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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I think you would struggle to find a single show from that era that was not at least one of those.
Question for you.
Are we too sensitive today or where they to insensitive back then? |
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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago
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"I think you would struggle to find a single show from that era that was not at least one of those.
Question for you.
Are we too sensitive today or where they to insensitive back then? "
They still believed that white and British equalled supreme and we should be grateful that we had been colonised. Racism isn't insensitivity.
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By *avebi48Man
over a year ago
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"I think you would struggle to find a single show from that era that was not at least one of those.
Question for you.
Are we too sensitive today or where they to insensitive back then?
They still believed that white and British equalled supreme and we should be grateful that we had been colonised. Racism isn't insensitivity.
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sadly some still do... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Personally I never liked any of the shows back then.
Can't stand any of the stuff you pointed out.
However the single biggest show that got on my tits wad some mothers do have them.
Frustrating and rubbish.
Ironically was probably one of the few shows that was not racist or any of the above.
Just took the piss out of an idiot. |
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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago
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Ahh, I remember Mixed Blessings, Love Thy Neighbour, The Black & White Minstrel Show, Mind Your Language etc etc.
There will be a lot of people watching it tonight and wishing things hadn't changed. I'll be watching the Sci-Fi special on BBC2 later.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I could be very wrong.
But wasn't mind your language one of the few multicultural shows on then?
Didn't it show educated people from different cultures just trying to learn English?
It's been a long time since I saw an episode. So forgive me if I am wrong.
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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago
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"Ahh, I remember Mixed Blessings, Love Thy Neighbour, The Black & White Minstrel Show, Mind Your Language etc etc.
There will be a lot of people watching it tonight and wishing things hadn't changed. I'll be watching the Sci-Fi special on BBC2 later. "
I'm watching the Sci-Fi special too (I'll bump that thread) but will start with this.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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What is the Sci fi special about?
Star trek and that?
You gotta give kirk credit he was not the slightest bit racist.
He would fuck anything no matter what colour.
Or sex probably |
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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago
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"I could be very wrong.
But wasn't mind your language one of the few multicultural shows on then?
Didn't it show educated people from different cultures just trying to learn English?
It's been a long time since I saw an episode. So forgive me if I am wrong.
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It was multi-cultural and I remember at the time just being grateful that black people were on the television. It was also hugely patronising and stereotyped each ethnicity.
One of the biggest changes on television at the moment is so subtle that I wonder if people have even noticed where we are seeing more black and minority ethnic people?
A prize to the person who can answer where BME people are being represented? |
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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago
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"I could be very wrong.
But wasn't mind your language one of the few multicultural shows on then?
Didn't it show educated people from different cultures just trying to learn English?
It's been a long time since I saw an episode. So forgive me if I am wrong.
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It had a Chinese woman who kept quoting from Maos Little Red Book with a stereotypically faux Chinese accent, an Indian guy with a turban, and a stacked French au pair. It was stereotype TV, and I suspect you would find it uncomfortable viewing these days. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Ahh I stand corrected.
I was more into buck Rogers
Biddy biddy biddy.
Blakes 7
And godzilla movies.
Kiss chase
And seeing how many packets of space dust I could eat back then. Sorry |
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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago
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"Ahh I stand corrected.
I was more into buck Rogers
Biddy biddy biddy.
Blakes 7
And godzilla movies.
Kiss chase
And seeing how many packets of space dust I could eat back then. Sorry "
I met one of Blakes 7 recently - she looked fantastic and reminded me that black people did have roles back then.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Sorry all I can think about now is Wilma deering from buck Rogers.
But yes you are right.
Also the chap in rising damp always showed rigby up for the small minded idiot he was. |
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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago
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"Sorry all I can think about now is Wilma deering from buck Rogers.
But yes you are right.
Also the chap in rising damp always showed rigby up for the small minded idiot he was. "
Yes he did. Gorgeous, impeccable manners, well educated and living in a hovel with Rigby as landlord.
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By (user no longer on site)
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I think the problem was some of the shows where trying to be to clever and ended up appealing to the people it was intended to ridicule.
Alf garnet was intended to be the epitome of a racist bigot.
Ended up being one of the most popular shows of the time.
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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago
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"some of it was racist and sexist I agree, but I do think people are much too sensitive these days.
In what way are we too sensitive?
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Because you should find racial stereotypes funny, apparently.
All I remember watching those programmes (and remember I was like, 10 years old) was they were dull and unfunny. If a 10 year old finds these programmes dull and unfunny I have often wondered since then who they were written for. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Sorry all I can think about now is Wilma deering from buck Rogers.
But yes you are right.
Also the chap in rising damp always showed rigby up for the small minded idiot he was. "
Yeah most people thought rising damp was funny, they didn't take it quite so seriously. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"some of it was racist and sexist I agree, but I do think people are much too sensitive these days.
In what way are we too sensitive?
Because you should find racial stereotypes funny, apparently.
All I remember watching those programmes (and remember I was like, 10 years old) was they were dull and unfunny. If a 10 year old finds these programmes dull and unfunny I have often wondered since then who they were written for."
