I’m a child of the 70’s, and I remember what it was like in early 80’s, and I remember being quite disturbed to read last year that the BBC were cutting out all references to the word “paki shop” in “Only Fools and Horses.” For God’s sake, either show the episode as it was made, or don’t. Can anyone else think of a regime that cut out inconvenient parts of history books, or tried to re-write history?
Even my ultra-lefty friends, offensive as we all find the term “paki shop”, don’t think that pretending the 70’s/80’s was different is a good idea

While thinking about this, I found this blog which puts it quite well.

They quoted the BBC Programme Complaints Unit as saying “research shows that [the] perceived offensiveness [of the term "Paki"] has increased significantly over the intervening years, and, in the absence of a particular contextual justification, its use in programmes is no longer acceptable.”

In future the BBC “would try and make sure those words are edited out so they don’t cause offence to our audiences”.

So, a programme which was suitable for broadcast 40 years ago is not suitable for broadcast now because if it were produced today it would be deemed offensive. What would that policy mean if it was transferred to books in a Library? According to the BBC, should we be monitoring and winnowing catalogues to ensure that no-one reads offensive material? Or should we do what the Victorians did to Shakespeare (and what the Beeb is doing to Only Fools and Horses) and bowdlerize offending texts?

Then on Friday I heard that the BBC had edited the phrase “that sort do, don’t they”, referring to his camp cellmate Lukewarm’s ability to keep his cell clean, and apparently the phrase was taken out because it could be offensive to homosexuals.

Did anyone gay complain? Of course not. They even had the campest man alive, Christopher Biggins on the show to say it shouldn’t be edited. It’s always the case. Handwringing twats just need to shut up and stop trying to rewrite history - I’ll decided for myself if something’s offensive.

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So, eBay has pulled it’s google ads because ebay, owner of Paypal, is throwing it’s toys out of the pram because Google has a far superior (and MUCH cheaper) alternative to it’s Paypal service. The usual Google-hating pundits where wheeled on, talking crap as usual. Checkout Roger Kay, president of End-point Technologies, a US consultancy, said:

“Google’s move seems mean spirited and underhand and I am surprised it stooped so low. But I’m glad eBay stood up to Google, although I don’t think eBay really needs to worry. Check-point isn’t doing that well and PayPal is the dominant method.”

Check-point? What the hell is Check-point?! The great wiffling overpaid pillock

Tell you what, I’ll be glad to see the back of pointless ads like this (which I ALWAYS used to click on, as a matter of routine - a bit more for Google, and a pain for eBay if everyone clicked on their pointless/racist ads. Remember, these are GENUINE ebay ads)

More badly researched Google Hysteria

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Genius b3ta user “Coast of Yemen” made a Goatse-style logo - and the BBC showed it!
As the video doesn’t seem to last 5 minutes on Youtube, here it is:

You can download the original Flash video (3.4Mb), and if you need a player, I recommend FLVPlayer

Note: The BBC felt obliged to issue an apology

More…

I also appeared to have found a French theme park Goatse from a trip to Park Asterix about 12 years ago.

Tags: b3ta,bbc,goatse,video
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I heard a very interesting programme this evening called Ron Jonson on…. Although the subject matter is heavyweight, there’s only one way to tackle it, and that’s to use humour.
I’ve posted about 9/11 conspiracies before, but I never realised we had our own homegrown tin-foilers.
And these guys are sick.

A spokesman, David Shayler, even had to resort to the R word - yes, racism, used totally inappropriately. Apparently, to accuse anyone except MI5 of being responsible, is racism. Have a listen to the clip here - Jonson gives mentalist Shayler the only response he could do in a situation like that…

The woman featured, Rachel North, has written a blog for the BBC called Coming together as a city

Here’s the entire programme, with the non-relevant middle section about something else snipped out. It’s about 20 minutes long.

Do listen to it all. Scary stuff.

Tags: conspiracy,london,ronson,shayler,theory,underground
Categories: Politics
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