Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain says racist abuse is part of her everyday life

by Guest Sun Aug 14, 2016 10:07 pm

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TV cook and author tells Desert Island Discs she has come to expect being ‘shoved, pushed or verbally abused’

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Nadiya Hussain, the winner of last year’s Great British Bake Off, says that racist abuse has become an everyday part of her life.

Speaking on Sunday’s Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio 4, Hussain said she is astounded at being credited for her positive effect on race relations with the Muslim community as she described the anti-Islamic abuse she still suffers.

“It sounds really silly [but] it feels like that’s become a part of my life now– I expect it,” she said. “I expect to be shoved or pushed or verbally abused, because it happens, it’s happened for years.”

The 31-year-old said the abuse has made her even more determined to be a role model to her three children and the wider Muslim community.

Hussain said: “I love being British and I love living here, this is my home and it always will be regardless of all the other things that define me. This is my home and I want my kids to be proud of that and I don’t want them to grow up with a chip on their shoulder, so I live as positively as I can.”

During her 10 years as a stay-at-home mother, Hussain said she “got so bogged down in being the best housewife” that she began losing herself, trapped in a bubble where she only spoke to close family and feared strangers’ judgment.

“I couldn’t get on a bus with them [her two eldest children] because I was so afraid of people looking at me, or people thinking I looked horrible, or people judging me and how could she possibly have two children in that space of time?” she said.

Hussain also spoke about her own childhood, from happy times living in Bangladesh to the family’s reliance on her grandmother while her parents cared for her two seriously ill siblings in hospital.

She said she bought her parents’ first house for them at the age of 19, adding: “I’ve spent my whole life watching my parents sacrifice things for me, so buying a house was nothing.”

Among the tracks she chose on the show was Counting Crows’ Accidentally in Love, which is the song that her now husband Abdul played in the background when they began courting each other before tying the knot in an arranged marriage aged 19.

She said her husband still serenades her with the song every day.

Since her victory in the final of Bake Off, which was the most-watched TV show in 2015 with 15 million viewers, Hussain’s career has skyrocketed. Her first cookbook, Nadiya’s Kitchen, was released in June, she writes a cooking column for the Times, and made the Queen’s 90th birthday cake.

She will also present an upcoming two-part BBC series called The Chronicles of Nadiya, which is described as “an exuberant food-inspired journey from Nadiya’s birthplace in Luton to her family village in the north-east of Bangladesh”, as well as judging the new Junior Bake Off.

Last week, Hussain told the Times she began wearing a hijab at the age of 14 to cover up her “bad hair more than anything else” because her father “cut it really badly”. Her parents, she said, were not particularly religious and neither her mother nor three sisters wore a hijab when she was growing up.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/aug/14/bake-off-winner-nadiya-hussain-racist-abuse-is-part-of-her-everyday-life

That's a girl with guts, drive and integrity.

by Guest Mon Aug 15, 2016 6:21 am

Ben Reilly wrote:Mih mih Ben mimimih mimih mimimih mih mih.

The whole first half of the article talks about her dealing with racism. It would be journalistic malpractice for the headline not to reflect that.

She doesn't go into enough specifics? Maybe she didn't feel like it. Not everybody wants to tell the news media about the most humiliating experiences of their lives.

It talks about her paranoia

It does not talk about her dealing with racism, it states that only once

I knew you would attempt to answer what could not be physically answered off the Guardian article

Your last sentence is just subjectve gibberish as its the most and worst experinces that do seel stories and gain people the most sympathy

Now I have sent you a PM report on something else

by eddie Mon Aug 15, 2016 8:56 am

Hmmmmm. If she lives in a busy city she will be pushed and shoved. I get pushed and shoved, like everyone else, when I get on the bus and tube.

I sort of think she made a bit of a throwaway remark to the journalist and they ran with it.

I mean, she doesn't really say much about any particular incident and here's the thing; she would remember if any ting racist was said and it seems it wasn't - so perhaps the "pushing and shoving" was a normal part of city living.....

by Guest Mon Aug 15, 2016 9:04 am

I agree Eddie and she is not also honest from the points I made on the last page

To me she is playing off anti-Muslim hatred to play the sympathy card

The worst aspect is she claims she bought her parents a house at 19.
No they clearly profited and gained a house by forcing her to marry someone she did not want to marry, which is being badly overlooked on this

Okay she has grown to love her husband, but that is besides the point.
She was forced to marry at 19
She claims to have bought them a house with no income at 19
Clearly this was part of the arrangement on the marriage.

by eddie Mon Aug 15, 2016 9:14 am

It's a bit of a non-story. There are no actual racist abuses that she is discussing? I don't get this "pushing and jabbing" thing?? This happens all the time in busy cities and shopping centres.

