http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01 ... hing-safe/

I knew that some early episodes of " Only fools and horses " had been re-dubbed/edited to remove some terms that are now deemed offensive by some, ie: Gyp*o, Eyetye, and P***i Shop, but it's getting ridiculous...

God knows what the Major from Fawlty Towers would think. He certainly couldn't take a girl to the Oval anymore.

Thankfully generation Z just behind them will bring an end to the absurdity

What a total none-article. Nothing to see here.

john'sroseyspecs wrote:God knows what the Major from Fawlty Towers would think. He certainly couldn't take a girl to the Oval anymore.

They'd probably mistake him for the next UKIP leader !

The BBC website ran a virtually identical article. Would probably be easier to publish a list of what people are allowed to laugh at...though that would diminish the power of those who enjoy exercising power by constantly shifting what they deem acceptable then lambasting those who arent au fait with this weeks - ism.

We are a generation of puffs ffs.

Clarets4me wrote:They'd probably mistake him for the next UKIP leader !

I can see his deputy, Basil, on the campaign poster slapping the head of a Spanish waiter.

Unfortunately we live in the realm of the professionally offended!

bob-the-scutter wrote:Unfortunately we live in the realm of the professionally offended!

And people feel offended because they enjoy being controversial. They revel in it, without genuinely feeling offended. It just makes them feel more significant. And it's getting worse as more and more people join in.

Read last week that a bloke sent out an email with cheers at the end.

A Muslim took him to task as it was offensive to him as it’s a related term to drinking.

He apologised but the week after forgot and signed his email cheers again.

He has now had a case taken out against him by the Muslim.

Lowbankclaret wrote:Read last week that a bloke sent out an email with cheers at the end.

A Muslim took him to task as it was offensive to him as it’s a related term to drinking.

He apologised but the week after forgot and signed his email cheers again.

He has now had a case taken out against him by the Muslim.

That`s just complete bacon!

I think what this really shows is how easy it is to generate a story from a handful of comments on the internet. What would have been said in the pub 20 years ago now has a worldwide audience and the media have discovered what an easy way it is to write a story that will get some advertising revenue based on a minuscule fraction of the population's views.

It's just like those football stories which are based on a few random fans' tweets, they're indicative of nothing.

God knows how the PC brigade would have coped with "love thy Neighbour " ..

The whole series is currently on Netflix so all that happens is more people will watch it to see what the fuss is about and boom, Netflix can justify the outlay on getting it.

All most like a marketing ploy...

Lowbankclaret wrote:Read last week that a bloke sent out an email with cheers at the end.

A Muslim took him to task as it was offensive to him as it’s a related term to drinking.

He apologised but the week after forgot and signed his email cheers again.

He has now had a case taken out against him by the Muslim.

Could be ******** like but stuff like this annoys me.

How about Abrahamic doctrine offends me?! Can we ban that?

Who is the independent judicature that decides what is offensive and not?

Free speech is the key to a true free society

Sidney1st wrote:The whole series is currently on Netflix so all that happens is more people will watch it to see what the fuss is about and boom, Netflix can justify the outlay on getting it.

All most like a marketing ploy...

Till death us do part..is that available?

Grandad to Rodney...

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CoolClaret wrote:Could be ******** like but stuff like this annoys me.

How about Abrahamic doctrine offends me?! Can we ban that?

Who is the independent judicature that decides what is offensive and not?

Free speech is the key to a true free society

The legal definition of obscene is something along the lines of " I know it when I see it" ! I think the people who get offended demand everyone else does too.

CoolClaret wrote:Could be ******** like but stuff like this annoys me.

In my experience if it sounds like ******** 99 times out of 100 it is ******** (or an entirely different story where something vaguely related has been cherry-picked).

A quick google will generally give a clearer story (or no results at all in this case).

If you're offended by humourous entertainment produced twenty, thirty, fifty years ago (etc.) but not **** like the bible then you're a ******* moron.

I'd also like to add that a lot of people who are mocking these morons for being offended by something like this are the exact kinds of people who get offended by TV shows "forcing a liberal agenda down my throat" with things like mixed race relationships, homosexuality and pretty much any of the social issues raised in the Star Trek series' for the last 50 years.

Imploding Turtle wrote:I'd also like to add that a lot of people who are mocking these morons for being offended by something like this are the exact kinds of people who get offended by TV shows "forcing a liberal agenda down my throat" with things like mixed race relationships, homosexuality and pretty much any of the social issues raised in the Star Trek series' for the last 50 years.

Too true

What has the Bible got to do with the politically correct trying to tell people what they are allowed to laugh at ?

I watched The Dam Busters the other day.

Lord knows what they did with the TV version...

Imploding Turtle wrote:I'd also like to add that a lot of people who are mocking these morons for being offended by something like this are the exact kinds of people who get offended by TV shows "forcing a liberal agenda down my throat" with things like mixed race relationships, homosexuality and pretty much any of the social issues raised in the Star Trek series' for the last 50 years.

Or on the flip side, people who think they need to shove all of the above down someones throat think that it's unacceptable that someone called someone else a "poof" 30 years ago.

