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Re the guy and his halloween grievance:

EVANGELICAL Christian

Those ones tend to keep to the fruitier/nuttier side of how to live with others...

Balfour made the comments in 2000 while a lobbyist for the Evangelical Alliance.

The EA are a bunch of bastards. Playing the "poor us" violin to try to keep the gayz in the dark here in NI.

2000 though, ultra repost? :P

Balfour, elected as a Lothians MSP in May, was also director of a right-wing think tank when they questioned the morality of rape victims taking the morning-after pill.

Charming. I could question his morality me thinks ;)

But what if it was a saucy KKK outfit. With hotpants. Eh? Eh?

The cloak would obscure the hotpants, so it's moot.

http://metro.co.uk/2015/10/23/6-racist-halloween-costumes-you-definitely-cannot-wear-5454027/

needs moar slits

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I think it's safe to say that it's been a bit of a golden opportunity for Steve Bell that all those 'Killer Clown' stories came along just when he was thinking of how to caricature The Resa May:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2016/oct/31/steve-bell-on-the-ruling-out-of-an-orgreave-inquiry-cartoon

love studio ghibli

And nobody minds too much when we dress in Breton tops

Bretons are actually an ethnic group. Or at least, many people in France claim Breton ethnicity. Last year, after over a decade of legal wranglings, a Breton won 'European Citizens of Breton Nationlity' status for himself and his family, and has now started a legal battle against the French authorities to claim that status.

The Breton people have been pretty consistently marginalised and belittled. The Vichy government took away their historic capital (Nantes). From 1880 to the 1950s the French government banned Breton language in the school system. Thanks to a minority of Bretons who teamed up with the Nazis in WWII (when Brittany was particularly heavily occupied, just look up what happened to Saint-Pol-Roux) Breton nationalists and action for the Breton language and culture as a whole became labeled as "pro-Nazi" when the war ended. That was pretty ironic as the resistance in Brittany was on the whole very strong. The French generally look down their noses a bit at Bretons. I'm not sure how directly it compares but it seems to be quite similar to our stereotypical view of people in the west country: cow-worrying, cider-making wurzel types.

Dressing up as a Breton top, beret-wearing onion-bearing stereotype is essentially double cultural appropriation because the Breton top is a symbol of Brittany, not France.

What's my point? Not sure, I guess that nearly anything can be seen as cultural appropriation. I will keep wearing my nice Armor-Lux top though, but will bear in mind that is is possibly cultural appropriation when I do :)

Thanks for that, a nice synopsis. I think Bretons look down their noses at the 'French' as much as the other way around. And funny you should draw comparisons with the West Country because the peoples from the West Country derive from the same Celtic diaspora as the Bretons - there is an affinity between the two.

[Note, hailing from the West Country myself, I have never taken any offence at references to cow-worrying, cider-making wurzel types made in my presence. I do, however, feel a strong affection for Bernard Hinault, himself a Breton.]

I was in Le Touquet last weekend and saw a man wearing a stripy top and beret, riding a bicycle with a baguette in the basket. No onions involved unforch.

No onions involved unforch.

He'd sold them to @edscoble as vaginal love beads

The Breton people have been pretty consistently marginalised and belittled. The Vichy government took away their historic capital (Nantes). From 1880 to the 1950s the French government banned Breton language in the school system.

See also Wales, Machynlleth, the Welsh Not.

No visible onions.

Yes, they could well have been internal.

I think Bretons look down their noses at the 'French' as much as the other way around.

And who could blame them - I was there touring/camping for a week in October and it's a magnificent part of the world. Also, that cider... I'm trying to find a UK supplier of something Breton that can compete!

At which point a Rapha email hits my inbox featuring a Breton style top.

daily specious nazi cunt mail draining the cunt well dry this morning.

Xenophobic, racist scumbags.

Of course when a UK truck driver drives w/o due care and attention, it feels like being hit with a pillow filled with rose buds and afterwards the aftermath is merely a pleasant flowery smell....

It's turning into fucking absurdism now.

It's all right, if UK drivers are suddenly worried about being crushed by lorries driven by foreigners they just need some helmets and a bit of high viz.

Ha! :)

If the Daily Hail would have used a foreign family devasted by road deaths in the article it would explode the universe by setting off everyone's irony meters at the exact same time...

So we just need a cyclist to be killed by a foreign lorry driver and the Daily Mail will enter a self-destructive cycle of not being able to write anything due to being unable to support either side.

I think when they manage to have a headline saying "give migrants age tests" next to a photo of some model and her 15 year old daughter looking hot for her age then they won't have any problems with that.