Tell Me Something............Anything!

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Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony

I like that, looks like a perfect Christmas gift for my friend. And for us. Are there other colours?

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Light blue.

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Originally Posted by walpurgis

Talk about milking something for all it's worth. The old girl is probably unaware of the bad old real world outside of her sheltered experience and meant no offence. A naive conversational faux pas is not racism!

Here, in case anybody wondered: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdFq...yNewsAustralia

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No doubt she'll be seeking compensation soon for hurty feelings.

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Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony

Can't imagine why anyone might think her origins are Afro-Caribbean.

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/11...9814210363.jpg

Personally I get quite offended by assumptions about my career choice: I tell them I'm in Human Logistics, but they're not convinced. I feel so trapped :(

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She seems to be at pains to stress her African descent to an almost comical degree through her clothing, then gets offended when someone enquires about it. Perhaps the old lady was a bit entitled with the hair touching and enquiring manner, but big deal? Now they're using it to claim 'institutional racism' within the Royal family, these 'activists' are such a dreary po-faced bunch. Shame that they're so influential these days, it won't be long until they start demanding Churchill statues be torn down, and all our museums are emptied.

'Woke' is just fascism in a different suit. We'll tell you how to think - get in line or we'll make your life a misery.

i get asked if im an Aussie quite often;)

saucy barks:cool:

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Originally Posted by struth

i get asked if im an Aussie quite often;)

saucy barks:cool:

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G'day Grant, didn't see you there! Might have something to do with your latest hat purchase :)

https://www.dfparty.co.uk/media/cata...o/cork_hat.jpg

'Ngozi' is a common name of the Ibo peoples in Nigeria. 'Fulani' in the name of one of the largest ethnic groups in the Sahel and West Africa, widely dispersed across the region, including Nigeria. But the two names refer to two separate groups.

Maybe Susan Hussey was seeking clarification - but did so in a very rude and racially insensitive way. But she had no right to touch Ms. Fulani's hair in order to read her name badge.

Was she being 'racist'? - I don't know: but imagine if the tables were turned and Ngozi Fulani had asked the same of Susan Hussey.

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Originally Posted by Barry

'Ngozi' is a common name of the Ibo peoples in Nigeria. 'Fulani' in the name of one of the largest ethnic groups in the Sahel and West Africa, widely dispersed across the region, including Nigeria. But the two names refer to two separate groups.

Maybe Susan Hussey was seeking clarification - but did so in a very rude and racially insensitive way. But she had no right to touch Ms. Fulani's hair in order to read her name badge.

Was she being 'racist'? - I don't know: but imagine if the tables were turned and Ngozi Fulani had asked the same of Susan Hussey.

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Hussey had a right to be confused, 'Fulani' dresses in very ethnic African/Caribbean wear, with her hair in long dreads, her real name is also Marlene Headley.

I doub't very much that Hussey would be able to distinguish between Afro-Caribbean and Fulani sartorial styles. Wearing dreadlocks has nothing to do with it - you see people sporting them all over Africa as well as in the Caribbean..

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Originally Posted by Barry

I doub't very much that Hussey would be able to distinguish between Afro-Caribbean and Fulani sartorial styles. Wearing dreadlocks has nothing to do with it - you see people sporting them all over Africa as well as in the Caribbean..

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Indeed, neither would I.