👨 👨🏽 👨🏿 Black Lives Matter protest

I believe you may be thinking of shredded wheat. Which tastes like cardboard, but without the flavour.

Brian Clough took the shredded wheat shilling iirc, together with Peter Shilton.

That was the one. But I also ate Weetabix. No fucking wonder.

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Eat up your weetabix and you’ll grow up big and strong…

Have you considered suing? :thinking: :grin:

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The Ian Botham room service was the best Shredded Wheat ad.

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It was indeed. A masterstroke by Nabisco’s marketing (or whatever) people, launched in the wake of the astonishing 1981 Ashes series.

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The Chef on the phone, was Mike out of The Young Ones.

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Apparently Raab has similar misgivings to the “taking the knee” gesture as myself…

Interesting that every single player involved in last night’s games was apparently comfortable with doing it. :thinking:

So Swing Low sweet Chariot is under threat of a ban from England rugby games because…

It is an American Slave song and we shouldn’t have appropriated it

This is getting a bit daft now

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Fear not. When the last reference to slavery has finally been airbrushed from history, the last statue removed, the last film edited and the last book redacted or pulped, we can at last all pretend that it never happened.

And I’m sure BLM have considered that.

Pilfered from my own FB. Lot of Trumpian cunts about.

Starting a new service today, free for anyone that needs it. It’s called the moron education service.

Here is a map of Britain shortly after the Norman conquest.

See that bit at the bottom over the Channel? That became little Britain. The larger bit that’s not in France? That was known as great Britain.

Therefore, if you want Britain to be “great” again, get the fuck off Facebook and invade France.

That works for me - fuck off the welsh and scots (carlise is a bonus) and gain some nice beaches in France

Must need glasses. Cant see Westeros County on that map

I’m really not going to be popular on FB :smiley:

Post #2 of the moron education service.

Protest is the inevitable consequence of issues not being addressed through conventional structures, in our case, the elected representatives of Her Majesty’s government.

Protests end when a government addresses an issue. This is why there were women demanding the vote a century ago, and they’re not now. The issue was addressed. The need to protest is done.

So let’s apply that to all the atrocities that people are spreading in the sillier memes.

“There were no protests when such and such happened”, you’ll see, as if that should have happened.

There were no protests because the governments of the day have always responded to atrocities immediately. The government doesn’t ignore the problem or pretend it isn’t a problem. Governments respond with prosecutions, new legislation and even sometimes, with war.

It’s when the government doesn’t respond to the concerns of its citizens that protest happens.

Glad to have cleared that up.

I fear for you in UK I really do.
I made the mistake of reading the comments on the fail report of our game
The hatred for taking a knee was truly distressing

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Twitter isn’t real life. The Daily Mail is not real life. Facebook is not real life, but it is the platform I think is closest on the Internet. Twitter is a cauldron of competing echo chambers. It takes a very special person to both sign up for and post a comment on the Daily Mail website.

What I will say is that the Internet is the best every amplifier of public opinion that ever existed, especially these days. If you believed followers, trends and suchlike, you’d be mistaken for thinking the nation is fervently for this, for fervently for that. Extremes.

Most of it is bollocks. Facebook is at least useful in that it’s not an echo chamber. It’s people you’re related to, people you know from work and some of those comments?

Brr.

But they’re nowt like the coordinated shit elsewhere.

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Britain has never been called “Great” in the context of its history buts its geography.
Didn’t anyone point this out on your facebook page?
The Normans were essentially Vikings.

I see a bunch of “Whiteys” are frothing at the mouth about removing a Rugby Drinking Song from the England International Playlist as it has all of a sudden become a song reflecting national pride.

What a load of fucking rubbish…when I was a young man it was simply an after game Rugby drinking song accompanied by the usual hand gestures. It has nothing to do with England…doesn’t mention the country and means nothing to me apart from being a traditional “Negro Spiritual”.

It’s irrelevance to an England team has always been an annoyance to me…good riddance to it. :rage:

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I’m not arsed but the hypocrisy makes me laugh.
The Haka slits peoples throat.
Flower of Scotland is anti English.
The Irish national anthem?

…and that is down to those nations to determine what they want to do… just because others make their own decisions, does not mean we should not make unilateral ones… That’s like saying we should not have gotten rid of the death penalty because its still legal in many other countries… Why not just state you dont agree with the decision? why the need to try and justify it based on what others do?

Should all whites be racist, because there are is black on white racism?

Sometimes your logic is load of bollocks