Off Topic A Place to have a Moan about Anything

Yesterday we saw two horror crashes in the bike GP racing. First up the Moto 2, then in the Moto GP machines. As bad as it looked, all riders managed to leave on their feet. There were some seriously lucky riders out there.

 

A proper dose of 'You lucky, lucky boy...!!' God only knows how no one got hurt here...

 

We know that Rishi Sunak is happy to waste taxpayers’ money to try and keep restaurants open in the early part of the week, despite no real evidence that this is an effective policy.

It seems that the Chancellor is happy to waste taxpayers’ money on advertising on commercial television as its revenues dwindle. So the latest disinformation from the government and/or NHS sees an actress standing in front of a hospital dressed as a nurse telling us: “Testing is free, quick and vital to stop the spread of coronavirus so let’s get tested”.

There is no such thing as free; and getting tested will only tell them whether you have coronavirus on the day the test is taken, possibly whether you have already had it (scientifically unproven how long any antibodies are retained) and nothing about your future chances of contracting it.

 

The BLM Broadcasting Corporation of bank holiday wokeness.

On Saturday morning, Radio 2’s Sounds of the Sixties was taken over by Martha Reeves (she of the Vandellas) and she played exclusively music by black artists of the Sixties. Anybody would think that the UK chart was dominated by such (mostly American) artists and that regular host Tony Blackburn never played any of them. Not true of course, Blackburn regularly features the likes of Stevie Wonder, the Drifters and Diana Ross and the Supremes.

Sunday afternoon’s Sounds of the Seventies will be taken over by Nile Rodgers (most famously associated with Chic) and he will be playing exclusively music by black artists of the Seventies. There were a few more of them in the UK charts and regular host Johnny Walker never plays any of them of course.

Fortunately for us stale pale males, the Great Gambo still got to do Pick Of The Pops on Saturday afternoon and was able to play Elton John and Kiki Dee’s 1976 duet and Spandau Ballet’s classic 1983 hit because that show counts down the Top 20 in this week for the featured years – whether the artists be black or white.

 

Strictly Come Dancing 2020 is to have a lesbian contestant who will dance with a female professional. WTF. Does being a lesbian mean you really want to be a bloke or something? Ballroom dancing is couples, a man and a woman, is she going to dress as a bloke.
THE WORLD REALLY HAS GONE BATSHIT CRAZY.

 

It's not about one of them wanting to be a bloke or take the role of a bloke it's about breaking from the old fashioned tradition that a couple has to be male and female

 

That’s my point mate really, ballroom dancing is very traditional but of course that’s not good enough in the modern age, someone HAS to have their gender/sexual preferences recognised.

 

I get what you mean but i think its just an attempt to break from that tradition because its outdated now and kids need to grow up knowing there's nothing 'abnormal' about same sex couples. So seeing it on tv and in everyday life it'll become normal and hopefully attitudes will change and homophobia will become less of a thing. Of course it'll never completely go away given that religion is the main cause of homophobia.

I'm in no way calling you homophobic here by the way, i know that wasn't what your post was about. And i get what you mean it seems so forced

 

There is something ‘abnormal’ about same sex couples. Did they not do biology at your school? As far as I can recall virtually every other species on the planet consists of males and females, with a minority of hermaphrodite species like snails and slugs. Male plus female is how most species continue to exist, therefore male plus male and female plus female is ‘abnormal’.

I have no problem with these ‘abnormal’ people but I do think they should keep it to themselves. From what I have read a Danish same sex couple won their ‘Dancing With The Stars’, but were they the best dancers or did they get the LGBTQ vote every week?

Surely they should have Dame Evelyn Glennie signed up to dance to music that she cannot hear. That would be some achievement, rather than just diversity box ticking.

 

Not worth responding

 

Sue Barker: female, pale and stale
Phil Tufnell: male, pale and stale
Matt Dawson: male, pale and stale

Question Of Sport: time for some multicultural diversity

 

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Time for a moan I reckon
Referring to people on TV:
People ending sentences and sounding as though they haven't finished the sentence or as if asking a question
People starting every answer to a question with "So"
People pronouncing "something" with a strong "k" at the end
People emphasising "of" in "would of". WTF. Should not be saying that on TV; it's not even English
Grown up people in adverts "talking" in baby voices

Feel a bit better now. Time for my medicine

 

The start every comment/answer with "so" or "basically" gets me as well.

 

Can I add to this the adverts that PCly now feature lesbians? We dont have to see them snog or grope each other to prove that you have been so ****ing "inclusive" in your ****y advert!

 

Every family on tv adverts is mix raced....patronising as fcuk.

 

My neighbour is a fifty-something Scouser furloughed holiday rep. and her toyboy husband is from The Gambia. Are you telling me that every household is not that way?

 

Yes, this strange verb "to of" still appears on this part of the forum from time to time. Tried to help one guy, but it's still being done. Really pisses me off, as you say, it's not even English, let alone good English!

.............as for words in TV conversations, it has to be "you know" for me, and I wish people would learn a few synonyms for 'amazing'; there are a few, "you know"!

 

absolutely “