Duncan Castles

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blue b4 the moon said:
I also have an array of pink clothes, just no red ones apart from my now old red/black away shirt which funnily enough is now almost pink/grey.

It's a shit tweet as he's a dinosaur and lives in a bubble so he thinks it is offensive.

It's best just to point and laugh at him.
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I too have retro away shirt. Love it. Absolutely will NOT buy red clothes or cars for that matter....loathe the colour and what it means to me. Do allow myself tomato ketchup. Heinz of course , none of that lucky , likee shite .....:-)
 
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Castles is no journo, he is just a PEG apologist who talks utter shite, every breath he takes, no idea why the tweet was taken down, hopefully not because it was deemed homophobic, maybe he realised for once that what he wrote was complete bollocks and saw the light..? The good news is that he will now be persecuted by all those who spend their days knitting sandals out of fat free yogurt wool in between being offended on behalf of others...!
 
Blue Til Death said:
Castles is no journo, he is just a PEG apologist who talks utter shite, every breath he takes, no idea why the tweet was taken down, hopefully not because it was deemed homophobic, maybe he realised for once that what he wrote was complete bollocks and saw the light..? The good news is that he will now be persecuted by all those who spend their days knitting sandals out of fat free yogurt wool in between being offended on behalf of others...!
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He more than likely took it down when he saw united and Valencia players wearing the same
 
Does Duncan Castles have an opinion on United's current pink away kit? (which I actually don't mind myself)
 
Wreckless Alec said:
I'm no fan of Castles but on what planet is that tweet "homophobic" ?
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It's implying pink, a colour wrongly or rightly associated with women or homosexuals is weak or not befitting of a hard man. Leaving the question, why can't a women or someone who's gay be tough?

I'm personally not offended but could see why some would be.
 
schfc6 said:
It's implying pink, a colour wrongly or rightly associated with women or homosexuals is weak or not befitting of a hard man.
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Strangely enough, pink was deemed a 'Manly' colour from the early middle ages until quite recently, somehow it
got co-opted by marketing to mean pink for girls, blue for boys.
I think, but am not sure, it was the Yanks, similar to how Father Christmas ended up wearing bright red, an early Coca Cola ad,
apparently.
 
Ancient Citizen said:
Strangely enough, pink was deemed a 'Manly' colour from the early middle ages until quite recently, somehow it
got co-opted by marketing to mean pink for girls, blue for boys.
I think, but am not sure, it was the Yanks, similar to how Father Christmas ended up wearing bright red, an early Coca Cola ad,
apparently.
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From what I've learnt from QI back in time it was pink for boys and blue for girls. Also the Father Christmas / coca cola this comes under general ignorance and the red pre dates Coca Cola.
http://www.victorian-era.org/victor...stmas-original-way.html/victorian-christmas-4
 
blueparrot said:
From what I've learnt from QI back in time it was pink for boys and blue for girls. Also the Father Christmas / coca cola this comes under general ignorance and the red pre dates Coca Cola.
http://www.victorian-era.org/victor...stmas-original-way.html/victorian-christmas-4
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Ah, right, I wasn't certain, so Father Chrimbo in red is from the Victorian era?
Pink was indeed the male colour, and I've always liked it, had many a pink shirt over the years.

And I'm not gay yet.
 
I think most of those who commented on his tweet being homophobic, and yes I include myself in that, were on a wind up. As a result, for whatever reason he deleted it. I take great delight that he took it down. The man is a knob of the first order, and I will devote as much time as I can to call him out whenever and on whatever
 
Ancient Citizen said:
Ah, right, I wasn't certain, so Father Chrimbo in red is from the Victorian era?
Pink was indeed the male colour, and I've always liked it, had many a pink shirt over the years.

And I'm not gay yet.
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Not sure when or where it started but was popular in Victorian times. Coca cola used their version of Santa from the 1930s, before that he appeared in other colours including red.
What the Coke advertising did do was standardise what we thought he should look like.
 
schfc6 said:
It's implying pink, a colour wrongly or rightly associated with women or homosexuals is weak or not befitting of a hard man. Leaving the question, why can't a women or someone who's gay be tough?

I'm personally not offended but could see why some would be.
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