idgi
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Thursday, 9 May 2019 12:52 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeO0AhKPW5Y
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 May 2019 12:52 (five years ago) link
Extremely unconvincing performance as a 'genuine member of the public' by the actress in that.
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 May 2019 12:55 (five years ago) link
thanks!
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Thursday, 9 May 2019 12:57 (five years ago) link
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 May 2019 12:55 (twenty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
wow shes only just given birth
― deemsthelarker (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 May 2019 13:17 (five years ago) link
meanwhile everyone plz to buy my book abt how great the rock press was back when ppl writing for it included *checks notes* ugh never mind
(i guess i dodged a bullet back when he was too important to reply to my emails lol)
― mark s, Thursday, 9 May 2019 13:20 (five years ago) link
That was a v good joke Nick B, better than the "PG gone mad" I'm seeing everywhere.
James O'Brien interviewed DB, he does not sound like he's taking it very well - https://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/james-obrien/danny-bakers-first-interview-since-being-sacked-by/
Also realised that his tweets seem to only go back to February for some reason?
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 9 May 2019 13:23 (five years ago) link
what's really getting me about this is the brazen hypocrisy of the bbc, who promote racists and far-right ideologues at any given opportunity
― imago, Thursday, 9 May 2019 13:33 (five years ago) link
this was good too
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 9 May 2019 13:34 (five years ago) link
i agree the BBC should not promote racists and far-right ideologues maybe they should sack Danny Baker
― call me cismale (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 May 2019 13:41 (five years ago) link
If this means Farage isn't going to be invited onto everything then... yeah, not going to happen is it?
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 9 May 2019 13:45 (five years ago) link
sugar getting some blowback from this too
― mark s, Thursday, 9 May 2019 14:42 (five years ago) link
Brendan O'Neil might be having one of them days where he worries he might be playing himself or maybe even experiencing a very lucid dream.
― calzino, Thursday, 9 May 2019 15:02 (five years ago) link
Good morning, everyone.Following one of the worst days of my life I just want to formally apologise for the outrage I caused and explain how I got myself into this mess.I chose the wrong photo to illustrate a joke. Disastrously so.— Danny Baker (@prodnose) May 10, 2019
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 10 May 2019 12:21 (five years ago) link
It's a good and honest apology
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 10 May 2019 12:23 (five years ago) link
Remind me where the joke was.
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Friday, 10 May 2019 12:26 (five years ago) link
at least now he's got the honest apology out of his system i guess this will be the last we will hear of this matter from him.
― calzino, Friday, 10 May 2019 12:44 (five years ago) link
sincerely like it that a tweet thread with various swears and typos can now be considered a 'formal apology' and also be reported as such by newspapers
― Terry Major-Ball Will Tell You (DJ Mencap), Friday, 10 May 2019 12:53 (five years ago) link
... so what was the correct photo? If that's hilarious, then maybe all is forgiven?
― StanM, Friday, 10 May 2019 13:55 (five years ago) link
honestly struggle with believing he's somehow missed out on the "black people are monkeys" racist trope in his 6 decades of living in britain or not put two and two together when posting that picture. like we're talking next level being a thick cunt if that's to be believed
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Friday, 10 May 2019 19:01 (five years ago) link
I think the excuse is he didn’t know the baby was mixed race when he posted the pic
― milkshake chuk (wins), Friday, 10 May 2019 19:07 (five years ago) link
am inclined to believe him tbh, but this is definitely an exception to the 'if it smells like a racist' rule
― imago, Friday, 10 May 2019 19:09 (five years ago) link
In that case he has outed himself as a dimwit of staggering proportions.
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Friday, 10 May 2019 19:13 (five years ago) link
seems entirely likely that as both he and Camaraderie have stated, he frequently posts pictures of chimps in clothes to represent posh fuckwits, and didn't think "hmm do other people use chimps in clothes to represent other minorities?" in this one instance
good to know that the human resources manager for a medium wave sports radio station is the exact same person as the tory who heads the news division or whoever books question time, admirable sharing of resources
― blokes you can't rust (sic), Friday, 10 May 2019 19:34 (five years ago) link
A colleague, who I would not describe as stupid, did not get how the joke was racist, turns out he didn't know Megan was mixed race.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 10 May 2019 19:49 (five years ago) link
ugh, i am kind of on the "PC Gone Mad!" side for this one
kind of like the ilhan omar thing. clodheaded but whatever. apologies should mean something. people shouldn't be afraid to say the wrong thing, reflect, and recalibrate, which DB seems to have done
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 10 May 2019 21:04 (five years ago) link
I'd watched a storyline on a tv show v similar to this (woman calling toddler a 'cheeky little monkey', gets called racist) and still didn't clock this when I saw the pic. Just thought it was a daft royal family joek. I didn't realise MM was mixed race for ages either, and then didn't realise how many people actually cared about that, so perhaps my finger is not exactly on the pulse
― kinder, Friday, 10 May 2019 21:12 (five years ago) link
obv if I was in the public eye I might consider what I was posting for more than 0.01 second
― kinder, Friday, 10 May 2019 21:14 (five years ago) link
nods
― deemsthelarker (darraghmac), Friday, 10 May 2019 22:33 (five years ago) link
Which is the point, yes.
