Miscegenation.

Marlin47

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Am I the only one to have noticed the increasing introduction of the above into
TV adverts ? One really has to wonder if there is a hidden agenda here ?

I know that advertising agencies have to influence the buying patterns of the public, but I think that they are exceeding their brief when they try to
influence our social development as well.
 
+1 for the troll.

I saw this in the new posts listing, was unfamiliar with that word so I clicked the link and looked it up as this thread was populating. Then I read the rest of your post and knew you got me. I've deleted the post I wanted to make in response to your post and instead just posting this meta-comment about yours.

However, that means you've still won. Congratulations.
 
+1 for the troll.

I saw this in the new posts listing, was unfamiliar with that word so I clicked the link and looked it up as this thread was populating. Then I read the rest of your post and knew you got me. I've deleted the post I wanted to make in response to your post and instead just posting this meta-comment about yours.

However, that means you've still won. Congratulations.


Why do I think that " winning " , as you put it, was actually losing ? Not that I actually sought either.
 
Perhaps I have lived in an area where we know better, but it seems to me that you are bemoaning something akin to "trying to close the barn door long after the horses have all escaped." In south Louisiana a hundred years ago or more, we had special words for the children of mixed marriages. Now we just call them "children." A hundred years ago it was actually a crime to mix races and the word "miscegenation" was used to describe it. Now we have moved to a totally different agenda regarding same-sex marriages. All I can say is "get with the times, man!"
 
The main aspect of this situation as far as I am concerned, is that here in the UK more and more publicity is given in support of miscegenation. TV adverts and programmes are thick with it and I dont care to have it pushed at me this way. Perversely, most of it shows white females and black males and not vice versa. This strikes at the very heart of the WASP ethos, and, as you have probably guessed already, I am the very epitome of a WASP !

For me, the whole situation is hugely exacerbated by the UK presently being overwhelmed with immigrants, most of whom are the dregs of lesser countries. The black/white scenario is the greatest irritant of this situation.
 
Egad, what a strange feeling. Here I am, a resident of the USA's "deep South" - and yet I feel more racially neutral and socially well-graced than someone who purports to be from the shining jewel of civilization, the UK.

Marlin, I can't tell whether you are putting on a front or whether you really are a snob. All I can say is that the position required to keep your nose elevated tends to make it hard to see when you're about to step in something foul-smelling.
 
Egad, what a strange feeling. Here I am, a resident of the USA's "deep South" - and yet I feel more racially neutral and socially well-graced than someone who purports to be from the shining jewel of civilization, the UK.

Marlin, I can't tell whether you are putting on a front or whether you really are a snob. All I can say is that the position required to keep your nose elevated tends to make it hard to see when you're about to step in something foul-smelling.
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" Racially neutral " ? . That's a good phrase, I like that ! Of course, amigo,
you would almost certainly have to be just that, living as you do in New Orleans, a very racially diverse ( another good phrase, is it not ? ) city.

As for your being allegedly more " socially well graced " , well, that's a horse of an entirely different colour, and I, for one, see our debating that as a minefield
best avoided.

I love your closing phrase, although as a reader of Wodehouse I've read it before, but credit to you for relevancy, if not originality.

We have, though, moved a tad away from " Miscegenation ", my original thread.
As is only to be expected, this subject begets polarisation of views - which is why I posted it. And, insofar as that is concerned, I may well not agree with what you say, but I'll fight to the death for your right to say it !........and, no, it wasn't Wodehouse who said that !
 
You are correct that New Orleans is incredibly diverse.

In our history we had the Choctaw Native Americans, who were squeezed out by the French, Spanish, and British. There was a big German influx just before the USA Civil War. I also can assert with some certainty an influx of French Jews in a politically induced Diaspora from the 1830s (give or take half a decade) - because my triple-great grandmother came over to New Orleans from Tours, France in that period. We also had the Africans originally brought over in the slave trade days.

Now, we are socially diverse because New Orleans is somewhat more gay-friendly than some cities. We are willing to live and let live. We always have been forgiving, but I think Hurricane Katrina helped us regain and sharpen our perspectives. We know that life is just too short to waste it on hatred.
 
I quite agree that one shouldn't waste ones time by hating. I certainly don't. Quite honestly I don't think I have yet experienced hatred for someone else, unless it is terrorists groups like the IRA, but then I have seen active service against them at first hand and know what appalling atrocities they committed regularly in the past. If I have due cause for hatred ( like, for example , a bloody minded argument with a neighbour over a building planning dispute ) , I channel my emotion into constructive ways of coolly defeating them. It inevitably works ! Mind you, if it didn't work, I'd probably burn their ferking house down !
 
I quite agree that one shouldn't waste ones time by hating. I certainly don't. Quite honestly I don't think I have yet experienced hatred for someone else, unless it is terrorists groups like the IRA, but then I have seen active service against them at first hand and know what appalling atrocities they committed regularly in the past. If I have due cause for hatred ( like, for example , a bloody minded argument with a neighbour over a building planning dispute ) , I channel my emotion into constructive ways of coolly defeating them. It inevitably works ! Mind you, if it didn't work, I'd probably burn their ferking house down !



