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  • WTF?
  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 6,855
    edited August 2024
    All those those Patels are the same eh?
  • Stu_of_Kunming
    Stu_of_Kunming Posts: 17,117
    Am I missing something, or is the suggestion that anyone Indian looking is called Patel? 


  • Am I missing something, or is the suggestion that anyone Indian looking is called Patel? 


    And involved in property…don’t forget that one.

    Quite a remarkable post which I’m sure will soon be “justified” as some sort of humour others don’t understand. There’s precedent…
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,741
    edited August 2024
    Am I missing something, or is the suggestion that anyone Indian looking is called Patel? 


    And involved in property…don’t forget that one.

    Quite a remarkable post which I’m sure will soon be “justified” as some sort of humour others don’t understand. There’s precedent…
    Calm down…..

    The OP is a reference to a long running CL thread about one of us (can’t remember who) having a long running battle on a house sale with a Mr Patel. 
  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 6,855
    edited August 2024
    Am I missing something, or is the suggestion that anyone Indian looking is called Patel? 


    And involved in property…don’t forget that one.

    Quite a remarkable post which I’m sure will soon be “justified” as some sort of humour others don’t understand. There’s precedent…
    Calm down…..

    The OP is a reference to a long running CL thread about one of us (can’t remember who) having a long running battle on a house sale with a Mr Patel. 
    I know that. They all look the same, eh?
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,741
    If thats your take?!?

    It’s more that they have the same name surely?
  • If thats your take?!?

    It’s more that they have the same name surely?
    Yep that’s my take. Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe it’s not stereotyping based on certain characteristics. But it certainly looks like it.
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  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,739
    All those those Patels are the same eh?

  • All those those Patels are the same eh?

    Brilliant. I suspect that if certain posters that you argued with vociferously on recent posts had posted this, you’d have found a very different angle.
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,334
    If you think the first post is funny, you're right. And, if you think the first post isn't funny, you're also right. 

    But, if you need an explanation as to why a Mr Patel, the owner of a successful property business has found its way onto CL, then that's probably because you missed a long-running CL joke. 
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,739
    All those those Patels are the same eh?

    Brilliant. I suspect that if certain posters that you argued with vociferously on recent posts had posted this, you’d have found a very different angle.
    What are you waffling on about ? You need to stay off the sauce mate . 
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,979
    If thats your take?!?

    It’s more that they have the same name surely?
    Yep that’s my take. Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe it’s not stereotyping based on certain characteristics. But it certainly looks like it.
    Not maybe, you are wrong. 


  • Chizz said:
    If you think the first post is funny, you're right. And, if you think the first post isn't funny, you're also right. 

    But, if you need an explanation as to why a Mr Patel, the owner of a successful property business has found its way onto CL, then that's probably because you missed a long-running CL joke. 
    Nice Jimmy Carr quote about the nature of comedy…he’s funny.

    I know the Mr Patel property thread very well.

    You are now pointing out that this Mr Patel is successful. That was a nuance notably absent in your comedy, which seems, to me at least, to rely on stereotypes. But then your comedy is often nuanced, like the one about Nigel Farage dying. Apparently you forgot the nuance there as well. Sometime us mere mortals miss the nuance in your comedy.

    Maybe I’m being sensitive because I know the Mr Patel in your picture. Maybe I’m not.
  • All those those Patels are the same eh?

    Brilliant. I suspect that if certain posters that you argued with vociferously on recent posts had posted this, you’d have found a very different angle.
    What are you waffling on about ? You need to stay off the sauce mate . 
    Stone cold sober mate. 
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,334
    Chizz said:
    If you think the first post is funny, you're right. And, if you think the first post isn't funny, you're also right. 

    But, if you need an explanation as to why a Mr Patel, the owner of a successful property business has found its way onto CL, then that's probably because you missed a long-running CL joke. 
    Nice Jimmy Carr quote about the nature of comedy…he’s funny.

    I know the Mr Patel property thread very well.

    You are now pointing out that this Mr Patel is successful. That was a nuance notably absent in your comedy, which seems, to me at least, to rely on stereotypes. But then your comedy is often nuanced, like the one about Nigel Farage dying. Apparently you forgot the nuance there as well. Sometime us mere mortals miss the nuance in your comedy.

    Maybe I’m being sensitive because I know the Mr Patel in your picture. Maybe I’m not.
    If you saw stereotype in the original post, you saw something that wasn't there.  

    I'm only responsible for the words and pictures I post.  I'm afraid you'll have to take responsibility for seeing things that weren't there, again. 
  • There was a long running story about a Mr Patel buying a property.

    A bloke of Indian origin, who owns a property company that sponsors Charlton, is in a picture.

    the OP makes a joke which can only be based on a suggestion that all people of Asian origin are Patels. 

