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There are those who genuinely get offended and those that choose to get offended.

There are also those who don't understand that actually it is OK to be offended and if you're not you are not understanding the context of the situation.


And yet 40 years later Brexit was commissioned.

That old chestnut comes up every year

Warren Mitchell did speak once about how he told a racist cretin that Till Death was against people like him and that the cretin didn’t get it.

Well, more like a word that has seems to have recently become a new 'f word'. What's next, supermarkets having to rename a meal ?

Thanks to Clarkson and co I find myself having to use the word gradient rather than the 's word' when describing a route.

Festive?

I'm not into Gavin & Stacey, but a colleague told me about the song controversy on Friday (mainly to seek an opinion from the lavender bus).

My assessment was:

Given the prevalence of that Pogues song during the festive season (e.g. amongst the loop of festive hits being piped into shopping malls etc), it's not as if G&S is the only place where those lyrics will have been heard in recent weeks.

My understanding has always been that in Irish slang, a "faggot" means something like a lazy/idle/useless person. Presumably a comparison to the faggot foodstuff (e.g. sitting there like a lump of nondescript meat). Nothing to do with sexual orientation etc.

The Pogues are/were Irish, not American (as that's where the anti-gay slur meaning of the word comes from). Also, in the context of the surrounding lyrics it is clear that the song's female character is generally calling the male character (her boyfriend?) a good-for-nothing waster.

Yet another case of complainant idiocy, as is increasingly commonplace (depressingly).

Johnny Speight also wrote the LWT sitcom 'Curry and Chips' in 1969. The IBA didn't get the satire and ordered it off the air. In light of TDDUP's undesirable popularity, probably the right decision, but for the wrong reason !

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry_and_Chips

Love thy Neighbour was of a similar ilk, yet the studio audience and bigoted viewers lapped up the racial slurs despite the joke being on the ignorant white character.

https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/18076363.bbc-radio-solent-dj-alex-dyke-slams-pogues-christmas-hit-fairytale-new-york/

Not intelligent enough to be allowed on the airwaves.



Weren't the two wives good pals, who both despaired of the dynamic between their husbands?

Think of Alex Dyke as Hampshire's version of Alan Partridge,

And it was released on DVD in the end (through Network), presumably uncut.

The Melting Pot was another Spike Milligan vehicle, along a similar principle. Except it was unique because the pilot went out, the BBC commissioned a series of six episode and then didn't air any of them - was thought to be too racist.

Of course it could probably be argued that the Channel 4 show Desmond's broke the mould for black entertainment.

Desmond’s was a brilliant comedy. Probably the first positive portrayal of Afro Caribbean characters I remember.