She admits she didn't like going out so perhaps she was sensitive to city life and shopping centres etc?

When I go to London (and I was BORN there so know the way of life) I get pushed and shoved all the time trying to get in buses - do I take that as racism if it's done by a group of black girls? (And they can be among the rudest and loudest and pushiest)

If it were a racist action that she had experienced, why wasn't the "push" and the "jabs" also accompanied by racist words?

I'm sorry, I think she is over egging her pudding.

At least she's not scared of her own shadow anymore as she was very confident on the bake off programme Rolling Eyes

by Guest Mon Aug 15, 2016 9:22 am

Ben Reilly wrote:Mih mih Ben mimimih mimih mimimih mih mih.

The whole first half of the article talks about her dealing with racism. It would be journalistic malpractice for the headline not to reflect that.

She doesn't go into enough specifics? Maybe she didn't feel like it. Not everybody wants to tell the news media about the most humiliating experiences of their lives.

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for trying, but once the racial sluring group has set their locked jaws into a Muslim WOMANS happy winning contest ...the story line becomes more about trashing a decent human being then the reason that the article and the thread was generated!

All of the vitriol from the same rank and file members speaks more profoundly about them then it does about her!
BTW - Didge-dooer ...your failing memory seems to be slipping several gogs ...you've called Ben & I Jew Haters - You spew you BS so often you can't remember Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain says racist abuse is part of her everyday life - Page 2 2387050134

Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain says racist abuse is part of her everyday life - Page 2 2387050134

But I'm done letting you trash yet another if Sassy's decent topic's just because your so F'd up Twisted Evil

by eddie Mon Aug 15, 2016 9:30 am

Hang on, just becasue I don't believe the reporting, you're bad-mouthing me?
I think the story has been a little over-dramatised and says nothing about any incidents.

I liked her in the programme and was glad she won. I'm betting she read that article and thought "well that's not exactly what I meant....."

by Guest Mon Aug 15, 2016 10:14 am

And I'm betting the opposite, because I listened to the programme. Even in the articles if you read them, she says why she won't make a big thing about it. You think she can't tell the difference between being pushed and shoved ON PURPOSE and HAVING THINGS THROWN AT HER AND VERBAL ABUSE, as apposed to being knocked into in the hurly burly of life.

by Guest Mon Aug 15, 2016 10:50 am

eddie wrote:It's a bit of a non-story. There are no actual racist abuses that she is discussing? I don't get this "pushing and jabbing" thing?? This happens all the time in busy cities and shopping centres.

She admits she didn't like going out so perhaps she was sensitive to city life and shopping centres etc?

When I go to London (and I was BORN there so know the way of life) I get pushed and shoved all the time trying to get in buses - do I take that as racism if it's done by a group of black girls? (And they can be among the rudest and loudest and pushiest)

If it were a racist action that she had experienced, why wasn't the "push" and the "jabs" also accompanied by racist words?

I'm sorry, I think she is over egging her pudding.

At least she's not scared of her own shadow anymore as she was very confident on the bake off programme

I fel sorry for her on one aspect and little respect based on the same aspect
She was forced into marriage and has not openly condemned her parents for this, when they profited from this, using her as if she was a slave to be sold for their gain.
Its clear this woman lies, which has already been exposed in the media
To use racism where there is no evidence of this is a clear inidcation of attention seeking, where she looks to gain sympathy, when she would have gained that if she hjad spoken out on the fact she was forced into marriag and basically bartered as if she was a slave comparable to a piec of property

by Guest Mon Aug 15, 2016 10:54 am

by eddie Mon Aug 15, 2016 11:03 am

sassy wrote:And I'm betting the opposite, because I listened to the programme. Even in the articles if you read them, she says why she won't make a big thing about it. You think she can't tell the difference between being pushed and shoved ON PURPOSE and HAVING THINGS THROWN AT HER AND VERBAL ABUSE, as apposed to being knocked into in the hurly burly of life.

Okay well I didn't see anyhing in your OP that states verbal abuse.
Verbal abuse is different.

by Guest Mon Aug 15, 2016 11:05 am

“It sounds really silly [but] it feels like that’s become a part of my life now– I expect it,” she said. “I expect to be shoved or pushed or verbally abused, because it happens, it’s happened for years.”

