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PC brigade?


If it made you chortle then what's wrong with it.

Surely we can all determine the difference between

offensiveness & humor.

It's also on TV, so if it does offend then change channel.

Simples.


Monty Python wouldn't stand a chance these days....

which is a gross shame. In fact its wrong IMO

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> Rubbish. At least if you mean because of PCness

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I mean that because of PCness, Monty Python just wouldn't be allowed to be aired.

In fact i recall that in Ireland it wasn't allowed first time round? (life of Brian)

With Little Britain and Harry being on TV I don?t see any sign of Pcness stopping anything


And there is nothing in Monty Python that would upset the ?PC Brigade?


You are just having a pop at Pcness and attributing things to it when it isn?t getting the way of anything at all here

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> With Little Britain and Harry being on TV I don?t

> see any sign of Pcness stopping anything

>

> And there is nothing in Monty Python that would

> upset the ?PC Brigade?

>

> You are just having a pop at Pcness and

> attributing things to it when it isn?t getting the

> way of anything at all here


That's not entire true whilst i understand why you say that :)

But Monty was banned because of blasphemy for 28years.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3073308/Monty-Pythons-The-Life-Of-Brian-film-ban-lifted-after-28-years.html

Listen dammit! Don?t you know that there is an organised regiment of lily-livered liberals ready to pounce on and persecute any decent person who gets amusement out of singling out the differences of another group and using them as a tool for mockery?


It is PC gone mad I tell you.


You can?t even mock a cripple these days without the bloody PC brigade getting on your case.

pearson - Confusing arch-conservative Catholic-driven government policy with what people think of as political correctness is just bonkers? or just divilment. I'm inclined to think the latter


Ridgely - thank you for the kind words - I had already corrected myself. But flake away

Sean - Ok, but ultimately i think things have changed.

Just an observation, but interestingly I would guess broadcasting was fairly PC in the early days (50s)

Then in my view became fairly liberal (non pc) during the 70s/early80s

But I think this decade is seeing an albeit slight return to more sensorship /PCness

for more contemporary reasons of course.


I have no hard facts to back this up of course :)

I?m pretty sure you can see much more on TV now than you could do at any point in history. More sex, politicians aren?t treated with undue-respect, more language and on and on. Casual racism not so much. I think that?s a pretty decent trade-off don?t you?


If Mind your Language is doing well in the West Indies that?s entirely up to them ? but it was being broadcast here in the UK in the same decade as the Conservative party were campaigning in and around Birmingham with the slogan ?'If You Want a Nigger for a Neighbour Vote Liberal or Labour' and a period which many West Indians were victimised. If Ridgely feels more comfortable in the UK in 2010 it?s largely down to people not standing for that kind of stuff any more

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