Reply to: Calling a pub a pub

[vetran]

Do you want some?

I always found this one quite funny:

Ecstasy is a drug so powerful, it makes white people think they can dance.

[ladymuck]

Do you have any Italian in you?

Do you want some?

[northernladyuk]

He was part Italian on his mothers side.

Do you have any Italian in you?

[vetran]

Also, his family name "Stuart" actually derives from the same root as "swarthy" (like the German "schwarz" come to think of it).

So his paternal ancestors must have had dark complexions as well.

or Steward. That seems to be disputed.

[OwlHoot]

He was part Italian on his mothers side.

Also, his family name "Stuart" actually derives from the same root as "swarthy" (like the German "schwarz" come to think of it).

So his paternal ancestors must have had dark complexions as well.

[vetran]

Yes, that's true. But it was because of his slightly dark and swarthy complexion.

Oh dear ..

He was part Italian on his mothers side.

[OwlHoot]

I did hear that Black Boy was a nickname for Charles II. Don't know whether it's true.

Yes, that's true. But it was because of his slightly dark and swarthy complexion.

Oh dear ..

[vetran]

If they renamed them all "the white boy" and replaced black faces and black heads with white ones, people would say that was racist too

If the phrase white boy was about a king and it is what his mum called him then I don't think so.

[MarillionFan]

This is getting silly. So are they going to rename my local next? I enjoy a good pint at The Klansman.

[Old Greg]

Nigel Farage has made various complaints over the years that he feels ridiculed by the pub name "The Cock Tavern".

[vetran]

plenty of people seem to have misunderstood the reference before and put picture of African boys on the pub signs, now replace those with a picture of Charles II and Tom is your uncle!

[BlueSharp]

They have a point with this one.

Staffordshire's Labour In Vain pub in racism row over historic sign | Daily Mail Online

[d000hg]

If they renamed them all "the white boy" and replaced black faces and black heads with white ones, people would say that was racist too

[vetran]

I did hear that Black Boy was a nickname for Charles II. Don't know whether it's true.

That is the general consensus and the pubs were named to show royalist support.

Charles II.

Charles' appearance was anything but English, with his sensuous curling mouth, dark complexion, black hair and dark brown eyes, he much resembled his Italian maternal grandmother, Marie de Medici's side of the family. During his escape after the Battle of Worcester, he was referred to as 'a tall, black man' in parliamentary wanted posters. One of the nick-names he acquired was the black boy His height, at six feet two inches, probably inherited from his Danish paternal grandmother, Anne of Denmark, also set him apart from his contemporaries in a time when the average Englishman was far smaller than today.

Though other people think its a plot to disguise the real rulers.

Moorish Kings of Europe: King Charles Stuart II – The Black Boy King of England 1630 – 1685 – by – Oguejiofo Annu | Rasta Livewire

He is commemorated in the celebrated name of the Black Boy Inn, found all over the British Isle.
Like his ancestors before him, King Charles II was a black man. Many of his surviving paintings falsely depict him as a so-called white man in clear contradiction to the famous description of the jolly King.

[Old Greg]

I did hear that Black Boy was a nickname for Charles II. Don't know whether it's true.