In the OP Eds.

by Guest Mon Aug 15, 2016 11:09 am

"I Expected" is not actual abuse

Its paranoia

by Guest Mon Aug 15, 2016 11:32 am

eddie wrote:Hang on, just becasue I don't believe the reporting, you're bad-mouthing me?
I think the story has been a little over-dramatised and says nothing about any incidents.

I liked her in the programme and was glad she won. I'm betting she read that article and thought "well that's not exactly what I meant....."

As often as I've had to 'EXPLAIN' the quotation function around here and yet here once again is your paranoia flaring up and you Assuming something that just isn't so!

I quoted Ben's post and 'I' responded to his post and all of the VILE/Personality Muslim bashing that was taking place up to THAT POINT ... Evil or Very Mad

And yet had you really cared and wanted to read of the links that Sassy & I had supplied - cared enough to really follow the information, you'd have been better informed then to attach your OPINION to Didgey-dooer's lame personality assassination driven posts! Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain says racist abuse is part of her everyday life - Page 2 2190311264

Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain says racist abuse is part of her everyday life - Page 2 2190311264

But the cycle of life for patting and arse kissing has gone full circle for the problem child and he's reaping the benefits for his disruptive behavior! Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain says racist abuse is part of her everyday life - Page 2 919144451

Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain says racist abuse is part of her everyday life - Page 2 919144451

by Guest Mon Aug 15, 2016 11:34 am

4EVER2 wrote:
eddie wrote:Hang on, just becasue I don't believe the reporting, you're bad-mouthing me?
I think the story has been a little over-dramatised and says nothing about any incidents.

I liked her in the programme and was glad she won. I'm betting she read that article and thought "well that's not exactly what I meant....."
As often as I've had to 'EXPLAIN' the quotation function around here and yet here once again is your paranoia flaring up and you Assuming something that just isn't so!

I quoted Ben's post and 'I' responded to his post and all of the VILE/Personality Muslim bashing that was taking place up to THAT POINT ...

And yet had you really cared and wanted to read of the links that Sassy & I had supplied - cared enough to really follow the information, you'd have been better informed then to attach your OPINION to Didgey-dooer's lame personality assassination driven posts!
But the cycle of life for patting and arse kissing has gone full circle for the problem child and he's reaping the benefits for his disruptive behavior!

by Guest Mon Aug 15, 2016 11:35 am

Good lord, Didge posting about himself whinging to Forumotion.

lol!

by Guest Mon Aug 15, 2016 11:41 am

sassy wrote:Good lord, Didge posting about himself whinging to Forumotion.

I have not postd to them yet, do you need to go to specsavers sassy?

lol!

by Guest Mon Aug 15, 2016 11:44 am

Seems you are so full of bullshit you don't remember what you post.

Your post:

Litigation sent against newsfix

by Guest Mon Aug 15, 2016 11:45 am

sassy wrote:Seems you are so full of bullshit you don't remember what you post.

Your post:

Litigation sent against newsfix

But what else does it need

Verificiation by me to them by email?

Did you not grasp that point?

Now there certainly is a word in the dictionary that does describe you
"you should have gon to specsavers"

Razz

by Guest Mon Aug 15, 2016 11:48 am

Nope, you shouldn't play bluff when you know you are talking rubbish so didn't follow through.

Think that bluff has just been called.

by Guest Mon Aug 15, 2016 11:58 am

sassy wrote:Nope, you shouldn't play bluff when you know you are talking rubbish so didn't follow through.

Think that bluff has just been called.

Its not a bluff

He has now about less than 20 hours remaining

You need to read what I posted

Why are you so upset sassy, are you afraid you will not have left protection anymore lol

by Tommy Monk Mon Aug 15, 2016 12:46 pm

sassy wrote:Aged only 19, doing two jobs, she bought her parents’ first house for them as she was sick of their landlord walking into their home. So she asked to buy it from him.

When presenter Kirsty Young commented that was unusual, Nadiya replied: “I’ve spent my whole life watching my parents sacrifice things for me so buying a house was nothing.
“I couldn’t bear the fact that someone would come in and treat my mum like a second-class citizen.”

http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/great-british-bake-winner-nadiya-8626482

It was probably something very small.

But that isn't the point is it Tommy. You are vile enough to want to discredit her because she is Muslim and will clutch at any straw to do it. You are despicable.

So now she had 2 jobs at 19...?

