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Dennis to no longer be a menace - WTF !!!
RED and black striped menace Dennis has apparently seen the error of his ways ... if his new BBC makeover is to be believed.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...ge-Dennis.html I really hope this isn't true, it was bad enough when the nannystate cut Tom & Jerry but this really takes the pi**.
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Do kids still read comics these days?
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Do kids still read comics these days?
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I read the Beano throughout the 90s and don't remember him getting the slipper
![]() That being said, the new dennis looks like crap someone knocked up on flash. |
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RED and black striped menace Dennis has apparently seen the error of his ways ... if his new BBC makeover is to be believed.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...ge-Dennis.html I really hope this isn't true, it was bad enough when the nannystate cut Tom & Jerry but this really takes the pi**. ![]()
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Makes you wonder what next, the Poisoned Apple banned from Snowhite in case kids wont eat fruit.
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They'll be making Plug look like Brad Pitt next. Minnie the Minx was deffo a lesbian though....
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They'll be making Plug look like Brad Pitt next. Minnie the Minx was deffo a lesbian though....
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Do kids still read comics these days?
Oh and well done to the OP for getting both WTF and LMAO in thread titles. |
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Ah another PC story, when my daughter gets old enough, i will be letting her watch the original dennis the mennis, just as she will be taught the ba ba black sheep song ...
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Ah another PC story, when my daughter gets old enough, i will be letting her watch the original dennis the mennis, just as she will be taught the ba ba black sheep song ...
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Is it just me or does this sound like sh!t-stirring? I only say this because in the article there were loads of angry rants from random people who I presume are Sun website members, but no word from anyone from the BBC. The story wasn't really explained either.
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Is it just me or does this sound like sh!t-stirring? I only say this because in the article there were loads of angry rants from random people who I presume are Sun website members, but no word from anyone from the BBC. The story wasn't really explained either.
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It's in the Daily Wail as well. Which is strange. They show the original Dennis the Menace then they'd start ranting on how it's promoting violence and chavastic behaviour. Why oh why oh why oh why can't they just disappear into their own logic paradox???
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Its on the BBC? Well, there you are then-it will definately be PC'd................
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oh for crying out loud! if this is true then what the heck is this country coming to!!!??? It's gonna become mandatory to only go outside when absolutely necessary and even then wear a fully protective suit and eye/ear protection and breathing apparatus so as to not be exposed to ANYTHING AT ALL! and the media will become like that episode of south park (mr hankey the christmas poo) where they put on a stage show that is so boring and bland as to not offend anyone who's not christian. I might be exaggerating slightly but it does my head in it really does
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Love the beano, but lets face it, this is a comic. It shouldn't be giving you a coronary!
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Look, Dennis the Menace is Dennis the Menace. That's it.
If they want to do a cartoon about some other guy who isn't like Dennis the Menace then just create some other cartoon and call it something else. Next they'll try to recreate the obligatory 'slap up meal' you'd see at the end of some cartoons where the character wins a prize at the end of the strip. Now they'll have them getting a tofu and lettuce meal which they dig into at the end because it's supposed to prevent global warming or something. Or Tom and Jerry will be revamped to show them never getting angry and resolving their differences like mature adults using intellectual mediation techniques. |
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Why are people giving a stuff about Dennis the Menace? When will people get it into their thick skulls that kids still sing Baa Baa Black Sheep, so getting your kids to sing it isn't exactly a right-on streak of rebellion?
Why do you want to watch Tom and Jerry? Are you four years old? My 5-year-old watches Tom and Jerry. It's on the Cartoon network. It's crap. And so is Ben 10. Political correctness gawn maaaad. Political correctness gawn maaaaaad. Save us from the voices in our heads!!! Nutters. |
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Is it just me or does this sound like sh!t-stirring? I only say this because in the article there were loads of angry rants from random people who I presume are Sun website members, but no word from anyone from the BBC. The story wasn't really explained either.
But that doesn't take anything away from the fact that I still think that they should leave it alone. One of the reasons being is that it has that feel of that form of political correctness that has 'clever smug dick' written all over it. As thought to say "Hey everybody, look what we've done. Aren't we so progressive and modern for 'moving on'?" as they give themselves a mighty big pat on the back. It's the feeling that they've seen something, decided that it's wrong, and are trying to bring attention to that fact that they believe that they've somehow made it better than it was. Just create a new character and make a new cartoon. Mind you that would take the imagination to be creative in the first place. |
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Ah another PC story, when my daughter gets old enough, i will be letting her watch the original dennis the mennis, just as she will be taught the ba ba black sheep song ...
![]() If my parents had tried to make me watch Bill and Ben i'd have been mortified |
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I'm going to force my kids to watch Muffin the Mule. And I'm gonna tell 'em the connotations of the word muffin even though they are at Primary School. Coz it's, like, dead rude.
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Why are people giving a stuff about Dennis the Menace? When will people get it into their thick skulls that kids still sing Baa Baa Black Sheep, so getting your kids to sing it isn't exactly a right-on streak of rebellion?
Why do you want to watch Tom and Jerry? Are you four years old? My 5-year-old watches Tom and Jerry. It's on the Cartoon network. It's crap. And so is Ben 10. Political correctness gawn maaaad. Political correctness gawn maaaaaad. Save us from the voices in our heads!!! Nutters. Especially in the 1960s when Tom and Jerry really did suffer a dip in quality. |
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Yes, because the inherent likeability of a bully who constantly picks on a 'sissy' kid has no conceivable ethical problems in the slightest.
I wonder how many of the people who'd be outraged by this are the ones outraged by any story about youth crime and disobedience. Or rap music - better still, violent TV? I'd be interested ... |
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Yes, because the inherent likeability of a bully who constantly picks on a 'sissy' kid has no conceivable ethical problems in the slightest.
I wonder how many of the people who'd be outraged by this are the ones outraged by any story about youth crime and disobedience. Or rap music - better still, violent TV? I'd be interested ... I grew up in the 70s/80s and found the Beano concepts of catapults, carties and teachers in mortar boards to be embarrasingly old-fashioned then, so I think it's fair to say that DC thompson aren't exactly masters of moving with the times. |
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