Quite interesting

[ghoti_mhic_uait]

QI last night was quite interesting... there was a bit about colour (related to extra toilets in the pentagon, which never were used in a segregated manner because FDR thought segregation was disgusting (which I completely agree with).

Anyway, I suddenly came over all patriotic... apparently a number of GIs asked for segregated pubs here, and the British public went 'you're barking' but a number of fights were started by white GIs attempting to evict black GIs... which the British weighed in on the black side. Hurray!

Of course then I was brought back to earth with a bump as I remembered pubs in my youth with 'No Irish' written on the door.

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[ironlord.livejournal.com]

I saw it as well, from about half way through, and it took about ten minutes to realise I wasn't watching a repeat on Dave.

I was brought back to earth with a bump as I remembered pubs in my youth with 'No Irish' written on the door.

Corollary: the Irish pub on Cherry Hinton Road which may as well have said "no English" on the door, given that blackmetalbaz was thrown out for being English. The fact that gheldor was with him, who was very definitely Irish last time I checked, seemed to count for nothing. Both were reportedly volcanically furious.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Have you seen the BBC mini-series 'Small Island', about the experiences of black immigrants in the UK during and just after the second world war? I think you'd like it.

[khalinche.livejournal.com]

I was just about to ask if ghoti had read the book. It's lusciously written, one of my favourites of the last few years.

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

Even better.... it always ends up as a book in my head, anyway. I discovered this when I described a plot to someone who knew it was definitely a film, only a film, but in my mind I could even see the paper and typeface. Weird, no?

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

That does sound interesting, I should look it up.