All Aboard The Crazy Train

[Kromovaracun]

Gardening is racist.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/radio-4s-gardeners-question-time-accused-of-being-a-vehicle-to-project-racist-leanings-9649886.html

[baza]

I was oing to do some digging in the garden but I can't find that handle with a metal plate on it.PC correct version?

[bert_h]

Well, he wouldn't get any publicity for himself if he said that he thought it was all innocent and non-racist, would he?

[Zacs-Master]

If you would like to express your views directly to Dr Pitcher his email is in the following link:
http://www.westminster.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/directory/pitcher-dr-ben

[weecalf]

When are they gonna grow up little unfunny joke there

[Kromovaracun]

I can sort of see his point.

After years of careful research, I think we can safely speculate that humans invented gardening as the most boring and soul-destroying activity a person can do. It was the original golf.

And I happen to find that famous quote quite convincing: "If you want to be evil - be boring."

[sp1814]

Kromovaracun

Sometimes on AB, I try to guess what the story is before clicking on the link.

Have tried to work this one out for ten minutes without luck.

(And I occasionally listen to GQT and have never picked up on any racist undertones).

[Zacs-Master]

//all aboard the crazy train//
//I can sort of see his point//

I think you just missed your station Kromo.

[boxtops]

what an absolute load of old rubbish - or should I say compost!

[Obiter]

After having read the article I am left wondering:

a) What is the point of mowing the lawn?
b) What is the point of sociology?

[boxtops]

I'd ask myself - what is the point of that article, who pays this bloke's salary?

[Zacs-Master]

I've just noticed that Mr Pitcher has a new book out. A good time to bring more attention to oneself a cynical person may say.
My new book, Consuming Race (Routledge, 2014), explores how the meanings of race are made and remade in acts of creative consumption. Ranging across the terrain of popular culture, and finding race in some unusual and unexpected places, it gives us some fresh and innovative ways of thinking about the centrality of race to our lives.

[boxtops]

what we plant is cultural, surely, but also driven by where we live - I don't think I could grow rice or papayas in my garden.

[Obiter]

I'd like to think that you're bleedin' joking, though I suspect you aren't.

[Obiter]

My post was to Zacsmaster

[Zacs-Master]

I'm not. That passage is from the Westminster Zuni website. See how well his book description sits with his recent controversial comments. Mmm.

[stuey]

Surely, baza, you can call a spade a spade? The lecturer, I think, is merely shoveling native, or non-native, bovine excrement.

[anotheoldgit]

Be all right to say this 'SAVAGE' weather is causing havoc with my plants?

[stuey]

Is Indian Summer a good time to use a Dutch hoe around my African violets?

[Gromit]

Utter tosh.

If anything the opposite Is true.

[anotheoldgit]

We can all agree with this rising UKIP star then?

/// Collins said she laments the loss of politicians shooting from the hip. No friend of political correctness, she said that the country "needs to get a grip", and cites the recent claims by a sociologist that discussions of "indigenous species" during Radio 4's Gardeners' Question Time are racist. ///

I wonder if some will agree with her over the rise In Sheffield, where there is quite a high Roma Slovak community, and in that community hepatitis B is at a lot higher rate than it normally is in this country.

/// She also suggest that "There is going to be a programme running in Sheffield to vaccinate all the Roma Slovak children. But actually why can't we vaccinate our indigenous children who are in close contact with those children as well?" ///

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/aug/10/ukip-jane-collins-election-roma-sheffield