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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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.