:sunglasses: 62.5 % :pray: 12.5 % :laughing: 25 %
By Bones McCoy
#48419
safe_timber_man wrote: Fri Jul 14, 2023 5:09 pm Snow White and the Seven... Politically-Correct Companions? First pictures of new live-action remake of Disney classic shows princess walking with diverse band of merry men and women after row over using dwarf actors
Rachel Zegler, who plays the fictional princess, has been pictured for the first time with her new companions who appear to be a mix of genders, ethnicities and heights.
GMartyn
Bristol
Utterly laughable. And at this point sinisterly erasing European folkloric heritage. Imagine doing this to every other cultures' indigenous stories.
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Just wait until they hear about the three Hobbit movies.
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By Abernathy
#48434
Samanfur wrote: Fri Jul 14, 2023 7:54 pm I got asked what I thought about my workplace's "woke agenda" yesterday. Apparently, we've "gone woke" in the last five years or so.

I declined to answer.
Who was asking ?
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By Samanfur
#48440
One of our regulars. Without going into detail, let's just say that I'm surprised that it took him this long to ask.

It wasn't a coincidence that some of these changes happened when I started work there, either.
By Bones McCoy
#48486
ConservativeHome's pet Libertarian continues to lead the children toward Wibbleburg.

We suffer the excesses of woke capitalism because the Sixties generation has captured business

https://conservativehome.com/2023/07/14 ... -business/

Some proper quackers in the comments, many sounding like MAGA types.
Also a few sane voices.
Whether the sane voices are disgruntled Tories, or Libs there to "Own the Cons", we'll probably never know.
By Youngian
#48493
Tubby Isaacs wrote: Sat Jul 15, 2023 12:06 pm Sixties generation are retired and voting Tory.
There were kids in the late 60s and 70s discussing withdrawal from Vietnam and Jimi Hendrix’s virtuosity. But far more giggling around the sandpit at the school bully rubbing Sambo’s face in the sandpit and saying Enoch will send you back. When black kids and the poofters dressed like Bowie bagged the fit birds at the school disco, the gammon resentment of modern Britain grew like bamboo over the next half century.
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By Andy McDandy
#48496
It's easy to imagine Enoch making his speech among the bombed out ruins, Empire Windrush pulling in at the quayside, black and white Pathe newsreel capturing it. But he made that speech in 1968, in the aftermath of MLK's assassination. Summer of love. The year my parents met. The Windrush generation were married, parents, possibly grandparents by then. Fucking recent.
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By Malcolm Armsteen
#48499
Youngian wrote: Sat Jul 15, 2023 12:54 pm
Tubby Isaacs wrote: Sat Jul 15, 2023 12:06 pm Sixties generation are retired and voting Tory.
There were kids in the late 60s and 70s discussing withdrawal from Vietnam and Jimi Hendrix’s virtuosity. But far more giggling around the sandpit at the school bully rubbing Sambo’s face in the sandpit and saying Enoch will send you back. When black kids and the poofters dressed like Bowie bagged the fit birds at the school disco, the gammon resentment of modern Britain grew like bamboo over the next half century.
Really? Not in my experience.
By Youngian
#48538
Malcolm Armsteen wrote: Sat Jul 15, 2023 2:47 pm
Youngian wrote: Sat Jul 15, 2023 12:54 pm
Tubby Isaacs wrote: Sat Jul 15, 2023 12:06 pm Sixties generation are retired and voting Tory.
There were kids in the late 60s and 70s discussing withdrawal from Vietnam and Jimi Hendrix’s virtuosity. But far more giggling around the sandpit at the school bully rubbing Sambo’s face in the sandpit and saying Enoch will send you back. When black kids and the poofters dressed like Bowie bagged the fit birds at the school disco, the gammon resentment of modern Britain grew like bamboo over the next half century.
Really? Not in my experience.
You’d fall into the former category whereas the latter would resonate with my Kipper brother and most of his associates and friends I’ve ever met. Although I haven’t seen any of them much since the smoking ban in pubs was enforced.
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By Malcolm Armsteen
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I really don't think there were many in your second category, apart from Graham, and he was considered dim by the thick kids. Known as 'Blem' on the grounds of his acne.

I remember about 1965 having a long, possibly stoned, conversation with a young American girl about whether or not Dr King might actually be the second coming of Christ (she thought he was, I was keeping up the atheist end). We were actually that hippy.
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By Abernathy
#48545
Raises the quite interesting question of how, when/if the second coming of Jeebus occurs, how will we know?

After all, on his first shot, hardly anyone believed him. Are his prospects really likely to be that great second time around ?

And he might not fancy being a carpenter again. I dare say he’ll be a fucking YouTube influencer.
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By Dalem Lake
#48556
Abernathy wrote: Sat Jul 15, 2023 11:23 pm Raises the quite interesting question of how, when/if the second coming of Jeebus occurs, how will we know?

After all, on his first shot, hardly anyone believed him. Are his prospects really likely to be that great second time around ?

And he might not fancy being a carpenter again. I dare say he’ll be a fucking YouTube influencer.
Because he'd tell us, obviously. He came back in the body of David Icke.
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By Andy McDandy
#49844
According to Allister Heath in today's Torygraph, the latest woke thing is capitalism. Behind a paywall, but the gist seems to be that business leaders are too concerned about good PR and attracting customers, rather than.....whatever businesses should do.
By Bones McCoy
#49856
Andy McDandy wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 9:08 am According to Allister Heath in today's Torygraph, the latest woke thing is capitalism. Behind a paywall, but the gist seems to be that business leaders are too concerned about good PR and attracting customers, rather than.....whatever businesses should do.
Down with this service ad customers nonsense.

All the modern edgelord CEOs are piling their enterprise with debt and sluicing the proceeds to shareholders, and paying themselves massive wedges of share options.
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