So What About Harry Then??
The BBC gave a platform yesterday to the musician and activist Aki Nawaz who performs in a group called Fun-da-mental. Nawaz called for Harry to be punished for his "racial slur" and dismissed from the Army.
Just so you know where Nawaz is coming from, here are some lyrics from one of his songs..........
"I've packed up my ingredients stacked up my laptop / downloaded the military cookbook pdf / elements everyday chemicals at my reach / household bleach to extract the potassium / chlorate boiling on a hot plate with hate / recipe for disaster plastic bomb blaster / i mix up 5 parts wax to vaseline / slowly...dissolve in gasoline / add to potassium in a large metal bowl / knead like dough so they bleed real slow / gasoline evaporates...cool dry place..."
Well done, the BBC
Just so you know where Nawaz is coming from, here are some lyrics from one of his songs..........
"I've packed up my ingredients stacked up my laptop / downloaded the military cookbook pdf / elements everyday chemicals at my reach / household bleach to extract the potassium / chlorate boiling on a hot plate with hate / recipe for disaster plastic bomb blaster / i mix up 5 parts wax to vaseline / slowly...dissolve in gasoline / add to potassium in a large metal bowl / knead like dough so they bleed real slow / gasoline evaporates...cool dry place..."
Well done, the BBC
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I reckon all this crap has come about because Ahmed's dad
didn't like his son being referred to in those sort of terms.
Let's face it, Snobbery and "Knowing your position in Society"
is of Paramount importance in Asian culture, and having your
son referred to as a "Paki" when he is obviously bound for a
glittering future is a real bummer.
Even though he is a Paki. Born and bred.
He should NOT have told his Dad! Dad's the one that got ANGRY!
didn't like his son being referred to in those sort of terms.
Let's face it, Snobbery and "Knowing your position in Society"
is of Paramount importance in Asian culture, and having your
son referred to as a "Paki" when he is obviously bound for a
glittering future is a real bummer.
Even though he is a Paki. Born and bred.
He should NOT have told his Dad! Dad's the one that got ANGRY!
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Exactly! Whoever gave that film to the W*ankers' Weekly should be out of the Army tootsweet. The chances are that the identity is known and whoever it is should be down the Job Centre fairly soon. To think that a Cavalry Regiment has bounders like that among its ranks!
What really made me nearly puke earlier today was watching some smug self-satisfied smirking overweight to**er of a former NoW editor taking the moral high ground and saying that Harry should apologise at greater length. In my view what H should do is to get off back to Afghanistan and invite the journos to hear his apology at some FOB - that should separate the men from the boys...
I can't wait to hear from the Pakistani OC himself; the NoW is outraged and his father definitely upset but how does the butt of the joke feel about it? So far he's maintained a dignified silence - let's hope it'll continue.
Demands that H be dismissed from the Army are just so much hot air - they're annoying but ultimately about as important as last week's TV schedules. Let them pass and just marvel at the idiocy and desperation for notoriety of them and those who would give them a platform.
Yes, I too noticed how much air time this Paki business got today - the Royal killed in Afghanistan got scant coverage. B*stards.
What really made me nearly puke earlier today was watching some smug self-satisfied smirking overweight to**er of a former NoW editor taking the moral high ground and saying that Harry should apologise at greater length. In my view what H should do is to get off back to Afghanistan and invite the journos to hear his apology at some FOB - that should separate the men from the boys...
I can't wait to hear from the Pakistani OC himself; the NoW is outraged and his father definitely upset but how does the butt of the joke feel about it? So far he's maintained a dignified silence - let's hope it'll continue.
Demands that H be dismissed from the Army are just so much hot air - they're annoying but ultimately about as important as last week's TV schedules. Let them pass and just marvel at the idiocy and desperation for notoriety of them and those who would give them a platform.
Yes, I too noticed how much air time this Paki business got today - the Royal killed in Afghanistan got scant coverage. B*stards.
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"Anybody remember the fuss about the Robertson's Gollywog logo?"
Yeah, I remember that. A few years ago I worked on doing deliveries around the north east of England blah blah blah, my driver, very good friend of mine, had a Gollywog, one of those badge, pin ones, about 2 inches long, he had it pinned onto the sun viser on our delivery van. Our gaffar seen it once & told him to take it off & get rid of it because it was "unacceptable"......But it was okay to have a similar pin badge of the clown from Mcdonalds....
What a world we live in, e'h...
Yeah, I remember that. A few years ago I worked on doing deliveries around the north east of England blah blah blah, my driver, very good friend of mine, had a Gollywog, one of those badge, pin ones, about 2 inches long, he had it pinned onto the sun viser on our delivery van. Our gaffar seen it once & told him to take it off & get rid of it because it was "unacceptable"......But it was okay to have a similar pin badge of the clown from Mcdonalds....
What a world we live in, e'h...
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The Robertson Golliwogs story reminds me of the supposedly true one about Idi Amin. Seems he threatened to remove the Queens head from Ugandan postage stamps. F&C office response was that, in that case we would be force to remove his portrait from our marmalade
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you tell em Sid 
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"Anybody remember the fuss about the Robertson's Gollywog logo?"
