Yeah I’m interpreting it as him being gobsmackingly ignorant or blind towards racism rather than it being intended as a racist insult but even so it’s a fucking shocker of a tweet
― gyac, Thursday, 9 May 2019 10:01 (five years ago) link
Will stick my head up here and say I really liked his show and that he tweeted the same photo at the last few royal births, dunno if you all want to flag me or tell me to fuck off or something?
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 9 May 2019 10:03 (five years ago) link
If that’s true then that’s a bit different but it’s still incredibly stupid!
― gyac, Thursday, 9 May 2019 10:09 (five years ago) link
yes i think his emerging line is "i don't really pay any attention to the royals, it's all just a distant circus to me" -- but "i fucked up bcz i wasn't even slightly paying attention" isn't much of a defence for a very highly paid media professional really
― mark s, Thursday, 9 May 2019 10:11 (five years ago) link
that's one of the dangers of being a real-life Colin Hunt with an army of admirers who never tell you to stfu!
― calzino, Thursday, 9 May 2019 10:17 (five years ago) link
His "deleting my tweet" was conciliatory and apologetic.
Compare it to his post sacking tweets, hmmmmmmm
― Mark G, Thursday, 9 May 2019 10:37 (five years ago) link
Charlton forum thread on this already has 142 comments. Dare I
― imago, Thursday, 9 May 2019 10:45 (five years ago) link
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/men/2017/05/16/TELEMMGLPICT000003385634_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqZgEkZX3M936N5BQK4Va8RWtT0gK_6EfZT336f62EI5U.jpeg?imwidth=480
london FAP?
― calzino, Thursday, 9 May 2019 10:49 (five years ago) link
god that show made Five Live unlistenable on a Saturday morning, please replace with po-faced journos going on and on about sport. not joking.
― call me cismale (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 May 2019 11:03 (five years ago) link
man gazza really fell in with a bad crowd in the 90s
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 9 May 2019 11:04 (five years ago) link
his general persona/personality has been even more unpleasant than usual for a long time. this sort of macho, ranting idiocy:
He later attacked the BBC for its handling of the decision, describing the call from 5 Live firing him as “a masterclass of pompous faux-gravity”.
He added on Twitter: “They took a tone that said I actually meant that ridiculous tweet and the BBC must uphold blah blah blah. Literally threw me under the bus. Could hear the suits knees knocking.”
obviously there were his (unintentionally) amusing tweets when england lost to iceland in the euros also - he comes across like a football alex jones.
― FernandoHierro, Thursday, 9 May 2019 11:13 (five years ago) link
i don't know the business but maybe sometimes the suits are just looking for the first good excuse that comes along
― call me cismale (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 May 2019 11:18 (five years ago) link
don't mention the VAR
― mark s, Thursday, 9 May 2019 11:22 (five years ago) link
yeah i think if they weren't facing the pensioner license fee black hole in their funding in the coming years it might have been a different outcome. he's become another victim of austerity :p
― calzino, Thursday, 9 May 2019 11:23 (five years ago) link
they're scared! he's getting too close to the truth!
― FernandoHierro, Thursday, 9 May 2019 11:24 (five years ago) link
i meant because he's a boring pain in the arse tbh
― call me cismale (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 May 2019 11:25 (five years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/tbQxTqQKQE— Steve J (@Jarvinhio) May 8, 2019
― FernandoHierro, Thursday, 9 May 2019 11:28 (five years ago) link
football alex jones
this is deeply otm
― Terry Major-Ball Will Tell You (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 9 May 2019 11:30 (five years ago) link
Heh.
I quite like his radio show but there's a wilful ignorance involved on my part because, particularly on Twitter, he's been building to something like this for ages.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Thursday, 9 May 2019 11:30 (five years ago) link
if I was at all invested in affirming Danny Baker's racism I would probably compile all the times he claimed to have killed Bob Marley
― Terry Major-Ball Will Tell You (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 9 May 2019 11:34 (five years ago) link
yeah I remember that, joking about causing cancer in Bob Marley after a football tackle or something.. what a bizarre dickhead.
― calzino, Thursday, 9 May 2019 11:38 (five years ago) link
As an aside, I can’t stand the typo/misspelling that gives us GAFFS instead of GAFFES.
