Another true classic last night... :-)))
To my great joy, I dreamt I was on episode one of interfaith / sexuality ‘Come Dine with Me’ with the same Muslim women as on this (but fatter) as the first host, along with a male gay couple, a young black guy, the obligatory gobby Northern Lass, and myself presumably meant to represent the militant atheist (aka voice of reason) of the group. Host cooked up a fantastic curry (though with weird cheese cracker vol-au-vent things on the side and no bloody alcohol) and all things considered things went comparatively well for the first show, with me politely refraining from expressing my Sarkozy-leaning views on the burkha, and the gay couple reining in their campness and tippy-toeing around the awkward subject of sexuality so as not to cause “offense” to the religious among the group. Unfortunately the black guy stormed off mid-show when in a socio-demographical debate on the subject of inner-city knife crime (admittedly rather polemic dinner party discussion material, especially for a first meeting) I used the what I know to be the politically correct term “black” in reference to the ratio of black-to-white teenagers stabbed in the last few years.
Am not quite sure if the above shows me in a politically correct or incorrect, but just in case I failed to sufficiently “embrace diversity”, I’d just like to balance it out with a quote by the late great Douglas Adams on the subject:
Oh what a complicated world we all live in these days, but in these controversial, overly sensitive times where one can't even bloody sneeze for being termed racist, one's thing for sure - can’t wait to dream episode 2!!!
To my great joy, I dreamt I was on episode one of interfaith / sexuality ‘Come Dine with Me’ with the same Muslim women as on this (but fatter) as the first host, along with a male gay couple, a young black guy, the obligatory gobby Northern Lass, and myself presumably meant to represent the militant atheist (aka voice of reason) of the group. Host cooked up a fantastic curry (though with weird cheese cracker vol-au-vent things on the side and no bloody alcohol) and all things considered things went comparatively well for the first show, with me politely refraining from expressing my Sarkozy-leaning views on the burkha, and the gay couple reining in their campness and tippy-toeing around the awkward subject of sexuality so as not to cause “offense” to the religious among the group. Unfortunately the black guy stormed off mid-show when in a socio-demographical debate on the subject of inner-city knife crime (admittedly rather polemic dinner party discussion material, especially for a first meeting) I used the what I know to be the politically correct term “black” in reference to the ratio of black-to-white teenagers stabbed in the last few years.
Am not quite sure if the above shows me in a politically correct or incorrect, but just in case I failed to sufficiently “embrace diversity”, I’d just like to balance it out with a quote by the late great Douglas Adams on the subject:
Religion has certain ideas at the heart of it which we call sacred or holy or whatever. That's an idea we're so familiar with, whether we subscribe to it or not, that it's kind of odd to think what it actually means, because really what it means is 'Here is an idea or a notion that you're not allowed to say anything bad about; you're just not. Why not? Because you're not! If somebody votes for a party that you don't agree with, you're free to argue about it as much as you like; everybody will have an argument but nobody feels aggrieved by it. If somebody thinks taxes should go up or down you are free to have an argument about it, but on the other hand if somebody says 'I mustn't move a light switch on a Saturday', you say, “Fine, I respect that”.
Oh what a complicated world we all live in these days, but in these controversial, overly sensitive times where one can't even bloody sneeze for being termed racist, one's thing for sure - can’t wait to dream episode 2!!!
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