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yoda

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The political elite are running scared, the Kalergi plan has moved to fast and Joe public is realising what they have been up to
 

Drog

Administrator
Staff member
Kalergi? Is that him in Blue Mink with Madelaine Bell?
 

Drog

Administrator
Staff member
"yellow chinkees" How ironic they wouldn't be allowed to release that today. :confused:

btw Daftest PC moment on Absolute radio was the bleeping out of the word nigger from the line
"Only takes one itchy trigger
One more widow, one less white nigger"


Kinell what numpty's there are! I frequently wonder how some people manage to walk and talk at the same time!
 

Vinjay

Senior Member
Strange really isn't it? While political correctness has gone so over the top decades ago you couldn't even show a toilet (on US Tv at least not sure about UK) and swearing was exceptionally rare. As for sexual content that was non existent in comparison. The 80's and 90's probably had the best balance between political correctness and morality. Nowhere near as PC but nowhere near as much lowest common denominator trash broadcast by the likes of ITV. Of course not all Tv was great but the bad stuff was probably boring rather than outright trashy. Of course it depends what you define as boring not all Tv programmes are produced for entertainment purposes.
 

Vinjay

Senior Member
Should clarify I'm not saying all trash Tv is bad. Just a certain type of trash. You can almost guarantee if its on an island or jungle + produced by ITV its likely to be garbage. Of course we can choose what to watch but sadly PC culture is harder to avoid.
 

Drog

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Surely all these supposed reality and talent shows MUST have become a tired old format these days?

Much like soaps. We've both always disliked Eastenders passionately but my missus used to have Emmerdals and Corrie on automatically whilst we made and ate our evening meal but one day she decided not to bother anymore and surprise surprise neither of us missed them one bit. I guess we'd simply had our fill of dining in the company of sulky kids, aggressive parents, homosexuals and lesbians snogging (at 7pm), the now apparently compulsory ethnic minorities, plane / train crashes, fires, murders, affairs, divorces all happening in one tiny street / village (delete as appropriate). God only knows how local estate agents would ever begin to market these properties in real life. I think I'd rather move into Fred and Rose West's old gaff!
As for my very limited knowledge of the Essex / Chelsea / Chester set (my kids watched them before they buggered off) and just like the established soaps they are virtually indistinguishable apart from their accents aren't they?
 
A

ABBEY

Guest
Lip synched, teenage and manufactured cowbell ..each to there own
 

Alan

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Staff member
Lip synched, teenage and manufactured cowbell ..each to there own
Eardrum ruining bang bash trash. As you say. Each to his own but we shouldn't really ridicule each others tastes. Sorry for that.:p
 

Drog

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Looks are not relevant Al, particularly not for comedians. If they were we'd never have heard of Frankie Howard, Ken Dodd, Bernard Manning, Two Ronnies, Peter Kay, Frank Skinner, Jimmy Carr etc etc. He does make a great point though.
Am I correct to assume that the most usual career path is pub singer and novelty act to X Factor then back to pub singer and novelty act in the shortest time possible. No doubt a few get to perform for a season on cruise ship or two until the next X Factor newbie traps up as flavour of the month and then they get binned off and return to pub singer again.
 

Alan

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Leona Lewis, Alexandra Burke, Little Mix, One Direction, Shayne Ward, JLS, Olly Murs, Rebecca Furguson, Ray Quinn, Stacey Solomon, Fleur East. Need I go on? Binned off and returned to pub singer? I don't think so!
We can all pick out pictures of the pretty ones in our genre and ugly ones in the genres we don't like.
The first 3 on my list for instance v Judas Priest, Motorhead, Teamrock, Slipknot. We can all play that game. Proves nothing.
 
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