No, you weren't supposed to find it funny, some of it was funny, some of it wasn't. Same as any type of comedy. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Personally I never liked any of the shows back then.
Can't stand any of the stuff you pointed out.
However the single biggest show that got on my tits wad some mothers do have them.
Frustrating and rubbish.
Ironically was probably one of the few shows that was not racist or any of the above.
Just took the piss out of an idiot. "
For michael crawford to do some of those stunts on that show was no mean feat Idiot or not he was still A good actor and performed the role Very well as he did later In his career In phantom of the opera. |
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By *he tactile technicianMan
over a year ago
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"I think you would struggle to find a single show from that era that was not at least one of those.
Question for you.
Are we too sensitive today or where they to insensitive back then?
They still believed that white and British equalled supreme and we should be grateful that we had been colonised. Racism isn't insensitivity.
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they? establishment? the BBC? I don't believe that we all held the same opinion. Growing up in an a country formerly a British Colony we celebrated the independence of that Country, we didn't consider the people of those countries as anything but people that had invited us to come and help work with them and live amongst them. |
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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago
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"I think you would struggle to find a single show from that era that was not at least one of those.
Question for you.
Are we too sensitive today or where they to insensitive back then?
They still believed that white and British equalled supreme and we should be grateful that we had been colonised. Racism isn't insensitivity.
they? establishment? the BBC? I don't believe that we all held the same opinion. Growing up in an a country formerly a British Colony we celebrated the independence of that Country, we didn't consider the people of those countries as anything but people that had invited us to come and help work with them and live amongst them."
Of course not everyone holds or held the same opinion.
Coming from a colony and being a person of colour I remember the 70s as the time of being the only black child in the school and being touched to see if the colour comes off. My parents struggled to get work, rents for a one roomed bed-sit for all of us were ridiculously high and we were very poor but I didn't appreciate that at the time. It is only as I have got older and can look back I can see how much of a struggle life was in the 70s.
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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago
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"The really scary stuff now - PSAs!! 
Do you remember the locked in the old fridge one? That one used to scare me as old fridges were out there waiting to get you.
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Not that one, but the one with Death popping up freaked me out. |
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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago
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"The really scary stuff now - PSAs!!
Do you remember the locked in the old fridge one? That one used to scare me as old fridges were out there waiting to get you.
Not that one, but the one with Death popping up freaked me out."
Then there was the playing in the quarry one. Living in London I didn't come across many quarries but the whole countryside was presented as really dangerous.
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"The really scary stuff now - PSAs!!
Do you remember the locked in the old fridge one? That one used to scare me as old fridges were out there waiting to get you.
Not that one, but the one with Death popping up freaked me out.
Then there was the playing in the quarry one. Living in London I didn't come across many quarries but the whole countryside was presented as really dangerous.
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the one where jimmy gets zapped |
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By (user no longer on site)
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The public announcement films were really scary. I remember one we watched in school about kids playing on a farm and one if them was killed by the blades on the tractor. That one really frightened me.
The black and white minstrel show I've seen a few times live in a theatre, my mother took me regularly, along with Danny La Rue.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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There was a quiz show hosted by heath robinson and there use to be 3 celebrities take part every week
I always remember frank muir who
Was always In the middle middle
Man If you like clever but funny
With It and charisma that you never
See now days on tv. |
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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago
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"Back for the last section. What will they dig up now?
As long as it's not the bodies or Funky's lampshades from the time capsule...
I fear it is rather worse than that.
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A show I never saw, Curry and Chips, with a scene on rather it is better to be raped or shot, especially i you're being raped by a "nig nog".
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By *ee VianteWoman
over a year ago
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"Back for the last section. What will they dig up now?
As long as it's not the bodies or Funky's lampshades from the time capsule...
I fear it is rather worse than that.
A show I never saw, Curry and Chips, with a scene on rather it is better to be raped or shot, especially i you're being raped by a "nig nog".
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That's bad. I'd still rather my bodies weren't found though.  |
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By *ee VianteWoman
over a year ago
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"A handy reminder when people say it was better back then. It is the past and there will be things that we do now that our children and grandchildren will find offensive.
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Sadly I know people who still use the terms "nig nogs" and "coons" and aren't in the least bit embarrassed or concerned. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I watched a lot of those shows in the 70s and they are cringeworthy now. Rising Damp and love thy neighbour attempted to challenge the racist elements. However, the one thing not mentioned here is the use of transgenderism for laughs that has been going on since I can remember and is still used today. There are programmes which use TG in the same way as race or homosexuality used to be used. But,when the programme makers get round to stopping abusing TG I'm sure they will find another minority to laugh at. |
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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago
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"I watched a lot of those shows in the 70s and they are cringeworthy now. Rising Damp and love thy neighbour attempted to challenge the racist elements. However, the one thing not mentioned here is the use of transgenderism for laughs that has been going on since I can remember and is still used today. There are programmes which use TG in the same way as race or homosexuality used to be used. But,when the programme makers get round to stopping abusing TG I'm sure they will find another minority to laugh at."
Sadly, I think you are probably right.
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