Hamilton: racist abuse

November 6, 2008 at 7:38 am · Filed under Politics, sport

Well, this is annoying. Yet again I’m compelled to comment on Spanish racism. Given that this particular type of confusing and misguided display seems to be coming so frequently from Spain of late, does this mean my commentary is also in danger of becoming racist (against the Spanish)? I do wish they’d stop.

Here we see Spanish Grand Prix fans showing their dissaproval of Lewis Hamilton, current Formula 1 World Champion. Richard Herring analyses their non-logic here.

More recently, reports have emerged of a Spanish website attacking Hamilton in an openly racist way. Apparently more than 16,000 people left racist messages on the site. I haven’t actually seen the site, as the reports I’ve seen have, understandably, declined to reveal the site’s URL.

Thanks to Graham Linehan for naming them arseholes of the decade.

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What is oozing out of our ground?

September 26, 2008 at 7:50 am · Filed under Science

What fresh idiocy is this? ‘Eveywhere we look, the invisible spectrum is rainbows. This cannot be natural.’ What the hell is she talking about?

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