The Old Folk Thread

[eightiesrobin]

Posting anything in this thread pretty much guarantees you'll look like a bit of a silly old twat, but IMO bookies were much better years ago. Blacked out windows, no roulette machines or virtual racing, mandatory smoking and fucking horrible toilets.

 

[SALTIRE]

And old men with greyhounds in them.

 

[Cheese & Biscuits]

And old men with greyhounds in them.

The fuck is this you sicko?

 

[Baz]

Got reminded of a story earlier today. When my cousin was younger he had a golliwog, someone new took over their local newsagents and the first time he saw the new owners he turned to his mother and said "They're like the golliwogs" haha. Could never get away with 1 having a golliwog and 2 saying such a thing even as a young kid these days.

 

[JaseTheVillain]

Got reminded of a story earlier today. When my cousin was younger he had a golliwog, someone new took over their local newsagents and the first time he saw the new owners he turned to his mother and said "They're like the golliwogs" haha. Could never get away with 1 having a golliwog and 2 saying such a thing even as a young kid these days.

My Nan's still got a couple of golliwogs I think, doesn't display them any more, mind you.

 

[eightiesrobin]

And old men with greyhounds in them.

People offering to sell you knockoff cigs. And very angry men swearing at the screens, booting chairs and throwing pens about (actually, that probably still happens).

 

[Baz]

Plus actually getting 20 sweets in a 20p mix up haha

 

[Christian Slater]

All the bookies where I live are packed full of Asian folk, casinos too. I did used to enjoy going in to the bookies and spending a good part of my morning reading the papers and working on my bets. The atmosphere he certainly changed.

 

[blade1889]

Got reminded of a story earlier today. When my cousin was younger he had a golliwog, someone new took over their local newsagents and the first time he saw the new owners he turned to his mother and said "They're like the golliwogs" haha. Could never get away with 1 having a golliwog and 2 saying such a thing even as a young kid these days.

I'm sure they still sell them in shops and as pin badges? Remember being told about them as a kid and how they became racist figures then seeing them in some quirky independent store as a soft toy a few times.

 

[mnb089mnb]

Saw golliwogs being sold in Paignton last summer. Same shop was also selling Confederate flags.
I'm sure the 21st Century will reach Devon soon enough.

 

[D B Disco]

The "young" aren't angry anymore.........

 

[D B Disco]

Political correctness......................AAARRRGGGHHH!

 

[Baz]

Political correctness......................AAARRRGGGHHH!

Oh yes this is a big one! I mean the original Red Dwarf is edited for todays audience it's a sodding joke.

 

[TomPNE94]

Blacked out windows

leaning back

 

[mnb089mnb]

Oh yes this is a big one! I mean the original Red Dwarf is edited for todays audience it's a sodding joke.

How is it edited?

 

[Baz]

How is it edited?

They've changed songs, cut out certain scenes/quotes there's a link on a website somewhere telling you all the edits i'll dig it out later.

 

[mnb089mnb]

They've changed songs, cut out certain scenes/quotes there's a link on a website somewhere telling you all the edits i'll dig it out later.

Thing is, I imagine it was more about updating it to suit current sensibilities. Where does "not being offensive" end and political correctness begin?

I'm sure some would say that Red Dwarf was politically correct for having an ethnically diverse cast (for example).

 

[Baz]

Thing is, I imagine it was more about updating it to suit current sensibilities. Where does "not being offensive" end and political correctness begin?

I'm sure some would say that Red Dwarf was politically correct for having an ethnically diverse cast (for example).

The first example comes in the first 5 minutes or so during McIntyre's funeral, when he's blasted into space in the original unedited version the song is "See you later alligator" but in the edited versions for todays TV it's a football chat just silly really.

 

[mnb089mnb]

The first example comes in the first 5 minutes or so during McIntyre's funeral, when he's blasted into space in the original unedited version the song is "See you later alligator" but in the edited versions for todays TV it's a football chat just silly really.

Sounds like a licencing issue rather than "political correctness". I know a lot of other shows have had similar issues. Replace one song with another to save money.

 

[Baz]

http://www.ganymede.tv/2012/10/daves-red-dwarf-weekends-21-edits/

A link to a few edits. Probably not all down to political correctness but some weird edits nonetheless.

 

[Martino Knockavelli]

It's the sort of thing they would do though, isn't it, the PC brigade and their Dave based apparatchiks, airbrushing the legacy of Bill Haley out of the Western canon, just because he's a straight white Christian male.

 

[mnb089mnb]

http://www.ganymede.tv/2012/10/daves-red-dwarf-weekends-21-edits/

A link to a few edits. Probably not all down to political correctness but some weird edits nonetheless.

Article answers your question doesn't it? It's so these episodes can be screened pre-watershed. It's pretty crap and not ideal - and I'd rather watch the unedited versions. But "political correctness" doesn't seem to be the reason here.

