Fab Foodie
hanging-on in quiet desperation ...
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- Kirton, Devon.
Yes?
Royal Baby name
- Thread starter Chris S
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Rocky
Hello decadence
He's already thinking of joining CC.....watch out for a new member called ArchieArch. Apparently he's awesome.
Beebo
Firm and Fruity
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- Hexleybeef
He could have been given the title of Earl or Lord. But they chose not too, which is a good thing.
DRM
Guru
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- West Yorks
Damn, I was hoping he would be Jethro Obadiah Mangelwurzel Windsor. 
Saluki
World class procrastinator
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- ...Norwich over the water.
I will have to re name my car now. Poor thing has been Archie for a long while. Maybe elongate it to Archibald.
Fab Foodie
hanging-on in quiet desperation ...
- Location
- Kirton, Devon.
Glad they took my advice and named him after my first Whippet.....
Beebo
Firm and Fruity
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- Hexleybeef
Danny Baker has been sacked for a stupid tweet.
Shame because I like him, and I don’t think he meant to be racist, but he was undoubtedly stupid.
Shame because I like him, and I don’t think he meant to be racist, but he was undoubtedly stupid.
Danny Baker has a mouth that's sometimes just a wee bit quicker than his quick brain. A clever bloke, he comes out with stuff that can be just a bit raw and unpolished. Sometimes it's funny, sometimes not so. He'll serve his regulatory penance and be back somewhere - he's just too bankable for any station to ignore, and people like him.
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Chris S
Legendary Member
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- Birmingham
I suspect it's a play on 'Harry's son'
I'm all for giving people the benefit of the doubt, but a chimpanzee, FFS? Seeing as he isn't actually stupid, he surely has to own that one?
The Crofted Crest
Veteran
True, but how much of his sacking was due to deference and cossetting the royal family?
ETA: i.e. to keep Nicholas Witchell in a job.
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Yeah I get that, but maybe not making racial slurs about babies should be one of those things where we level up. Is there a benefit-of-the-doubt, non-racist explanation for the chimp thing?
You would kinda hope that he'd have a little bit of savvy as to what was and wasn't acceptable, regardless of what he himself believes (not that I profess to know what he believes) He is, after all, in the media and ought know how these things play out. Blimey, some media savvy people play that to their advantage. But what Baker did... MM's ethnicity, chimps & royalty.... it was always only going to go one way. Crass and stupid doesn't quite cover it.
That said, I don't know the context (though I do find it difficult to imagine a context that mitigates)
That said, I don't know the context (though I do find it difficult to imagine a context that mitigates)
