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Glad it wasn't edited out to please the snowflake brigade.
Michael Redgrave gave a brilliant performance as the driven eccentric Barnes Wallis in The Dam Busters. |
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I think you have the wrong paper there, it should be the Guardianista.
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You can't airbrush history and shouldn't even try!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/******_(dog) My goodness! Even DS censors the name and deforms the link so that it doesn't work. (It removes the " ) " ) Agatha Christie wrote a well known novel "Ten Little N*****s". It's openly on sale at Amazon and copies are often on ebay. |
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It's all very strange.
Agatha Christie wrote a well known childrens book "Ten Little N*****s". It's openly on sale at Amazon and copies are often on ebay. |
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If its any help I watched this fairly recently, don't remember which channel it was but there was a silent blip when the dog's name was used .
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...it wasn't a children's book! In many ways it prefigured the modern slasher movie.
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You can't airbrush history and shouldn't even try!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/******_(dog) My goodness! Even DS censors the name and deforms the link so that it doesn't work. (It removes the " ) " ) http://bit.ly/1EuPkg3 |
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Nobody outraged yet?
How disappointing for the OP. Wonder if they are outraged that nobody is outraged. Great film BTW |
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I think the Agatha Christie book's a slightly different case, though... for starters it wasn't based on an actual real place (the island on which the book is set, which had the same name as Gibson's faithful hound) so changing it wasn't really messing with history, and also it did kind of perpetuate the rhyme which gave the book its title and which already existed in many, many far less problematic versions.
Whoever decided to rename it "Ten Little Indians", however, clearly hadn't really thought ahead. It's now published as "And Then There Were None", and it really is a cracking read, harmed not a jot by the removal of a word which is actually entirely irrelevant to the plot or meaning of the text. |
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The amount of threads we've had on this very subject I could almost suspect some people only ever watch the movie in the hope of it getting cut so they can get cross.
... a smililar sensation to when the albatross in Watership Down said piss when we read it in 4th junior school. It's an alright film... the CGI is a bit dated. |
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I think the Agatha Christie book's a slightly different case, though... for starters it wasn't based on an actual real place (the island on which the book is set, which had the same name as Gibson's faithful hound) so changing it wasn't really messing with history, and also it did kind of perpetuate the rhyme which gave the book its title and which already existed in many, many far less problematic versions.
Whoever decided to rename it "Ten Little Indians", however, clearly hadn't really thought ahead. It's now published as "And Then There Were None", and it really is a cracking read, harmed not a jot by the removal of a word which is actually entirely irrelevant to the plot or meaning of the text. |
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Never be rude to a ...... ****BOOOM***
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Funny enough the N word was rarely used where I grew up (I was born 1958 ) in London.
It was always the W word Never even heard the N word here back in the day. ( not saying it was never used , only I never heard it (only old ladies asking for N brown wool) and had many black friends at that time who say the same now ) . Been to America a fair number of times and have heard it a lot there over the years |
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They cut all the Fanny out of The Faraway Tree as well... a perfectly good word.
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Funny enough the N word was rarely used where I grew up (I was born 1958 ) in London.
It was always the W word Never even heard the N word here back in the day. ( not saying it was never used , only I never heard it, and had many black friends at that time who say the same now ) . Been to America a fair number of times and have heard it a lot there over the years |
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I think you don't know what you are talking about. It is the Daily Mail that likes to get outraged because a bare arse was shown on the BBC at 21.05.
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You can't airbrush history and shouldn't even try!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/******_(dog) My goodness! Even DS censors the name and deforms the link so that it doesn't work. (It removes the " ) " )
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There must be a term for people who overuse the term "snowflake".
Oh, there is. "Dense". |
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I think the Agatha Christie book's a slightly different case, though... for starters it wasn't based on an actual real place (the island on which the book is set, which had the same name as Gibson's faithful hound) so changing it wasn't really messing with history, and also it did kind of perpetuate the rhyme which gave the book its title and which already existed in many, many far less problematic versions.
Whoever decided to rename it "Ten Little Indians", however, clearly hadn't really thought ahead. It's now published as "And Then There Were None", and it really is a cracking read, harmed not a jot by the removal of a word which is actually entirely irrelevant to the plot or meaning of the text. Like the other book, that's still sold on Amazon and ebay but under it's original title which hasn't been messed around with. |
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Didn't loads of cats and dogs used to be called Blacky or Blackie too?
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I imagine them sat there all tense and excited, like a World Cup penalty kick off... and when the ****** finally gets shouted they leap cheering from their armchairs beer and popcorn flying everywhere...
... a smililar sensation to when the albatross in Watership Down said piss when we read it in 4th junior school. It's an alright film... the CGI is a bit dated. We had a cat called Blackie, 35 years ago. No reference to any human beings at all, and I very much doubt any black people would take offence. Apart from that white girl from Goldsmiths London of course. Long live the true version of The Dam Busters. Fab film, amazing mission, though in fact the achievement was eclipsed by the squadron's later work. Gibson famously says 'I thought it would be the Tirpitz' in the film. 18 months later, it was, with Leonard Cheshire in charge. The man who later founded the hospice group. He must be the only VC who's done that. |
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Albatross? It was only a herring gull! Mind you, they are pretty big.
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Too right, it wasn't an Australian dog.
They shouldn't alter history to suit the 'offended' either. |
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Funny enough the N word was rarely used where I grew up (I was born 1958 ) in London.
It was always the W word Never even heard the N word here back in the day. ( not saying it was never used , only I never heard it (only old ladies asking for N brown wool) and had many black friends at that time who say the same now ) . Been to America a fair number of times and have heard it a lot there over the years In the early 50s the word used by my Aunt who lived in Kentish Town was "Darkie" which is why she supported Arsenal rather than Tottenham I'm sure I have seen a version of this film where the dog's name was bleeped out Surprised all those who applaud the conviction and imprisonment of Sgt Alexander Blackman aren't jumping up and down demanding the same for Barnes Wallis, Guy Gibson, and all the others involved in this bombing |
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Surprised all those who applaud the conviction and imprisonment of Sgt Alexander Blackman aren't jumping up and down demanding the same for Barnes Wallis, Guy Gibson, and all the others involved in this bombing
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Our neighbours in the 1970's had a black Labrador called 'Roots'.
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