Apologies.

Yes, we should move on, I don't think deslawson meant any offence, language evolves, that's all.



I hugely disagree with your three reason that you think the country has in your opinion been stifled, I think that the UK is a fantastic place to live, and in particular God's Own County!

Absolutely no bother, and I'm glad you took my post in the spirit it was intended. It was clear you meant no offence.

Can't really believe such a word is so now no-go! The world is now totally pc crazy because whether you like it or not people from some different countries have different 'coloured' skin so why a word to say that is now 'banned' is ridiculous!!

Aye, calling someone black when they're more of a brown colour is a bit wrong if you ask me.

Would you prefer the love thy neighbour type of correctness and health and safety conditions akin to Bangladesh or perhaps civil liberties on a par with North Korea?

It's not 'banned' most people just choose not to use it as it has apartheid connotations,thats all.

I agree to a point especially regarding regarding the pc brigades over zealousness. the word coloured is a dated term for sure, however, to chastise somebody for using the term "coloured" might be missing the point as I'm pretty certain it's rarely used with racist intent, as it obviously wasn't in Des Lawsons case.

Personally i believe time we all stopped being so easily offended, both on our own behalves and on behalf of other people, we cant go around all the time worrying that we say something unintentionally that is deemed politically incorrect, unfortunately it appears to be a growing trend these days where you say something in passing without malice or racist intent and along come the PC brigade and take it out of context.

I don't think anybody has in this case been offended, I think we've all just discussed this as Internet friends, which can only be a positive.



Apart from a few people who are clearly looking to get a rise out of someone.

Cracking good post and basically says in a briefer way what I wanted to say in my earlier “sermon”.



Someone mentioned Bangladesh, North Korea and Love the Neighbour all extremes of the 3 issues I blame for a national loss of reasonable perspective.



Personally I am not an extremist, but I am getting peed off by those in this country who hijack these ideologies and push their boundaries beyond acceptable limits to distorted extremes.

There are umpteen examples and they are multiplying by the year. Where would you like me to start? With hindsight, best not as this thread will break the page record for off topic rants.

Back to yesterday's game. Just seen it in full on Hull KR TV.

First half, we were poor and lacked urgency and line speed. Most Widnes forwards made a good 5 metres after first contact. Unforgiveable. The penalties we conceded were dumb (note - homage To Shaun Wane).

Josh Mantellato try disallowed for forward pass was harsh. He was behind Charlie who was right on the 10m line when he threw the pass running at speed. Mantellato caught the ball with arms outstretched on or around 9.5 metres from the line.Try every day in my book, despite my bias.

What followed from the resulting scrum was the game breaker. Donaldson taking out Hanbury 5m from the try line from Campese's high kick 2 mins from the end. Dumber than dumb.

Should have won. Didn't deserve to though. Hope we learn from it.