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Good points, Richard, IMO.
It’s very easy to feel oppressed by politically-correct Woke culture nowadays, but it’s as nothing compared to the pointless puritanicalism of Mary Whitehouse.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"In Sickness And In Health always trod an uneasy path. Even if Alf’s views were discredited regularly in the show, I’m sure there will have been a proportion of the audience who were cheering him on for saying the unsayable.
Those who might have most benefited from the underlying message were probably the least likely to discern what it was. I have no issue with the show being broadcast, but I doubt it changed many hearts and minds.
I’ll just have to re-watch Cocoon again
This is surely an insidious indirect form of ageismBASTARDOS !!!!!
Get the BIG GREEN GIANT into some form of remedial action
Pleasantly surprised to see That’s TV has started showing repeats of “It Ain’t Half Hot Mum”. I thought that show had been well and truly memory holed. The BBC has not shown it for years because it says it is offensive- but is still happy to make money out of it from DVD sales. Presumably That’s TV has had to pay the BBC for the rights to show it as well.
Of course, there has to be an on screen trigger warning but at least it allows the programme to be broadcast. Jimmy Perry and David Croft said it was their personal favourite but it has not aged as well as “Dad’s Army”.
I remember it being on television when I was younger but I doubt I understood what it was about. Although I do remember thinking it was funny when Windsor Davies shouted “SHUT UP!!!” at the end of each episode.
The warnings for Love Thy Neighbour would be interesting.
The more I know the less I understand.
The thing is though with love thy neighbour the white man is the fool , a racist fool but a fool none the less , curry and chips would be the hardest to try and show ….
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I just didn’t think It Ain’t Half Hot Mum was very good tbh.
I never thought Dads Army was that funny, either, I just always had affection for it.
Porridge was the stand-out sitcom in my teenage opinion in the 70s, until, that is, the first series of Fawlty Towers came along and everyone I knew with more than one braincell was dying with laughter at what was surely The Genesis of the alternative sitcom.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Porridge , Fawlty , Rising Damp , Reggie Perrin , Some mothers do have them , the 70s was the golden age of the sitcom
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It is not just television programmes. Books have trigger warnings now.
I suppose it was only a matter of time before Raymond Chandler was dragged into it. A new edition of “The Big Sleep” is set to contain a trigger warning about its “outdated cultural representations and language.”
I never realised a hard boiled detective novel written in 1939 might reflect a different world from 2023.
If I owned the publishing house, the book would have a warning to the effect of “This is a classic work of fiction by a great writer. If anyone lacks the imagination to understand and appreciate it, they can naff off.”
Some of the adverts from the 70s were powerful messages backed up with strong visuals. This is one of my favourites because it scared the hell out of my sister back in the day…
Forgotten about this advert, but on reviewing your link Ghost, remember it well. Perhaps they need more like this to scare kids/ young teens into the sensible thing and lesson the amount of kids drowning, making news in heatwaves.
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Eliminate the negative.
Latch on to the affirmative.
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