Yeah ok!!!

lol!

by Guest Mon Aug 15, 2016 1:08 pm

Tommy Monk wrote:
So now she had 2 jobs at 19...?

Yeah ok!!!

Wouldn't expect you to comprehend this ...but that's not so uncommon; even over here in the USA ...many teenagers have to work 2 - 3 sometimes 4 part-time jobs just to get a full 40hr work week in and most of them still go to college!

And you smirk and LOL at that! Suspect

Now, that says lots more about YOUR morality then it does for those that are willing and able to WORK! Twisted Evil

by Tommy Monk Mon Aug 15, 2016 1:18 pm

Do you know how many hours or how much money she was supposedly getting from each of these 2 jobs?

I can assure you that she wouldn't have been earning enough, and would not have had enough employment history to have even been able to get a mortgage... let alone get a mortgage large enough to buy the parents large house at 19!!!

The whole story stinks!!!

by Guest Mon Aug 15, 2016 1:27 pm

Tommy Monk wrote:Do you know how many hours or how much money she was supposedly getting from each of these 2 jobs? No, but why don't you - SUPER SLUETH go research that since it seems to cause you such deep - DEEP loathing for this hard working Muslim Woman/wife/mother! And don't feel the need to fake documents just to prove that you've done ANY READING; this is a moot point for me!

I can assure you that she wouldn't have been earning enough, and would not have had enough employment history to have even been able to get a mortgage... let alone get a mortgage large enough to buy the parents large house at 19!!! Oh, now you've got personal knowledge of her financial accounts/how she and her family managed to obtain a home loan ...gee seems your for fact checking and 'WHAT IFS' in this world is the only TRUTH METER we all need to go by!
Not hardly - mentally challenged one!

The whole story stinks!!! INDEED ...but it's not the topic - it's not this woman!

Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain says racist abuse is part of her everyday life - Page 2 Someth10

It's the 'Muslim' bashing mindset that is pretty F'd UP and pervasive from a few of you Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain says racist abuse is part of her everyday life - Page 2 2035286543

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But you do enjoy that and you do EXCEL in it as well. G'Day

by Tommy Monk Mon Aug 15, 2016 1:31 pm

She and her family now got a home loan did they?

She says she bought the house at 19 and it was nothing... but she says her dad owned a restaurant... but couldn't buy a house Himself?

There is no way that she would have got a mortgage at 19 after bring fresh out of sixth form college... and having no employment history.

by Guest Mon Aug 15, 2016 1:53 pm

Tommy Monk wrote:She and her family now got a home loan did they?

She says she bought the house at 19 and it was nothing... but she says her dad owned a restaurant... but couldn't buy a house Himself?

There is no way that she would have got a mortgage at 19 after bring fresh out of sixth form college... and having no employment history.

Tommy, not sure if you have researched but she was forced to marry at 19, so by all accounts she was traded for a property
That though which is appalling is not made much out of at all in her article as she came to love her husband later.

Nadiya had an arranged marriage to husband Abdal when she was 19, but got her happy ending as the couple have gone on to enjoy a successful marriage.

Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain says the day she got married was “one of the worst days of her life”.

Nadiya, who had an arranged marriage to husband Abdal when she was 19, said: “I have to say my wedding day was one of the worst days of my life. One of the unspoken rules is as a bride you have to behave submissively and look downcast.

"I was an emotional wreck and I cried through the whole thing. I didn’t smile very much. You are literally on show and it’s something I was always really uncomfortable with. The bride will often keep her head down. I never really understood it.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/great-british-bake-nadiya-hussain-8631892

by Tommy Monk Mon Aug 15, 2016 1:57 pm

Yes I already saw that... I was just making the case that her being able to buy the house herself was nonsense.

by Guest Mon Aug 15, 2016 1:59 pm

Tommy Monk wrote:Yes I already saw that... I was just making the case that her being able to buy the house herself was nonsense.

Of course it was rubbish, she has made up many lies as seen earlier

by Tommy Monk Mon Aug 15, 2016 2:02 pm

Maybe it is all about publicity just to sell 'her books'...

by Guest Mon Aug 15, 2016 2:06 pm

That would make sense.

by Tommy Monk Mon Aug 15, 2016 2:13 pm

And of course a good excuse for a bit of pro Muslim propaganda as well as another chance to portray Muslims as victims again...

by Ben Reilly Tue Aug 16, 2016 5:17 am

4EVER2 wrote:
Ben Reilly wrote:Mih mih Ben mimimih mimih mimimih mih mih.

The whole first half of the article talks about her dealing with racism. It would be journalistic malpractice for the headline not to reflect that.

She doesn't go into enough specifics? Maybe she didn't feel like it. Not everybody wants to tell the news media about the most humiliating experiences of their lives.
for trying, but once the racial sluring group has set their locked jaws into a Muslim WOMANS happy winning contest ...the story line becomes more about trashing a decent human being then the reason that the article and the thread was generated!

All of the vitriol from the same rank and file members speaks more profoundly about them then it does about her!
BTW - Didge-dooer ...your failing memory seems to be slipping several gogs ...you've called Ben & I Jew Haters - You spew you BS so often you can't remember

But I'm done letting you trash yet another if Sassy's decent topic's just because your so F'd up

The problem here is that the British on this site are, in general, the most nationalistic people I've ever met. And I know some of the most conservative Republican types you can imagine.

They just can't allow into their imagination of what Britain is the possibility that a Muslim woman could endure daily racial abuse there. Their country has problems, they'll allow, but not problems like that.

Mind you, these are the same people who've never seen a Muslim do a damn thing wrong, but hate them because of what they read in the papers.

But let a Muslim woman say she's been subjected to a lot of racism, and suddenly the papers are all wrong. Because the UK is the greatest most tolerant country in the world, and everybody wishes they were British.

by Ben Reilly Tue Aug 16, 2016 5:18 am

Tommy Monk wrote:And of course a good excuse for a bit of pro Muslim propaganda as well as another chance to portray Muslims as victims again...

You must be the stupidest and most hateful person alive outside of Donald Trump.

by JulesV Tue Aug 16, 2016 3:59 pm

She seems a nice enough lass but should resist being wheeled out everytime the media wants a token Muslim opinion on the latest argument. She will become over exposed which would be ironic for a religion so strict about covering up with hijabs and such like.

by Guest Tue Aug 16, 2016 4:08 pm

Ben Reilly wrote:
4EVER2 wrote:
for trying, but once the racial sluring group has set their locked jaws into a Muslim WOMANS happy winning contest ...the story line becomes more about trashing a decent human being then the reason that the article and the thread was generated!

All of the vitriol from the same rank and file members speaks more profoundly about them then it does about her!
BTW - Didge-dooer ...your failing memory seems to be slipping several gogs ...you've called Ben & I Jew Haters - You spew you BS so often you can't remember

But I'm done letting you trash yet another if Sassy's decent topic's just because your so F'd up

The problem here is that the British on this site are, in general, the most nationalistic people I've ever met. And I know some of the most conservative Republican types you can imagine.

They just can't allow into their imagination of what Britain is the possibility that a Muslim woman could endure daily racial abuse there. Their country has problems, they'll allow, but not problems like that.

Mind you, these are the same people who've never seen a Muslim do a damn thing wrong, but hate them because of what they read in the papers.

But let a Muslim woman say she's been subjected to a lot of racism, and suddenly the papers are all wrong. Because the UK is the greatest most tolerant country in the world, and everybody wishes they were British.

You see this is what is wrong with left wing thinking

We already know she has lied with evidence and still we are going on about racism and not the fact her parents bartered her for a house to another family, by forcing her into marriage

She does not even condemn her parents for this but goes off racism?

Sh seems nothing more than an attention seeker to me

by Raggamuffin Tue Aug 16, 2016 6:15 pm

It was only a baking competition. Why these people have to seek attention for other alleged issues is a mystery.

by eddie Tue Aug 16, 2016 6:19 pm

Well to be fair, she was just being interviewed. It's up to the journalist/paper, what they print.

by Guest Tue Aug 16, 2016 6:22 pm

She is an utterly lovely, dignified woman, who worked like hell to buy her parents that home, 2 jobs at 19 is no joke. She has a husband, children and parents who adore her, and although it was 'only a cooking programme', she contested is with humility and grace and has now used it to help her family. The fact that people would even consider putting her down for it, and for telling the truth about the racial abuse she has received, is beyond disgusting and a marker of the underlying racism behind the comments.

by Raggamuffin Tue Aug 16, 2016 6:24 pm

I doubt she bought a house at 19 unless she had a load of money as a deposit.

by eddie Tue Aug 16, 2016 6:25 pm

She's a bloody great cook. I'd buy her a house if she'd cook for me.

by Raggamuffin Tue Aug 16, 2016 6:27 pm

I wouldn't. Cooking doesn't really impress me.

by Guest Tue Aug 16, 2016 6:30 pm

I don't think life impresses you very much Rags, you seem happy to put everything down.

by Raggamuffin Tue Aug 16, 2016 6:32 pm

sassy wrote:I don't think life impresses you very much Rags, you seem happy to put everything down.

