Surely you're not suggesting a higher number defeats a lower number are you Lancaster ?

Think is was incredibly stupid and thoughtless, and a seconds thought would have stopped him. BBC had to be all over it t be fair, but severe reprimand because there is no history or sign that Baker is a racist. I’m not his biggest fan but do feel he has been hung out to dry for utter thoughtlessness.

Suspect the fact that the Royals demanded serious action swayed it. Maybe the BBC regretted giving him such a high paying contract too, though this is pure supposition on my part.

randomclaret2 wrote:Surely you're not suggesting a higher number defeats a lower number are you Lancaster ?

Just interested to know.

I always turned him off when he was on talksport because he's an annoying, celebrity type football fan (his rant about no longer being able to walk into the Everton boardroom being a case in point) but he's apparently a man of the people according to Ringo.

There must be two Mike Grahams I guess.

Lancasterclaret wrote:His explanation on twitter is pretty fair, and he's realised what he's done, and he accepts that he's in the wrong.

Some on here could try that occasionally!

It's Irony Friday!







Mr Kettle, may I introduce you to Mr Pot.

Lancasterclaret wrote:Just interested to know.

I always turned him off when he was on talksport because he's an annoying, celebrity type football fan (his rant about no longer being able to walk into the Everton boardroom being a case in point) but he's apparently a man of the people according to Ringo.

There must be two Mike Grahams I guess.

You guessed wrong!

There's only one Mike GRAHAM

The Everton supporting Mike, is Mike PARRY

It's like raaiiiiiin on your wedding day
It's a free riiiide when you've already paid
It's Riiiingo pointing out someone else's irony
Who would have thought, it's b*ll*cks

Thats the fella!

Both of them are so annoying that I can't tell the difference!

Anyway, what is Mike Grahams listening figures?

RingoMcCartney wrote:It's Irony Friday!







Mr Kettle, may I introduce you to Mr Pot.

I've admitted being wrong.

You never do, and you are wrong an awful lot!

I mean, if you had even a smidgen of self-awareness you'd know this

Falcon wrote:It's like raaiiiiiin on your wedding day
It's a free riiiide when you've already paid
It's Riiiingo pointing out someone else's irony
Who would have thought, it's b*ll*cks

Think it might need a bit more work .........

Lancasterclaret wrote:I've admitted being wrong.

You never do, and you are wrong an awful lot!

I mean, if you had even a smidgen of self-awareness you'd know this

And, Mr Pot, have you had the pleasure of meeting Mr Kettle?

Falcon wrote:It's like raaiiiiiin on your wedding day
It's a free riiiide when you've already paid
It's Riiiingo pointing out someone else's irony
Who would have thought, it's b*ll*cks

Id like to see Ringo and Elizabeth do a karaoke cover of Don't Go Breaking My Heart

It's hard to harmonise with yourself

RingoMcCartney wrote:He no longer works for the BBC because he was "let go" from presenting BBC's Newsnight.

Knowing what day it isn't , your strong point.....

O Ringo you are such VFM!! He occasionally presented Newsnught, he wasn’t “let go” he left. Just google his name and all the info is there.

Not only analogies but also research seems to be a problem for you.

Lancasterclaret wrote:Thats the fella!

Both of them are so annoying that I can't tell the difference!

Anyway, what is Mike Grahams listening figures?

Who cares!? I mean who really cares!?

If there's an arena that allows millions of the residents of the metropolitan London Borough of Ivory Towers to get angry over the rise of the Brexit Party. Complain about having to pay more for their aupairs and tradesmen cos the supply of cheap foreign labour is drying up. Whine on about their favourite Michelin started restaurant strugging to recruit fresh zero hour , minimum wage staff. Tell each other how incredibly inclusive they are, while living on exclusively middle to upper class areas, and have their echo chamber all supervised by the champagne socialist with starrf. Then good luck to em.

RingoMcCartney wrote:Who cares!? I mean who really cares!?

