A miner s son who became a globe-trotting sales director has revealed how he became friends with comedy king Sir Ken Dodd, who gave him two of his famous tickling sticks. During his long career Geoff Williams, raised in Llay, near Wrexham and now living in Southport, also rubbed shoulders with stellar names like singing superstar Sir Tom Jones, Hollywood actors Richard Burton and Jack Nicholson and Kop hero Bill Shankly. Another claim to fame was that the 88-year-old persuaded Leeds United to allow the FA Cup to go on show at the British Legion in Llay. Now he has put pen to paper about his extraordinary life in his newly-published autobiography,
How much your partner respects your boundaries is a good indication of how they’ll treat you as your relationship moves forward. And if they trick you and prank you without any care for your feelings or your complicated relationship with your culture and religion, then maybe it’s time to move on.
One redditor, who goes by the nickname Ileriatis and was raised as a Turkish Muslim, turned to the AITA community for their words of wisdom. He was considering moving to a new place after his boyfriend, J, tricked him into eating pork on his birthday.
Now, even though the redditor admits that he’s progressive, he also feels like his boyfriend, a proud atheist, disrespected his religious beliefs. So Ileriatis wanted to get the internet’s take on whether he’s overreacting or if him getting angry was par for course. You’ll find the full story below, dear Pandas.
Racism is not okay, even in joke form. Unfortunately, not everyone gets that and thinks it’s just harmless fun, even though it’s directed at someone specific. Case in point, redditor Kaiizooku shared a story about how her sister kept being racist to her boyfriend of Korean descent and thought it was no big deal. Well, the woman banned her sister from her and her partner Jae’s wedding. However, such a huge decision obviously had a ripple effect on her family and now she’s feeling conflicted. So she turned to the r/AITA subreddit and asked for their verdict on whether she was in the right or completely out of line. You’ll find Kaiizooku’s full story below, dear Pandas.
Remembering Nottingham s raucous Variety Club, the place with strippers, bingo and women doing unmentionable things It was a nice club but it became a filthy den of iniquity
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The Variety Club in Radford
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Sunday lunchtime nowadays might be a carvery down the pub with the family but years ago it meant beer, bingo and bawdy entertainment at Nottingham s notorious Variety Club.
The press treatment of two very different royals and the complicity of the political establishment are all you need to know about engrained bigotry in Britain, argues SOLOMON HUGHES