Quote from Steve on March 16, 2026, 4:18 pm

My wife facetiously says this is "very bad". I think its great. Thanks. I shall post this on my Victoria Falls thread so it all hangs together. Whatever my wife and the woke may think, this image does show a representative of the native people of colonial Rhodesia crushed under the great and glorious weight of Victoria's sudden ravaging headlong plunge for booty at the expense of the unwary natives.

This looks more like a romp in a Highland Glen than Rhodesia! Could that be the gilly John Brown (a la Netflix's Bridgerton race-twisting) that HM the Queen has fallen on or for, apparently? Would QV be amused by this image? I hope not but she probably might have been. Are the multi-cultural left as led by Prince Harry and Meghan M amused by this? Probably not. It's a challenging but somewhat juvenile image. We shall keep this up in the interest of free speech! We demand "Reparations for the Crushed of Zimbabwe!"

Two non sequiturs. In the 1980s there was an Australian porn star called Alice Springs. Her South African equivalent was Victoria Falls! As a boy we had a lovely, intelligent, calm and sympathetic servant, a well-spoken Xhosa lady called Victoria. One day after school she said to me "My daughter has had a fall." "Oh dear," I replied, "is she all right?" "No," said Victoria, "she's a schoolgirl, pregnant and unmarried". We say 'fall pregnant' and never question why it's a 'fall'? Is it religous censure? A fall from grace, perhaps. So, what of married women who 'fall'?