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Ah fuck. Rather brilliantly, I picked Vera in both this and the Correctlist. I have no explanation or defence for my idiocy.

Do people (you, Steve) honestly need to post their whole list again after every hit? Lynn a hit for all three of these: QR: 14 CS: 12 DL: 11

I’ll have 7th July for the next round.

She was still in great nick too! R.I.P.

Someone’s taken the time to give several cabinet ministers a sex change. Dominique Raab, Peter Patel and Gina Williamson are actually quite fit. Beatrice Johnson is Vicky Pollard.

Thursday 155

Good one Toast, and I’m glad the winning name was actually a proper famous.

Speaking of Scott Morrison, he’s been knocking it out the park in Aussie parliament of late:

Anyone worrying about post-Brexit trade - don’t! We’ve got a potential free trade deal with Australia, worth a mighty £1bn. It is worth £291bn less than the free trade we did with the EU, but we will get cheap Shiraz, Tim Tams and fucking Vegemite, all with just 11,000 air miles on it. Thank you, Prime Ministers Johnson and Morrison.

Interesting new voting intention polling data:

And the answer is...233. Points for Quim and Crem. Weds: 191

Yet another time where Big Job has to be shamed into doing the right thing, but it’s really quite a crushing feeling that we now are forced as a nation to put across a moral argument for feeding children. So he doesn’t just look like a prick, he looks like a limp, impotent prick.

Tuesday: 211

Yeah. The only blanket instruction that applies to everyone is 'think', aside of course from 'don't be fucking racist'. Your example is a good one of somebody with possibly the right intention, but going about it in entirely the wrong way. It's an uncomfortable subject, but it's not supposed to be comfortable, and I feel like healthy discussions such as this one is progress.

True, but it’s easier said than done. In my initial post you appeared to take that personally when that was not the intention. (If you didn’t, good, it just seemed to me like you did) And you mention being sick of being patronised; “you don’t realise you’re being racist” is a really dickish way of putting it, but patronising you is clearly not her objective, even if it is what she inadvertently achieved. You took that personally too. See how easily done it is? And if you’re sick of things like this, just imagine how sick the victims of societal discrimination are. I couldn’t agree more that we’re all victims of thoughtlessness and inadvertent rudeness. But, much like with unlawful and outrageous police killings, look at who it happens to more. That’s why movements like Black Lives Matter have to exist. I’m very sorry if any of this comes across as shitty, that’s not my intention, but I’m exhausted and I’ve seen so many examples of troubling ignorance (and I’m not including you in that) that the whole issue really is riling me something chronic. We all need more sympathy for the issue. I’m afraid I think generalisation of rudeness can wait until we’ve really shown to improve things. I’ll stop talking now

It’s a serious accusation, racism, and not one to be taken lightly. The thing that needs realising more than anything else is that racism is not just slurs, foul manners and violence. It’s the little, surreptitious things like unexplained exclusion, behaving differently with other races as a result of preconceptions that you may not even be conscious of. I listened to Clara Amfo on Radio 1 a week or two ago, she spoke about how attacks like the one on George Floyd affect her mental health, they bring up a lot of feelings about how just the little things she and other black people may still face day-to-day. It really stops you in your tracks when you listen to their point of view, and yet so many people are so blissfully unaware that it goes on. The main point is, we all need to think a bit more.

That’s Uka Uka, not Aku Aku. Yes I’m a nerd.

Monday: 59

I don’t understand why you’re finding it so infuriating. Nobody is accusing you of being racist. But it really isn’t the time to make excuses for these people in the past. You might be factually correct, but right now people are hurting. The discussion needs to be how to make society better, to listen to the other point of view and recognise if we’re going wrong somewhere. All of us, that is, from all backgrounds. If the idea of that is infuriating, that’s quite troubling. But I tell you what I find infuriating, and please recognise that none of this is directed at you or any one person in particular, I find it infuriating that there’s actually debate about ending racism, whether it be big events like a racist police killing or things more insidious than that. I’m furious that there are activists, whether they be far-left or far-right, causing civil unrest. I’m furious that, in 2020, we are STILL not nearly where we need to be re: any form of minority, race or otherwise, still feeling ostracised, not wanted, ignored (I’m white but I have faced it in the past). I’m furious at how much is going on, whether it be token gestures of censorship from streaming services or people damaging public property, that is undermining what we need to do to combat racism and other discrimination. I’m furious that some people (again, not directed at any one person in particular) still bury their heads in the sand, make excuses for those exhibiting racist behaviour, or are not prepared to listen to the point of view of the affected. NO excuses for anyone. We ALL need to work together to make sure any discrimination (note, not just racism) is not rooted deeply in society. That does not mean any one person is doing wrong, it means that everyone should make an effort to recognise and rectify something that is wrong. So yeah, I suppose people from all sides can be infuriating

It’s also just as important to acknowledge the abhorrence of such behaviour, regardless of when it was. Racism was more commonplace but it was never okay. Our recognition of past prejudice and discrimination should be used as the basis of eradicating any that still exists today.

Sunday: 95

“And put it on a tray, bake at 4,000rpm for 20 minutes...”

202 means points for me, paddy, Maryport & Buffalo. Saturday: 88

All this idiotic censorship, such as it is, that’s happened off the back of BLM’s momentum, does absolutely nothing to combat racism and in fact detracts from the importance and objective of the movement and the real concern behind it. Rather than pettily and cynically removing old sitcoms and making BLM look like some kind of shitty political correctness exercise, how about instead focusing on talking about how to make people’s lives better?

A highlight from his now so unfortunately cancelled () LBC show: