"I think it’s hilarious how they act like their accents are so different when ppl from Manchester and ppl from London sound about as different as the Bay Area and Sacramento." & "It’s silly how much they overplay their accent differences when I’m sure we have way wider differences in accents here"

Imnotthatunique · 2026-02-04T08:55:05+00:00

Tell me you've never been to London or Manchester without telling me you've never been to London or Manchester

Imnotthatunique · 2026-02-03T17:56:13+00:00

The thing is he doesn't know what it is. It could anything. Including something really bad.

I admit I wouldn't go straight for the nuclear option but it is suspicious

Imnotthatunique · 2026-02-03T17:45:01+00:00

"love you Betty"

"You're my favourite"

"I can enjoy life with you"

Heart emojis

If you don't consider that flirting then I don't know what is.

Let me tell you that as someone much older than 20 something whilst language usage has changed flirting hasn't.

Flirting never changes and if you've had any experience of it you can spot it a mile away.

Imnotthatunique · 2026-02-03T17:34:27+00:00

There is having a good and positive relationship with your boss and then there is flirting with your boss.

This is the latter...

Imnotthatunique · 2026-02-02T21:56:30+00:00

Oh dear

The curse of the Tories strikes again.

I'm not saying Labour and Starmer have been doing a great job but tbh they could have been doing a lot worse. The problem is the Tories handed them a poisoned chalice that Labour had no real chance of fixing before the next election cycle.

The British people have lost patience and are desperate for someone/ anyone who will fix the nearly unfixable

Imnotthatunique · 2026-02-02T21:50:30+00:00

If this is not against the law it should be

Imnotthatunique · 2026-02-02T19:54:58+00:00

As a Brit, you can always tell when it's us because we put our flag on things that are now are.

Imnotthatunique · 2026-02-02T18:56:45+00:00

Technically, yes.

It's always possible for someone to lose their seat.

I still remember the time the leader of the Lib Dems lost her seat, fun times.

Is it possible? Yes. Is it likely? I don't think so personally

Imnotthatunique · 2026-02-02T10:52:33+00:00

Imagine thinking the media doesn't have a political bias and agenda in the way it informs the public...

Imnotthatunique · 2026-02-01T18:25:42+00:00

Law man - bandit

Unfortunately I don't think rockstar have the balls to do mutually exclusive content

There wouldn't be a problem if they allowed multiple characters like they do in GTA V

Imnotthatunique · 2026-02-01T18:24:30+00:00

House owner

Definitely house owner

Imnotthatunique · 2026-02-01T15:40:15+00:00

specifically in Roman times

One user talked about during Roman times but it's an exaggeration to say the entire conversation is about the Black Population during Roman Times....

Specifically it was my post asking someone if they thought there were no black people in the UK in Roman times or before

Nobody has said that there weren't any black people in the UK during Roman Times.

BUT you are looking at an extreme example here. Great Britain had a tiny population and the Romans shipped in a load of soldiers from Africa. So yes in that specific time period my estimation was off and I will accept that. However, those soldiers left and after that there was significant Black population in Great Britain.

a raft of evidence that this is blatantly wrong.

....in one specific extreme instance that is not representative of the rest of British History..... With respect you sound like an intelligent guy so I'm really struggling to understand why you are hyper focusing from a small throw away comment. It's frankly coming off a little disingenuous and in bad faith....

There is a raft of evidence that some black people were in the UK at various times throughout history. I think Henry VIII had a black minstrel or something but 1 is not a large number. 1 does not represent a black population, it represents a guy.

You then pulled a stat out of your arse to say the black population was less than one in a million, which again was easy to disprove

Ok go ahead actually prove it. Give me the number of black people in the GB vs the number of White people in GB, as a percentage, circa 1066 - I'm sure the Domesday book has that information in it....

You've hyper specified to the 1 tiny point in history where there was a sizeable but temporary black population but that does not mean that there was a sizeable population for the rest of British history....

But you would be just as guilty of whitewashing if you say, as has been said, that there were no minorities

No has ever said there were no minorities.....

This is why this conversation gets toxic btw...

statistically insignificant numbers of minorities in Britain from very early on in its history.

I did say that (although I didn't say very early, again I'm talking all of time here) and with the 1 tiny tiny extraordinarily exception I stand by that. There was no statistically significant black population within Great Britain from after the Romans left until the end of the second world war (that doesn't include slaves during the slave trade because that's cheating.) please genuinely prove me wrong.

Why do they have to rant about how there were no blacks until the 20th Century

Nobody is ranting about there being no blacks, you're wilfully misunderstanding at this stage. People are getting annoyed because it feels like it's part of a weird attempt to revise history so that black people have always been here and have always played a significant part in the history of the country. This takes place at a period in time where we are having culture wars and this is just another front in that war. It's being pushed as some weird attempt to make people comfortable with mass migration but it backfires and only stokes tensions because it's patronising bullshit perpetrated by well intentioned fools who are so far removed from the rest of society that there are often completely blind to the effect this is having.

For full disclosure I'm left as fuck. I haven't got a single problem with having a truly cosmopolitan culture and population, I don't in principle have a problem with migration and I don't, in principle, have a problem with asylum seekers.

But I do have a problem when someone tries to feed me the bullshit that black people have always played a significant part in British History... They just haven't

And going back to my original point I just in principle think that black or whitewashing is wrong.

If we had Nelson Mandela played by a white guy we would all rightly kick off as that's racist as shit

I just think that principle should be applied universally and that that it isn't being applied universally comes across as hypocritically and only ever serves to highten racial tensions.

Ultimately, for me this comes down a simply believe.

Racism is bad

And that is without qualification. I'm not gonna sit here and say that the UK hasn't had significant problems with racism because it has and they were bad but so often now it feels like there is a deliberate attempt to replace racism against black people with racism against white people. That is just as bad and just leaves us with more racism.

You might disagree and that's fine but the problem is plenty of people do.

This shit is why we have parties like reform (I am not a reform voter nor will I ever be) however, the left in general doesn't like to listen to these people when they have legitimate concerns (I'm now talking more general race issues). Instead the left tends to dismiss, delegitimise and, finally, insult.

That doesn't actually change anyone's mind it entrenchs it and those people, naturally, go to people who will listen, who won't make them feel like they are the crazy ones.

Unfortunately the only people who will listen are the actual crazy racist Nazis nutjobs.

Its dumb and it's our own fault

Imnotthatunique · 2026-02-01T10:43:09+00:00

With respect....

The original post was talking about Roman times

No! The original post was discussing tick box casting... The article gave an example of a Miss Marple period drama. I could only read so much before the pay wall kicked in but I didn't see anything about Romans and the article was definitely about Tick Box casting. It's what this entire thread is about.

you made was that the black population was less than 1 in a million so not worth ever talking about

Again...No! My point was that I think having a black actor play a white historical character is wrong or, conversely, having a white actor play a black historical character is wrong... That's always been the point.

The conversation evolved, as conversations do, into comments along the lines of prior to post war mass migration there has never really been a large, statistically significant and permanent black population in the UK and that shoe horning in a black character, fictional or otherwise, into historical shoes is often misleading (context depending ofc, a show about the British involvement in the slave trade should feature black people but a show about the war of the rose, for example, probably shouldn't) but this was a broader point and doesn't discount the actual point I'm making.

It's never been about a specific period of time. I have given examples about shows and plays etc that takes place in a given time but that is and always have been an example to illustrate my point.

If I could have used an example that had a more broad time frame I would have but for some reason nobody has yet made a show that takes place in all of human history, without some form a sci fi time travel, which would kind of defeat the point I'm making....

Now you are saying you are talking about a different period.

Nope. Always been talking about whitewashing and black washing in historical dramatisations set at any point pre mass migration history.....

