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I am sure if Queen started now we would be forced to have people of different colours and different sexes and a trans [person], but life doesn’t have to be like that. We can be separate and different.

GEORGE W BUSHI posted:

Recommend clicking through to see that Bill and Andy Ngo (and a bunch of other Americans) are getting worked up over loving pantomime, which has been a tradition in the UK going back to at least Dickens's time

bobjr posted:

Imagine spending that much on a fake boat.

Tiggum posted:

To save you eye strain, the sign reads "If an African customer comes to the bottle shop presses [sic] the button for assistant immediately! Minimum 2 staffs in front while we serve Africans!"

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

The management didn’t train me to not put up a racist sign

Borrovan posted:

They wouldn't need the sign if they just trained the staff to be racist all by themselves

Pookah posted:

Digging this back up because I was just reminded that not only has pantomime in the UK traditionally had a Dame, drag performances have been an ordinary part of pop entertainment there for at least 50 years

Tiggum posted:

Tiggum posted:

CordlessPen posted:

That's a very good point. When you think about it, the fact that they even needed a sign means that most of the staff ISN'T racist!

Tiggum posted:

Biplane posted:

God drat I wish I was as dumb as these folks. Just wandering through life in a cognitive fog, understanding nothing.

Data Graham posted:

Jesus christ all these comments that you added in the second screenshot.

If anyone ever needs an illustration of structural racism and how it's not all just people shouting n-words. "Oh I always thought this place was so nice, what a shame, maybe they were justified though .........."

Data Graham posted:

The media is being very unfair to us, don't they understand we are in a race war?

DACK FAYDEN posted:

No, sorry, this is 17 words.

Vib Rib posted:

I used to think these people wouldn't think something was racism unless it was spelled out "we treat people differently based on skin color" but even that's not enough. Where's the loving line with these people?
I know for a lot of them the answer is "there isn't one, because they openly think racism is good" but it can't be all of them.

Arsenic Lupin posted:

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1465350973119946754

RoboRodent posted:

I remember a retail job I had where my boss angrily demanded I go follow a black guy around the store to make sure he didn't steal anything, something that mysteriously was only ever a concern with non white customers. She was upset that I wasn't doing it automatically, I guess even though I had been helping another customer until that point.

I went over and said hi, because he was my doctor. South African immigrant, specifically. He was looking for ping pong paddles, I think. If my boss had any idea he was a doctor and therefore presumably had money, she would've been falling over herself trying to ingratiate herself with him.

Garrand posted:

When I worked at Ace there were a group of Mexican contractors getting supplies and the old boss was mad that we weren't tailing them constantly and was absolutely certain they were stealing.

At the same time he refused to pay for any actual security like cameras and of course we were all busy doing our job and helping customers.

Pookah posted:

Digging this back up because I was just reminded that not only has pantomime in the UK traditionally had a Dame, drag performances have been an ordinary part of pop entertainment there for at least 50 years - Danny La Rue regularly performed at the Royal Variety Show, which has to be about the most uncontroversial event possible.

AlbieQuirky posted:

“Female impersonators” and “male impersonators” were staples of music halls in the UK, cafés concerts in France, and vaudeville in the US in the 19th century.

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It has been tried and it doesn’t work. For some reason no one has explained, the dame is only funny if she’s a man and down the generations that’s what we have come to expect.

A woman playing dame would be a travesty of a transvestite. Berwick Kaler, a long-serving dame, is funny because he’s a deeply unfanciable bloke in a frock with a ginger wig. But every year he always wins over his delighted Yorkshire audience.

Occasionally the great Les Dennis played dame. He would come on and say in his flat lugubrious voice: “Good evening boys and girls of all ages.” Then he’d manhandle his vast bosoms, swallow his top lip and break wind.

The house would go berserk. If a woman did that it would be oddly distasteful.

Read After Burning posted:

This is made extra funny/sad by some male panto actors freaking out because women want to play dame characters as well.

https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/731524/Madness-cast-women-role-pantomime-dames

hawowanlawow posted:

when everything is terrible, all you need is a little perspective

alternatively, this is just a practice run and the real paradise is after death

Read After Burning posted:

https://twitter.com/DreMeMoTo/status/1465390299803529223

(Neither of these folks are the idiot; Twitter is just on fire now with this Squid Game poo poo. I barely know who Mr. Beast is, so I'm just like )