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SWP's back said:
No, it’s been pulled by HBO from their streaming service. No one has banned it.
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Little Britain going from Netflix/BBC now apparently. I suspect they've wanted rid for ages but have been tying themselves up in well intentioned liberal knots because it's a gay bloke taking the piss out of gays. Thankfully they've found racist stuff to bin it for instead.
 
Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese said:
Little Britain going from Netflix/BBC now apparently. I suspect they've wanted rid for ages but have been tying themselves up in well intentioned liberal knots because it's a gay bloke taking the piss out of gays. Thankfully they've found racist stuff to bin it for instead.
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Wasted half an hour of my life watching one episode and didn’t bother returning.
 
Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese said:
Little Britain going from Netflix/BBC now apparently. I suspect they've wanted rid for ages but have been tying themselves up in well intentioned liberal knots because it's a gay bloke taking the piss out of gays. Thankfully they've found racist stuff to bin it for instead.
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They should've just binned it for being utterly shit years ago.
 
Blue_eyes said:
I cant believe some of the things that are being called for now. How many people on here think that Nelsons statue is there because of his views on the abolition of slavery? He defeated a very real and powerful enemy of our nation in a battle that possibly saved this country from oppression and invasion,a worthy fight.That,I suspect is why he is honoured in such a way,I am begginning to think there are plenty of people living in this country who would rather we had lost.Except of course,they probably would not be alive today to hold that view, if not for that great man.
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I know I wouldn't be here but for the cotton trade mill-owners of Lancashire, such as Robert Peel and his family. My great-great-grandmother came from Ireland searching for work in the mills. Certainly puts you in a tricky position on the subject.
 
Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese said:
Little Britain going from Netflix/BBC now apparently. I suspect they've wanted rid for ages but have been tying themselves up in well intentioned liberal knots because it's a gay bloke taking the piss out of gays. Thankfully they've found racist stuff to bin it for instead.
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Pretty sure there was some blackface in there (a "minstrel" character) as well that was uncomfortable watching - or was that League of Gentleman?
 
Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese said:
Little Britain going from Netflix/BBC now apparently. I suspect they've wanted rid for ages but have been tying themselves up in well intentioned liberal knots because it's a gay bloke taking the piss out of gays. Thankfully they've found racist stuff to bin it for instead.
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It is on and off the iplayer all the time.
Lucas and Walliams have said they ain't arsed and wished they hadn't included certain charactors in hidsight.
You can buy it and download it so it isn't banned as is being claimed just not on a streaming site like many things

And most importantly it was unfunny shite anyway
 
Tim of the Oak said:
I went to Lostock School in Stretford and we were taught about the brutal slave trade. I don’t know anyone who wouldn’t know that the British Empire was brutal. The British people also did many amazing things during these periods.

Bloody Sunday could be taught for what it was (an atrocity) as long as there is balance and IRA (and their Protestant equivalents) are shown to be the murderers they are, rather than the romanticised rewriting of history that has taken place since the end of the troubles. The lessons would need to include Tony Blair only writing letters of comfort for murderers on ones side and prosecutions only targeting one side.
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I must resist.
I must resist.

You are correct that history should be objectively told and be impartial.

Bloody Sunday is one incident akin to George Floyd being one incident, that highlighted the partiality of the law enforcement that was on the ground in NI.
It took the families decades for the state supposedly upholding/enforcing the law to acknowledge them.

There is a lot happened in the decades after the event. Things escalated and worsened as a result of the event and the validity of the families grievances got wrapped up in a while debate greater than the facts, similar to what is happening in here now on a George Floyd thread.

So if you want a truth and reconciliation commission or something of the sort your going to be delving back a lot further than the events of Bloody Sunday and what was institutional discrimination that lead to the civil rights movement and certainly wasn’t resolved after the event by having the army on the streets seen as an occupying force by half the community.

Even in America the army have come out and said the will not do that on their own people.

So yes I’m all for the exact truth being told but traditionally your government resisted that, as it was an uncomfortable truth that would not go down well in the Unionist community and in my view would not support the setting of the border in the first place, depending on how far back your truth commission would be willing to look.

As you can see I haven’t really thought about it much, and I’m more interested now in what kind of a fuck up your lot have in mind for Northern Ireland going forward. (Brexit anyone?)

There. We’ve really drifted now from the George Floyd thread to Irish Politics to Brexit thread with slavery and a few other things thrown in, in a very short space of time.

The grieving families of the Bloody Sunday victims faced similar deflections over the course of decades.
 
jonah62 said:
I also went to Lostock (74 until 78)
I had very close contact with the “ montezooma” delivered by Peter Shaw, the PE teacher, and cained by that ex red twat, Warren Bradley the headmaster
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Yes I felt “montezooma” but Shaw wasn’t too bad for a rag. He would just let me off with replacing my City too when I would wear it for games after another unlucky Derby Day defeat, or creditable draw. That said, I felt for the lads who came last in cross country who got it every week.

Bradley had left when I went to Lostick in 81. We had the joys of Eddie Smallridge who wasn’t too bad and let me off with one or two things that could have easily resulted in the caine. Bradley was there when our Adi started and I know he’d played for Utd.
 
It doesn’t matter whether it’s funny or not when you’re cancelling comedy for offence.

If it’s shite and no one is watching it that’s fine to bin it but binning it because you’re worried about offending people is ridiculous.

Comedy is supposed to be controversial.
 
Blue_eyes said:
I cant believe some of the things that are being called for now. How many people on here think that Nelsons statue is there because of his views on the abolition of slavery? He defeated a very real and powerful enemy of our nation in a battle that possibly saved this country from oppression and invasion,a worthy fight.That,I suspect is why he is honoured in such a way,I am begginning to think there are plenty of people living in this country who would rather we had lost.Except of course,they probably would not be alive today to hold that view, if not for that great man.
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O doubt anyone wished we lost and there is no denying he had a distain for wilberforce and the abolitionists in his leters and logs.

But yes his statue is to remember his war feats and so I wouldn't remove it unlike colstons which deserved to go.
 
Little Britain's shite and always was but if they start banning or no platforming genuinely good comedy programmes because of some fucking snowflakes, it will be a pretty grim indictment of modern society.
 
urban genie said:
O doubt anyone wished we lost and there is no denying he had a distain for wilberforce and the abolitionists in his leters and logs.

But yes his statue is to remember his war feats and so I wouldn't remove it unlike colstons which deserved to go.
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Quite. Pros and cons for each case. Not just pros. Not just cons.
A bit like the Commission Sadiq Khan has proposed.

There's quite a lot of difference (and lack of continuity of thought) between a slavetrader and someone from a similar era who didn't oppose slavery.
 
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