So it would seem that some of the right-leaning members of K440 got their panties in a wad and overreacted instead of reading what had actually happened, offended that some t.v. shows were taken off but actually it was just to remove racial slurs....and they call everyone else snowflakesscobienz wrote: ↑Fri Jun 12, 2020 6:27 pmIn relation to the OP it is now being reported that the situation is not as PB suggests. In 2013 the specific episode of Fawlty Towers was edited by the BBC and with full support of John Cleese because it has repeated use of the word nagger.
Both Netflix and UKTV had the UNEDITED version of the War episode on. It is this unedited version that has been removed, solely because of the nagger word.
Both have said they will replace that version with the 2013 edition.
Once again it brings to mind my favourite theory - things are never as simple and black and white as appears at first glance.
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So why didn't they just remove the racial slurs then?woofwoof wrote: ↑Fri Jun 12, 2020 8:35 pmSo it would seem that some of the right-leaning members of K440 got their panties in a wad and overreacted instead of reading what had actually happened, offended that some t.v. shows were taken off but actually it was just to remove racial slurs....and they call everyone else snowflakesscobienz wrote: ↑Fri Jun 12, 2020 6:27 pmIn relation to the OP it is now being reported that the situation is not as PB suggests. In 2013 the specific episode of Fawlty Towers was edited by the BBC and with full support of John Cleese because it has repeated use of the word nagger.
Both Netflix and UKTV had the UNEDITED version of the War episode on. It is this unedited version that has been removed, solely because of the nagger word.
Both have said they will replace that version with the 2013 edition.
Once again it brings to mind my favourite theory - things are never as simple and black and white as appears at first glance.
they took them off to do just thatSmoking cookout wrote: ↑Fri Jun 12, 2020 10:50 pmSo why didn't they just remove the racial slurs then?woofwoof wrote: ↑Fri Jun 12, 2020 8:35 pmSo it would seem that some of the right-leaning members of K440 got their panties in a wad and overreacted instead of reading what had actually happened, offended that some t.v. shows were taken off but actually it was just to remove racial slurs....and they call everyone else snowflakesscobienz wrote: ↑Fri Jun 12, 2020 6:27 pmIn relation to the OP it is now being reported that the situation is not as PB suggests. In 2013 the specific episode of Fawlty Towers was edited by the BBC and with full support of John Cleese because it has repeated use of the word nagger.
Both Netflix and UKTV had the UNEDITED version of the War episode on. It is this unedited version that has been removed, solely because of the nagger word.
Both have said they will replace that version with the 2013 edition.
Once again it brings to mind my favourite theory - things are never as simple and black and white as appears at first glance.
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Hanoi will have written all your names in his little awoken book of thought criminals. You'll all be thrown into the Mekong river.
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Spraying grafitti on, or just decapitating a bunch of old statues, will most definitely not solve the problem.
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does that make Pb a double jerk ... what is the term that describes a knee jerk reaction to a knee jerk reaction?
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Last I read, Einstein was getting slated for his shockingly racist views revealed in the journals he kept on his travels in Asia.
It's all relative I suppose.
What's next, the removal of classic Bond cuts like these?
A dire strait, we're heading towards, surely.
A dire strait, we're heading towards, surely.
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The statue of Lord Baden Powell is now being guarded by the police due to his support for Adolf Hitler.
They fear a woggle attack it.
They fear a woggle attack it.
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A jerk-off?
Einstein was an asshole. When his wife caught him cheating on her he bluntly told his wife and his mistress to choose and sort it out themselves. He promised his wife half the money of a Nobel prize he had not won. He used his fame to blackmail his university to pay him a salary long after he stopped working there. Fame he had acquired illegitimately, not because he successfully proved anything, but because he very visually failed to prove something while witnessed by a journalist.
Einstein was full of shit. He failed more than a dozen times to prove that E = mc² and never successfully proved it. His research was extremely biased and he only documented the results that fit his theory (albeit this is unfortunately very common). He used to make up catchy quotes only to sound smart and to become famous.
Well he did bang Marilyn Monroe. You never.Alexandra wrote: ↑Sat Jun 13, 2020 12:28 pmA jerk-off?
Einstein was an asshole. When his wife caught him cheating on her he bluntly told his wife and his mistress to choose and sort it out themselves. He promised his wife half the money of a Nobel prize he had not won. He used his fame to blackmail his university to pay him a salary long after he stopped working there. Fame he had acquired illegitimately, not because he successfully proved anything, but because he very visually failed to prove something while witnessed by a journalist.
Einstein was full of shit. He failed more than a dozen times to prove that E = mc² and never successfully proved it. His research was extremely biased and he only documented the results that fit his theory (albeit this is unfortunately very common). He used to make up catchy quotes only to sound smart and to become famous.
Isn't the whole episode poking fun at a foolish old racist?
The offending dialogue:
The offending dialogue:
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