I didn't think the reproduced Twitter post was homophobic.
It was using homophobia to bash...maybe bash is an inappropriate word under the circumstances...
It was using homophobia to criticise 'true patriots' (which has become stereoyped), rather than challenge behaviours, or attitudes that some people have expressed.
The reason why 'the Germans' sketch from Fawlty Towers is funny, rather than offensive, is because John Cleese is ridiculing Basil Fawlty as a character, not critising, or ridiculing German people.
Basil Fawlty's character draws on some of the absurd post war perceptions of German people held by lots of Britsh people, so ultimately it was challenging stereotyping and discriminatory behaviours.
I am accurate on this one because being born of a German mother in England a mere two decades after WWII ended, I've spent my whole life listening to Basil Fawltys doing unfunny versions of 'the Germans' sketch in real life.
The funniest people are extremely intelligent, perceptive and analytical. You failed on the perceptive and analytical criteria, but have the intelligence to do otherwise.
No, I was using your language in a bid to relate to you.
I don't become 'offended' by stuff on the forums. I occasionally feel anger, but mostly I analyse. Surely, you must have worked that out by now.
Like it seems odd to me that you said it doesn't matter what you have done on this thread to create controversy because it gets people talking, but when I talk you try to silence my opinion on the grounds that you have your own.
Patriotism is the fast food of the self-esteem - it fills you up, but it isn't healthy.
Valuing and being thankful for where we live does not mean that other places, or people have no value.
Only when we sift through the finest and flaws of each, may we grow and learn to be human.
Who does and doesn't suck dik is a choice, a 'privacy' which should be protected under the 14th Amendment of the US constitution.
It's only in the last few years that anyone in the UK can suck dik (if they so choose) without legal prejudice. That's not to say that the UK is perfect, nor that countries where not everyone can choose to suck dik have no value at all.
And for the record, I wouldn't suck any of your diks for all the tea in China.
No, but you might be happier if you weren't so obsessed with calling people names and de-humanising others in an attempt to make yourself feel better about yourself.
If you can accept others in all their human frailty, you begin to be able to accept yourself in yours.
I don't eat foods like that and haven't for so long, I'm far less fussy about substitutions.
I like that my homemade foods are different in taste and texture, although I do have some utter disasters at times.
I started using plant based milk back in the days when it was soya only and all, but one brand was beany and gritty. I think I've died and gone to heaven now the plant based and specialised diet market has opened up. The wealth of raw ingredients I can get in a supermarket, or even in a corner shop is impressive.
Steady on, old chap, you're turning into an aging hippy.
I have two books by Nadine Abensur (one time head chef for Kranks), one of which is 'fast food' in as much as the recipes take 30 minutes, or less. Most of her recipes involve every day ingredients, but her Moorish style taught me a lot about balancing flavours and creativity. She doesn't appear to have a website with her recipes, but you can pick up the books for under a fiver second hand on t'internet.
I've converted quite a few die hard meat eaters to the notion that not all meals have to have dead things in them (with Nadine's help). A lot of her stuff is pretty classy even if you don't manage quite the same level of presentation.
These days I often google. If I have something that needs using up I just type in "vegan gluten free (and say) mushroom recipe" and it usually comes up with something fairly splendid that I can rustle up from my store cupboard.
There's a lot of inspiration at our fingertips, even for whiney, allergicky people like me.
As I said to my 4'11", lisping daughter when she disarmed two men trying to rob her at knife point, it must be sooo embarassing being beaten up by a little girl.
I have an old laptop, a granny mobile phone, a working rotary phone (but no land line), a single ring induction hot plate, a fan, a small radio, washing machine, fridge/freezer, a wee table top halogen oven, a half knackered microwave, an immersion blender, two electric sewing machines, a 1940's treddle sewing machine, an overlocker, an iron, an electric ironing board (it's a tailoring thing) and a 1940's walnut veneered radiogram in need of repair.
And light bulbs.
I think I'd out-Luddite the lot of you, but I have a hankering for an electric vegetable spiraliser/slicer/grater. I'm so poorly at the moment I have to lie down before I fall down after grating a carrot.
Yes please, but she'll have to fly back (assuming pigs might do that) before Malcolm the Staff(ish) Bull Terrior, my Granddog, comes to stay.
My daughter will hopefully be having work done on her home in the new year and Malcolm will get anxious and come out in hives. He's very clingy and jealous where I'm concerned and I don't think I can manage a Schwein/Hund fight in my flat.
For many months it's been a toss up whether I'm more ill with medication, or without it.
When I'm at screaming point with pain I take the medication, when I'm at screaming point with the side effects of the medication, I start weaning myself off.
Another issue is getting a different brand of one medication every month. Different brands have different inactive ingredients and some cause allergic reactions in combination according to my frenetic googling.
Anyway, much vomting and acid reflux later, I have thrown in the towel and gone cold turkey. The area where I live is extremely medically under-serviced and I've no fight left in me to do anything else.
I have lemons and bi-carb. Thanks for the tip, I will brave that when I think I can hold it down.
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RE: True Patriots..
Don't tell Geno, he'll get all flustered.