The Woke thread AKA Liberal Kaynesplaining

Funny how the immigrants mostly take all the jobs in places with no immigrants. Must be a bitch of a commute.

Where my parents live in Shropshire is very much like that. I met a friend (who is not a whitey) for a walk there on my last visit and, maybe I'm paranoid, but I definitely felt like people were giving us funny looks in a 'there's something you don't see everyday' kind of way.

The secondary school I went to would do trips to the Isle of Arran every year. The islanders would stare at us mixed, black and Indian children like we were diseased.

Bring back all the old street names I say! I remember the good old days when every other street was called Gropecunt Lane

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gropecunt_Lane

Yup. I never minded the licence fee much, despite the BBC having the odd incredibly offensive shitbird on it - I mean, growing up I counted at least six (!!!) "Thought for the day"s which explicitly said atheists (and/or agnostics) were all monstrous psychopaths who were a danger to those around them, because they didn't have religion to keep them from being serial killers, but that's Thought for the day for you. For the last decade, maybe even more like since about 2004, though, their dedication to "balance" has basically seen them go flat-out in giving bigots, idiots, paid mouthpieces for extreme thinktanks and so on equal billing to people who actually know about subjects, whilst continually demeaning the latter and generally sneering at expertise. The main reason they're quitting Stonewall - which puts them to the right of Boris Johnson, note, bizarrely he likes Stonewall (and spoke to them at the Tory conference) - seems to be so they can go full TERF. Presumably because the most likely people to be maximum TERFs are well-educated middle-class white people in their mid-40s or later, and guess who makes up 90% of BBC decision-makers? At this point I'm actively looking at how I can legally stop paying it, at what exactly I have to shut down to do that.

Is that Steve Tyler?

Similar makeup in the town where we've moved to. It's a bit of a shocker after (mostly) city life. Out of 10k, only 250 "non-white" (107 Asian, 47 black, 90 mixed, 11 "other").

That was 10 years ago, mind you. It seems like a few more now and our little motley crew have increased those numbers very slightly (white by 1, black by 1, mixed by 2).

Apparently, the curry house down the road is very good though. I haven't tried it yet, but one of the Chinese takeaways was exceptional. The one that is in a big house that (apparently) used to be a brothel.

Smalltown UK is not a very diverse environment, got to be said. As a metropolitan blow-in, sometimes I really miss that there London... www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-57611781

Can't abide lying

It's ok, my current country, sorry, principality of residence, is a really fun game of spot the English, brown person.

Is it just you? 

Re the restaurants, we haven't eaten out anywhere, really - we tend not to as a rule. The Indian restaurant is on the list to try, though, because apart from an Italian place which doesn't seem to have reopened post-covid, there's pretty much only standard pub fayre around here and it's nice to have some variety.

A downside of moving from a city, there's a bit less choice.

I can almost hear Simple snorting with laughter.

I think our village of 500 or so has maybe two people of colour.

You know what truly is PCGM?

These days that sort of establishment is called ‘the newsagent’