Why? Because cooking doesn't impress me? I know one person who made fab cakes, but cooking in general just doesn't impress me. Other things and some people impress me - you're not one of them obviously.

by Guest Tue Aug 16, 2016 6:34 pm

So glad, as you life would be grey coloured if nothing impressed you.

by Raggamuffin Tue Aug 16, 2016 6:34 pm

sassy wrote:So glad, as you life would be grey coloured if nothing impressed you.

As opposed to your face being grey?

by Guest Tue Aug 16, 2016 6:37 pm

Aren't you doing the very thing Ben has enacted the new rules for? That's my final word on the subject, I'm not going to be diverted by you.

by Guest Tue Aug 16, 2016 6:38 pm

eddie wrote:She's a bloody great cook. I'd buy her a house if she'd cook for me.

Do you remember something you'd said about the American Media playing up on our BLM {black lives matter} story line, Eddie?

Don't you think that even in England, that the desire for some 'GOOD NEWS'; regardless of what direction it comes from - especially about a Muslim woman/mother/wife/baker would be something that the media & news print would want to promote?
Just say'n ...that there's a lot that gets edited out of any final proof sheet/final draft and video feed ...so chances are the editors from one news article to another or news source to another just decided 'negative has had enough run for now, we're going to leave it as a single line item and not go into all of those nitty-gritty details' and focus on the reason this woman is in our front page - nightly news spot'! Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain says racist abuse is part of her everyday life - Page 2 2190311264

It's the constant attacking the members for bringing a decent thread/topic for discussion that is growing irksome/old - utter BS instead of discussing the reasons and happy thing that happened - the naysayers have to pick & attack! Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain says racist abuse is part of her everyday life - Page 2 3755771736

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by sassy on Tue Aug 16, 2016 12:22 pm
She is an utterly lovely, dignified woman, who worked like hell to buy her parents that home, 2 jobs at 19 is no joke. She has a husband, children and parents who adore her, and although it was 'only a cooking programme', she contested is with humility and grace and has now used it to help her family. The fact that people would even consider putting her down for it, and for telling the truth about the racial abuse she has received, is beyond disgusting and a marker of the underlying racism behind the comments.

I love that show - I've enjoyed ever season and I'm looking forward to the next one to start right after the Olympics' is finished up. I couldn't do what they do - I couldn't take the pressure - and I'd have far more failures then successes for sure!
But I'd sure love to be a taste tester ...yes, INDEED!

by Raggamuffin Tue Aug 16, 2016 6:39 pm

sassy wrote:Aren't you doing the very thing Ben has enacted the new rules for? That's my final word on the subject, I'm not going to be diverted by you.

You were the one who started the disruption by getting personal about me. Don't do it, and I won't need to reply.

by Miffs2 Tue Aug 16, 2016 6:50 pm

Didge wrote:
4EVER2 wrote: Ignore Didge ...if he needs some titillating gutter smearing BS to giggle about perhaps he'd just 'Google/Bing/STFW' for her information like any of us are able too do! She's a wonderful soft spoken women that I've admired since this season's show started ...quite 'spunky' she is!

Contradiction alert again lol

Again you can make all the excuses you like, the fact is the article by the Guardian on mentions the same aspct on racism as it does in one sentence in their whole article.
They spoilt the article.

The article is a bit propaganda and lacks context. Where was she pushed and shoved? Why? Ever been on the rush hour tube, ever been to a gig,ever been to the sales? Lots of pushing and shoving.

by Guest Tue Aug 16, 2016 6:51 pm

Miffs2 wrote:
Didge wrote:

Contradiction alert again lol

Again you can make all the excuses you like, the fact is the article by the Guardian on mentions the same aspct on racism as it does in one sentence in their whole article.
They spoilt the article.
The article is a bit propaganda and lacks context. Where was she pushed and shoved? Why? Ever been on the rush hour tube, ever been to a gig,ever been to the sales? Lots of pushing and shoving.

Exactly Nems, this happens all the time, but I don't think its down to racism
Its part and pacel of everyday life

I see no actual incidences of racism, just paranoia

Again the thing that gets me is that she was basically sold off by her parents in order that they could have a house
I find that disgusting

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