Who really cares about the dog? I was upset when it was run-over in the original film…

They would probably use CGI now…

As for using naughty racist words, I wager it is probably the ‘I’m not PC and I’m proud of it’ mob. Weirdo Walter Mitty fantasists at the end of the day, who imagine that there is a crowd waiting in the wings to censor them unless they can cram racial slurs, tired stereotypes and sweeping generalisations into every post. Ever seen General Discussion on here?

There are statistics for everything – there just are. Someone knows the answer. Someone has been counting…

All very good, but who has been counting and what methods have they been using? Any interpolation, or do you reckon everybody fresh off the boat is somehow accounted for? Yes, there are ‘statistics for everything’, but it doesn’t mean they are accurate or even remotely good.

My money is on Corbyn being chosen to head the Labour Party now, to be replaced by the other Miliband a year or so before the next election.

Moggy

Trusting that the labour party doesn’t splinter in the prevailing period. Corbyn seems like a return to oldschool Labour form, complete with radical hat, radical beard and open-neck’d shirt. Re-nationalising the railways doesn’t seem like the sort of priority or policy the Blairite centre-right Labour party of the last few years would consider campaign material. Corbyn isn’t exactly on course to unify the Labour party, whilst Diane Abbott and Alastair Campbell come to (Twitter) blows over Corbyn’s role within the party. It looks rather like a political party in the midst of an implosion, and I don’t see how a bait ‘n’ switch with the nerdier, and infinitely less sellable of the two Millipedes, will help either.

Who is responsible for ‘gravy train’ becoming the go-to metaphor for you angry right winger types? Littlejohn? There is a whole vista of metaphor out there, get creative!

If I have offended some poor souls’ sensibilities by using the dog’s proper given name, well all I can say is tough. The name “Nigger” wasn’t intended in a racist fashion back then and, as applied to the dog isn’t racist (nor intended ) now.

Do we know that Gibson’s dog wasn’t racist?

One has to hope that Corbyn gets the labour leadership.

He can loudly proclaim all the left wing dross and at the same time virtually guarantee that Labour will remain unelectable. It’s good to hear the opposing views (as long as nobody tries to put them into practice).

Moggy

I always hear that things were better in the past. Corbyn plans to take us back to the ’70s, one rolling blackout at a time. :applause:

What is a non-ethnic person anyway? Somebody with no ethnicity?

Ethnicity

noun

the fact or state of belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition.

TonyT is suggesting that non-ethnic people are under-represented when they are the victims of violent crimes, but given that everybody falls into an ethnic group I think it is fair to say that such people don’t exist. Is this what happens when thick racists try to clumsily cover their tracks? :applause:

This thread is going great places. I can just sense it.