Sooty!

[Velvetee]

Does anyone think The Sooty Show was taken off television, because of possible racist connotations?

Prince Charles is now being criticised for calling his Polo friend "Sooty". I think the Media are causing unecessary problems, as from what I gather, this friend has had the nickname for many years. It's not as though Prince Charles created the it for him.

[Everhelpful]

P.C. gone mad again.!!!!

[weeal]

Its all getting out of hand innit (glove puppet lol)

I'll get my coat

[Everhelpful]

A black lad I worked with was nicknamed "Wireless Eye" because he had a Broad Cast in it. He loved the banter.!!

[The Builder]

..............knew a couple of guys who worked at Liverpool docks...............one was so black they called him midnight..............................................

the other wasn't quite so dark.......so they called him eleven thirty................... :o)

[Caribeing]

All this "name calling" is blown out of all proportion! It is obvious there is no newsworthy items at the moment as they have to backtrack for politcally correct items! Here in Ireland we don't take offence at being called Paddys, at least I don't! Get a life there are more important things going on in the world rather than worrying about what name you have been called!!

[Velvetee]

The man in question, who is from India, said he knew he'd made it in Britain, having had a nickname awarded to him. He doesn't mind being called Suthi.

[terambulan]

New labour republicans at work.

[weeal]

remember the programme 'Love thy Neighbour' ? it was full of good humoured racism and nobody batted an eyelid

youre not all THAT young !!

[DrFilth]

when a couple of my old workmates died some of the people i spoke to could only remember them by their nicknames .
lots of us had nicknames, can only remember one who objected



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[DrFilth]

'Love thy Neighbour'
they still show it in the caribbean, and they love it



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[Everhelpful]

DrFilth,you can still buy the DVD's in Morrisons Supermarket where I live.

[Velvetee]

Well I never thought Love Thy Neighbour was funny. I thought the white chap was evil.

[Velvetee]

And I can't stand Jim Davison either or Bernard Manning.

Is Bernard Manning dead?

[terambulan]

Two wongs dont make a wite

[stewey]

Bring back the Golliwog!

[LoftyLottie]

How nice to see a humorous and normal thread about this! I am astounded at how many people have taken this seriously on the other thread below!!

[Gourmander]

I'm still laughing at all those funny names for black people. It's good to know that the education system is turning out a fair quota of racist morons. Where would we be without them?

[CJ242]

PC has definitly gone cuckoo. My daughter came home from school a while ago singing the new song she had learned. Baa baa rainbow sheep!

[sp1814]

PC has definitely gone too far. There's an Asian lad who works in our post room - we call him Bin Laden. He knows we don't mean nothing by it. He complained to his supervisor, and now we have to call him by his name!

Same thing with this bird who's just started in our IT support area. She's got a right pair on her so we call her Milk Float. It's obvious we're only having a laugh, but SHE went and complained too.

The worst one (this'll kill you) is this bloke who works in Marketing. He's in a wheelchair and for a joke we stuck a picture of Stephen Hawkins in his cubicle and started referring to him as Spazz On Wheels. Now I ask you, what's wrong with that?

I tell you, if these people don't like a bit of banter, why don't they just go and get jobs somewhere else?

This PC Britain is doing my head in.