That’s bananas
MONKEY ‘NOT RACIST’ PLAQUE
SNOWFLAKE officials have been ridiculed for wanting to put up a plaque explaining their monkey statue isn’t racist.
Bedwetters at Hartlepool Council are worried the town’s famous monument could offend people after the Black Lives Matter protests and effigies rows.
A spokesman said: “We are working on an interpretation of the Hartlepool monkey legend with the intention of installing an explanatory sign or plaque.”
According to local folklore, a monkey that washed ashore in the north-eastern town during the Napoleonic Wars was hanged as a French spy. Historian Dr Zareer Masani slammed the plaque move, saying: “This is an example of tragedy ending as farce, virtue-signalling gone crazy.”
The folklore has been turned into songs, plays and books and the town’s football club mascot is a monkey called H’angus.
The plaque plan was also slammed online, with one local saying: “The woke nutcases have lost any last shred of credibility.”
IT’S enough to make you go bananas.
Hartlepool Council has decided it has to put an explanatory sign on the town’s statue of a monkey amid fears it could offend visitors.
There hasn’t been a single complaint about it, yet some bed-wetting pen pusher has decided it may be used by others to portray the town as “unfriendly towards foreigners”.
Crikey.
It’s staggering to think this is where we’re at.
That everyone is so worried about upsetting snowflakes, we’re trying to second-guess what will offend them.
And that every single reference to the monkey kingdom must be explained or justified.
Excuse us, we’re off for a nap. Modern life is just so tiring…