― Mark G, Saturday, 11 May 2019 08:29 (five years ago) link
This is the problem with fearless iconoclasm though: unless you're Lou Reed, it'll eventually bite your arse. And if you're Lou Reed you would enjoy having your arse bitten, anyway.
Fwiw, as these things go, that's a pretty decent fist at an apology. I don't wish him any ill.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Saturday, 11 May 2019 09:00 (five years ago) link
where is he going next, TalkSport? Glad I won't hear his annoying as fuck shtick (even for a few seconds) when channel surfing my dab.
― calzino, Saturday, 11 May 2019 09:11 (five years ago) link
just had the radio on the kitchen and this week's replacement is even worse, some basic as fuck interviewing minor celebs bullshit, it's Saturday and you're supposed to be the sports station fffs
― call me cismale (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 11 May 2019 09:16 (five years ago) link
It's Geoff Lloyd, I think. Inoffensive to the point of invisibility.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Saturday, 11 May 2019 09:17 (five years ago) link
i should just leave it permanently on the World Service unless there's a match on tbh
― Doctor Nu (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 11 May 2019 09:19 (five years ago) link
the history of stand up comedians from the world of r4 comedy/Edinburgh fringe/"the circuit" 1990-2019 is going to be an essential read one day.
― calzino, Saturday, 11 May 2019 09:21 (five years ago) link
if it ends with a savage outbreak of ebola then yes
― Doctor Nu (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 11 May 2019 09:22 (five years ago) link
I wonder how they'll deal with this on R4's The Now Show oh wait I don't fucking care.
― just another country (snoball), Saturday, 11 May 2019 09:28 (five years ago) link
it'll be a short lived + pyrrhic victory for the haters when Geoff Norcott gets the old Baker slot.
― calzino, Saturday, 11 May 2019 09:31 (five years ago) link
Chris Evans & Gazza or gtfo
― Doctor Nu (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 11 May 2019 09:33 (five years ago) link
There was an extended bit on Baker on the News Quiz last night with Desiree Burch and Andrew Maxwell both being fairly merciless.
I don't know why I listen to the News Quiz. It's some bizarre form of self-punishment.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Saturday, 11 May 2019 09:41 (five years ago) link
cos Miles Jupp is so frigging hilarious :p
― calzino, Saturday, 11 May 2019 09:43 (five years ago) link
well he would be for me if I cracked up as much as he does at his own jokes sometimes.
― calzino, Saturday, 11 May 2019 09:46 (five years ago) link
Rehabilitation seems underway already. Street-Porter defending him at length in the i (apparently there's not enough Londoners on the been seems to be her main point) and that it's hard to know what's offensive "these days". Bleagh.
― Ned Trifle X, Saturday, 11 May 2019 11:22 (five years ago) link
"been" = "beeb"
mr been
― mark s, Saturday, 11 May 2019 11:25 (five years ago) link
Pity, I thought JSP might be using Cockney rhyming slang, as spoken on the streets of London, as Ralph McTell once memorably sang, to lend support her fellow Londoner, Danny Baker.
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Saturday, 11 May 2019 11:30 (five years ago) link
there's a bit more feeling in this rehabilitation as baker seems like a decent man who screwed up due to thoughtlessness rather than an actual bastard, i.e. [¡]his cancellation could have happened to any of us, really[/¡]
― imago, Saturday, 11 May 2019 11:33 (five years ago) link
i mean, it couldn't, because a lot of people would never make that mistake, but there's a fair perception that this fuckup is relatable
― imago, Saturday, 11 May 2019 11:34 (five years ago) link
I'll take getting cancelled, as long as I've got a few hundred grand in the bank for doing a weekly Colin Hunt impression.
― calzino, Saturday, 11 May 2019 11:36 (five years ago) link