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    Quote Originally Posted by struth View Post
    A bit of that and the you can't say that brigade didn't help. Standards are so low now
    Did you ever watch 'The Inbetweeners' ?

    I think that proved that 'you can say that now' - most of it was outrageous ... AND HILARIOUS !!

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    Quote Originally Posted by mikmas View Post
    Did you ever watch 'The Inbetweeners' ?

    I think that proved that 'you can say that now' - most of it was outrageous ... AND HILARIOUS !!
    thought it was purile tbh, but thats not to say it is or was. aint half hot mum has been banned by bbc since 1984, all because a white man donned a blackened face. Thats the problem with the ban it brigade, there is no good reason for anyone to be offended. it was a child of its time, just as the flashman books (well the attitudes in them from perspective of the time they were set) are slagged off by same folk.
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    Maybe "Bend me over backwards on the Hostess trolley" is as good as we're ever going to get...?


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    Quote Originally Posted by mikmas View Post
    Watched Stewart Lee's 2 hour show the other night - painfully hilarious ... I was in stitches half the time
    Pure comedy genius
    Watched it last night, what he does is an Art form. He makes you work with him.
    And yes, painfully hilarious, is a great description...
    and had me thinking about it this morning, so it stays with you.
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    Quote Originally Posted by struth View Post
    .... aint half hot mum has been banned by bbc since 1984, .

    Nope - still available as a BBC DVD box set on Amazon (2010 edition)

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    Not really 'complete' as some episodes were lost or wiped after broadcast (unfortunately the fate of a lot of TV material at that time and since)

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    Quote Originally Posted by mikmas View Post
    Nope - still available as a BBC DVD box set on Amazon (2010 edition)

    Amazon

    Not really 'complete' as some episodes were lost or wiped after broadcast (unfortunately the fate of a lot of TV material at that time and since)
    i meant for broadcast on bbc... yup i have the boxset. never been watched as i bought it for wife at xmas and alas she died next day. not watched it but kept it.
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    Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?

    “Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".

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    "You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”

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    Really sorry to hear that Grant

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    thanks. was distressing but over worst of it. not something i'd wish on anyone tho.
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    Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?

    “Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".

    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

    "You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”

    “There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”


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    Someone mentioned Derry Girls - very funny and This Country isn't too bad either. Having said that, in my dotage I find I like much gentler stuff like Mortimer and Whitehouse go Fishing and even better, The Detectorists - pure gold. It's like when you were kids, the sun always shone and you could go off all day and have adventures but when you got home and Mum asked what had you been up to, the answer was "nothing".

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    Quote Originally Posted by struth View Post
    aint half hot mum has been banned by bbc since 1984, all because a white man donned a blackened face. Thats the problem with the ban it brigade, there is no good reason for anyone to be offended.
    Oh FFS, I didn't know that!

    That sort of nannying, nonsensical BULLSHITE level of political correctness should be outlawed, as it simply panders to the moaning minnies in this world who would take offence at their own shadow. I'd love to drag whoever was responsible for that decision aside and slap some fucking sense into them!!

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