smcc Posted August 9, 2013 Report Share Posted August 9, 2013 Interestingly, the bongo is a large Central African forest antelope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dani bongo Posted August 9, 2013 Report Share Posted August 9, 2013 Interestingly, the bongo is a large Central African forest antelope. That's stripey, wondered where he'd f**ked off to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSS Posted August 9, 2013 Report Share Posted August 9, 2013 Don't understand the fuss.Shetland is Bongo land. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dani bongo Posted August 9, 2013 Report Share Posted August 9, 2013 Shetland is Bongo land. Keep sending the Wonga we desperately need it. Travel costs down to Paisleyland to visit the culture of your wonderful Town are crippling my economy, see you in Paddys next weekend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintnextlifetime Posted August 9, 2013 Report Share Posted August 9, 2013 Mans a tosser. All UKIP are tossers. Though as much as I hate to say this, the point he was trying to make was valid. There is no real way of knowing how aid is spent. The way he addressed it is atrocious. Not much different though from the government putting messages on busses for immigrants to go home!! The messages on the vans , was for ILLEGAL immigrants to go home. How the advert was meant to cure the problem l don't know but the advertising commission has gotten involved because , a statistic that was mentioned in the advert wasn't accurate in every area that the van carting the advert , visited. . Before we had words like racist and sexist , the common vernacular for these types was prejudiced, which is to say , one doesn't like a particular group of people and has pre-judged that all people belonging to a particular group are all bad or naughty or smelly and/or are all tossers. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TediousTom Posted August 10, 2013 Report Share Posted August 10, 2013 Is "bongo-bongo land" racist? Yes, it is, undoubtedly. Did he know what he was doing? Yes, he did, but he thought he was doing it in front of like-minded people and could get away with it. He's also in UKIP, a party well known as the "acceptable" face of right wingers for whom the Tories are too left wing. Given the foregoing, the reasonable man can only conclude that the f**kwit is, in fact, a racist. To believe otherwise is, at best, naive. I don't think you're naive, Tom. Nonsense. In life you will encounter some things that you do not like and you will encounter hardship's. Deal with it and stop being so sensitive, Man up my easily offended forum friend, man up somewhat! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salmonbuddie Posted August 10, 2013 Report Share Posted August 10, 2013 I have and I'm sure I will again. He's still a racist f**kwit, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TPAFKATS Posted August 11, 2013 Report Share Posted August 11, 2013 Try chanting it next you're a greenhill road Why would I want to chant the Um Bongo song - have we signed a hippo or a rhino Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oaksoft Posted August 12, 2013 Report Share Posted August 12, 2013 I still do not accept that the term as it was used in the context by the man whose name I am now deliberately not reading was indeed racist. Most sensible people know this was deliberately racist to play to a particular audience. That'll do for me. Gives me some hope that we're not about to drop back into the sewers of 1970's Britain any time soon. Maybe if you were an African who had experienced a lifetime of racism - both subtle and direct then you'd have an inkling of how other people feel. You really think people fought and died in the war so that in 70 years time racists could freely spout their bile without being brought to account for it ? I wish my old grandad was alive to hear that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linwood buddie Posted August 12, 2013 Report Share Posted August 12, 2013 Of course he's a racist. Depressing that we still have people like this wandering around the streets. Educated as well apparently. And yet no discernible brain cells. What a twat. Did you hear what he said he meant by Bongo Bongo land " Its a fictional country in Europe that formed the setting of three novels by Anthony Hope" Ruritania . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oaksoft Posted August 12, 2013 Report Share Posted August 12, 2013 Did you hear what he said he meant by Bongo Bongo land " Its a fictional country in Europe that formed the setting of three novels by Anthony Hope" Ruritania . Dear oh dear. Is that how he's trying to get out of it? That really is pathetic of him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insaintee Posted August 12, 2013 Report Share Posted August 12, 2013 Why would I want to chant the Um Bongo song - have we signed a hippo or a rhino Perhaps if one of the opposition players is black. Think that might be racist? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TPAFKATS Posted August 12, 2013 Report Share Posted August 12, 2013 Perhaps if one of the opposition players is black. Think that might be racist? So the words to the song aren't racist as you initially suggested? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insaintee Posted August 12, 2013 Report Share Posted August 12, 2013 (edited) So the words to the song aren't racist as you initially suggested? Context is everything so yes it is racist. It also displays the casual disparaging racism implicit in the term Bongo Bongo Land http://londown.wordpress.com/2009/05/11/racist-juice/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1255066/UK-Border-Agency-whistleblower-alleges-staff-racially-prejudiced-asylum-seekers.html Edited August 12, 2013 by insaintee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TPAFKATS Posted August 12, 2013 Report Share Posted August 12, 2013 Context is everything so yes it is racist. It also displays the casual disparaging racism implicit in the term Bongo Bongo Land http://londown.wordpress.com/2009/05/11/racist-juice/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1255066/UK-Border-Agency-whistleblower-alleges-staff-racially-prejudiced-asylum-seekers.html Aye insanity - context is everything right enough You quote an American website that says its a racist product that the author doubts is drunk in the Congo - oh well that'll be Um Bongo bang to rights then You then quote the feckin Daily Mail of all things - Even if that story is true the words of the song were changed I'll try this one last time - What is racist about a song where a hippo is in the jungle and mixes apricot, guava & mango does a dance and a rhino decides to call the drink um bongo. A python and a couple of other creatures also get in on the act but there's no mention of the people(s) of any of the countries past or present known as (the) Congo, Dr Congo (whoever he is) or anywhere else in Africa. I know its the silly season but FFS! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linwood buddie Posted August 22, 2013 Report Share Posted August 22, 2013 Did anyone watch The Last Leg on the 21/08 , Bloom had the pee ripped right out of him . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seaside Nipper Posted August 22, 2013 Report Share Posted August 22, 2013 (edited) Bongo Bongo Land.................is that a reference to a country that used drums, say the type that are of Afro origin ? Well to me that's akin to referring to Scotland as Brigadoon , a much lampooned and oft referred musical that is used as an insult directed at people of Scottish origin. Is that racist................. I's not racist , it is playfulness........... edit to add ironic smiley, or should that be ironic angry Edited August 22, 2013 by Seaside Nipper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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