    Hopefully that explains my point of view. If not then I apologise. 

    If it’s genuinely funny, I’m sure the original post will get plenty of LOLs.
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,334
    There was a long running story about a Mr Patel buying a property.

    A bloke of Indian origin, who owns a property company that sponsors Charlton, is in a picture.

    the OP makes a joke which can only be based on a suggestion that all people of Asian origin are Patels. 

    Hopefully that explains my point of view. If not then I apologise. 

    If it’s genuinely funny, I’m sure the original post will get plenty of LOLs.
    The bloke in the picture is a Mr Patel. That, and the fact that he's in property, are the the entire points of the post. 

    You're the only one who decided to bring up the "origin" of either of the Mr Patels: the one who tried to scupper the property deal and this one, Kalpesh Patel. 
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  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,741
    There was a long running story about a Mr Patel buying a property.

    A bloke of Indian origin, who owns a property company that sponsors Charlton, is in a picture.

    the OP makes a joke which can only be based on a suggestion that all people of Asian origin are Patels. 


    I just cannot for the life of me understand how this is your take when you do actually know the back reference. 

    Surely the OP is simply playing with the notion that the guy in the picture and the guy in the other CL thread are the same person…given that they have the same name and are both dealing in property?!?


  • Chizz said:
    There was a long running story about a Mr Patel buying a property.

    A bloke of Indian origin, who owns a property company that sponsors Charlton, is in a picture.

    the OP makes a joke which can only be based on a suggestion that all people of Asian origin are Patels. 

    Hopefully that explains my point of view. If not then I apologise. 

    If it’s genuinely funny, I’m sure the original post will get plenty of LOLs.
    The bloke in the picture is a Mr Patel. That, and the fact that he's in property, are the the entire points of the post. 

    You're the only one who decided to bring up the "origin" of either of the Mr Patels: the one who tried to scupper the property deal and this one, Kalpesh Patel. 
    Did your joke mention that this was a Mr Patel so that people could get the connection? Or did it rely on an assumption that he would be a Mr. Patel. It was the latter. There’s the stereotype.

    I understand that would have made it even less funny than it was in the first place.

    But as you say, no comedian is accountable for what they say, just how their audience interprets it. 

    I know Kalpesh well. A lovely bloke and a very good golfer.
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    The actual funny thing was that the initial Mr Patel in this saga tried to measure up using a school ruler



    And ran off with the borrowed tape measure






  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,334
    Chizz said:
    There was a long running story about a Mr Patel buying a property.

    A bloke of Indian origin, who owns a property company that sponsors Charlton, is in a picture.

    the OP makes a joke which can only be based on a suggestion that all people of Asian origin are Patels. 

    Hopefully that explains my point of view. If not then I apologise. 

    If it’s genuinely funny, I’m sure the original post will get plenty of LOLs.
    The bloke in the picture is a Mr Patel. That, and the fact that he's in property, are the the entire points of the post. 

    You're the only one who decided to bring up the "origin" of either of the Mr Patels: the one who tried to scupper the property deal and this one, Kalpesh Patel. 
    Did your joke mention that this was a Mr Patel so that people could get the connection? Or did it rely on an assumption that he would be a Mr. Patel. It was the latter. There’s the stereotype.

    I understand that would have made it even less funny than it was in the first place.

    But as you say, no comedian is accountable for what they say, just how their audience interprets it. 

    I know Kalpesh well. A lovely bloke and a very good golfer.
    Yes. As you can see, "Mr Patel" is named in the title. No stereotype whatsoever. 

    I think the main thing that makes it less funny than it might have been is the requirement to explain it, over and over again. 
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,853
    Yeah, can’t believe that well known racist Chizz has posted that. 

    Jesus wept 
  • MrOneLung said:
    Yeah, can’t believe that well known racist Chizz has posted that. 

    Jesus wept 
    I know, I couldn’t believe it either..
  • cafc999
    cafc999 Posts: 4,967
    Chizz is a player


  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,006
    I'm surprised how quickly after the E Scooters thread that we have a second entry for the embarrassing yourself thread of the year competition.
  • JaShea99
    JaShea99 Posts: 5,458
    If thats your take?!?

    It’s more that they have the same name surely?
    Yep that’s my take. Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe it’s not stereotyping based on certain characteristics. But it certainly looks like it.
    Should we make a new CL category entitled ‘desperately looking for everything and anything to be offended by that I can label as racist/sexist/homophobic’? Have a fucking day off.
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,436
    MrOneLung said:
    Yeah, can’t believe that well known racist Chizz has posted that. 

    Jesus wept 
    I know, I couldn’t believe it either..
    I can't believe I'm saying this to someone other than Seth, but are you for fucking real?