True colours

[Cyberman]

So Carol Thatcher is sacked for something said in a private conversation in the 'green room'(she said that a certain tennis player who had been knocked out of the US open looked like a golliwog) which she apologised for even though she meant nothing malicious whatsoever. Rumour has it that Jo Brand complained. Jonathan Ross keeps his job even though he committed a much greater crime IMO.

Could it be that she has be sacked because certain bigoted people at the BBC hate anything Thatcher, and we have an election coming up that the Tories will probably win ? I believe so !!


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7870298.stm

[BrilloPad]

When I was a baby my favourite toy was a golliw*g. Its hard to accept it has become an offensive term......

[Ruprect]

Perhaps there is a gap in the market for a new product called Golliwags. Little dolls with large fake n*rks, permatans and vacant looking faces?

[Cyberman]

Golliwogs are cute. Children love them, but unfortunately everything is so politically correct nowadays that the country is a joke !!

[expat]

When I was a baby my favourite toy was a golliw*g. Its hard to accept it has become an offensive term......

As applied to a doll or a representation of a doll, the word "golliwog" is not rightfully offensive (applied to a person, it might be, but that is not my point here). Please don't kow-tow in advance to a hypothetical PC-gone-mad by censoring the very word yourself.

[Zippy]

Perhaps there is a gap in the market for a new product called Golliwags. Little dolls with large fake n*rks, permatans and vacant looking faces?

[BrilloPad]

As applied to a doll or a representation of a doll, the word "golliw*g" is not rightfully offensive (applied to a person, it might be, but that is not my point here). Please don't kow-tow in advance to a hypothetical PC-gone-mad by censoring the very word yourself.

It never ceases to amaze me what the mods will find offensive. I assume n**ks still earns a 2 day ban?

[gingerjedi]

Could it be that she has be sacked because certain bigoted people at the BBC hate anything Thatcher, and we have an election coming up that the Tories will probably win ? I believe so !!

If they hated her so much why did they employ her in the first place?

They sacked her because she used an offensive term which some on here strangely look back on with affection, Jonathan Ross didn't offend an entire race just a few thousand latent fascists Daily Mail readers who didn't even listen to his show.

[Cyberman]

If they hated her so much why did they employ her in the first place?

They sacked her because she used an offensive term which some on here strangely look back on with affection, Jonathan Ross didn't offend an entire race just a few thousand latent fascists Daily Mail readers who didn't even listen to his show.

It was only offensive if aimed at a person personally, but this was not as it was in a PRIVATE CONVERSATION. Jonathan Ross's insults were aimed directly at an old man and his granddaughter over the phone... IE PERSONAL.

It's amazing how bigots raise their ugly heads when they are on a losing run.

[Pickle2]

Perhaps there is a gap in the market for a new product called Golliwags. Little dolls with large fake n*rks, permatans and vacant looking faces?

Theres been an active market for thses kind of "dolls" for quite a long time...