If there's an arena that allows millions of the residents of the metropolitan London Borough of Ivory Towers to get angry over the rise of the Brexit Party. Complain about having to pay more for their aupairs and tradesmen cos the supply of cheap foreign labour is drying up. Whine on about their favourite Michelin started restaurant strugging to recruit fresh zero hour , minimum wage staff. Tell each other how incredibly inclusive they are, while living on exclusively middle to upper class areas, and have their echo chamber all supervised by the champagne socialist with starrf. Then good luck to em.

Yeah, I think you fit Mike Grahams listening demographic its safe to say!

Love it when Ringo starts his session early on a Friday.

Shame he’s about half a bottle of vodka and two shots away from “have a great weekend ladies”

Burnley Ace wrote:O Ringo you are such VFM!! He occasionally presented Newsnught, he wasn’t “let go” he left. Just google his name and all the info is there.

Not only analogies but also research seems to be a problem for you.

And you are so predictable.

"“I hated stepping down from Newsnight and could have stayed with simple changes to my modus operandi outside the Beeb. The decision makes me look decent so they claim I was axed.” James obrian.

So there you have it. He claims he left. They said they got rid. ( due to his lack of ability to be impartial )

Unsurprisingly, you choose to believe the former.

Fact is, like Baker, his bigoted, biased and idiotic comments, means he's no longer employed by the BBC.

And as if by magic, the obsession filled Ringophiles crawl out!










"`When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea' - Eric Cantona.

RingoMcCartney wrote:Who cares!? I mean who really cares!?

If there's an arena that allows millions of the residents of the metropolitan London Borough of Ivory Towers to get angry over the rise of the Brexit Party. Complain about having to pay more for their aupairs and tradesmen cos the supply of cheap foreign labour is drying up. Whine on about their favourite Michelin started restaurant strugging to recruit fresh zero hour , minimum wage staff. Tell each other how incredibly inclusive they are, while living on exclusively middle to upper class areas, and have their echo chamber all supervised by the champagne socialist with starrf. Then good luck to em.

Do you walk with an odd limp or do you use something to counterbalance the weight of the chip on your shoulder?

Bacchus wrote:Do you walk with an odd limp or do you use something to counterbalance the weight of the chip on your shoulder?

No.

I find the mirror that I hold up for the cosseted, entitled and sneering class works just fine.

You can take the man out of millwall but ......

RingoMcCartney wrote:And as if by magic, the obsession filled Ringophiles crawl out!










"`When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea' - Eric Cantona.

Love you

I wonder if Ringo really believes that the streets of London are paved with gold?

Nobody needs to crawl out of anywhere to witness the carnage of Ringo on a Friday. It's there in all its pi$$ed up glory for all to see.
You won, lad, have another drink.

Lancasterclaret wrote:Yeah, I think you fit Mike Grahams listening demographic its safe to say!

I'd like to think so. A presenter that doesn't just claim to love diversity but, actually encourages diversity of opinion. Rather than have his production team filter out differing views, is a great listen.

evensteadiereddie wrote:It's been a tough couple of years for the lad, give him a break.









His neck, hopefully.

Hey Eddie, my lads going to party on Sunday so I'm not taking him on. My mates after me going on with him in the Cricket Field. So maybe you can break it for me eh!?

Some explanation from Baker https://twitter.com/prodnose/status/1126782940590088192" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

aggi wrote:I wonder if Ringo really believes that the streets of London are paved with gold?

What!?

They're not!?

RingoMcCartney wrote:Hey Eddie, my lads going to party on Sunday so I'm not taking him on. My mates after me going on with him in the Cricket Field. So maybe you can break it for me eh!?

Here we go...

RingoMcCartney wrote:I'd like to think so. A presenter that doesn't just claim to love diversity but, actually encourages diversity of opinion. Rather than have his production team filter out differing views, is a great listen.

Thats not Mike Graham though.

Are you sure you've been listening to the right station?

I mean, the only two decent presenters on at 10-1 are Emma Barnett and James O'Brien.

Everybody else is just filling a gap until those two finish

Its interesting that many of the fake outrage brigade would normally be falling over themselves to make jokes about a royal baby.

Lancasterclaret wrote:Thats not Mike Graham though.

Are you sure you've been listening to the right station?

I mean, the only two decent presenters on at 10-1 are Emma Barnett and James O'Brien.