― suzy, Thursday, 9 May 2019 11:51 (five years ago) link
that gaff in full
https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww2.pictures.zimbio.com%2Fmp%2Fu12MgoKKPPax.jpg&f=1
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 9 May 2019 11:53 (five years ago) link
Will stick my head up here and say I really liked his show and that he tweeted the same photo at the last few royal births, dunno if you all want to flag me or tell me to fuck off or something
Did he tho? His line seems to be "he would have", not "he did" amd no one seems to have dug out these alleged tweets.
― Ned Trifle X, Thursday, 9 May 2019 11:58 (five years ago) link
He definitely didn't for the three Will'n'Kate births.
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Thursday, 9 May 2019 12:09 (five years ago) link
Charlton forum largely in accord with ILX here tbh, general line is that he wasn't being consciously racist but pretty thick. BBC decision generally regarded as a ridiculous kneejerk and I'd be inclined to agree on principle tbh - if there's no malicious intent, as seems pretty obvious, why sack him? Not that I'm shedding too many tears
― imago, Thursday, 9 May 2019 12:11 (five years ago) link
what's the mumsnet consensus
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 9 May 2019 12:14 (five years ago) link
Here we go.Opened door, grinning Mail hack."Do you think black people look like monkeys?"Any other time you'd knock someone right on their arse for saying that.No mate. Gag pic. Posh baby chimp. Alerted to circs. Appalled. Deleted. Apologised. He asks again! #MailonRacism— Danny Baker (@prodnose) May 9, 2019
ironic that people are now knocking on his door asking for his views on non-whites
― Br. Des Shadows (NickB), Thursday, 9 May 2019 12:16 (five years ago) link
xps can't find them, and quite likely imagined because loads of old people / chimps tea party etc. photos, it's one of his twitter things
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 9 May 2019 12:17 (five years ago) link
though I'm guessing not any more
vg nick b!
― nashwan, Thursday, 9 May 2019 12:29 (five years ago) link
lol! it whooshed me first time!
― calzino, Thursday, 9 May 2019 12:31 (five years ago) link
Ha ha, top notch.
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 May 2019 12:39 (five years ago) link
took me an embarrassingly long time to click but yes vg a+ would lol again
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 9 May 2019 12:48 (five years ago) link
idgi
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Thursday, 9 May 2019 12:52 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeO0AhKPW5Y
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 May 2019 12:52 (five years ago) link
Extremely unconvincing performance as a 'genuine member of the public' by the actress in that.
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 May 2019 12:55 (five years ago) link
thanks!
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Thursday, 9 May 2019 12:57 (five years ago) link
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 May 2019 12:55 (twenty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
wow shes only just given birth
― deemsthelarker (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 May 2019 13:17 (five years ago) link
meanwhile everyone plz to buy my book abt how great the rock press was back when ppl writing for it included *checks notes* ugh never mind
(i guess i dodged a bullet back when he was too important to reply to my emails lol)
― mark s, Thursday, 9 May 2019 13:20 (five years ago) link
That was a v good joke Nick B, better than the "PG gone mad" I'm seeing everywhere.
James O'Brien interviewed DB, he does not sound like he's taking it very well - https://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/james-obrien/danny-bakers-first-interview-since-being-sacked-by/
Also realised that his tweets seem to only go back to February for some reason?
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 9 May 2019 13:23 (five years ago) link
what's really getting me about this is the brazen hypocrisy of the bbc, who promote racists and far-right ideologues at any given opportunity
― imago, Thursday, 9 May 2019 13:33 (five years ago) link
this was good too
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 9 May 2019 13:34 (five years ago) link
i agree the BBC should not promote racists and far-right ideologues maybe they should sack Danny Baker
― call me cismale (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 May 2019 13:41 (five years ago) link
If this means Farage isn't going to be invited onto everything then... yeah, not going to happen is it?
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 9 May 2019 13:45 (five years ago) link
sugar getting some blowback from this too
― mark s, Thursday, 9 May 2019 14:42 (five years ago) link
Brendan O'Neil might be having one of them days where he worries he might be playing himself or maybe even experiencing a very lucid dream.
― calzino, Thursday, 9 May 2019 15:02 (five years ago) link
Good morning, everyone.Following one of the worst days of my life I just want to formally apologise for the outrage I caused and explain how I got myself into this mess.I chose the wrong photo to illustrate a joke. Disastrously so.— Danny Baker (@prodnose) May 10, 2019
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 10 May 2019 12:21 (five years ago) link
It's a good and honest apology
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 10 May 2019 12:23 (five years ago) link
Remind me where the joke was.
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Friday, 10 May 2019 12:26 (five years ago) link