whats tha recon to this?..

article about chocolat author joanne harris from the independent, she is quoted as saying that "Barnsley is a small parochial town full of bigots"


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Were not bigots! The stupid frog..!

 

Bit of a non story imho

But it's always good to give the North a kick now and then.

 

RE: Bit of a non story imho

Yup, i'll go with what her neighbour says.

 

As she said - she is referring to the Barnsley of the 1960's and '70's and to an extent she has a point.
I did an school exchange visit with a German lad, when we went to school here he was getting "Heil Hitler" salutes and stuff from kids.
Also correct that, for a long time, there were few ethnic minorities in the town - was very rare to see a black face in town and people were abusive.

 

What I don't understand , she uses the word "Is" and then claims she's referring to the Barnsley of the late sixties and early seventies.The reason that there was an increase in Huddersfield and Bradford, at that time, of "ethnic minorities" was purely down to poor wages for unskilled jobs readily available , mainly in the textile industry . Jobs which were not acceptable to the existing local labourforce , but held an attraction to people from our old "Empire", who lived poverty stricken lives , in comparison to post war Britain . It was NOT done to create a Utopian ideal of a cosmopolitan community . I dare say she WAS bullied because of her mother's nationality. My best friend , as a child , had a German mother and he faced a similar problem . However , was that a problem unique to Barnsley or society in general at that time ?

 

"Ms Harris admits to being teased"

Of course she was. Just like every other child who ever went to school. She got it for being French. Others got it for being ginger or wearing the wrong jumper or the wrong shoes or having hair too long or too short or for being too fat or too thin or for being no good at sport or too good at maths or for not liking the right music or not watching the right TV shows or for just not being 100% super cool 100% of the time. 'Bout time she got over it.

 

It only took her 38 years to leave.....

 

RE: "Ms Harris admits to being teased"

now now Jay it's all right, get it off your chest.

 

Where to start ?

hair, weight, clothes, face, 'looking uncool', voice, ..........

 

For most people it stops when they leave school

I'm still getting it in my 30s.

Boo Hartog set, boo.

 

RE: Where to start ?

imagine Robbie Coltraine's voice being dubbed by John Inman

 

RE: For most people it stops when they leave school

Typical bullies.

 

RE: Where to start ?

Mint digestive/monitor agogo

 

RE: Where to start ?

Mint digestive?? what like mint flavoured choc on top and that? Nice

 

RE: Where to start ?

Yes. Delish. Absolutely essential for today's progressive quasi medico-retail dynamic professionals.

 

Sounds like a biscuit for negative thinkers to me

Scared they've got pongy breath, so choose their biscuits to mask the smell. Garlic biscuits are for your positive thinkers. They don't care if their breath smells or not, it's their breath and it's the best. The monstrous cnuts.

 

Garlic biscuits

Can change your skin pigment I'm led to believe. A sort of vermilion hue.

 

"to help correct stereotypes about Northern towns."

and the stereotypical northern town would be?! -

full of heritage, pride, and proud people, people who are proud of their roots. be the area scruffy or clean it is somewhere to be proud of so why does it need "correcting". i for one would rather be a poor simpleton in a northern town than a middle class twerp that thinks they are a cut above the rest.

 

"It's the least cosmopolitan place there is"

she's obviously never been in the Outpost.