Are you faking the active service along with everything else?
 
Am I the only one to have noticed the increasing introduction of the above into
TV adverts ? One really has to wonder if there is a hidden agenda here ?

I know that advertising agencies have to influence the buying patterns of the public, but I think that they are exceeding their brief when they try to
influence our social development as well.


The agenda is to sell as much stuff as they can, by making as many people as possible see their product as something for them, so yes they are deliberately covering all bases, with an array of differant people to identify with.
 
Are you faking the active service along with everything else?




Everything I have said thus far is a lie : as is this.

Have I said I was a Colonel of the Paras ? A member of an elite Cavalry regiment ? A hardened trooper in SAS ?

To have served in the Army in Belfast, one could have been a coarse and vulgar squaddie from the slums of any city ; or, perhaps, a clump footed yokel from the mires and bogs of Swampshire. It is no great claim to have served ones country, at least not amongst my circle. Of course, if you were a drug addled dope addict who mugged old ladies for their next fix, had six kids by four different women, and had been imprisoned any number of times for flashing, abusing children and air gunning neighbours cats, then perhaps you might find it remarkable that another had served Queen and Country. It is clearly obvious that you do !
 
Everything I have said thus far is a lie : as is this.

Have I said I was a Colonel of the Paras ? A member of an elite Cavalry regiment ? A hardened trooper in SAS ?

To have served in the Army in Belfast, one could have been a coarse and vulgar squaddie from the slums of any city ; or, perhaps, a clump footed yokel from the mires and bogs of Swampshire. It is no great claim to have served ones country, at least not amongst my circle. Of course, if you were a drug addled dope addict who mugged old ladies for their next fix, had six kids by four different women, and had been imprisoned any number of times for flashing, abusing children and air gunning neighbours cats, then perhaps you might find it remarkable that another had served Queen and Country. It is clearly obvious that you do !

Many a person from many a background can serve. It is remarkable - hence why you remarked upon it!

I just doubt you have actually done anything remarkable in reality. No?
 
Bloody Hell, man. Am I Sergei Brin ? Is my nom de plume J.K. Rowling ? Have I claimed to have invented stem cell research ? Have I banged Jennifer Lopez ? If I grow a beard will I become Richard Branson ? NO !

I am just a relatively ordinary bloke. The only thing that makes me different is the amalgamation of numerous small things. I am quite wealthy. I have an insatiable curiosity.
I am an inveterate traveller. I know a few well connected people. I am inclined to be reasonably adventurous. None of these things are truly remarkable, even when they all come together. Most people, even you, I suspect, will have one or more of them.
The difference is that I get off my arse and use them !
 
You're an inveterate something. That much is true.

Even if I were to refer you to either my biography, or that of my father whose bio can support what I say until 1988 ( the year that he died ), you would still cast aspersions and continue to doubt the truth. Best of all though, I could link you through to my own business ( which has a lengthy page and photographs devoted to me ), and it would clearly not make a blind bit of difference to you.

So, I'll have continue to be the recipient of your negative comments, but, WTF, this is only an Internet forum that I sometimes ( admittedly not very much of late ) find mildly amusing, and is less troublesome than training a parrot to tell me jokes..........why do that when laughing at you costs nothing !
 
Even if I were to refer you to either my biography, or that of my father whose bio can support what I say until 1988 ( the year that he died ), you would still cast aspersions and continue to doubt the truth. Best of all though, I could link you through to my own business ( which has a lengthy page and photographs devoted to me ), and it would clearly not make a blind bit of difference to you.

So, I'll have continue to be the recipient of your negative comments, but, WTF, this is only an Internet forum that I sometimes ( admittedly not very much of late ) find mildly amusing, and is less troublesome than training a parrot to tell me jokes..........why do that when laughing at you costs nothing !


I have Danny Bakers and Barack Obamas biographies on the go at the moment. I can add yours.

Is it an auto biography?
 
I'd rather you bought a book I had published six years ago. Amazon are presently offering it at sixty five quid with used ones around forty. A signed copy has fetched nearly a hundred. Mind you, the five copies I have signed by Hillary Clinton, who wrote the introductory foreword, have attracted very much greater offers, so that's a bit of
a bummer !

Did I write my own bio ? No, it's very much worse than that - my Mother wrote it !
 
I'd rather you bought a book I had published six years ago. Amazon are presently offering it at sixty five quid with used ones around forty. A signed copy has fetched nearly a hundred. Mind you, the five copies I have signed by Hillary Clinton, who wrote the introductory foreword, have attracted very much greater offers, so that's a bit of
a bummer !

Did I write my own bio ? No, it's very much worse than that - my Mother wrote it !

Used ones?
 

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