Hope they're paying for the deeds to be changed too

David and Sally said:
Stop. Stop. Stop all this woke crap please!!!!
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It won’t be long before you won’t be allowed to say Woke or Crap or in fact any freedom of speech aren’t we being herded toward what we do,think,and say along with a control on where we actually are located and travel to. We are being observed constantly and analized on everything we do.
 
They say we have freedom of speech now, but the truth is we should all be able to talk like little kids do, and say things like why is that person is brown, black, yellow, fat, skinny or anything else. Those who want to do away with racism are only increasing it by including more and more of reality as insults, or bad history. The less these words are used the more insulting they become.
 
Well,

The Black Boy Inn, at Caernarfon​


Their going to need a bigger sign board for the now P.C. terminoligy of " The Indeterminate Colour , Boy/Girl/Other Inn " 🤷‍♂️
Mike.

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Landy Andy said:
They say we have freedom of speech now, but the truth is we should all be able to talk like little kids do, and say things like why is that person is brown, black, yellow, fat, skinny or anything else. Those who want to do away with racism are only increasing it by including more and more of reality as insults, or bad history. The less these words are used the more insulting they become.
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Absolutely, and furthermore in my own life on a day by day basis l do not come across any of this nonsence and ,therefore, do not have to make any allowances for my behaviour or what l say or how l say it, it’s simply pushed onto us by the media and a minority of self indulgent idiots.
 
I thought l would add to the tread since it wandered off a bit.
l used to visit a on business a superb street in Hull “ The Land of Green Ginger” it was relevent to the Spice Trade that went on in those distant years.
 
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Land of Green Ginger
 
Landy Andy said:
They say we have freedom of speech now, but the truth is we should all be able to talk like little kids do, and say things like why is that person is brown, black, yellow, fat, skinny or anything else. Those who want to do away with racism are only increasing it by including more and more of reality as insults, or bad history. The less these words are used the more insulting they become.
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Whilst I like the Haribo ads no way am I gonna start talking like them! 😄
 
Landy Andy said:
They say we have freedom of speech now, but the truth is we should all be able to talk like little kids do, and say things like why is that person is brown, black, yellow, fat, skinny or anything else. Those who want to do away with racism are only increasing it by including more and more of reality as insults, or bad history. The less these words are used the more insulting they become.
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Must be the Simpsons or emojis these kids are talking about as I have never heard a child describe a person as yellow.

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www.bbc.co.uk

HM Stanley: Denbigh votes on statue of Victorian adventurer

The future of a statue of controversial explorer HM Stanley goes to a vote in his home town.
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Stanley became famous after finding missionary Dr David Livingstone in Tanzania in 1871.

But his reputation has been 'tarnished' by 'claims' of violence on explorations, and his role in the Congo.

He acted as an agent for King Leopold II of Belgium, and was seen as one of the architects who opened up the African region to the West, only for it to be brutally exploited after he had left.
 
As a lad and living in the Black Country I lived at Whiteheath, next town along is Blackheath, in between was Bell End and Rood End. As far as I'm aware still the same names and hopefully will remain as such.
 
Geistguy said:
As a lad and living in the Black Country I lived at Whiteheath, next town along is Blackheath, in between was Bell End and Rood End. As far as I'm aware still the same names and hopefully will remain as such.
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Rood End Road, Tat Bonk, Powke Lane Crem - never heard of it ! - my auntie lived in Defford Drive, off Moat Road. LOL
 
There's a hotel/restaurant near us that used to be called Crouchers Bottom, that always made me chuckle when we went past. They have now change it to just 'Crouchers' which doesn't have the same ring.

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Many large towns had a road called "Gropec*nt Lane"
Which is where the local 'working girls' operated.
In early Victorian times they were mostly renamed to "Love Lane" or "Grape Lane"
Hence many towns have a Love/Grape Lane, usually a small lane fairly close to the centre of town.

Being 'woke' in not new, it's just the context change over time.
There is nothing wrong in correcting offensive names, names of all places change with time, there are very few places in the UK that still have their Roman names, or even their Anglo Saxon names which are only 1,000 years old.

Even looking at a London AtoZ of the 1930's shows many roads and areas that have changed names since.
 
Soycd said:
There's a hotel/restaurant near us that used to be called Crouchers Bottom, that always made me chuckle when we went past. They have now change it to just 'Crouchers' which doesn't have the same ring.
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It is traditional to beg forgiveness for the pun!
 
Brains said:
Many large towns had a road called "Gropec*nt Lane"
Which is where the local 'working girls' operated.
In early Victorian times they were mostly renamed to "Love Lane"
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"Grapecut Lane" is another common one.
 
Much of the private wealth in UK came from slave trading, plantations etc and slavery is abhorrent, so the push to rename streets and monuments et al is understandable. However, if you remove the statue or replace the street name, you can 'airbrush history' and remove the reminders, leaving scope for the Deniers to claim that the abhorrent practices ever occurred

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Better start panic buying Mr Brain's Faggots as they are destined to be doomed! I would certainly suggest that there is a faction of our society that tries their damnedest to find offence where it does not exist or the link is so tenuous as to be unreasonable. Racism has no place in society but trying to re-align history with modern cultural norms is hardly useful. Many would argue that Auschwitz is offensive; but it is crucially important that the lessons of history are not hidden under a blanket of contemporary self-righteousness.
 
On my coast to coast ride a few weeks ago I visited this place ;)
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I just leave this here. Especially if you REALLY like the cucumbers 🙀🙄
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