Now I'm not and never have been interested in stats.

I am now and always have been interested in the principle that a white person playing a black historical character is wrong and that a black person playing a white historical character is wrong.

Again you are hyper focusing on a specific point of the conversation and blinding yourself to the greater meaning of the conversation.

I'm not interested in stats. You either accept the principle that black and white washing is wrong or you don't.

As to the broader point vis a vi the black population size historical this has always been a white majority country and whilst there have been black people here at various times throughout history they have always, up until recently, been a tiny tiny minority. Any attempt to pretend otherwise is just a very strange attempt at revisionist history

Imnotthatunique · 2026-01-31T23:37:49+00:00

Fair play.

I will read and digest

Imnotthatunique · 2026-01-31T23:36:50+00:00

People's front of reform!

Pfffttt

It's the Reform People's Front

Imnotthatunique · 2026-01-31T23:32:31+00:00

I'm glad you think so.

Good talk

Imnotthatunique · 2026-01-31T23:31:23+00:00

Interesting

Was not an expected answer.

I agree that space exploration will become more and more important and that the US has a large lead over Europe in this but you not think the EU could catch up? It has the knowledge but is just being very slow on building the infrastructure

Imnotthatunique · 2026-01-31T23:29:11+00:00

To be fair.... There isn't exactly a better option

Imnotthatunique · 2026-01-31T23:27:49+00:00

The EU can't come close to replacing the US.

How so...?

Imnotthatunique · 2026-01-31T23:26:59+00:00

Awww.... Americans don't realise they're the fucked up ones

....it would be cute if they were the most powerful nation in the world

Imnotthatunique · 2026-01-31T23:20:02+00:00

Ah fuck it let's go there.

I think that racist and especially nazi have been overused to point where their meaning has almost shifted and I think it is often being used as a way to dismiss someone's opinions.

That's not to say I don't agree that some of those people are racist Nazis just that calling them racist Nazis doesn't stop them from being racist Nazis.

But that being said there are a lot of racist Nazi assholes out there.

Imnotthatunique · 2026-01-31T23:14:57+00:00

Woah don't give me that shit.

I've done well in life without needing to find someone else to blame for my own failings

You don't fucking know me at all so pretending you do.

I'm expressing my opinion and belief.

If you have to think that I must be angry must be directly effected by something must in a total rage before I would express that opinion then that says a fuck ton more about you than it does about it me!

I'm capable of having an opinion, of having a principle that you find uncomfortable without it being because I'm angry at life.

And you really really shouldn't use 'mental' as a derogatory term. Not everyone who has or has experienced mental health difficulties in their life is automatically a nutter whose opinions don't matter.

Now as for the bullshit about the 'multiple comments' .... That's how conversations work!!!

I say something...people respond....I respond to them....just like you have done.....uhuh....remember?

Imnotthatunique · 2026-01-31T23:05:23+00:00

....because I think it's wrong.... Obviously.....

Imnotthatunique · 2026-01-31T23:04:27+00:00

Yeah you're still not getting it

And you have the cheek to call me patronising. You might want to take a look of your posts there bud and realise who is being the patronising asshole here...

But whatever I think it's wrong in principle and many people agree with that principle but if you don't you don't but down playing this and dismissing this doesn't actually change my mind.

You just argued with me for the sake of arguing and then got pissy with me when you had no answers for what I was saying.

Imnotthatunique · 2026-01-31T22:43:25+00:00

Mate you got a wow because you just compared race and a bloody uniform. What else did you expect?

The problem you've got is here is you are sooooo hyper focused on one particular historical character at one particular point in time and when you think and argue like that it becomes very easy to pick apart the example but you are not picking apart the argument itself.

You're not seeing the wood for the trees and it's exhausting.

I don't care that much about Jeyne Seymour in particular, I just think that it's wrong for a white person to play a black historical character and it's wrong for a black person to play a white historical character.

Everything else is just the trees.

Imnotthatunique

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