Being Offended

[captslapper]

Jan 13, 2022 11:49:49 GMT digs said:

Grange Hills Mrs McClusky used to get called Bridget the Midget,I feel sorry for kids of today

Thats my underlying thought whenever these crackpot stories come up.
So glad Ive lived my life when I have and Im not a youngster growing up in this day and age.

[londontown]

I'll tell you what I know about midgets. Very little.

[londontown]

Jan 13, 2022 11:09:01 GMT realmadkid said:

Jan 13, 2022 10:55:59 GMT @biffy said:

And Huddersfield's own Thomas Broadbent factory famously manufactured a midget submarine.

Sorry, I meant mini submarine, obviously.

What's next I wonder... owners of the classic cars, MG Midgets being attacked and their cars burned??

I actually sympathise with the midgets on this occasion. So often they are overlooked.

[digs]

There was a Dwarf ranting and raving in the doctors waiting room the other week,he totally lost it when the receptionist told him he was going to have to be a little patient.

[londontown]

In Bradford the Marriage Guidance service is called Related.

[terriergirl]

Why did this make me think of the brilliant musical Cabaret were the nightclub owner is beaten up by Nazis for making jokes about them, incidentally the film is based on a semi auto biographical novel by Christopher Isherwood who lived in pre war Germany at the time.

I've heard is said when the Nazis realised they were losing the war they started planning for their next rise to power.

[Lard Buttie]

Jan 20, 2022 17:44:33 GMT londontown said:

In Bradford the Marriage Guidance service is called Related.

I thought it was called Prevent😁

[Wilsonwilson]

Jan 21, 2022 9:03:57 GMT Lard Buttie said:

Jan 20, 2022 17:44:33 GMT londontown said:

In Bradford the Marriage Guidance service is called Related.

I thought it was called Prevent😁

Or "Arranged"?

[londontown]

I'm offended.

[chedtippington]

Haha thats brilliant

[Wilsonwilson]

Jan 21, 2022 13:38:10 GMT chedtippington said:

Haha thats brilliant

I know. It really highlights the hypocrisy of the BBC, the organisation who banned the song when it was released, but later played it just to make a political point score to mock the democratic majority who voted to leave the EU. 


www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-bbc-bans-the-sex-pistols-god-save-the-queen#:~:text=On%20May%2031%2C%201977%2C%20the,%E2%80%9CGod%20Save%20The%20Queen.%E2%80%9D

[londontown]

Jan 21, 2022 13:51:24 GMT Wilsonwilson said:

Jan 21, 2022 13:38:10 GMT chedtippington said:

Haha thats brilliant

I know. It really highlights the hypocrisy of the BBC, the organisation who banned the song when it was released, but later played it just to make a political point score to mock the democratic majority who voted to leave the EU. 


www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-bbc-bans-the-sex-pistols-god-save-the-queen#:~:text=On%20May%2031%2C%201977%2C%20the,%E2%80%9CGod%20Save%20The%20Queen.%E2%80%9D

Yes, I find it funny on three levels.

1. I think it's funny, and
2. it highlights the hypocrisy of the BBC as pointed out by Wilsonwison, and
3. the BBC really can't see the irony, as per point 2 again.

[Deep Space]

Jan 21, 2022 13:51:24 GMT Wilsonwilson said:

Jan 21, 2022 13:38:10 GMT chedtippington said:

Haha thats brilliant

I know. It really highlights the hypocrisy of the BBC, the organisation who banned the song when it was released, but later played it just to make a political point score to mock the democratic majority who voted to leave the EU. 


www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-bbc-bans-the-sex-pistols-god-save-the-queen#:~:text=On%20May%2031%2C%201977%2C%20the,%E2%80%9CGod%20Save%20The%20Queen.%E2%80%9D

I think calling two decisions made nearly half a century apart hypocrisy is a bit pointless. Most of the people who banned the song originally are probably dead by now.

[londontown]

Jan 21, 2022 14:30:40 GMT Deep Space said:

Jan 21, 2022 13:51:24 GMT Wilsonwilson said:

I know. It really highlights the hypocrisy of the BBC, the organisation who banned the song when it was released, but later played it just to make a political point score to mock the democratic majority who voted to leave the EU. 


www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-bbc-bans-the-sex-pistols-god-save-the-queen#:~:text=On%20May%2031%2C%201977%2C%20the,%E2%80%9CGod%20Save%20The%20Queen.%E2%80%9D

I think calling two decisions made nearly half a century apart hypocrisy is a bit pointless. Most of the people who banned the song originally are probably dead by now.

I wonder if Jimmy Saville was offended half a century ago, what with him being chummy with the Royals? When you think about it, I'm surprised the beeb played it back then to be honest. Fair play to them, then and now. 

I see GB News now play the national anthem before their breakfast television show. I would prefer Jerusalem on something by Edward Elgar personally, but hey ho. 

[Wilsonwilson]

50 years ago, the BBC was worth watching and was seen as politically independent.

It would not have mocked the democratic majority for going against the popular opinion amongst it's Guardian reading staff.
That's the important part.