Everybody else is just filling a gap until those two finish

I'll stick with Mike Graham ( sometimes talksport after a match or radio 6 ) till summat better comes along ta.

randomclaret2 wrote:Its interesting that many of the fake outrage brigade would normally be falling over themselves to make jokes about a royal baby.

Always missing the point and being smug about it.

No one cares that he joked about the royal baby.

It was massively misjudged, but the only plausible explanation is that he didn't realise the racial connotations when he posted it. If he was a racist, which I don't believe for a second he is, the motivation to post a joke with that intent would've been massively overshadowed by the reaction he knew it would get.

It's not a good joke, but the circus around revealing the baby does render his motivation plausible in my opinion. Racism in any form is abhorrent, but so is destroying someone for an innocent mistake. The world of social media is brilliant at pedalling both.

Today's BBC statement:

"Current policy means we have no alternative but to sack Danny Baker for racial abuse. If only he'd just sexually interfered with the baby then we could have turned a blind eye for years."

RingoMcCartney wrote:
So there you have it. He claims he left. They said they got rid. ( due to his lack of ability to be impartial )

I get my source from the Press Gazette https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/james-ob ... and-trump/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

You will obviously come back with the BBC statement that he has been dismissed.

There is no disputing that he left because he didn’t want to be censored or limited in his ability to be critical but your analogy was wrong.

RingoMcCartney wrote:Hey Eddie, my lads going to party on Sunday so I'm not taking him on. My mates after me going on with him in the Cricket Field. So maybe you can break it for me eh!?

Ooooooooh, touchy, touchy. You've gone through the pi$$ed up, merry stage and are now descending into a mood of getting scrappy. Love it.

I'll be in my usual spot in the CFS on Sunday afternoon, you can do what the chuff you like.

You'll happen have sobered up by then, fella.

DustyBawls wrote:Today's BBC statement:

"Current policy means we have no alternative but to sack Danny Baker for racial abuse. If only he'd just sexually interfered with the baby then we could have turned a blind eye for years."

A lazy and rather illogical attempt at being droll. Over the decades since such abuse and intolerance was apparently quite common, the BBC - like many other organisations - has evolved into a far more stringent outfit. Ironic that some punters on here criticise it for being "PC" and only being interested in quotas and box-ticking.
The police and, to some extent I must add, the Church seem to be doing the same.
Back on topic, Baker's arrogant attempt to portray himself as the victim in all this merely compounds his prickishness. I suspect even a tool like DB couldn't argue with that.

Is there a word for something beyond Ironic , Test User ?

There's a real lack of effort in Danny Baker's sackings these days.

At least when he called a referee "a worm in the heart of football" you knew that he *meant* to be insulting.

Worst Danny Baker sacking ever 3/10

Name calling and abuse of other posters on here could perhaps be dealt with in a more stringent fashion

Burnley Ace wrote:I get my source from the Press Gazette https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/james-ob ... and-trump/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

You will obviously come back with the BBC statement that he has been dismissed.

There is no disputing that he left because he didn’t want to be censored or limited in his ability to be critical but your analogy was wrong.

I made the quip about about obrian as an off the cuff remark.

But seeing how you've still not come to terms with me proving you wrong when I asked you "did the majority of Labour MPs vote for an EU referendum?" To which you said, " No" .

You had to treat the remark as though it had been made in a court of law!

I didn't in any way come out in support of Baker. Quite the opposite. I even described his remarks as "biased bigoted garbage."

But no, you chose to go on a "my source is bigger than your source" conversational cul de sac.

I quoted Obrian himself who revealingly admitted the BBC would say they sacked him as he, like you once again, tried to save face.

You say my analogy was wrong. I wouldn't expect anything else.

What I said I, said it in jest. However, both Baker and Obrian were sacked due to comments they'd made while "off duty" so to speak, not while broadcasting or presenting on the BBC. Both motormouths more than capable of coming out with divisive, controversial and in the case of Baker, offensive language that the BBC could no longer tolerate.

I had literally months of fun watching you tying yourself in knots in the vain attempt of trying backtrack on getting a simple question wrong.

