*Bob*

Jah Lush Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > About time you turned up Alan to lighten this > thread up. Poor *Bob* has been getting some > terrible stick. What I want to know is is *Bob* > your bitch? I like to think of myself as the Victoria Wood to his Geoffrey Durham.

Cassius Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If you'd ever like anyone to take your place if > they offer again - please feel free to contact me Naturally if I get another ticket I'll have to give it to Atila - in order to curry favour.

I'm not getting sucked back into this sorry mess by you, Alan. I ain' gon' fall fo' no banana in no tailpipe.

I have been to an Arsenal match. Does this help?! My brother and his girlfriend are season ticket-holder fruitloops and took me to some important cup match, where I stood, bored stiff for 90 minutes (plus half time) waiting for the next waft of fart and/or cheap meat to float past my nostrils.

annaj Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- I would say the > thing right to do at this point would be apologise > for the unintended offence caused I did - thirty posts back: *Bob* Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Seriously Atila, you really have got the wrong end > of the wrong stick, for which I sorry. And I'm sorry about the asterisks. I used to be just plain old (unregistered) Bob, but then another Bob came along, registered the name and then disappeared into the ether without so much as a by your leave.

They're all in it together. Especially Mockney - the swarthy one. Watch out for him.

Domitianus! My Hero! I take back all those terrible things I (probably) said about you. it is interesting though. Atila's inital response was this: *Bob* Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Kebab and chips, please. Ta. Atila Wrote: Clearly you are a very funny man, have ever considered a career on the stage? Or are you just another dumb Anglo-Saxon?;-) Which was exactly what I expected. No problem. There was even a jovial winking smiley there. Three pages later, however, I'm a xenophobic moron.

Went to see Avenue Q last night. It was passable. The songs let it down (and there are a lot of them). And the script wasn't fantastic either. And my wine was warm. And the woman in front laughed overly hard at all the unfunny bits.

Thank god there weren't any eastern-European dental assistants reading - or Alan would have been in the Sin Bin along with yours truly. I thought Atila would be ok. I remember he even mentioned 'The Water Margin' once and I remember thinking 'That bloke must be alright'. But now he hates me. The motto is: "Don't make assumptions about people just because they like The Water Margin".

Incidentally, I just spotted that, earlier in the thread, ALAN (your favourite poster in the irony stakes, Lozzy) - got away with THIS. Alan Dale Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > So Marmora Man fancies his dentist eh? > With chat up lines like "may I ask where you are > from?" then I don't really rate his chances. > Unless she needs a passport that is.. But then I suppose this explains why he's Number One, and I'm a xenophobic moron.

Believe me, Lizzy, you wouldn't catch me drinking with those c**ts. (;-))

Brendan Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > No *Bob* the arrogance thing is just a result of > being good at everything. South Africans of all > races have it. Oooh.. you arrogant swine!

atila the gooner Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- So it's > ok for me to say that all English men are beer > swilling, footballing loving, hooligans that have > a very bad dress sense, who eat crap food, are > lousy lovers, read the Sun, wear Union Jack shorts > on holiday, shout at foreign waiters on holiday, > and in restaurants because they can't speak > English, and who love their dogs more than their > wives/children. So you've been to Tenerife too? Where did you stay? Seriously Atila, you really have got the wrong end of the wrong stick, for which I sorry. But good luck with the football.

If I have to think of the (white) South African stereotype that I've heard most often, it's 'arrogance'. Have you had that one, Brendan? If so.. why? Is it mistaking confidence for arrogance?

Sexist

I would have thought that after 1800 postings, people would have the measure of me: an enlightened, 18 year-old university-educated black Jewish man who works for the race relations board. *don't tell my boss about the kebab gag

lozzyloz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- One mans irony is another mans insult. Only if you don't get it. I expect this explains why 'Brass Eye' got so many complaints.

I know what it is now. I forgot to add the emoticon. I don't tend to use them, as they're really for children, but just for everyone who's been so terribly offended, here's that line again. Don't forget the context of the thread, yeah? Kebab and chips, please. Ta.;-)

LizzygotDizzy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Oh come on Bob, it was kind of blatent re the > "kebab" comment! was that irony then? Hello? HELLO? Does anyone have a brain out there? Yes.. A blatant bit of racial stereotyping in a thread about Political Correctness? Jesus.

Oh dear. Very poor. I shall try and make things more facile for people in future.

atila the gooner Wrote: > In your case, for a sense of irony read insulting > and racial stereotyping, and not knowing the > difference. If a crass bit of racial stereotyping in a thread entitled 'Courtesy and Interest or Politically Incorrect' doesn't qualify as irony.. well.. I don't know what does. Too much football has rotted you mind.

atila the gooner Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Oh that would explain it, you've obviously been to > the Sam Allardyce school of charm which espouses > the "I'm English and northern and I'l say what I > bloody well like no matter who it upsets" & > "foreigners are to blame for all the ills of our > glorious country" approach. No, it just means I have a sense of irony.. not that this is native to the West Midlands, of course.

From the look of you, Mockney, more often than not I'd say Roumanian. But shave the beard and you could pass for French.

atila the gooner Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- Or are you just > another dumb Anglo-Saxon?;-) I'm afraid it's worse than that, Atila. I'm from the Black Country.

Kebab and chips, please. Ta.