theoneandonly
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It's just classic torygraph clickbait, the sort of stuff it knows it readers will lap up and make angry posts on the Internet about. The reality is It's just students being students.
Random Irritations
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It's just classic torygraph clickbait, the sort of stuff it knows it readers will lap up and make angry posts on the Internet about. The reality is It's just students being students.
cliveb
Head Pro
My latest random irritation is people posting links to potentially interesting articles on websites that expect you to register in order to read them.
PNWokingham
Journeyman Pro
The fact of taking the picture down and the stated reasons for it are all I needed to know. Funny how the lefties have to reference the source all the time in the belief that it is both "a nasty rag" and a prejudiced article. The annoyance to me were the facts. They are students but the wave of woke hypocrisy that has raged through academia in recent years is shocking. So much so that it has needed government intervention to try and counter the cancel culture in higher education for anyone not worshipping at the woke altar and ensure that free speech has a chance
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
Ok so here’s something else to get really irritated about...or not as the case may be. I’m not sure whether it’s sport or politics or both. But hey...it certainly irritates me...and so must be ok to post about it under things that irritate if it’s ok to go on about woke lefties and political correctness ?
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/tory-mp-england-football-players-taking-the-knee-nazi-salute/
I will add that what irritates is the absurdity of the comparison - whoever might make it.
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PNWokingham
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pretty sure this is nothing that can be debated on heare
pretty sure this is nothing that can be debated on here and not sure what it has to do with "my irritaion" of students cancelling a picture of the queen claiming it represented an unwelcoming symbol of "recent colonial history”. Feel free to have your own iritation or have a view on my irritation if you feel that it is justified and you feel the rationale of said students is good thing. But keep your own "separate" irration threads unlinked to my one rather than use as a snide dig at anything critcal of woke
Fade and Die
Medal Winner
Bit like some posters on the Coronavirus thread comparing Covid passports with Jews having to wear Yellow stars? It is irritating but is honestly not worth the effort.
Kellfire
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People who think being woke (aka more aware of political and social issues and inequalities) is a bad thing.
RichA
Well-known member
Second near miss in 2 days, cycling to the station, either of which would probably have been life threatening. For the first time I'm thinking of retiring the road bike and stomaching the 2 mile walk for the sake of not ending up on some idiot's windscreen.
rudebhoy
Q-School Graduate
Exactly. It's a picture in their common room. Total non-story, yet it's front page news for the Mail and the Express.
and to think some say it's the woke lefties who are permanently offended
PNWokingham
Journeyman Pro
Exactly. It's a picture in their common room. Total non-story, yet it's front page news for the Mail and the Express.
and to think some say it's the woke lefties who are permanently offended
must be a non story as it was not reported in the Guradian. I agree the students can choose how to decorate their room. The "irritation" was their pitiful excuse for the removing the picture.
rudebhoy
Q-School Graduate
maybe it was last week's revelation that there was a policy of not employing non-whites at Buckingham Palace in the 60s and 70s that pushed them over the edge?
RichA
Well-known member
It's slightly strange that portraits of the head of state are still a thing.
In the old spy and war films that I grew up watching, imagery of portraits of the generalissimo was always used to signify a tin pot dictatorship. Not intending to fan any flames - just saying it's interesting that we still have them in places.
In the old spy and war films that I grew up watching, imagery of portraits of the generalissimo was always used to signify a tin pot dictatorship. Not intending to fan any flames - just saying it's interesting that we still have them in places.
BiMGuy
LIV Bot, (But Not As Big As Mel) ?
Exactly. It's a picture in their common room. Total non-story, yet it's front page news for the Mail and the Express.
and to think some say it's the woke lefties who are permanently offended
#snowflakes
rudebhoy
Q-School Graduate
no sign of the story on the front pages of the Guardian, Mirror or the i. I guess it's right what they say about how it pays to know your audience.
PNWokingham
Journeyman Pro
not what it said was the reason. As mentioned, the reason was the Queen's link to a colonial past and yet another example of entitled, opinionated woke youth marching forward to try and cancel anything in history they do not like.
chrisd
Major Champion
Somebody else's brick wall?
Piece
Tour Winner
Temporary traffic lights. Three separate lots in a quarter mile.
chrisd
Major Champion
Still, one thing in its favour - no need to do history at school any more?
rudebhoy
Q-School Graduate
It was a joke.
I'd love to see some stats on how often you use "woke" and "cancel" in your posts. The % must be thru the roof
Kellfire
Blackballed
Your head’s going to explode when you find out she’s basically German...
