Sorry mate, I dont follow?
Iād have no interest in them as an adult, but as a kid, they were a huge deal. For us, we got a bar of chocolate (a Marathon/Snickers for me and a Bounty for my sister) after mass on Sundays that we were allowed to eat Sunday afternoons and wouldnāt really have anything else sweet during the week. So, this random Tuesday during lent when you could have something exotic seemed a big deal.
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I havenāt had a proper pancake in 20 years but Iāll never forget them.
Sorry, meant to say just before lent!
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I donāt particularly care for pancakes and didnāt really like them as a child. They were a novelty alright, a bit like turkey at Christmas, but both are so common foodstuffs nowadays that any sense of occasion is somewhat diminished.
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Is that because its full to the neck of foreigners?
How do you explain overtly racist politicians and policies in that case?
Mostly Rupert Murdoch and the ālibertarianā idea that the worth of an opinion can only be measured by the amount of engagement it generates.
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Richard Boyd Barrett is a hero and deserves friend of the forum status and reelection for life based on his dogged pursuit of justice from the FAI for the ballybrack seagulls.
I remember a BBC news report on immigration from about ten years ago that always stayed with me. The government had stated itās aim to reduce immigration, the report went through the categories of immigrants, the third category was university students. While they talked about this category they showed footage from college canteens which zoomed in on all the black and brown people.
Anyway I completely disagree with you, Britain is racist enough to for itās politics to include overt racism on a regular basis and which finds a lot of support.
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Every country in Europe is racist to a greater or lesser degree, this one included.
Overt racism will find a market anywhere if it has a vulture media which is minded to push it. Including here. Our market isnāt big enough to have Murdoch bothering us to a major extent.
Paul Mason said that in any country, at least 10% of the people have fascist proclivities. Iād wager itās a lot more than that.
For all its faults, Britain is a much less threatening place in general to ethnic minorities than most other European countries.
Iād much rather be a person of an ethnic minority in Britain than in France, Spain, Italy, Belgium or any eastern European country, and increasingly Sweden. And to be honest, Ireland.
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Much of that post is true but I still donāt agree with your initial proposition.
Ok. Thatās one metric. Theyāve also introduced provisions to shop asylum seekers off to Rwanda.
They have indeed, but then again I never said Britain was free of racism or didnāt have a racist government. Most governments throughout Europe are racist to a greater or lesser extent in their immigration policies.
To be honest, given the damage Murdoch and all the other disinformation goons have done to American society, itās a credit to Britain that it still remains a by and large liberal and welcoming society given it has come under the same sort of information warfare as America has done.
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On cue, hereās another example of racism on behalf of the UK state.
Barry Keoghan is a bang average actor.
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The 2 most important governmental figures in deciding your childrenās experience in growing up in Ireland donāt have kids. Not even imaginary kids.
Thatās not great.
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Leo and Roderick? We have an amount of non-traditional people in government for a supposedly uber-catholic patriarchal society