Notices by iona 🐝 (iona@social.coop), page 7

"Daz in Crosland Moor says I used to watch Emmerdale 'till they started showing two blokes kissing!"

There's been a couple of not homophobic messages from people in Halifax, so Halifax gets a ⭐ from me

Keighley gets a 💣

@porsupah "What next? Bestiality?" is going on my radio bingo card

@porsupah Silence when you walk into a room.

"Sue in Keighley says it just wouldn't look right if they had gay couples! They're already gay friendly, look, they've got two gay judges!"

"Mike in Keighley says what next? Dancing with horses and dogs? It's just as natural."

KEIGHLEY 🔥 🔥 🔥

@porsupah I used to live in a place called Penistone, what a sad town. Most of the locals had been there for generations and still hung around with the same people they happened to have been put in a school class with decades ago.

They've had to go as far as Scunthorpe, miles from the local coverage area, to find a caller who's not a homophobe

"Anne says - I'm not anti-gay! It just doesn't look right! Two men dancing just looks stupid! Why don't we just have a BBC Gay channel so all this stuff can go in its own place and it doesn't get shoved in our faces!"

SHOVED IN OUR FACES ✅

@fitheach @priryo I saw Julie Fowlis years ago in Manchester and she was wonderful - highly recommended :)

@porsupah There's also "...in Keighley" which is a good indicator that someone has never left the shitty, dead mill town they grew up in.

Big fish in a small town syndrome, it's similar where I come from, the kind of folk who never leave stay because they want to be the big yin.

@thamesynne I hope a thunderstorm hits the BBC Radio Leeds transmitter and goes down the airwaves to all the bigots calling this homophobic phone in ⚡ 📻

@ND3JR These places are all the same, little hill towns where men are men and women are fed up

"Christine in Silsden says Strictly would lose another two viewers and the BBC would lose a licence payer if they made this change!"

Silsden. More hillbillies.

"Pauline says, it might be controversial to say this these days but..."

Does anyone other than bigots say that?

@ND3JR He does, however, represent most of the people in Keighley

Bloody hillbillies

I'm only listening to this because I'm playing Bigot Bingo.

We've had our first "the moral majority are scared to speak out in case we're branded as homophobist or whatever-ist!"

If you don't say anything homophobic, you won't be "branded" as homophobic. 📻 🔥

"Dave in Keighley says: Strictly will be banned in our house if this happens!"

I bet Dave is such fun. 🎉

@priryo Having been on the other side of the mic, I suspect it's made up.

No one in the real world disagrees with same-sex couples in this day and age, so the presenter had to make up a bigot to get people to call in and disagree. Common radio tactic.

It took 6 minutes for this:

"Graham in Leeds says - I'm heterosexual, do I have a place in society anymore? I also dance with women. Is that normal?"

Today's radio phone in topic: "Should Strictly Come Dancing have same-sex couples?"

This will not have any old bigoted homophobes calling in to say it's not natural, I'm sure.

Following complaints, I apologise for the above joke. I will make no more cheesy jokes about Caerphilly 🧀