Some of our pub names are centuries old, and help to preserve the memories of local legends, traditions and people. Now many of them are at risk from woke corporations and meddling activists.
Eventually they’ll just rename our pubs to “The Beginnings” with a picture of Rudyard Kipling.
Are they trying to make The English begin to hate?
Or are they just so intoxicated on their “right side of history” woke messiah complex they can’t fathom anyone loving our country; regardless of their ethnic origin?
I want to believe that Trump's win signals the beginning of the end of Wokism in the USA, Canada, the UK, Australia, etc., but I am afraid that that is probably a bit too optimistic.
The Woke tree is now deeply rooted (certainly in education, at all levels), and it will take more than just a change of government to chop it down. I have a feeling the Wokists will double-down in the name of "resistance".
On the bright side, AOC no longer lists her pronouns (as of a few days ago, according to a Tweet that Gad Saad reposted here), so that might mean her minions might soon follow suit. Hopefully, that is the first of many Woke dominoes to fall.
Greene King should have re-named The Black Bitch with a nice neutral name. I suggest "The Abbott" after its well known ale, with an extra "t" to add some colour.
I'm really really REALLY sick of this stuff. It's too easy to call it mindless or stupid, although it's all that. What it really is is an attack on our culture and heritage; an attempt to erase our past, or at least all the bits of it that don't fit with modern Woke ideology. Well, we need to vote with our feet, if they will not listen to anything else. Woke and Woke-pacifying businesses be damned!
I think people pursue this avenue of activism because it is easy to petition a company or business to change a name. There is a process and defined steps to follow, it makes people feel like they doing something and actually making progress. Confronting the fact that certain individuals are going to hate other individuals for no other reason than where they are from and the color of their skin is a much much more difficult thing to grapple with. One that doesn't have any clear solutions.
Talking of offensive names., there's "the Black Boy"
I know of one (in Weeley) and I recall others. The Weeley one has kept its name so far - IIRC it's a free house which helps. Still I'm sure we're just a petition away from it being changed because a search for "the black boy pub" has news articles about pubs of that name being renamed something else
The Red Lion in Weymouth has a pub board depicting a very sunburnt lion with pale rings where his sunglasses were. It’s hilarious! Two precious old pubs with long histories are The Boot on old Weymouth High Street and The Black Dog that runs between the Esplanade and the main shopping street. Famous for smugglers and pirates. They weren’t fussed what colour the dog was! In fact, black had more of a ring of derringdo about it.
Well, given that pubs were traditionally named after contemporary events and legends, they should have renamed it The Woke Twat.
Many years ago I used to drink in the Black Cock in Caerphilly. For the most easily offended, it referred to a dark coloured male chicken.
Eventually they’ll just rename our pubs to “The Beginnings” with a picture of Rudyard Kipling.
Are they trying to make The English begin to hate?
Or are they just so intoxicated on their “right side of history” woke messiah complex they can’t fathom anyone loving our country; regardless of their ethnic origin?
That poem has an apocalyptic feeling to it. Definite hints of “Now look what you’ve gone and done.”
"Through the chill years ahead
When Time shall count from the date
That the English began to hate"
Exactly. I am deeply frustrated and worried about the results after “they” lumped the ordinary patriot in with Neo-Nazis outside the Overton Window.
I pray the pendulum swings back as peacefully as it just did in the US.
I want to believe that Trump's win signals the beginning of the end of Wokism in the USA, Canada, the UK, Australia, etc., but I am afraid that that is probably a bit too optimistic.
The Woke tree is now deeply rooted (certainly in education, at all levels), and it will take more than just a change of government to chop it down. I have a feeling the Wokists will double-down in the name of "resistance".
On the bright side, AOC no longer lists her pronouns (as of a few days ago, according to a Tweet that Gad Saad reposted here), so that might mean her minions might soon follow suit. Hopefully, that is the first of many Woke dominoes to fall.
Greene King should have re-named The Black Bitch with a nice neutral name. I suggest "The Abbott" after its well known ale, with an extra "t" to add some colour.
Nobody could possibly object to that.
Of course she didn’t drink there, the bar is 4ft 6!
That's a very heightist thing to say and I didn't laugh at all.
Or Bigotedly Biggetist if you prefer
That too!
I'm really really REALLY sick of this stuff. It's too easy to call it mindless or stupid, although it's all that. What it really is is an attack on our culture and heritage; an attempt to erase our past, or at least all the bits of it that don't fit with modern Woke ideology. Well, we need to vote with our feet, if they will not listen to anything else. Woke and Woke-pacifying businesses be damned!
Fuck Me
Whats next? The absolute idiocy of these people"
And you wonder why Trump was elected, Orban....
I hope? Here in Canada someone puts an end to the bullshit
I think people pursue this avenue of activism because it is easy to petition a company or business to change a name. There is a process and defined steps to follow, it makes people feel like they doing something and actually making progress. Confronting the fact that certain individuals are going to hate other individuals for no other reason than where they are from and the color of their skin is a much much more difficult thing to grapple with. One that doesn't have any clear solutions.
Talking of offensive names., there's "the Black Boy"
I know of one (in Weeley) and I recall others. The Weeley one has kept its name so far - IIRC it's a free house which helps. Still I'm sure we're just a petition away from it being changed because a search for "the black boy pub" has news articles about pubs of that name being renamed something else
Greene King had three pubs called The Black Boy, and has now renamed them all.
Brilliant revelation of the ridiculousness! Thank you for informing me. What a shame though....
The Red Lion in Weymouth has a pub board depicting a very sunburnt lion with pale rings where his sunglasses were. It’s hilarious! Two precious old pubs with long histories are The Boot on old Weymouth High Street and The Black Dog that runs between the Esplanade and the main shopping street. Famous for smugglers and pirates. They weren’t fussed what colour the dog was! In fact, black had more of a ring of derringdo about it.
Be like Nancy Reagan. Just Say No.
Then be like the American colonists: tar and feather these troublemaking, sh!t-disturbing vandals, and drive them out of your town forever.
Way too much common sense here fergus for anyone to take notice and do something