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If you think that you're a racist because you liked his comedy, then so be it.

Another implication on your part, I have never mentioned whether I liked his comedy or not.

And as for me being against anyone because of their colour / race / religion.
Then you didn't know that my father died in a concentration camp.....












He fell out of the conning tower........ :LOL:
 
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Ok Empip, I'll see what I can do. Where are they being held at the moment?

Roughcaster.

The 'spirit' of SC could be trapped here ....

Bristol City Council said:
...On a major gateway into the city centre, the prominent 1.26 acre site has been vacant since 1986. Dominated by Westmoreland House, a disused 1960s office block, other buildings include the Old Carriageworks, a grade II * listed 19th century building in the Romanesque style.
Present owners, Comer Homes (then called Opec Prime), purchased the site in 1989. Planning permission for a development of offices and homes was granted that year, but no work was ever carried out...

Westmoreland House... Empty since late 60's - I think.
A grade 2 listed building on same site, also unused for 20 years or so.
A stone's throw from Bristol City main shopping area.
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More pix...
http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=7814

Crofters may be roosting there... Could be redeveloped soon... But then again.
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If you think that you're a racist because you liked his comedy, then so be it.
Another implication on your part, I have never mentioned whether I liked his comedy or not.
There was no implication. I don't care whether or not you liked Bernard Manning, or his comedy.

The only person I've accused of being racist, on this topic, is Bernard Manning, who admitted, at least once, on television, that he was. There is a general consensus of opinion that he was.

The only person I've accused of not being funny, on this topic, is Bernard Manning, who made a living out of telling racist jokes.

The only observation I've made about other people, on this topic, is that I consider the fact that anyone who found Bernard Manning to be funny is a joke. This is clearly slang, and therefore a play on words, and a commonplace one. It isn't a "joke" in the sense of a man entering a public house etc., but a joke in the sense that I find it hard to take seriously the opinion of someone who considers Bernard Manning to have been a funny person when most of what he peddled were lewd and yet childish jibes aimed at people in minority groups.

You've read, or attempted to read, things into what I've written that aren't there. If you want an argument, then bring it on. But please bring something other than a half-hearted and incompetent attempt at twisting my words.
 
The great man will be up there pi**ing himself that people are still having this debate ... He was not racist nor was he homophobic or anti-semetic or anything else ... It simply suited his cause for people like Softus to believe that he was and he's certainly having the last laugh.

Every appearance the man ever made was a total sell-out and the last time I saw him at the circus tavern was hilarious.

Yes, he took the pi** out of people, including the many minority groups in the audience who enjoyed the show as much as I did, but he did so without exception nor prejudice (including himself) ... He believed that no subject should be beyond the bounds of comedy and I absolutely agree as do the squillions of people who went to his live shows and bought his tapes/videos.

The way he destroyed that doo-goody two shoes Esther Rantzen on the Parkinson show was a lesson in pure genius and will stay with me to my dying day.

The real problem is that the world has moved on to the sad state it's in now where nothing can be said about anyone without accusations of some racial or phobic intent.

We will never have true equality until we have the freedom to treat everyone the same ... Simple common sense I'm afraid.

MW
 
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Perhaps he should have just stuck with producing chicken dinners? Bootiful!
 
Bernard mannings humour was based on an Anglo- centric view of the world, Irish jokes, Scottish jokes, welsh jokes, jewish jokes, **** jokes when did he ever tell an English joke?. He tapped into peoples base fears and instincts, however having said that he made me laugh.
 
...Irish jokes, Scottish jokes, welsh jokes, jewish jokes, **** jokes when did he ever tell an English joke?
He claimed to, and his fans claimed that he did.

He tapped into peoples base fears and instincts, however having said that he made me laugh.
I suspect that we're all guilty of sometimes laughing inappropriately, but that doesn't change the fact that he was a disgusting bigot.
 
He told plenty of English jokes ... Mainly about scousers robbing his hub caps :LOL:

Here's one ...

Took a trip to Anfield to see Man Utd stuff them.
I'd just locked the car when two kids came running over.
One of them said ...
"Mind your car mister"
"No" I said, "And there's a f***ing Rottweiler in the back of there!
"Oh" he said ... "Put f***ing fires out can it"!

MW
 
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