The BBC and racism.

I think you have already

You were on the anni'FOT?

 

(William Grainger) burbled:

Actually a corruption of "Jaws harp", obviously relating to the manner
in which the instrument is held. As for Rexx's supposition, I give
you the Didgeridoo.

 

Using the patented Mavis Bacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, athomik

Don't. Just *don't*, OK?

A while back I had to write a "Programming Tip & Tricks" presentation
for my company's US conference. Given that it was a dry-as-dust topic I
threw a couple of innocuous gags in to keep people awake. They were
*all* removed by the review team on the grounds that they might cause
offence.

Except for one. I had a dialogue box with "Yes" and "No" buttons, and
the message "Do you want to not format hard disk, or not?". They sent
that back with the message "We took the first 'not' out, it didn't make
sense"...

 

poor troll. Try harder.

 

:->

 

What about jokes that depend on internal structure for their humour,
such as "What's orange and sounds like a parrot? A Carrot!"

Who might that offend?

 

Anyone with a sense of humour.

 

Appeals to the under twelves and brings in loads of dosh (for the record
company, if not the artist). Artist gets to shag super models/ gets shagged
by famous footballers. Artist qualifies for handing out slimming/health
advice, and gets to comment on loads of stuff they haven't got a clue about
on daytime TV.

 

Well, more likely that I was mentally 'elsewhere', and also that, with
a whole bunch of people there I didn't have much chance to talk to any
of them.

 

There was also, as PC mentioned, the AnniFOT earlier in the year.

 

Carrots. Your average carrot might not like being called a ginge.

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Dave

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By which measure none of the following bands are remotely
commercially successful:

Genesis (Have you seen how much money they made?)
Yes (ditto)
(And any of the other 70's Prog bands that sold big like VDGG, Jethro
Tull etc etc)
Beatles (not short of a bob or two eh?)
Rush
Runrig (OK so not quite so rich as the above. But still
'financially viable')

To name but a few.

Would sir like salt and pepper with his hat?

Phil

 

Well, ****, I am a self-obsessed wanker (tm Darsy) after all.

 

You're making the mistake of using the word "music" in it's original sense.
Since the end of the last century, "real" music no longer counts. On top of
that, the description of the music of all of the above involves the word
"rock". This implies a hefty dose of the old blues/R&B/Rock n' Roll in their
heritage, which brings us right back to the original point about black
music.

 

It's orange. It's a ginge. Tough. Nature is cruel sometimes - and
it's only a fucking vegetable fer ****'s sake.

 

The Albion Band sold a few records in their time, and I defy anyone to tell
me that an accordian, a singer and the background noise of bells, hankies
and sticks being hit derives _anything_ from "rock"

And then we've got Woody Guthrie. Where does 'folk' end, 'blues' begin,
and isn't blues just a derivation of folk anyway?

 

Look, I understand Ginge is a bit slow, but to call him
a vegetable is a bit rough.

 

As in "Unfair to vegetables" you mean?

 

Nature? No chance - carrots were purple originally and then the Dutch
waded in to breed it in their national colour.

It ain't natural, it's a mutant!

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-297918,00.html
http://website.lineone.net/~stolarczyk/maroon.html
http://edition.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/05/16/carrots.purple/

 

darsy :

I thought it was a reasonable description myself.