Don't Mantion The War...pulled

[fender62]

faulty towers episode pulled over racism...the day humour died.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8412479/Germans-episode-Fawlty-Towers-taken-air.html

[Spicerack]

Yes, Daisy. Boris needs to wake up and show these brain-dead cretins who's running the country.
If he doesn't, others will.

[ChillDoubt]

Christ on a cross-trainer!

Literally one step away from burning books.....

[10ClarionSt]

/what would they make of bernard manning...now then./

The same as they always did. That he was a
foul-mouthed racist. Or, as Bernard would say, "A RICH, foul-mouthed racist" But he was funny. Only trouble was, that once you'd seen Manning, you'd seen it all, as far as his act went. Always the same rouine wherever he went. However, I have it on good authority that he was very popular with a member of the Royal Family, for whom he performed private concerts.

Now, away from the important issue. There is a company in this country who had their beginnings with the slave trade. They made a fortune. They are now a global company. Their head office is in the North of England. You will have seen their vehicles all over the country, because they are also involved in contract warehousing and distribution, as well as international sea freight. They employ a huge number of people in this country and abroad. One or two of you might have worked for this company over the years, I don't know. I aint gonna mention their name because when certain people realise how this company started, I've no doubt their vehicles would be targeted by the mobs. Tis history, folks!

[ToraToraTora]

who's that then 10cs, sounds like Eddie Stobart??

[ichkeria]

Yes I'd forgotten the N word was used in that episode, which, incidentally, was edited out by the BBC 7 years ago. The version removed is unedited. In some ways a shame because actually it's the "No no no I said, these people are w***" which is the funniest line in the episode, and nails the major's attitude hilariously.

[vulcan42]

In all the time since that episode was first broadcast in the 70's, the BBC have been quite happily selling the set world wide. They weren't too bothered about the racist content when the money was rolling it.

[naomi24]

All this lip dragging is just pathetic.

[malagabob]

I’ve got mine safe on DVD, and my Life of Brian. The Italians will be complaining next.

[GenuineclAss]

Oh dear! Does this mean we'll never see "True Identity" again - a film where Lenny "There aren't enough black people in power positions" Henry, uses 'white-face' to escape from the mob?

[Mozz71]

I never saw it in the first place GC.

Othello is an interesting case. The character's often been portrayed in blackface, but is often seen as an race friendly play.

[Theland]

We can expect many more roads streets parks and tower blocks to be renamed Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, George Floyd, Stephen Lawrence and Mark Duggan, all in the name of inclusiveness, diversity, and multiculti etc

[vulcan42]

GenuinecLAss, Did you know Lenny Henry appeared on the Black and White minstrel show? He said at the time he was under contract but later blamed his family for letting him go on it. Money always seems to overrule principles.

[THECORBYLOON]

Eddie Stobart started his original business in the 1940s and the haulage began in the 1970s.

[Jordyboy9]

This place is getting as bad
Paul robson singing
Old black joe removed why?

[alavahalf]

'Love thy neighbour' doesn't stand a chance ..
Watching it today, I can't believe they got away with it !
Watch it before it's gone forever !

[10ClarionSt]

You're right, TCL. Not Eddie Stobart. I don't think their main business is sea freight anyway. Sorry TTT. If I was able to send you a PM, I would tell you, but this website doesnt have that facility.

[webbo3]

I think they need to pull Mrs Browns boys, not because its offensive but because its s***.

[douglas9401]

Webbo's up for the Freudian slip of the week award. :-)

[andy-hughes]

What I find amazing is the speed with which mob rule has suddenly overturned various aspects of our culture.

I am sure that in the thirty - forty years since these 'offensive' programmes were broadcast, and certainly within the several hundred years since the contentious statues were erected - a black civilian has suffered a violent death at the hands of a police officer.

So why, in the space of a few days, as an entire sub-species of aggressive idiots been allowed to hold sway over entire swathes of street furniture and broadcast entertainment?

[douglas9401]

It's because they is black as a sage used to say.