Comments on: Daryl Somers http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/09/and-the-wankley-goes-to-daryl-somers/ now with extra source Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:09:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Tom McLoughlin http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/09/and-the-wankley-goes-to-daryl-somers/#comment-40598 Tom McLoughlin Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:37:44 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/09/and-the-wankley-goes-to-daryl-somers/#comment-40598 The educational value of all this is immense. European people here need to learn that bracketing black and buffoonery is just stupid, that whities have to find a better reason to be proud of themselves than by comparison with some other race. The cheap option is so over. The educational value of all this is immense. European people here need to learn that bracketing black and buffoonery is just stupid, that whities have to find a better reason to be proud of themselves than by comparison with some other race. The cheap option is so over.

]]> By: Bianca Pace http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/09/and-the-wankley-goes-to-daryl-somers/#comment-40583 Bianca Pace Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:11:51 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/09/and-the-wankley-goes-to-daryl-somers/#comment-40583 Either Daryl is an insensitive boor or so smitten with his comeback ( after years of being a has been) that he: a) Couldn't care less about the offensive nature of that skit or any skit so long as it got a laugh. OR b) So completely out of touch with the new sentiment that exists in today's society that he has been made to look not only foolish but dinosaurish. I hope this sensitises him to issues which a lot of Australians really care about. I think it might be time for him to understand that not only is Australia a multi-cultural country with people from 162 countries living here, but that many Australians are " biologically multicultural" an example of that would be my friend Louise whose children are Australian, Irish, Lebanese & American. I just hope that being back in the limelight helps to bring him up to speed with the Australia of 2009, which unlike in the 1980's is part of and an important player on the world stage. That mean, hurtful (to many skit, ) did not Advance Australia Fair . Shame on you Daryl for being so parochial and painfully inept at a job that requires more thoughtfulness and less slapstick. Either Daryl is an insensitive boor or so smitten with his comeback ( after years of being a has been) that he:
a) Couldn’t care less about the offensive nature of that skit or any skit so long as it got a laugh.
OR
b) So completely out of touch with the new sentiment that exists in today’s society that he has been made to look not only foolish but dinosaurish.

I hope this sensitises him to issues which a lot of Australians really care about. I think it might be time for him to understand that not only is Australia a multi-cultural country with people from 162 countries living here, but that many Australians are ” biologically multicultural” an example of that would be my friend Louise whose children are Australian, Irish, Lebanese & American.

I just hope that being back in the limelight helps to bring him up to speed with the Australia of 2009, which unlike in the 1980’s is part of and an important player on the world stage. That mean, hurtful (to many skit, ) did not Advance Australia Fair .
Shame on you Daryl for being so parochial and painfully inept at a job that requires more thoughtfulness and less slapstick.

]]> By: malcolm grant http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/09/and-the-wankley-goes-to-daryl-somers/#comment-40521 malcolm grant Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:55:44 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/09/and-the-wankley-goes-to-daryl-somers/#comment-40521 "All the other stuff.. controversy… that’s all gone in my mind. We dealt with that last night with Harry who obviously took offence at the act…" So the rest of us are just carrying on about nothing in Darryl's mind. Early onset dementia? “All the other stuff.. controversy… that’s all gone in my mind. We dealt with that last night with Harry who obviously took offence at the act…”

So the rest of us are just carrying on about nothing in Darryl’s mind.

Early onset dementia?

]]> By: Liz45 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/09/and-the-wankley-goes-to-daryl-somers/#comment-40487 Liz45 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:35:53 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/09/and-the-wankley-goes-to-daryl-somers/#comment-40487 Well Daryl you just don't get it do you? Are you really that stupid or just trying to cover your insensitivity? The fact that it's only a matter of weeks since MJ died obviously didn't have any effect on the decision to replay this rubbish. If you lived inside a black skin each day of your life, you may have some insight into how destructive racism is. I'm not an aboriginal person, just someone who doesn't believe, that denigrating people is funny! We need to grow up, and you need a frontal lobotomy! Well Daryl you just don’t get it do you? Are you really that stupid or just trying to cover your insensitivity? The fact that it’s only a matter of weeks since MJ died obviously didn’t have any effect on the decision to replay this rubbish. If you lived inside a black skin each day of your life, you may have some insight into how destructive racism is. I’m not an aboriginal person, just someone who doesn’t believe, that denigrating people is funny! We need to grow up, and you need a frontal lobotomy!

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