fourpence to the future

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

And you have to ask the question......were we damaged by all this politically incorrect stuff?
I don't think we were...do you?

I actually don't think we would be now but for all the dogooding numpties about, they seem to see things which don't exist, these people must lead a very boring lives if all they have to do all day is walk around wondering what might offend others who in truth don't actually give a damn

[MargaretR]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Of Course they are before your time Dianne...you have to remember that me 'n Cashy(or should that be Cashy and I) are old enough to be your parents .

....and I am older than the pair of them (not added together).

[mobertol]

Originally Posted by jaysay

I used to love the Black and White Minstrel Show and used to watch it with my Golly from the Robinsons Jar, but alas no more

It was a tradition when over at my Grandparents on Saturday evening to watch the B&W Minstrels. Used to collect the Gollies too with all the Golden shred marmalade we used to eat!

Didn't turn me into a raving loony racist (I mean, after all, I did marry an I-Tie!)- oh, and I loved the story of Little Black Sambo which they read us in first year juniors too. It is a Victorian classic story -what kids would not enjoy a tale of a boy outwitting some tigers and the idea of them running round and round until they turned into a pool of butter,imaginative stuff.

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by mobertol

It was a tradition when over at my Grandparents on Saturday evening to watch the B&W Minstrels. Used to collect the Gollies too with all the Golden shred marmalade we used to eat!

Didn't turn me into a raving loony racist (I mean, after all, I did marry an I-Tie!)- oh, and I loved the story of Little Black Sambo which they read us in first year juniors too. It is a Victorian classic story -what kids would not enjoy a tale of a boy outwitting some tigers and the idea of them running round and round until they turned into a pool of butter,imaginative stuff.

Be careful what you say, who knows where the thought police are these days

[DaveinGermany]

Originally Posted by davemac

When you go back and look at the stuff you were watching as a kid you dont realise how politicaly incorrect they are in todays society

It wasn't politically incorrect it was everyday, it's only in these later years that "Political Correctness" has become such an issue due to certain elements of our "modern enlightened society".

Makes me want to puke, whining liberals, apologists & others who want to wipe everything about our past & history into oblivion by focussing only on the negative.

[davemac]

Originally Posted by DaveinGermany

It wasn't politically incorrect it was everyday, it's only in these later years that "Political Correctness" has become such an issue due to certain elements of our "modern enlightened society".

Makes me want to puke, whining liberals, apologists & others who want to wipe everything about our past & history into oblivion by focussing only on the negative.

A football commentator (I think) recently got into trouble for saying coloured instead of black when refering to a footballer, I dont think the offence is in the word, just in the way it is applied.
I remember my grandma had a black labradore called blackie, you darent call a dog that nowadays

[Eric]

Originally Posted by davemac

A football commentator (I think) recently got into trouble for saying coloured instead of black when refering to a footballer, I dont think the offence is in the word, just in the way it is applied.
I remember my grandma had a black labradore called blackie, you darent call a dog that nowadays

Not to mention Guy Gibson's dog:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigger_(dog)

I guess in some versions of the movie you had to know morse code in order to be offended.

[davemac]

Originally Posted by Eric

Not to mention Guy Gibson's dog:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigger_(dog)

I guess in some versions of the movie you had to know morse code in order to be offended.

She also had a dog called that (not at the same time) but I gibbed at saying that

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Eric

Not to mention Guy Gibson's dog:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigger_(dog)

I guess in some versions of the movie you had to know morse code in order to be offended.

Not forgetting his wife, Slag.

Though it's rumored the chocolate brown dog will be called Digger, she'll be called Eve, in the remake of The Dam Busters.

[Eric]

Originally Posted by davemac

She also had a dog called that (not at the same time) but I gibbed at saying that

Frankly, I don't give a rat's ass what folks call their dogs, as long as they take care of them.

Maybe Gibson's VC should be taken away ... posthumously, obviously. (But that's the way many of them were awarded in the first place. ) The squareheads would support that.

Trouble with pcism is that it nibbles at the convenient edges of a problem. Doesn't tackle the problem itself. That requires real effort and big balls.

Now, I'm going back to google to find out more about Nigger's ghost. Fascinating stuff.

[Eric]

Originally Posted by garinda

Not forgetting his wife, Slag.

Though it's rumored the chocolate brown dog will be called Digger, she'll be called Eve, in the remake of The Dam Busters.

Don't think it matters what they call the dog. The new movie will be Hollywood action bs ... the old one is art, like the Cockleshell Heroes. For some reason I prefer black and white movies. Am I being maudlin, old fashioned, silly, fuddy; or is there something a tad more artisitic in black and white? I think I'll trust your judgement on this one.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Eric

Frankly, I don't give a rat's ass what folks call their dogs, as long as they take care of them.

Maybe Gibson's VC should be taken away ... posthumously, obviously. (But that's the way many of them were awarded in the first place. ) The squareheads would support that.

Trouble with pcism is that it nibbles at the convenient edges of a problem. Doesn't tackle the problem itself. That requires real effort and big balls.

Now, I'm going back to google to find out more about Nigger's ghost. Fascinating stuff.

Well blow me.

I always thought ol' Nig was a brown labrador, but he was black!

Nigger (dog) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You just can't trust those old blac, er....non-technicolor movies.

[garinda]

Poor Nigger's grave.

[Eric]

Originally Posted by garinda

Poor Nigger's grave.

I put poor Nigger's grave on my desktop. It's the Labrador thing ... the Canadian connection

[Mancie]

And so "nigger" is still accepted on here.. what if I called my dog a gay black queer?