Uncomfortable topics: Let's talk about race

[Left]

I'd describe him as "reasonably good-looking."
...His personality could take it up into smoking hot or down to 'oh hell no'.
I've not seen him act, you see, and for me it's brains over looks.

[Faust]

I would just like to return to this image again for a minute.   Does anyone else think that this is one hellaciously beautiful man?

All I've seen him in is Lock, stock, he didn't come across a beautiful in that but Id seen him in something else first I might have a different opinion.

[Cain]

Yeah, he was kinda a shitbag in that.

If we're talking amazing black UK actors, however, then Idris Elba definitely deserves some consideration.

[Cain]

That said, in UK terms, it was probably a greater statement for diversity that Chris Eccleston was chosen as the Doctor than having a black or female Doctor would be.

In the UK, classism is at least as pernicious as racism and, given the choice, the BBC has shown in the past it is more than willing to put a middle class ethnic minority or woman in the place of someone with a "common" sounding accent and background.

[Cain]

And even more importantly, Doctor Who is a terrible show anyway, and people should feel bad for liking it or putting it in a position of social relevance.

[LMNO]

Yeah, he was kinda a shitbag in that.

If we're talking amazing black UK actors, however, then Idris Elba definitely deserves some consideration.

Hottie hottie hot hot.

[Faust]

And even more importantly, Doctor Who is a terrible show anyway, and people should feel bad for liking it or putting it in a position of social relevance.

It's like 2000AD, it has a plethora of writers. Mostly bad, with some marvellous exceptions. But when its excellent it really is fantastic. The show has been running for fifty years and has about 300 episodes at this point, you could watch all the good episodes in about eight hours.

[East Coast Hustle]

Idris Elba is WAY too cool to be The Doctor.

I mean, we're talking about goddamn Stringer Bell, FFS.

[Faust]

He's also to handsome and competent sounding. The last doctor looked like an Easter Island head and this is someone with a time machine that has never gone where he wants it to go.

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

Interesting article on why the Doctor shouldn't be a woman...

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/so-some-feminists-are-calling-for-a-female-dr-who--but-isnt-that-missing-the-point-entirely-8649972.html

[Freeky]

I would just like to return to this image again for a minute.   Does anyone else think that this is one hellaciously beautiful man?

All I've seen him in is Lock, stock, he didn't come across a beautiful in that but Id seen him in something else first I might have a different opinion.

I saw it but don't remember his performance.  I just think he's HOT and PRETTY, aesthetically speaking.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Interesting article on why the Doctor shouldn't be a woman...

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/so-some-feminists-are-calling-for-a-female-dr-who--but-isnt-that-missing-the-point-entirely-8649972.html

I expected to disagree, but I don't. She makes an incredibly valid point. We need MORE male characters on TV who are brainy and pacifistic, not fewer.

[Cainad (dec.)]

the fuck, dude

nsfw, and beyond that

what the fuck, dude



come on


EDIT: this post refers to a post that was, rightly, deleted after the fact

[DECI4]

the fuck, dude

nsfw, and beyond that

what the fuck, dude



come on

Why are people so uptight about the human body? It's just a head, we all have them.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

the fuck, dude

nsfw, and beyond that

what the fuck, dude



come on

Why are people so uptight about the human body? It's just a head, we all have them.

A skinned head, some chopped off limbs and a severed dick. And the joke or argument or whatever the fuck it was supposed to be doesn't work.

Who pissed in your Post Toasties?