Yeah, I remember that. A few years ago I worked on doing deliveries around the north east of England blah blah blah, my driver, very good friend of mine, had a Gollywog, one of those badge, pin ones, about 2 inches long, he had it pinned onto the sun viser on our delivery van. Our gaffar seen it once & told him to take it off & get rid of it because it was "unacceptable"......But it was okay to have a similar pin badge of the clown from Mcdonalds....
What a world we live in, e'h...
Yip - and remember Lee's Macaroon bars "for picininis and grand papas"
Then there was also Black Sambo chewing gum.
Reckon this thread will get pulled soon. Thought police will be onto it.
Yeah, I remember that. A few years ago I worked on doing deliveries around the north east of England blah blah blah, my driver, very good friend of mine, had a Gollywog, one of those badge, pin ones, about 2 inches long, he had it pinned onto the sun viser on our delivery van. Our gaffar seen it once & told him to take it off & get rid of it because it was "unacceptable"......But it was okay to have a similar pin badge of the clown from Mcdonalds....
What a world we live in, e'h...
Yip - and remember Lee's Macaroon bars "for picininis and grand papas"
Then there was also Black Sambo chewing gum.
Reckon this thread will get pulled soon. Thought police will be onto it.
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I've not had the chance to read every post on this thread so apologies if I repeat something.
This story was total arse. I'm not in the military and never have been but i've read enough to know that military life is very much about taking the piss and that kind of language is used all day, every day by people as part of the friendly banter. I'm not a royal fan to be honest but this really was sensationalist rubbish.
Another point that I have to make... I was discussing this with my wife last night and she told me that at my 2 year old's play school they're not allowed to sing Baa Baa Black sheep. It has to be Baa Baa PINK sheep for f*** sake!. Also a black board is no longer a black board, it's a bloody chalk board! When will it end? Interesting to note that a white board is still called a white board though
This story was total arse. I'm not in the military and never have been but i've read enough to know that military life is very much about taking the piss and that kind of language is used all day, every day by people as part of the friendly banter. I'm not a royal fan to be honest but this really was sensationalist rubbish.
Another point that I have to make... I was discussing this with my wife last night and she told me that at my 2 year old's play school they're not allowed to sing Baa Baa Black sheep. It has to be Baa Baa PINK sheep for f*** sake!. Also a black board is no longer a black board, it's a bloody chalk board! When will it end? Interesting to note that a white board is still called a white board though
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Ugadan Embassy
Wasn't it the Ugadan Embassy who tried to get the pigeons removed from Trafalgar Square ??
Said every time their staff walked across the square the pigeons took the p***
by walking round in circles calling out "look atacoons look atacoons"
Said every time their staff walked across the square the pigeons took the p***
by walking round in circles calling out "look atacoons look atacoons"
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Mrs Ex has a ancient, well-thumbed and -loved copy of "Little Black Sambo" which, many years ago, her mother would read to her and her sister. Now I've confessed to having a copy, no doubt the PC brigade will be round for a ceremonial book burning. Shades of Germany in the 30s. God help us for assuredly no-one else will.
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In simple basic broad terminology, the Arabic world and its muslim neighbours place the letter 'i' at the end of the abridged country of origin, to denote a citizen of that country so, for example, we have Omani, Iraqi, Kuwaiti, Irani, Saudi, Qatari, Bahraini, Yemeni, Somali, Uzbeki, Bangladeshi etc, even, dare we mention it in the same sentence, Israeli. The 'stan' means land/country. Removing the 'stan we have the endings Paki - land of the Paki people and likewise for the other 'stans.
A Bangladeshi (formerly East Pakistan) will most certainly object to be labelled, inaccurately, as a Pakistani. Just as any Scots man could object to being labelled English in a broad sense. British??? I do not use the term 'British' nowadays, as this is used to describe the new-age mixed bag of individuals, who couldn't give a damn about the past centuries of 'British' achievement and heritage. Remember Norman Tebbit's cricket test?
I'm surprised no one who has seen the footage has commented on Harry smoking ........ doesn't he know it could endanger his health. I'm shocked to learn that the British Army permits soldiers on active duty, in hot-spot war zones, to smoke. Shocked, yes shocked! The Army is clearly failing in its duty of care to our servicemen and women.
A Bangladeshi (formerly East Pakistan) will most certainly object to be labelled, inaccurately, as a Pakistani. Just as any Scots man could object to being labelled English in a broad sense. British??? I do not use the term 'British' nowadays, as this is used to describe the new-age mixed bag of individuals, who couldn't give a damn about the past centuries of 'British' achievement and heritage. Remember Norman Tebbit's cricket test?
I'm surprised no one who has seen the footage has commented on Harry smoking ........ doesn't he know it could endanger his health. I'm shocked to learn that the British Army permits soldiers on active duty, in hot-spot war zones, to smoke. Shocked, yes shocked! The Army is clearly failing in its duty of care to our servicemen and women.