markjuk's posts

Being reported that when it returns EastEnders will be back on 4 nights a week, but with only 20 minutes episodes.

Obviously a 7:30 start makes sense to extend the One Show and start them at 7:40. But the 8pm starts become slightly messier.

Yes that's what I was afraid of.

But seriously, I'm not going to continue debating with people who are furiously defending their right to have a chuckle at the N word and cancelling their BritBox subscriptions because it won't give them their fix of racial slurs.

While this debate is essential, I don't enjoy feeling this angry with a site I have enjoyed for 19 years. With that in mind I'm stepping away from the forum for a while.

All I will say is, to the more reasoned members of the forum (many of whom I respect even if they have disagreed with me here) I would ask that you really consider your position of privilege before eye rolling this away as politically correctness gone mad.

I think a sensible move is to reassess contentious content and then reupload it with a warning/historical context.

However, the cynic is me does think that maybe Gone With the Wind's removal from HBO Max was potentially to garner publicity for a recently launched service. Or at least in doing what was right, the publicity was deemed to have done the service no harm.

In case anyone is unaware of the contentious content which has caused the temporary removal of the episode of Fawlty Towers from UKTV Play, I've placed it in a spoiler below. I think it's important for context, should anyone be unaware.

WARNING: The below clip contains use of racial slurs including the N word:



Now I am fully aware that the character of the Major is an old buffoon that we are meant to laugh at, not with, but if you don't shudder at the use of the language, then you really don't get the effect these words have.

I don't even agree with the cutting of out scenes on DVD releases due to 'music rights issues'. It spoils the episodes because a distributor is too tight to pay out for the rights.

I don't even agree with the cutting out of certain scenes on DVD releases due to 'music rights' issues, because the distributor is too tight to pay out for the rights.

It's not "PC GONE MAD!!!" for a broadcaster to review content which contains language like this, or to reevaluate the use of blackface for entertainment purposes. I think the broadcasters have behaved in a correct (if long overdue) manner, and those that are jumping mad seem to have become the precious snowflakes they often malign.

A few months back I got warned by the mods and given restrictions on being able to post for several days for "repeatedly misgendering" a user. If it was intentional and malicious I'd understand it, but when it's someone on an internet forum, with a username which doesn't make their gender clear, and they didn't never tried to tell me otherwise(or I missed it if they did), how am I supposed to know? There's some people on the forum who I think intentionally set out to be offended and sit there virtually with their fingers hovering over the report button. Of course the **** moderation is just at fault, being warned for doing something the user never told me was wrong.

That same user this morning just accused me of being "vile" and my "mask slipping" for making what was an obvious light hearted comment. It's clear said member is just part of the permanently outraged group. Thankfully the mods seem to have seen sensible for once and deleted that post.