He's an Oxford graduate. His Pub Landlord thing is an act.

He's satirizing conservatives

+. that's india bro. op was talking about pakistan hahaha

I've been subject to a couple of curses originating from genitals in my lifetime.

"Here's some more crazy shit people believe, which makes sense because I say it does" No it doesn't. That is not what" sense" means.

Would it be accurate to say that Hijra were pretty well accepted back when it was Hindustan, pre-1947, and they are still relatively normal in India, but not so much in Pakistan?

Thank you Shreyas! Very informative.

You don't live in Pakistan.

There is another report about the same phenomenon, apparently from CNN. The narrator says it's Karachi. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iJt_jMeg0-C1d4U.html

It's one "squadron" so...

Now that's how you do business

Agreed

Well, the trans community say it's wrong so...

Misinformation is in no way comparable to a marginalised group requesting the rest of us use accurate language.

I've never actually used the word 'transgendered' in my life, but I can't work out why it might be considered incorrect or offensive. Would you care to enlighten me?

SaviourInDistress It does seem pretty silly to me. I'm still waiting for them to give me an answer.

You don't sound like a socialist, so I congratulate you.

100% agree. Really, what'd be great is to get a summary every year even (might not be possible to do it on every receipt or payslip) with where your taxes have gone: healthcare 30%, social welfare 20% (the dole, the pension, NDIS/disability), infrastructure 15% (roads, airports, stadiums), military 2% etc. I'd like that a lot. Good idea.

@@skullsaintdead I think I've seen Australians post pictures of reports they get each year with that exact information. I think it was the federal government, but might have been state. Most countries don't want to admit what they're spending it on I guess.

@@SapientGalaxy Oh really? Huh, fair enough. I've never gotten one but I get someone else to do my tax.

Once you get that idea locked-in, GT, we'll get you onto your next assignment: World peace.

Russians are Asians......

Pakistan is culturally and linguistically more similar to India, Bangledesh and Afghanistan than they are to Arabic speaking countries in the Middle East. Urdu and Hindi are essentially dialects of the same language. As a former part of British East India they should know better.

@@lemonz1769 Pakistan is in South Asia but they've turned their back to Indian Civilisation a long time ago. We have nothing to do with these barbarians now, let them look west to their arab slave masters

The Middle East is part of Asia dipshit

@@blackhatfreak But all of Asia is not part of the Middle East dumbass

Up until a couple of decades ago, Pakistan, India etc. WAS the Middle East. What we now call the Middle East- Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Egypt, Cyprus, Syria etc. etc. was called the Near East because it was the nearest bit of the East to us. China, Japan etc. was called the Far East. You will still find institutions or universities or government departments that use the term "Near East" in their names or the courses that they offer (e.g. Near Eastern Archaeology)

@Jeg Hunckel India is in Asia, it's just that when most people think "Asia" India isn't the first thing to come to their heads

@@bluchicken_995 I thought British people generally think of South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka) when they say Asia, whereas Americans think East Asia.

@@oabuseer "Palestine" does not exist.

@@bluchicken_995 Well then they should have played more games of Risk when they were children.

Since forever. You might want to check your definition of "middle east", it's more cultural and less geographic than you seem to think.

+AntiMessiah Muslim fundamentalism -> Middle East Christian fundamentalism -> Bible Belt

LOL it is geographic. The "middle east" means the middle east of ASIA. Pakistan is part of south east Asia. Also Pakistani culture and Arab culture isn't the same

Middle east mean middle east of Asia? You do realize its the westernmost part of Asia, right?

Well that's extremely ignorant and short sighted. Hundreds of cultures have waged war more than American culture. The British Empire didn't just sail around and politely take land from native cultures. They were at war with other European cultures while doing it too. Rome killed hundreds of cultures expanding its borders as well. The Mongols didn't just ride their horses to the edge of Europe and call it their land. Lot of murder and rapes in between. America had little to do DIRECTLY with World War 1 (if you call supplying other countries a murderous act of war then go for it... and we had little impact after joining the war near the end) and we entered Would War 2 out of provocation. We used the nuclear weapons to end the war quickly. It isn't agreed across any culture or country whether or not it was the correct or incorrect decision. We don't "invade" other countries. Very often we're defending them from rebels and helping the peace corps. And I don't see how spending 3.3% of our GDP = "spends most of their money on their military"

When Sandi said son would that be incorrect?

