Little Britain and Come Fly with Me

It was turned into Boris Johnson thread first but then that’s allowed because it’s the Conservative party

 

HE IS THE PRIME MINISTER.

THE MAN IN CHARGE.

CORBYN IS IRRELEVANT TO THE DISCUSSION.

 

There's a watermelon smile for you.
Can't find any emojis of picanniinnies for you though.

 

the internet. allowing people to announce themselves as stupid.

 

What has Udinese-slash-Watford footballer Ken Sema done to set people against him?

 

Your comparing Auschwitz to little britain in terms of history. I think Auschwitz is important as a reminder people like that never get in power again I've actually been to visit the place I'm struggling to find any similarities to a episode of little Britain.

 

Watched it last night on netflix, I enjoyed it, wasnt offended by it, just two black lads playing the roles of two women who happen to be white

 

It's interesting that it's perceived pale is beautiful and yet for as long as any of us can remember white and pale skinned people gave tried their best to get as deeper suntan as possible. No point to this post except I've always thought it is quite funny in a way.

 

The real tragedy is that under May the tories were there for the taking if only labour had been an attractive enough alternative. But the far left ira sympathizer rendered them unelectable so one could argue that his relevance is that ir he hadn't have been in office the tories and ‘racist Boris‘ as you allege probably wouldn't be in number 10. Lots of labour voters I know voted for Boris because they couldn't stomach voting for Corbyn.

 

But isn’t that the same as little Britain one race making themselves up to be another

 

Absolutely, my point is me personally didnt find it offensive, they were not taking the pi55 out of two girls for being white, they were portraying to girls who were white, for me it would have been more racist of the producers to say to the two black actors ( who were fantastic playing the part imo) you cant have this role because you're black??

 

I don't allege 'Racist Boris'.

Boris Johnson is racist. The evidence is there for all to see. If he wishes to press charges then he can.

As for the rest of your Daily Mail article/post? It's not worth the toilet paper I've just wiped my arse with.

I've no desire to go back and forth with you again all day. We made a slight breakthrough yesterday when the penny finally dropped on your All Lives Matter rhetoric. But I'm not educating you any more.

 

The irony of that show, and also Rising Damp, not to mention the German scene in Fawlty Towers, was that it actually focussed and ridiculed the 'White' character, in the same way that Alf Garnett was shown to be racist. In Rising Damp, Rigsby, the landlord was an utter 'di*k unlike his educated, literate black university student lodger, in the same way that Eddie (I think his name was) referred to his Caribbean neighbour as 'Sambo' who was in fact educated, literate and the sort of neighbour, unlike Eddie, most of us would be happy to live alongside. Many of those sitcoms being complained about by the current generation who have probably never seen them, were actually, albeit in a crude way, mocking racism. Compared to the utter dross of the standard BBC middle class Home counties stuff like 'Terry and June' they were 'cutting edge'

A further irony is that most people watching, never gave a second thought to the comedy promoting or condoning racism and found the juxtaposition between the two main protagonists comedic. It is the recebnt generations that find many bthings that were never intentionally racist as offensive. Many critics want these things banning have never even seen them.

On the subject of 'Gone with the Wind' We watched it recently and were amazed (but not particularly offended) by how sympathetic to the Confederate cause it was and how racist much of the characterisation and language used was. Two black actresses , one playing a 'Mammy' role and one playing a simple minded slave girl were stereotypical reinforcing racial differences and even the main characters represented white's opprssion of the black (Scarlett O'Hara threatening to have on slave whipped and turning a blind eye to a cruel overseer's barbarity. Rhett Butler uses derogatory terms on a number of occasions and, oh yes, the KKK are seen as freedom fighters! None of the above is surprising as Margaret Mitchell who wrote the novel was the Grandaughter? of a Confederate officer in the Civil War. The novel is semi autobiographical. The irony is that Irish Americans at the time were not treated as equal to other immigrants.

I would not advocate showing the comedies from that era, largely because they are dated, and not really funny. On the other hand, Classics like Fawlty Towers hold up well and BECAUSE the humour is based on the flaws, intolerance and character of Basil Fawlty , just because in two episodes he exhibits racist attitudes (which ridicules those attitudes) IMO it still deserves airing.

I suppose, in summary, I am making a distinction between comedy using overt racism as a beacon to highlight the absurdity of it , and comedy that simply has racist elements that are just...welll...racist!

 

It was a disgrace them "whiting up". Whites have been persecuted for the colour of their skin for thousands of years.

 

your point may be valid if you totally ignore the results of the 2017 election. The election where he increased the labour share of the vote to a level not seen for 20 years. what changed from 2017 to 2019?

 

I thought this would be an interesting thread, worthy of discussion but as usual on here it has descended into the usual puerile b*******.

 

You didn't educate me on anything sunshine- you had a rant got fed your own arseoyle as a result and skulked off for a few hours. As for Dear Leader if you can’t see that he was so poor dyed in the wool labour supporters turned to the conservative party then I really can’t help you.

 

Dont really agree with some of that i.e. showing superiority. My main reason for despising blacking up was that Hollywood, as an example hired white actors to play black/Asian characters when often screen test highlighted that actors and actresses of the relevant race were far better and gave far better screen test than teh white actors/actresses given the role. The Hollywood drama series streaming highlights the actual case of 'This good Earth' (1937) with the lead actress being Caucasian winning the Oscar but apparently an actress already typecast in minor roles who was of Chinese descent absolutely blew them away at the screen test but the studio decided that no film with a non white lead would ever be a box office hit.
It was many years before non-whites broke through and been given lead roles . From the ludicrous situation of John Wayne cast as Ghengis Khan to Sidney Poitier -'In the Heat of the Night' and 'Guess whose coming to dinner?' (bothof the latter anti racist films) took many years of Hollywood recognising social change.

 

Hahahhahahahhahahhaah.

You're the best.

Have a lovely day frothing at the mouth.

 

First stop the BBS. No need to go any further.