. Since when has golliwog been the ‘G-word’?
Seriously, what a stupid fucking cunt. I’ve always thought people who says things like ‘Oh, he said the F-word’ are morons. Just say the word. It’s just a word. It’s not like you’re using it in the context in which its taken as offensive.
Ron Atkinson did not call Marcel Desailly a ‘lazy, thick, N-word’, did he?
The word, like it or not, is ‘golliwog’. You can say it without being offensive, and whether or not the word is offensive on its own is another debate. Sure, if you call a black person a golliwog then there’s little doubt of your intention when using it, but simply saying it in the context of an explanation is not.
And what if you’re talking about actual golliwogs? Toys that many of us grew up with yet managed to avoid joining the KKK.
“When I was a boy my favourite toys were Action Man, Lego and my G-word!”. Fuck. Off.
The ‘G-word’, fuck me. I’m telling you this, Adrian Chiles is not a stupid C-word, he’s a stupid Cunt. Yes, with a capital C.
Can it, Honky.
H-word, I mean, H-word.
He’s also diddling the B-word.
Which may be why the B-word’s boyf dumped her recently.
Adrian Chiles is from Birmingham and was heavily beaten with the ugly stick. The defense rests m’lud.
Im a 40 year old Canuk and I had to google what a golliwog is I had no idea whats so ever, and man that thing is really offensive looking where did they make those in some klan run factory.
If some snot nose upper crust fuck had said or used a comment like that about me or where I was from Id fucking shit on them.
Ive had to work in the past with a few Brits and they all seem to come across as so fucking racist and condesending about every one.
If that happed in Canada they would be fired that day
On another note if you sexually assaulted him would you be a Chiles molester?
I believe that they played the Christian Bale rant uncensored on the BBC lunchtime news.
Double fucking standards.
Breakfast TV, I think, and there was one ‘fucking’ before it was turned off. The presenters were aghast though. Aghast.
Every jar of Robertson’s jam came with a paper cut out golliwog. When you had saved enough of them you would mail them in and get a metal golliwog badge/lapel pin.
And then there’s Golly Bars with the golliwog picture.
“Hi mister, can I have a G-Bar please mister?”
Were FBI G-Men all black?
She called him a “golliwog frog”. Me thinks Chiles doth protest too much. I saw Willie Walsh, the BA dude, on Question Time a few weeks. I can’t remember who the specific question was about but the topic was what you find objectionable in a racist/xenophobic 9spellin?) manner. Willie said he finds “Paddy” offensive. My opinion? I think people feign the fact that they’re offended. I’d be from the southpark school of thought though where everybody is ridiculable, if that is a word.
The guy on The Daily Show at Obamas inaugaration to 2 black guys.
Interviewer – “So are we all brothers now?”
2 Black Guys – “YEAH”
Interviwer – “So I can call you nigger”?
2 Black Guys, shocked – “Nope”
fucking hilarious
According to my son, Adrian Chiles has always been a gobshite, and everyone who loves football hates him, cos he’s an arrogant thicko in his comments.
I don’t love footie, but I still think he’s a gobshite, cos he’s smarmy. and I’m not surprised that he’s jumping on the “I’m appalled” bandwagon!
Yer woman Thatcher is some bag of shite, though.
She always looks like she has escaped from a home for the bewildered!
If Adrian Chiles is the stupid cunt here, then what does that make Carol Thatcher?
CW Says:
February 7th, 2009 at 6:26 pm
If Adrian Chiles is the stupid cunt here, then what does that make Carol Thatcher?
Odd. But harmless. Just like yid. And paddy.
There’s far too much of this PC shite out there. There is no such thing as bad language. If the language that we use every day to express ourselves contains so-called swearwords, what the fuck! And, every time I say ‘fuck’ I don’t have a vision of some clown with a six inch horn trying to insert it 12 inches into some ould one.
There are too many ‘sensitive’ people out there just looking for an opportunity to pull some else up on what they perceive to be a racist comment.
I, myself, am a rampant racist. I can’t stand assholes no matter what colour they are!
AND! I refuse to be linguistically cleansed.
What’s with all this G word,C word, B word, F word, a spade is a spade, so why not call a SPADE a fuckin SPADE.
Damn print only review…i wonder if not putting it in the online Times was Fuck you to everyone here…
Apparrantly people that read and write blogs dont read anything if its not on a computer screen..
Cunts.. Im gonna buy the fucking thing just to piss them off…
Oops,wrong thread.. still drunk..hic
this should be in the Forum, see can we get through the alphabet, the Capt. would enjoy it
I think this post really hits the G-spot.
I’ve seen ‘eff off’ written recently. I flogged the person who texted it to me.
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http://lifeinjars.wordpress.com/2008/12/19/friday-dedication-4-twenty-is-a-c-word/
if N-word is just a word then how come twenty said “n-word”? just say the word twenty