AlanHo Posted September 23, 2009 Report Share Posted September 23, 2009 Unbelievable................... :lol: Click Here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJR Posted September 23, 2009 Report Share Posted September 23, 2009 I think things went totally stupid when age-old nursery rhymes like Baa Baa Black Sheep were banned. And we've always been able to buy a dark brown coloured cotton which used to be commonly known as nigger brown.If they keep on banning things on racist grounds, when are they going to change the name of white cotton and white paper? I suppose Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs will have to become something else, too Crazy, crazy world!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted September 23, 2009 Report Share Posted September 23, 2009 I seem to remember one of the supermarket chains had the same daft notion about spotted Dick a few years ago.How about "Pale Frozen Water Flakes and the Seven Vertically Challenged Achrondroplastic Members of the Masculine Gender." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted September 23, 2009 Report Share Posted September 23, 2009 One Flintshire councillor, Klaus Armstrong-Braun, criticised the name change as "ludicrous" and said those responsible for the decision would soon be "frightened of their own shadow".That's a hell of a good old fashioned Welsh name. "Ve haf vays off making Spotted your Dick, ya!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted September 24, 2009 Report Share Posted September 24, 2009 Unbelievable................... :lol: Click HereDefinitely NOT unbelievable in this day and age. I would believe anything of these daft idiots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gandalph Posted September 24, 2009 Report Share Posted September 24, 2009 If these people want to come here and live and work then fair enough. What they should remember is that it is not their country and therefore should not criticise what we say and do. I wouldn't dream of going to visit or live in another country and start criticising what they say or do. If they don't like certain things they should keep their mouths shut or get the hell out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hb_Kai Posted September 24, 2009 Report Share Posted September 24, 2009 How about "Pale Frozen Water Flakes and the Seven Vertically Challenged Achrondroplastic Members of the Masculine Gender.":lol: :lol:If these people want to come here and live and work then fair enough. What they should remember is that it is not their country and therefore should not criticise what we say and do. I wouldn't dream of going to visit or live in another country and start criticising what they say or do. If they don't like certain things they should keep their mouths shut or get the hell out.That goes to show what this country is being "used" for I think. When you move to a totally new country, you would usually try and adapt to their way of doing things. You want to learn about their cultures and history. You take into consideration that the country you are now living in doesn't do things the way your home country does.I've lived in Cyprus before and understand what is involved when living in a totally new country in that perspective and we never judged them for this as did English-born friends of mine over there - I think we all know what else there is to come but just in case, "that is not what I'm saying"... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanHo Posted September 24, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 24, 2009 Quote from article.....Mr Klaus Armstrong-Braun, who was interviewed by radio stations as far away as Canada when he complained about the name change, said: "It's a great victory for Spotted Dick and for everyone who makes it. It's made Flintshire a laughing stock all over the world. I've had lots of letters criticising them. It's all the more ridiculous when we now learn that only one person was responsible for making smutty remarks which led them to get rid of something which has been a tradition for more than 150 years." UnquoteHence I do not understand the relevance of the following post :-If these people want to come here and live and work then fair enough. What they should remember is that it is not their country and therefore should not criticise what we say and do. I wouldn't dream of going to visit or live in another country and start criticising what they say or do. If they don't like certain things they should keep their mouths shut or get the hell out.It appears to me that Klaus is well and truly on our side and is criticising the lunatics who changed the name to Spotted Richard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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