Silliest names in the Olympics
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Johnny Canuck3
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So why are you pointing out they're brown?
Is there anything wrong with pointing out that they're brown?
Johnny Canuck3
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Maybe your news presenters feel less constrained about making fun of the names of the British brown athletes?
Minnie_the_Minx
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Is there anything wrong with pointing out funny/cool names?
Minnie_the_Minx
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How is saying a name is brilliant making fun?
Johnny Canuck3
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I was watching a britsh sports presenter interviewing Usain Bolt. All of a sudden, the presenter started singing 'Everything's Gonna Be Alright' by Bob Marley, getting Bolt to sing along. I mean, What The Fuck?
It's like a white british person wins something, and the sportscaster goads them into a chorus of "I've Got A Lovely Bunch of Coconuts"
It's like a white british person wins something, and the sportscaster goads them into a chorus of "I've Got A Lovely Bunch of Coconuts"
Johnny Canuck3
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What is brilliant about Johnson-Thompson?
Minnie_the_Minx
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I was watching a britsh sports presenter interviewing Usain Bolt. All of a sudden, the presenter started singing 'Everything's Gonna Be Alright' by Bob Marley, getting Bolt to sing along. I mean, What The Fuck?
It's like a white british person wins something, and the sportscaster goads them into a chorus of "I've Got A Lovely Bunch of Coconuts"
You don't even know the title to the song
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
I didn't say her name was brilliant. I said Perri had a brilliant name. I said Johnson-Thompson was a funny name
I think you're purposely trying to wind me up aren't you
Johnny Canuck3
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You don't even know the title to the song
Even so: did you catch what I was talking about?
Johnny Canuck3
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I didn't say her name was brilliant. I said Perri had a brilliant name. I said Johnson-Thompson was a funny name
I think you're purposely trying to wind me up aren't you
No; I'm more pissed at revol saying I'm somehow trolling.
Johnny Canuck3
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Minnie_the_Minx
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Yes I know what you're trying to get at, but I think most Jamaicans would know Bob Marley and the song. I have no idea who sang I've Got a Lovely Bunch and I wouldn't know the words, so it would be pretty pointless
Maybe the presenter was just trying to be down with the yoot and helping him celebrate Jamaican independence
Minnie_the_Minx
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You're not picking on me, you'd have said the same to whoever started the thread.
Yes, I saw that. Why did you delete it?
Johnny Canuck3
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Yes I know what you're trying to get at, but I think most Jamaicans would know Bob Marley and the song. I have no idea who sang I've Got a Lovely Bunch and I wouldn't know the words, so it would be pretty pointless
Maybe the presenter was just trying to be down with the yoot and helping him celebrate Jamaican independence
I'm sure lots of people know the song. But what's the point of getting Bolt to sing a song from three decades ago?
Johnny Canuck3
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Minnie_the_Minx
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I'd imagine you'd have heard a lot of Bob Marley recently
Johnny Canuck3
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Me? I heard it tons when it came out and I bought the albums. Nowadays, maybe as much as I hear the Rolling Stones or Journey when I'm out in public.
Minnie_the_Minx
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Because I realized it wasn't you started the thread.
I see
Minnie_the_Minx
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Well bearing in mind it was the 50th anniversary of Jamaican independence, I'm surprised you've not heard more
Treacle Toes
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are you saying I'm too thick to hang around with nerds?
Anyway, here's Katerina Thompson Johnson (or the other way around)
As an aside I was more entertained by her lovely Liverpudlian accent. I don't hear them much.
Johnny Canuck3
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But... he had just won a footrace. Ask him about running.
Not: yah, black mon: Jamaica mon! Rasta! Evey-ting, gonna be awright!
Treacle Toes
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You do have a point here Johnny IMO. It is cringeworthy at best.
When I was travelling in Jamaica it was painful to watch tourists do this too.
Minnie_the_Minx
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You do have a point here Johnny IMO. It is cringeworthy at best.
When I was travelling in Jamaica it was painful to watch tourists do this too.
Same as anyone putting on accents or trying to act cool. Presenter probably lives in a nice rich white part of London
Corax
Luke 5:16
Nope, simply the puerile delight of the way her name sounds/feels when you say it out loud.
Corax
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As others have pointed out, the name I started this thread with is a GB athlete with a fairly common UK set of names - just in a combination that I found amusing. Not in a nasty sneering way, just in a silly giggling way. The same way that you might make fun of a friend's name, if you knew they wouldn't take offence at it.
So it's not about "laughing at foreigners' names" at all.
But even if it was, is that actually such a heinous crime when it's not accompanied by any other subtext?
If my name translated into "flacid willy" in Russian, would there be anything wrong with a Russian giggling at it? I don't think so, and I'd not be upset if they did - as long as it was in a friendly way, not a nasty sneering way.
So it's not about "laughing at foreigners' names" at all.
But even if it was, is that actually such a heinous crime when it's not accompanied by any other subtext?
If my name translated into "flacid willy" in Russian, would there be anything wrong with a Russian giggling at it? I don't think so, and I'd not be upset if they did - as long as it was in a friendly way, not a nasty sneering way.
