Is it wrong to state a cyclists ethnicity
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Now, now. No need to go calling a Specialized carbon road bike black. I own one.
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So long as no one calls me the miserable old git on the Genesis.............
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Jay dubbleU wrote:So long as no one calls me the miserable old git on the Genesis.............
That's offensive. Offensive to old people and to miserable people. Why can't miserable people enjoy life without their state of mind being used as an insult?
Mind you, to describe LiT as lovely is also offensive as it implies others aren't as easy on the eye which is therefore an insult to them.
TBH, the world will be a better place when we are all banned from describing people or ourselves in anyway whatsover.Faster than a tent.......0 -
We had two fellas who worked in the same dept. One black one white. They were both called Terry. Some people would call them White Terry or Black Terry to differentiate between the two. I never like doing this and always used their surnames to tell them apart. Not sure if I was being a bit precious but I thought it was a bit lazy of people not to take the time to learn their surnames.0
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Problem is I am that miserable old git 0
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Agent57 wrote:I haven't been to Guyana since 1976
I was too young to really appreciate much of the experience (was about 5-6 years old), but I have some fond memories of Georgetown and the Corentyne area where my grandparents lived. There's a high school in Corentyne that's named after my grandfather.
Appologies for hijacking thread....
Cool. My brother worked there for 3 years so I went a couple of times and its hard not to like the place. Its carribbean, but not. Because there's not many tourists, everyone wants to talk to you about their country. Didn't make it to Corentyne I don't think, unless Bartica or Linden qualify.
But what I did find was that for a traveller, the country is still pretty raw and if you have adequate guidance (which I did, not being a great traveller, really) very genuine and uncommercialised.
Anyway, as soon as you get out of the city, its really nice and there is such variety. I only saw the rainforest and the grasslands, but there are beaches bordered by mangroves where leatherbacks lay their eggs and 10,000ft table mountains too.
Visiting Guyana is the last and only time someone gave me directions by addressing me as "sir". Even the city still has a faded grandeur - yes, there are mini-shanti towns in the gardens between the canals and a lot of ethnic violence, I believe (the police station on the corner of my brother's road was shot up by the army!!) and the infrastructure is driven by hamsters on little wheels which occasionally need a rest so the light go out.... however it is still a lush, spacious, green city with one single set of traffic lights (I am assured).
And the rainforest is something like 85% intact or something ludicrous - but all rights signed over to mining companies decades ago who can wreck it when they can be bothered.
So, honestly, it might be a case of get there while its still like it is, because a lot of the character houses in Georgetown are falling down and the forest threatened, or it might remain a little gem in the Amazon for unparallelled eco-tourism for a long time to come. I hope so. Afer all, when I went to the Bourda cricket ground and broke in through a hole in the wall, it looked for any money like it would collapse any second but is still standing..... so perhaps they have perfected the knack of continual last-minute renewal of buildings!!0 -
Ooooh, now you've made me want to go back sooner rather than later!
I do know that 20 years or so, my dad wasn't keen on myself or my sisters visiting, because he said there was too much unrest and it wasn't really safe. I really feel that I should go back though; largely because it's part of my heritage. I'd like to see parts of the country I never got the chance to visit when I was a nipper, such as Kaieteur Falls.
Here's another interesting Guyana fact: my dad's cousin was Guyana's last ambassador to the USSR, as well as a former Vice-President, and Deputy Prime Minister of Guyana. 0 -
Kaieteur Falls. Yes. You should definitely go back. Its bonkers. Calm, lilly pad strewn forest river, then an 800ft drop. Its like a road runner cartoon!! And the flight there is worth it alone.
That bit of rock Kevin Pietersen was photographed standing on in those pre-cricket world cup photos... the one with the bench on it.... thats an overhang and there is a crack in the rock. They will eventually need a new bench.
The interior seemed sleepy and safe to me. I might be naive, mind you.
The city less so. The VSO people get a map when there are sent there with some bits blocked out where they shouldn't go. That was in the early-mid noughties though, so it might have died down a bit by now.0 -
NB: Soviet Ambassador. Very good. He should have kept some of the dinner service. Do you use a knife and fork or would you prefer a hammer and sickle, sir?
If you are from somewhere where there are very few people like Guyana or Iceland, you only need 4 degrees of separation to get to Kevin Bacon!!0 -
people just dont get the diversity concept.diversity simply means diferent.its using common sense not to do or say something that may offend someone of ethnic apearance or someone with a disability etc.
we call a blackboard a blackboard because its a blackboard peole who say we should call it something else dont understand diversity,its not racial.
you are describing someone simple as that.0
