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Country blues legend Lead Belly is credited with the earliest woke reference

The Song “Scottsboro Boys” describes what happened in 1931 when 9 Black teenagers were accused of raping two white women in Scottsboro, Arkansas.

“I made this little song about down there,” Lead Belly says. “So I advise everybody, be a little careful — best stay woke, keep their eyes open.”
https://adeptales.com/2021/03/war-on-woke/

Mediocre pundit forced to retire at 65.

If every football pundit worked till they were 65, he'd never have got taken on. Sorry, Mark, you're not getting a go till 2005, when Paddy Crerand turns 66.

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Sleep is woke

UK goes woke as average Briton ditches late nights for early mornings by going to sleep 20 minutes earlier than 2020

https://www.gbnews.com/news/uk-woke-dit ... -from-home

Express is unaware that farmers grow plants for a living.

The equally stupid Victoria Atkins believes non meat eaters are hipsters who demand avocados with their toast in Hoxton cafes. That's news to her previous leader who is a veggie. Anyway, befuddled Express readers are all for banning food imports and increasing output through Dig for Victory allotments.

If the student union is so worried about the environmental impacts of food, presumably they will also ban avocados flown in from the other side of the world, grown in the smoke-blackened embers of rainforest deforestation. https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics ... vegan-menu

Them fighter pilots with their woke carrots.

Shooting down our brave lads in their Heinkels.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c743d9jpw88o

Forgot to mention the 950 who signed the petition in the first week.

Also seems a default option in campus catering,noted it said Union catering not University catering. Our coffee shop is a substainable outlet and is only veggie/vegan based.

So effectively the same, just assume that Soton Union has more catering outlets.