 

[SALTIRE]

Oh yes this is a big one! I mean the original Red Dwarf is edited for todays audience it's a sodding joke.

And they blur out a joke on Porridge on Gold when Fletcher sticks two's-up to MacKay.

 

[smat]

No, it was political correctness. I remember reading about this. Two or three alligators started an online petition asking for their 'minority status' to be respected or something, pointing out that Haley wasn't an alligator and therefore the song was basically like blackface. The fucking Guardian and the BBC got in on the act and forced Grant Naylor to make a U-turn. Storm in a teacup, but that's the way the country's going. I think it's a shame, me, but then you can't say that or you'll get thrown into prison.

 

[Modernist]

The "young" aren't angry anymore.........

True, but maybe that's not entirely bad, means they probably have an easier life than previous generations. But it would be nice if the young'uns weren't so apathetic.

Although having said that take their phones off them and it'll probably start WW3.

 

[The Paranoid Pineapple]

Hmm, yeah, an easier life
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a7768e06-7ee2-11e5-a1fe-567b37f80b64.html#axzz3v52gj1uy
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34674276

 

[Martino Knockavelli]

^^^

It is surely abundantly clear that there is a panoply of liberal deceit to be uncovered here - so much so that it can only be explained in terms of a sophisticated conspiracy orchestrated by a shadowy pinko cabal presiding over the entirety of the British media establishment.

Observe:

Dave, the very scene of the crime, is the "Home of Witty Banter" - a Ralph Inneson-voiced, high definition heliograph dedicated to broadcasting panel shows and automobile based entertainment 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. It is a beacon illuminating the ugly truths that lay like tramps' turds in the dark, dingy, Dom Kommuny corners of Corbyn's Bolshevik Britain.

Or so we are told.

Because if the soundtrack of pre-watershed, chopped for time slot repeats of Red Dwarf are no longer sacrosanct, then what else can we take for granted? To toy with episodes of Top Gear would be akin taking a pot of tipex to a Sefer scroll, but that's what they would do next, isn't it, these thought police lunatics? Re-dubbing Clarkson's one liners during the News section to have him say "gays are alright with me really" or "I do not despise the French", perhaps. Replacing the reverential tones of Craig Armstrong's Escape with like A Las Barricadas or something. Taking the haruspex of Common Sense and turning him into do-gooder, an apologist, a PC proselytizer.

I put it to you that in the censorship of Bill Haley we have glimpsed the mere tip of the iceberg. That an entryist campaign is underway at the very heart of the white man's culture that the SJWs would have scorched from the face of the earth. They came for Dapper Laughs and you said nothing. Then they came for Bill Haley and you said nothing. Well what are you going to do when they come for you and there is no-one left to speak on your behalf?

Wake the fuck up.

 

[Etty Abrics]

Can't call it Rock Around the Clock either cos it's offensive to watches, should call them Black Haley and the Commies

 

[eightiesrobin]

^^^

It is surely abundantly clear that there is a panoply of liberal deceit to be uncovered here - so much so that it can only be explained in terms of a sophisticated conspiracy orchestrated by a shadowy pinko cabal presiding over the entirety of the British media establishment.

Observe:

Dave, the very scene of the crime, is the "Home of Witty Banter" - a Ralph Inneson-voiced, high definition heliograph dedicated to broadcasting panel shows and automobile based entertainment 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. It is a beacon illuminating the ugly truths that lay like tramps' turds in the dark, dingy, Dom Kommuny corners of Corbyn's Bolshevik Britain.

Or so we are told.

Because if the soundtrack of pre-watershed, chopped for time slot repeats of Red Dwarf are no longer sacrosanct, then what else can we take for granted? To toy with episodes of Top Gear would be akin taking a pot of tipex to a Sefer scroll, but that's what they would do next, isn't it, these thought police lunatics? Re-dubbing Clarkson's one liners during the News section to have him say "gays are alright with me really" or "I do not despite the French", perhaps. Replacing the reverential tones of Craig Armstrong's Escape with like A Las Barricadas or something. Taking the haruspex of Common Sense and turning him into do-gooder, an apologist, a PC proselytizer.

I put it to you that in the censorship of Bill Haley we have glimpsed the mere tip of the iceberg. That an entryist campaign is underway at the very heart of the white man's culture that the SJWs would have scorched from the face of the earth. They came for Dapper Laughs and you said nothing. Then they came for Bill Haley and you said nothing. Well what are you going to do when they come for you and there is no-one left to speak on your behalf?

Wake the fuck up.

Channelling Russell Brand there Martino.

 

[JaseTheVillain]

Hmm, yeah, an easier life
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a7768e06-7ee2-11e5-a1fe-567b37f80b64.html#axzz3v52gj1uy
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34674276

That's because you lot fucked up and we're left to pick up the pieces, we're not as angry because most of you lot who fucked up are our parents!