Prince fan 1999
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They always wheel Biggins out whenever any celebrity dies and he apparently is always best friends with all of them 
- Notice
DCICassieStuart
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Maybe Gordon's hips don't lie either?
Gym&Tonic
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Have you heard Donna Air’s accent these days? Who is she kidding? I remember when you made Cheryl sound like the Queen love, no amount of talking posh will hide that
Loving all the anti Anthony Cotton posts
Circa 2007 Anthony went into Haslingden Tesco’s near where he lived, to take back some meat he’d bought for a bbq the day before and was complaining about the quality, was giving it the usual “don’t you know who I am” to which the trolley collector replied “you’ve had plenty of sausage in your time, now f*** off”
To which he duly did
Circa 2007 Anthony went into Haslingden Tesco’s near where he lived, to take back some meat he’d bought for a bbq the day before and was complaining about the quality, was giving it the usual “don’t you know who I am” to which the trolley collector replied “you’ve had plenty of sausage in your time, now f*** off”
To which he duly did
Miss Demeanour
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As much as the guy seems unpleasant, for a person working with the public, I don't think being homophobic to customers is a good thing.
Awwww. I'm going to go against the grain here and say I like her. No airs and graces, she's warm and genuine, what you see is what you get.
I met her and spoke to her in a Thai restaurant in the Midlands years ago and she was absolutely beyond lovely, came across as she does on telly. I loved her on BB, so was pleased that she was so genuine and nice.
Miss Demeanour
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It's so confusing. I was born end of the 70s, so raised in the 80s, I'm white and the word P*** shop was used flippantly and the term coloured was the word most used for black people (not other ethnicities). My best friend since aged 6 had a white English mum and black African dad and used to say she was half-caste.I'm a child of the early 80s and black was a really bad term when I was growing up! The PC term back then was coloured people. I remember learning a poem at school then about using coloured and all the colours of the rainbow and how it didnt matter as all colours are beautiful! Anyway like someone said, the PC term changed and not everyone knew. For years I didnt know which was the PC term anymore, I was so afraid of offending someone and people thinking I was racist when in fact I couldn't care less what colour someone skin is as long as they are a good person
One thing I do recall is my best friend saying that many white girls shunned her for not being white and many black girls did the same as she wasn't black. Even as I child I couldn't get my head round this. She identified as white incidentally, liked white boys, wasn't into black culture, history, music, or boys.
Years later, in my 20s, I used the term half-caste and received a gasp of horror from whoever it was and they said I must use the term mixed-race. Confused, I asked my best friend and she said she still referred to herself as half-caste, but yeah some people prefer mixed-race.
Fast forward another decade, I was working for a retailer in its photo studio and noticed the models were all white, so started making a conscious effort for model bookings to be more diverse, white, black, Asian, mixed-race. One day I was looking to book a mixed-race child and the white lady at the model agency corrected me and said I shouldn't used that word, it's "dual-heritage"! I asked my best friend again and she laughed her head off and said, surely it's mixed-heritage if they want to to get sniffy about it, as you're assuming that the person only had two types of ethnicity in them.
Nowadays, it's people of colour, which I understand to be anyone not white (is that correct?), but my black friends still refer to themselves as black.
It's a minefield. I feel we've come such a long way in some ways, but gone back in many others.
Also, when I was 19 (in 1996), I moved to London for my job and was temporarily living with my aunty while hunting for a place, she was 30, so we were very close in age, but it she was a totally different generation, being the youngest of my dad's siblings. One day she asked me if I would take her 10 year old daughter to the P*** shop to get a loaf of bread and some sweets. I was horrified and asked her to not use that word. She genuinely couldn't see what the problem was. She laughed and said, that's what it's called. Everyone calls it that.
I corrected her and said not everyone calls it that and besides P*** being a derogatory term, how did she know the shop keeper was from Pakistan? Maybe they were from India, Bangladesh, or Sri Lanka. I also pointed out that her daughter was hearing the term P*** used so flippantly, that tomorrow she could go to school and innocently refer to another child by this term, without meaning any offence.
My aunty laughed and said, "Sorry, please can you go to the Asian outlet and get a loaf and sweets!"
I even heard someone use the 70s term for Chinese the other month when referring to going to get a takeaway. They were my age and thought I was being over sensitive.
Thing is, I'm also that person that thinks the world has gone mad in other respects when people say we can't say Merry Christmas anymore as it will upset other cultures and religions. Utter rubbish. I reckon it's right-wing white people making this up to whip up hatred.
