Carry On Gemma

So I wrote last week about Greg Wallace and this week we have John Torode saying complaints about him using racist language were upheld. The BBC then sacked him.  Fine. Then we have the reports saying he was just singing along with a song that had the N**** word in it.  Well, I have no issue with that because it a lyric in a song.   Oh wait, there is  an issue with that because he's not black. It's still a lyric in a song though and John Torode can sing it like I can, if I want (I don't because that isn't my music). So, I felt like sticking up for him at that point. Yet it seems he's used it to another member of staff and it's one of nine complaints upheld against him. Yet again, the BBC.

 One of my favourite things about my weekly trips to Tesco in the last few weeks has been the air conditioning.  I have a few physical problems at the moment and being in there with the air con and being able to sit on a bench inside the store and pack my bags in the cool air has helped me a lot in recent weeks.  I'm not the only one who uses these benches, elderly and infirm, people waiting on someone else, people just taking a moment after shopping before they have to go home and unpack it all and put it away. Friday morning I trot to my Tesco supermarket for my shop.  I wasn't in the mood for it today, too hot, too much else going on.  However, the air con chilled me out (ha) so I dragged myself around with my trolley and shopping list and went to the checkout and piled my shopping onto the travelator.  I waited because the man in front of me was taking his time fluffing out his bags for life. I'd have had patience if he had been elderly or in need of so...

I don't really consider mental health as any sort of excuse for committing a crime.  I have suffered poor mental health for over twenty years and I have never used it as an excuse for anything, never mind trying to push away allegations of being a dirty bastard by saying I'm autistic.  Yet this is exactly what Gregg Wallace is trying to do now. Now that the BBC no longer wants to fund him because of his behaviour, he's blaming it on being autistic.  As if he thinks that thousands of autistic people are going to come out and say 'yes Gregg, we forgive you because being autistic is an excuse for being a pervy bastard.' It is not.  And neither is any form of mental health he might want to come up with.  He is a "wrong'un" and that terminology crosses all dialectics across the UK.   This guy has tried to turn his perverted behaviour into something that he thinks should be considered normal because he said he couldn't wear tight underwear.  I'm not ...