What's amusing me today

Will you and your family be swaggering through the lounge like the awful cunts from the On The Beach advert?

I thought the same when I saw that tweet.

I haven’t seen said advert. But if there’s cuntage to be done and a free bar. Well, I can hardly be responsible…

I'm amazed you haven't. We usually record things to fast forward through the ads but haven't been able to avoid this absolute bag of shite.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=u86zpskZoNE

I’m not sure what point she’s trying to make. That white people can be a bit rowdy/unpleasant, and this is not in-fitting with core British values?

Is she off the mark because white peoples being rowdy/unpleasant is very much at the heart of Britain and it’s history?

Surely the point she’s making is that if they weren’t white, “patriots” would be saying what she’s posted? It’s ironic reverse racism.

Yes, I guess it’s something like that. It’s clumsy/a bit of a reach, though. I don’t think that the ‘patriot’ types go around getting worked up at crowds of non-white people being rowdy (because them doing so isn’t particularly a ‘thing’). ‘Patriots’ get worked up at non-white people for doing other stuff.. like existing.

Is that why people think she’s wrong, though? Or do they think ‘nowt wrong there, just lads walking to the footy’? Because there are plenty of people in that video being hostile cunts in a public space, right?

I suppose I’m confused by the whole thing.

I think she thought it was one of those EDL / NF / BF / whatever gatherings rather than a group of young gentlemen heading to an afternoon's sporting entertainment, although I grant you the Venn diagram of those things has some significant degree of overlap.

That's definitely possible, although I already give her credit for being incredibly smart because she mostly is.

I thought she was implying that some core British values are a bit shit.

Seems hard to imagine someone making that mistake.. it looks nothing at all like an EDL march (no banners, no covered faces, the people ‘outside’ the march acting aggro looking exactly the same as the people in it, location entirely not the sort of place those things happen etc). If she thought that, it paints her as someone incredibly out of touch with the thing she feels fit to comment on. Feels unlikely that she’s made that mistake though… even people in the loftiest of lefty-woketard ivory towers must have seen a football crowd before.

I think it’s much more likely she knew what she was looking at, and just thought it all seemed very unpleasant.

TBF it seems her husband is an ex footballer and former chairman of the PFA, so I'm guessing it was me what got it wrong.

I feel the same. Sadly, it may well hit the target market fair and square.