I bought a pack of Christmas cards online this year and was fuming that they had the yucky "happy holidays" inside them instead of "merry Christmas", I've never met anyone who's offended by Christmas (except Jehovah's witnesses), my Hindu neighbours celebrate it and posted us a card, my Muslim neighbours don't celebrate it, but dropped us a card and a gift on Christmas Eve (we did drop them a card and home baking for Eid to be fair). The local mosque collected food and presents for 100 local elderly people for Christmas too.
I just wish the world could find a happy medium. Where we are all considerate to others and the rules for etiquette are clear. But it won't happen. Times change and terminology changes.
Queer used to be an insult, now some people identify as queer. LGBT was a term, then it was LGBT+, then LGBTQ+. Again, I can't keep up. I've gay, bisexual and trans friends, who all use different terminology. As a white, heterosexual person, I don't know what it's like to be in a minority. Actually, I'm vegan!
I get a lot of shit, abuse and hate for that, and I honestly rarely talk about it, and I never push my beliefs on anyone, I just quietly get on with it. But the absolute vitriol and grief I get from some people is bizarre! Out for a meal for a friend's birthday, I order a dish and some bloke I've never met before in the group notices it's vegan and starts verbally attacking me. Yeah, that's fun. Joking aside, I know veganism isn't the same and I can't genuinely ever understand what it's like for people in a minority who go through life feeling persecuted, or different and I'm constantly walking on eggshells, which I'm happy to do, so as not to not offend, but just wish it was clearer. Diversity is beautiful.
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have you ever seen the YouTube where there’s a guy busking singing bronski beats ‘small town boy’ and Jimmy Somerville walks passed and joins in - insanely talented and he’s incredibly humble clapping the busker at the end
caroleffinbaskin
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Well Tatlers, I’m logging off now so that Santa can do his stuff. Thank you everyone here for keeping me grounded when I’ve felt my head is about to explode. It’s been a fucker of a year, we lost two very dear members of our family, one only 20.yo. But coming on here and being part of this clan has helped me so much as just for a few minutes I can stop thinking about the devastation of my family and smile, sometimes even belly laugh. Happy Holidays whatever you’re celebrating. 
TheColinJonesFanClub
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Christopher Biggins is so loud and rude. Me and friends were having breakfast at the ivy for her birthday and he made a big loud camp song and fucking dance diatribe about how children shouldn’t be allowed in restaurants, looking at my friends four year old being taken to the toilet. It was a Monday morning. Nasty old cunt.
petitspois
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If you think marrying an old guy with a neck 5 times the average length is doing well of course. I’d prefer a decent guy who made me laugh.
PrincessCharming
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They have to be small to fit into our tellies.
BashmentLady
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I've never confused them with mountains.
caroleffinbaskin
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I’m a bit of a mardy arse tonight but Lewis Hamilton’s mid-Atlantic accent really boils my piss!
Norbs
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I particularly like this quote:Oh ya, apparently he was in a mean girls type clique with Jennie Mc alpine and kym marsh!! John Thompson was in Corrie for a while and he tore a strip off Antony cotton in the press
John Thomson blasts Anthony Cotton
Former Cold Feet and Coronation Street actor has branded Anthony Cotton a “nasty piece of work” during a rant on Twitter about the I’m A…www.atvtoday.co.uk
’While bosses are convinced his character of Sean Tully is popular with viewers a visit to any number of internet forums will reveal otherwise.’
Rockin' Robin
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What with all the gender confusion around, I have decided to move with the times. From next year, I am going to identify as an Eccles cake. I want complete equality with other pastries, and lashings and lashings of custard!
Restless Native
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I think Spencer has a face like a skelped arse
Idontliketogossipbut
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Merry Crimbo everyone.
Especially to anyone ill physically or mentally, or just totally fed up with COVID.
it’s just one day, if it’s a trial it will soon be over.
ive been busy, so I didn’t even get a turkey! I shall be visiting my vey poorly Mum in a nursing home, I had naughty people invite me to theirs, but I shall take some stuff I made and bought up to the home, it really was good to have that as a focus for a change last year.
Anyone feeling really down, if possible think of someone who would really welcome a phone call and give them a ring.
virtusl hugs!
James Cordon is still a Cnut though.
Especially to anyone ill physically or mentally, or just totally fed up with COVID.
it’s just one day, if it’s a trial it will soon be over.
ive been busy, so I didn’t even get a turkey! I shall be visiting my vey poorly Mum in a nursing home, I had naughty people invite me to theirs, but I shall take some stuff I made and bought up to the home, it really was good to have that as a focus for a change last year.
Anyone feeling really down, if possible think of someone who would really welcome a phone call and give them a ring.
virtusl hugs!
James Cordon is still a Cnut though.
maytoseptember
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There’s some quality Beckham gossip in this weeks Popbitch mailout... the dirty dog.
