tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post4831724687389242930..comments2024-03-29T01:33:01.670+00:00Comments on SCOT goes POP!: Don't these bleedin' Jocks have a sense of humour?James Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01516007141763230886noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-80168666287382613282013-04-28T11:42:26.579+01:002013-04-28T11:42:26.579+01:00I agree with this so heartily.
I'm proud to b...I agree with this so heartily.<br /><br />I'm proud to be a self-deprecating Scot, and am extremely happy to make silly jokes about the Scots. That's not what was happening on HIGNFY: it was deliberate patronising and marginalisation. If there was a Scot on the panel, would they have made this joke? No, of course they wouldn't.<br /><br />Your final paragraph shows exactly what was wrong with HIGNFY, and what has been wrong with it for quite some time.Taranaichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02176999342965850175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-25341856753235148862013-04-28T08:44:42.405+01:002013-04-28T08:44:42.405+01:00Thank you so much for this article - it articulate...Thank you so much for this article - it articulates exactly my feelings on the subject in a way I struggle to put down in words. When I heard 'they' and 'them' that was it! Of course, that is going on every day, this was just the must blatant example yet - and delivered in a cockney accent for added effect!<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04566175426632200252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-37174088017732753482013-04-27T23:32:15.335+01:002013-04-27T23:32:15.335+01:00I was forewarned that I wouldn't like what I s...I was forewarned that I wouldn't like what I saw. So I watched the ilayer version last night prepared to be angry.<br /><br />I just saw a load of silly people being a bit racist, and a very old man with an accent I couldn't understand trying desperately to be funny, and failing. What on earth was he doing on that show?<br /><br />The programme's raison d'etre used to be being clever and funny; it has for some times been reduced to being a bit snidey, but I laugh along happily when they take the p out of the Tories and labour and even that other lot that are about to become extinct.<br /><br />I lived in England for a while at uni, and had racism every day, so the attitude to us from the audience last night didn't surprise me.<br /><br />Incidentally, at university in France I was the target of no racism whatsoever.<br /><br />London is fed this crap by Boris Johnson and the English press. Why would they not think that we are a bunch of scroungers, heavily subsidised by the London. The fact that London is heavily subsidised by Scotland wouldn't cross their minds, true though it might be.<br /><br />I imagine if this episode has done anything at all, it has worked in our favour.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-79394057066595968172013-04-27T19:48:15.742+01:002013-04-27T19:48:15.742+01:00Great post, strikes right to the heart of the matt...Great post, strikes right to the heart of the matter.<br />I don't need to add any comment.Jutemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11061671774494923407noreply@blogger.com