It's obviously eaten away at you. You were wrong previously, you're wrong now and the odds are you'll be wrong in the future.

The weekend is upon us , as is the summer hopefully. The prospect of spending hours arguing whether obrian was or was not sacked really does come a second best to having a life. So you'll forgive me if I don't indulge you in your trying to even up the score.

You'll reply, no doubt, you can have the last word, by all means fill your boots. But if you're expecting a reply you'll be sorely disappointed.

evensteadiereddie wrote:Ooooooooh, touchy, touchy. You've gone through the pi$$ed up, merry stage and are now descending into a mood of getting scrappy. Love it.

I'll be in my usual spot in the CFS on Sunday afternoon, you can do what the chuff you like.

You'll happen have sobered up by then, fella.

evensteadiereddie wrote:It's been a tough couple of years for the lad, give him a break.

His neck, hopefully.)

Eddie youre the one wanting other posters necks broke. It's you that wishes harm on fellow clarets. So I just thought that if the opportunity arose, you'd jump at the chance of having you're wishes come true?.

RingoMcCartney wrote:I made the quip about about obrian as an off the cuff remark.

But seeing how you've still not come to terms with me proving you wrong when I asked you "did the majority of Labour MPs vote for an EU referendum?" To which you said, " No" .

You had to treat the remark as though it had been made in a court of law!

I didn't in any way come out in support of Baker. Quite the opposite. I even described his remarks as "biased bigoted garbage."

But no, you chose to go on a "my source is bigger than your source" conversational cul de sac.

I quoted Obrian himself who revealingly admitted the BBC would say they sacked him as he, like you once again, tried to save face.

You say my analogy was wrong. I wouldn't expect anything else.

What I said I, said it in jest. However, both Baker and Obrian were sacked due to comments they'd made while "off duty" so to speak, not while broadcasting or presenting on the BBC. Both motormouths more than capable of coming out with divisive, controversial and in the case of Baker, offensive language that the BBC could no longer tolerate.

I had literally months of fun watching you tying yourself in knots in the vain attempt of trying backtrack on getting a simple question wrong.

It's obviously eaten away at you. You were wrong previously, you're wrong now and the odds are you'll be wrong in the future.

The weekend is upon us , as is the summer hopefully. The prospect of spending hours arguing whether obrian was or was not sacked really does come a second best to having a life. So you'll forgive me if I don't indulge you in your trying to even up the score.

You'll reply, no doubt, you can have the last word, by all means fill your boots. But if you're expecting a reply you'll be sorely disappointed.

Oh bless you it was all a bit of “Bants”, a little quip! Haha, the evidence, another unfamiliar concept, together with research, proof and procedure is an unknown to you. Very nice of you to concede, that’s probably unfamiliar as well but at least you seem to have learnt when to stop digging so I do feel, as this this season comes to a close, that I’ve done my bit in trying to educate you.

Now, just for old times sake, tell us what your definition of evidence is?

Calm down lads.I am tempted to try and swop my JHL for a CF ticket just to witness this face off..

I suspect it would be a handbag job and neither of you has been in a proper "ruck"

3pm kick off isn’t it? Ringo would be that ****** by then they wouldn’t let him in the ground.

Danny Baker has been living on borrowed time - and reputation - for years -IMHO, of course.
Wasn’t he supposed to be emigrating to Australia a couple of years ago, after his early exit from IACGMOOH?
I see that part of his “defence” was that he didn’t know which Royal had had a baby. Really? He hadn’t seen a newspaper, or a website, or heard a radio show, or seen a TV report that Meghan was pregnant? Must have been the only sentient creature in England that didn’t know.
Not a great loss.
Give me Liza Tarbuck any day.

RingoMcCartney wrote:You guessed wrong!

There's only one Mike GRAHAM

The Everton supporting Mike, is Mike PARRY

Like the proverbial stopped clock, Ringo is finally right.

Another racist tweet here lads.
Should we have a sweep stake for the time his sacking will be announced?

Damo wrote:

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Another racist tweet here lads.
Should we have a sweep stake for the time his sacking will be announced?

Why is this racist ?
I’m pretty sure pictures of monkeys are not racist in a certain context !