Haha, saw this the other day. If Friends is upsetting people then they have way too much of a need to be offended (and too much free time). I've got Friends on TV right now and still find it hilarious - have always enjoyed it. It's true that there are aspects of it that haven't aged too well but nothing to get too upset about. I still laugh when I think about the scene with Ross and the leather trousers (or 'pants' if we're using their lingo, heh).

aggi wrote:In my experience if it sounds like ******** 99 times out of 100 it is ******** (or an entirely different story where something vaguely related has been cherry-picked).

A quick google will generally give a clearer story (or no results at all in this case).

Totally agree, nothing worse than hearsay that people take as gospel to use as artillery in their weak arguments

Unfortunately, it seems us older generation turned our kids into snowflakes.

We're all doomed.

You might like to think it’s bull.

A few years ago I became a shop steward at work.

On our sexual harassment training one of the true test cases was used.
A new contractor secretary after several weeks of the M.D. walking past her her and saying good morning put in a sexual harassment case against the M.D.

He quit his job as the union backed her claim, wrongly.

The rest of the women hounded her out of the job .

No one won but the initial dealing of the case was incorrect by the union, we were taken through all the issues. What was done wrong etc.

Did not really help the guy.

These things can escalate in the wrong way

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aggi wrote:I think what this really shows is how easy it is to generate a story from a handful of comments on the internet. What would have been said in the pub 20 years ago now has a worldwide audience and the media have discovered what an easy way it is to write a story that will get some advertising revenue based on a minuscule fraction of the population's views.

It's just like those football stories which are based on a few random fans' tweets, they're indicative of nothing.

Pretty much spot on. I reckon 99.9% of "millennials" (or anyone else for that matter) couldn't give a **** about these storylines, but because a journo wrote an article based on a few tweets all of a sudden the "worlds gone mad" and people are at each others throats bickering over a complete non issue. Utter shite.

Lowbankclaret wrote:You might like to think it’s bull.

A few years ago I became a shop steward at work.

On our sexual harassment training one of the true test cases was used.
A new contractor secretary after several weeks of the M.D. walking past her her and saying good morning put in a sexual harassment case against the M.D.

He quit his job as the union backed her claim, wrongly.

The rest of the women hounded her out of the job .

No one won but the initial dealing of the case was incorrect by the union, we were taken through all the issues. What was done wrong etc.

Did not really help the guy.

These things can escalate in the wrong way

If the above is true it sounds like an employee with an agenda and a terrible decision by the people handling the complaint, but like any rational human being I'll treat it as the anomaly it clearly is (you said yourself it was used as an example of how not to handle a case) rather than thinking we're living in some crazy new world where I can't greet female colleagues with a "good morning" any more.

Here's the Major in all his glory. Enjoy before the pc brigade have it removed from youtube.

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Funkydrummer wrote:Here's the Major in all his glory. Enjoy before the pc brigade have it removed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s4BqzHEK6o" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The 'n' word has never sat well and never will with me.

It's still a made up character in a sitcom though.

Lowbankclaret wrote:You might like to think it’s bull.

A few years ago I became a shop steward at work.

On our sexual harassment training one of the true test cases was used.
A new contractor secretary after several weeks of the M.D. walking past her her and saying good morning put in a sexual harassment case against the M.D.

He quit his job as the union backed her claim, wrongly.

The rest of the women hounded her out of the job .

No one won but the initial dealing of the case was incorrect by the union, we were taken through all the issues. What was done wrong etc.

Did not really help the guy.

These things can escalate in the wrong way

Just for saying good morning?

Juliet Bravo would be considered extremely un PC today. Probably why it's disappeared of the face of the Earth - which is a shame as I was in one of the episodes.

Just dragged out my old videos of Rising Damp on the back of this thread. Top notch comedy. No doubt the PC brigade would be horrified but it's so cleverly written and Rigsby is clearly the joke even if he is offensive at first blush.

Has anybody ever met anyone who is actually offended by throw sort of stuff?

I'm offended by Friends. Not due to sexist content but due to the fact that it's dreadful formulaic American humour.

Bordeauxclaret wrote:Just for saying good morning?

Yes that’s how these things can escalate if not treated correctly.

And honestly that is 100% true from the unite union.

Sutton-Claret wrote:Juliet Bravo would be considered extremely un PC today. Probably why it's disappeared of the face of the Earth - which is a shame as I was in one of the episodes.

She wasn’t a PC she was an Inspector

Imploding Turtle wrote:I'd also like to add that a lot of people who are mocking these morons for being offended by something like this are the exact kinds of people who get offended by TV shows "forcing a liberal agenda down my throat" with things like mixed race relationships, homosexuality and pretty much any of the social issues raised in the Star Trek series' for the last 50 years.

You're confusing being offended with being fed up for a good reason again.

starting_11 wrote:Or on the flip side, people who think they need to shove all of the above down someones throat think that it's unacceptable that someone called someone else a "poof" 30 years ago.

So you think when two men kiss in a TV show that it's shoving homosexuality down your throat?

Funkydrummer wrote:Here's the Major in all his glory. Enjoy before the pc brigade have it removed from youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s4BqzHEK6o" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

gandhisflipflop wrote:You're confusing being offended with being fed up for a good reason again.

You're fed up with mixed race relationships on TV?

Did i say that?

Yes.

Next question

starting_11 wrote:Yes.

Next question

When a man and woman kiss on screen does that mean heterosexuality is being shoved down your throat?

gandhisflipflop wrote:Did i say that?

Well what are you fed up with on TV shown?