Was the off the cuff comment by BBCs Robin Page racist.?

May 20, 3172 by satchmo1941 | Posted in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered

He said " All I ask is for the same rights as a black, Muslim, asylum seeking,one-legged, lesbian lorry driver "


No - just a verbal sigh of someone white and feeling hard done by in the UK. There's lots of us.

shortbread | May 20, 3464

Sunrise Sunset: Lorry Robin Photography

A slide show of images from a recent Orthodox Jewish wedding.

A life more ordinary… » Blog Archive » Getting back into the water

by markw

After a diving layoff of over 12 months (apart from one dive in April 2010 one evening to drain my tins down before they went in for test) I had a phone call from Digger. 7l aluminium stage hydro and O2 clean plus a 50% fill in the stage. Well over £100 for a twinset hydro test and O2 clean, plus my 5. It’s a rare one to dive as you need a licence from English Heritage. But they were ready just before I went on holiday so I picked them up from the dive shop. My cylinders took nearly 2 months to come back from test. Plus the twins only had just over 100 bar in them. Me: ‘Er, OK. ’ (thinking ‘sh*t – I haven’t dived for at least a year’)....

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