They were mainly referring to them as a collective community and a plural, rather than out of political correctness or whatever.

That’s not impressive, it’s depressive...

I don't think there's such thing as a "correct" pronoun, as grammars are just conventions. But I can agree that, in order to be civil, you should generally treat people as they want to be treated, including pronouns. I think if people appealed to other people's politeness instead of using the pronoun issue as a way to shove progressive ideology on gender and their views about what is "correct" or not down everyone else's throat, they could be more successful.

@@Thefreakman8 to be charitable, she talked about a person who might be trans but if so nobody knows about it yet

It is often by the British, yes. To distinguish from 'Far East'. The phrase is a modern catch-all replacement for what used to be called 'Near East' - countries near Europe: Lebanon, Palestine, Israel, Syria, Cyprus, Iraq, Turkey, Iran, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Yemen, Bahrain, and Oman.

Google greater middle east....

@@3eightiesopinion524 google middle east...

@@fyukfy2366 i did

@@3eightiesopinion524 and did you see how Iran is eastern most country in the ME?

@@fyukfy2366 right. Pakistan is part of the greater middle East which could be what fry may have been referring too

I say it’s manipulation of transphobes. How Alan reacted to it? Hard to say.

Who cares

As a trans man, slightly uncomfortable.

@@heather19515 I think alan was taking the piss of all women

Why does it have to be one or the other? Even gender doesn't have to be one or the other.

Hijrat*

Rightly said ,whenever nabi gando hijra Muhammad git fuxked in his islam filled ghazi gaand in battlefield he used to suck up to his enemies by dancing like a transgender and that where hijra hijrat comes from

Amadeus190890 doesn't Pakistan occupy, or claim, the same territory as Israel? Or what am I thinking of?

No. It claims "Israel" is not to be recognised. Anyone with a moral will not accept "Israel".

Amadeus190890 well. It is. Can't do much about it. Maybe if someone decides to commit a genocide against Pakistanis. (And please don't say something along the lines of "Israelis are already doing that", I'm trying to be neutral)

Ionlymadethistoleavecoments In your first comment, you were thinking of Palestine, not Pakistan. Not going to join in on your debate, I just thought I'd let you know.

ZXDarkblade dammnit! I always mix the two of them up. I actually know nothing about Pakistan.

Hijras, what they are talking about, are transvestites who are closer to drag queens than transgenders

instead we just got someone who feels the need to slag off a group in any situation

Doesn't the fact that no one has made these comments despite the fact the video is still up prove you wrong, also the video was only uploaded two years ago the fact the episode is older is kind of irrelevant.

There is no such thing as a SJW, it's a completely unnecessary creation used to remove people's thoughts from the actual subject matter under discussion (i.e. the Activists are simply bad at performing their 'Activism Tasks' or arguing for their 'Activist Stances' when it comes to... [... = Insert Subject/Content Here]). That is all, nothing more nothing less, and certainly nothing necessitating the creation or addition of new words/terms here away from ''Bad/Poor Activism and Bad Activist''.

Considering its a BBC show in the UK I'm amazed at how respectful they managed to be. Not very, but they do have two very strong LGBT reps there so I suppose they can't appeal to the usual base

Steven Fry was very respectful that's to be expected. Everyone else, I feel their jokes came from ignorance rather than bigotry. This was 2014, a time when transphobia was common in British media and comparatively this is very tame and inoffensive.

@@ShayanQ Trans??? Doubt it.

what is the 'woke movement' ?

@@Ursi_ A collection of seemingly unrelated causes that often conflict and bring people into an umbrella belief that depends on people being VERY religious in their approach, abandoning science for faith. Like queers for Palestine. It’s. A cult of people using the idea of justice as a way of manipulating people. Hope this helps, though I suspect you have a script to go off of. I’ll get my popcorn as you prepare to type a bunch of cliches but hoping that’s not what you are. Fingers crossed for you.