Hartlepool fancy dress
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Going as Mr T would be a good compromise for them. Hartlepool to Carlisle is not that far so they ain't gonna have to get on no plane to get there.ValleyGary said:
Fair enough. I just don't see how a load of hartlepool fans doing it would have any racial undertone or connection to minstrels in America all those years ago. I've seen plenty of people black up as Mr T and nobody, including black people, have batted an eye lid.colthe3rd said:
I have a number of black friends who find it offensive. I guess it is a legacy going back to minstrel shows in America, they hardly portrayed black people in a good light. I don't think it's as clear as saying "well if someone "whited" up I wouldn't be offended".ValleyGary said:Why is 'blacking up' even offensive???
If a load of black fellas wanted to dress up like Elton John and they painted themselves white, would you really give a shit???6 -
Bob Marley wasn't even black ffs0
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Yeah I'm not saying that they are trying to cause offence (although from what I've read they said they have no intention of doing it anyway) but I'm not black so I can't say whether it would or should cause offence to someone who is. All I'm saying is I know people who do find it offensive or at the very least not in good taste and I was trying to find a reasoning behind it.ValleyGary said:
Fair enough. I just don't see how a load of hartlepool fans doing it would have any racial undertone or connection to minstrels in America all those years ago. I've seen plenty of people black up as Mr T and nobody, including black people, have batted an eye lid.colthe3rd said:
I have a number of black friends who find it offensive. I guess it is a legacy going back to minstrel shows in America, they hardly portrayed black people in a good light. I don't think it's as clear as saying "well if someone "whited" up I wouldn't be offended".ValleyGary said:Why is 'blacking up' even offensive???
If a load of black fellas wanted to dress up like Elton John and they painted themselves white, would you really give a shit???1 -
what on earth is the guy between robin and sonic dressed as?SantaClaus said:The smurf invasion of the Valley was class.
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he's just got his bird under a bed sheet gnoshing him offrina said:
what on earth is the guy between robin and sonic dressed as?SantaClaus said:The smurf invasion of the Valley was class.
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Suspect the horses head on the right of batman was the top half of that costume.rina said:
what on earth is the guy between robin and sonic dressed as?SantaClaus said:The smurf invasion of the Valley was class.
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The horses head is part of a 'Bernie Clifton' type costume isn't it? The guy in the cowboy hat being the 'rider'.North Lower Neil said:
Suspect the horses head on the right of batman was the top half of that costume.rina said:
what on earth is the guy between robin and sonic dressed as?SantaClaus said:The smurf invasion of the Valley was class.
Maybe the mystery costume isn't a costume at all. Maybe he always dresses like that.
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No, he was irieOsamaBenHamer said:Bob Marley wasn't even black ffs
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For someone who lives in Hartlepool, a week in the sunshine is considered blacking up.............1
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I think you're getting confused with Bob Peeters!OsamaBenHamer said:Bob Marley wasn't even black ffs
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You mean Blue Peter ?TelMc32 said:
I think you're getting confused with Bob Peeters!OsamaBenHamer said:Bob Marley wasn't even black ffs
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John Hewie was. According to a fella on RTM many many years agoOsamaBenHamer said:Bob Marley wasn't even black ffs
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I see MK Franchise have copied Hartlepools fancy dress idea, and hundreds of their fans have apparently gone today dressed as pirates
pirates is probably apt for them, first they steal the name dons now they have stolen Hartlepools idea
I really hate MK Franchise3 -
Never have guessed. Can't stand AFC either!paulie8290 said:I see MK Franchise have copied Hartlepools fancy dress idea, and hundreds of their fans have apparently gone today dressed as pirates
pirates is probably apt for them, first they steal the name dons now they have stolen Hartlepools idea
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whyKap10 said:
Never have guessed. Can't stand AFC either!paulie8290 said:I see MK Franchise have copied Hartlepools fancy dress idea, and hundreds of their fans have apparently gone today dressed as pirates
pirates is probably apt for them, first they steal the name dons now they have stolen Hartlepools idea
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They don't have hundreds of fans do they?paulie8290 said:I see MK Franchise have copied Hartlepools fancy dress idea, and hundreds of their fans have apparently gone today dressed as pirates
pirates is probably apt for them, first they steal the name dons now they have stolen Hartlepools idea
I really hate MK Franchise0 -
I worked up there for a while and a lot of people's 2nd team is MK, a plastic city with plastic support.lordromford said:
They don't have hundreds of fans do they?paulie8290 said:I see MK Franchise have copied Hartlepools fancy dress idea, and hundreds of their fans have apparently gone today dressed as pirates
pirates is probably apt for them, first they steal the name dons now they have stolen Hartlepools idea
I really hate MK Franchise
@paulie8290 to long and too contentious answer.0 -
Looks like we will be playing them next season.0
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what makes you say thatE-cafc said:Looks like we will be playing them next season.
3rd and heading for play offs, remember the year we went up, everyone exected Sheffield United to join us and the wendies as they only just missed out on automatic, but it was Huddersfield, can see Swindon doing it in the play offs0 - Sponsored links:
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Sheffield United will come good.2
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Found this picture of Hartlepool fans as Bob Marley.
Certainly not a touch on previous efforts........
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Pleased that they stayed up.0
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They weren't allowed to black their faces up, yet all I see on billboards at the moment is a whitened up Sol Campbell trying to get more black people to vote.
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Isn't it Babs from Little Britain?rina said:
what on earth is the guy between robin and sonic dressed as?0 -
Away to Plymouth, this weekend, going as stormtroopers.
http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/sport/football/hartlepool-utd/revealed-hartlepool-united-fans-to-dress-up-as-stormtroopers-for-plymouth-argyle-match-1-78771971 -
Stormtroopers is this years themeguinnessaddick said:Away to Plymouth, this weekend, I wonder what they will turn up as?
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Hopefully Jeff Stelling goes as Darth Vadar.0
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Though that one second from the left is decidedly more KKK than anything else.guinnessaddick said:Away to Plymouth, this weekend, going as stormtroopers.
http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/sport/football/hartlepool-utd/revealed-hartlepool-united-fans-to-dress-up-as-stormtroopers-for-plymouth-argyle-match-1-78771972 -
a nice warm day for it on Saturday!0
