I See The Notting Hill Crimathon Is In Full Swing...

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4332911/notting-hill-carnival-remembers-grenfell-tower-victims-silence/
33 arrests already, wonderful cultural event!

[anotheoldgit]

fiction-factory

/// Your diversion is bizarre, AOG ///

I was merely answering a question from a fellow ABer, so perhaps your condemnation should be aimed at that person and not at me.

But as I suspected, there are some who are not as proud to announce their skin colour as I am.

[naomi24]

aog, We are what we are. Does your pride emanate from a sense of superiority?

[anotheoldgit]

anneasquith
Could you provide the proof of your statistics, I would have thought that the percentage of Blacks was much lower than 50%.

[jackthehat]

Why on earth should anyone want to declare 'anything' about themselves merely to satisfy your whim?

Especially when you'll store it up to make reference to at a time of your own choosing....

[anotheoldgit]

naomi24

No, but I would have thought that most were proud of their heritage, but apparently not for some strange reason.

[ummmm]

What planet are you on, AOG?

[Tilly2]

I'm sort of pink with a few brown spots. Beauty spots, my mum called them.

[anneasquith]

AOG ?

[anotheoldgit]

jackthehat
/// Why on earth should anyone want to declare 'anything' about themselves merely to satisfy your whim? ///

How hypocritical, there are many on here who are forever trying to find out things about me, merely to satisfy their whims, ie my service in the RAF, my wartime experiences etc.

[jackthehat]

LoL.....and you're not terribly forthcoming about that, either are you?

So I'd say the hypocrisy lays squarely in your corner, AOG.

[Zacs-Master]

Your mind is a very strange place AOG. Linking being in the RAF with being proud to be a certain colour is wierd in the extreme.
I would have thought that 99.9% of people would be proud to be whatever colour they are. To not be would surely indicate the desire to be a different colour.

Now, lets have a bit of peace n quiet whilst I sunbathe.

[Tilly2]

Mind you don't go crispy, Zacs!

[Zacs-Master]

Just a gently Asian glow is what I'm after. You know, exotic like.

[jim360]

The opposite of "proud" isn't necessarily "ashamed". There are things about myself I'm indifferent to, rather than necessarily obsessively proud or ashamed about. I'd suggest that skin colour is one of those things. Maybe I'm "lucky" to be white but not "proud" of it.

Perhaps the best way of putting it is that I'm proud, or ashamed, of those things about myself that I have some measure of control over.

[1ozzy]

Ever thought of joining the KKK Aog?

[Zacs-Master]

Well put Jim.

[Berniecuddles2]

Don't overdo the sun zacs if you go too dark AOG won't speak to you!

[naomi24]

aog, the heritage of white people across the globe is diverse, so you’re not really talking about heritage are you. You’re talking solely about your pride in the fact that you are white, and by extension, implying that those who aren’t are ashamed to admit that they aren't. Cut to the chase, aog. Just what are you talking about?

[anotheoldgit]

ummmm

/// What planet are you on, AOG? ///

Obviously Earth, since our technology isn't advanced enough for our WI-FI to reach other planets.

But feel free to ask other stupid questions, but then you usually do.

[jackthehat]

Steady, AOG......you're starting to sound a little petulant......and most ungentlemanly!