Political Correctness

[cloggypop]

This is worse than when they stopped making It Ain't Half Hot Mum. 

[Lee909]

Not read that

All I read was he wanted fox to fund the documentary. I know Hank Azaria said he would hand the character over to a Indian actor. 

 

The stereotypes run right through the show. I would hardly call them demeaning. How long before the Italian league start on about Fat Tony, Jews moan about Krusty Dad disowning him etc. 

 

I think it's all well and good stopping nasty shit being said but I would hardly call anything in the Simpson's a major issue. 

[Tony Moanero]

1 hour ago, sir roger said:

Repped for reminding me that I have a Yorkie & a Picnic in the fridge.

Repped for refrigerating your chocolate.

[Hades]

15 minutes ago, Tony Moanero said:

Repped for refrigerating your chocolate.

 

What are your thoughts on refrigerating Cadbury Blocks?

[Dr Nowt]

Yorkie yes, obviously, likewise Dairy Milk etc and Fry’s Chocolate Creams, but Picnics?

 

Thats up there with putting a Drifter or Double Decker in the fridge.

 

What is this place, the fucking Wild West?

[Tony Moanero]

49 minutes ago, Hades said:

 

What are your thoughts on refrigerating Cadbury Blocks?

Dairy Milk, Fruit & Nut, etc.? It’s a must.

[Tony Moanero]

29 minutes ago, Dr Nowt said:

Yorkie yes, obviously, likewise Dairy Milk etc and Fry’s Chocolate Creams, but Picnics?

 

Thats up there with putting a Drifter or Double Decker in the fridge.

 

What is this place, the fucking Wild West?

I wouldn’t leave Picnics, Double Deckers, etc. in the fridge for any length of time, as they become  brittle. 5 to 10 minutes before eating, just enough to chill the chocolate, is sufficient.

[General Dryness]

3 hours ago, cloggypop said:

This is worse than when they stopped making It Ain't Half Hot Mum. 

Tell me about it, I'm still pining for the return of Mind Your Language.

[Dougie Do'ins]

16 hours ago, Lee909 said:

Not read that

All I read was he wanted fox to fund the documentary. I know Hank Azaria said he would hand the character over to a Indian actor. 

 

The stereotypes run right through the show. I would hardly call them demeaning. How long before the Italian league start on about Fat Tony, Jews moan about Krusty Dad disowning him etc. 

 

I think it's all well and good stopping nasty shit being said but I would hardly call anything in the Simpson's a major issue. 

If anyone is wondering where @Mook is, he's writing a very strong email to complain about the character Groundskeeper Willie.

 

I swear some people go out of their way to be offended.

 

Fuck it. I'm off to pen a very strong email that Bart is voiced by a woman.  

[Sugar Ape]

Couple of stories today caught my eye. 

 

First Lena Dunham is adapting a story into a film about a Syrian refugee which has caused murder. 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/oct/30/lena-dunham-syrian-refugee-film-backlash?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

 

One of the comments from a professor in Maine:

“Surely there are storytellers who have actually been refugees, or at least had some experience with what it means to be marginalized, who could write this screenplay adaptation with authenticity & … not white privilege. Hard to think of a worse choice for this than Dunham.”

 

Now, I think Lena Dunham is a talentless hack as much as the next person and she’s a bellend as well for reasons stated in that article, but do you really have to be a refugee to adapt that screenplay? I don’t know. I mean, I don’t recall the calls for only Norwegians who actually survived the Breivik massacre to write that recent film.

 

The other story is about some divvy who edits a magazine for Waitrose responding to someone who pitched an article about Vegan food with a bit of a rude response:

 

“Hi Selene. Thanks for this. How about a series on killing vegans, one by one. Ways to trap them? How to interrogate them properly? Expose their hypocrisy? Force-feed them meat? Make them eat steak and drink red wine?”

 

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/oct/31/waitrose-magazine-editor-william-sitwell-steps-down-over-email-mocking-vegans?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

 

Bit of a bellend response no doubt but he’s been forced to stand down. Do you really deserve to lose your job and livelihood for being a dickhead in a private email?

[Numero Veinticinco]

Nope. 

[moof]

Killing vegans one by one? Yeah, fuck that guy. I don’t give a shit if he gets sacked 

[Strontium]

Arguably a little unprofessional if, as editor of a food magazine, you propose murdering people who volunteer recipes.

[Bjornebye]

Hang on, Vegans can't drink Red Wine? 

[Mook]

13 minutes ago, Strontium Dog said:

Arguably a little unprofessional if, as editor of a food magazine, you propose murdering people who volunteer recipes.

Have you seen the cooked breakfast thread recently?

[Sugar Ape]

Yes, I’m sure he was 100% serious and really did want to commission an article about killing vegans.

[moof]

So you’re allowed to threaten to kill people, on the company email, as long as it’s a joke?

[Strontium]

12 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Hang on, Vegans can't drink Red Wine? 

 

It would depend whether fish gelatine had been used to clarify it.

[Sugar Ape]

8 minutes ago, moof said:

So you’re allowed to threaten to kill people, on the company email, as long as it’s a joke?

 

If you believe he was truly threatening to kill people then you’re even more strange than I thought. At most I’d expect a ticking off, not for him to be fired.

 

The original article also says it was a private email by him so I’m assuming he wasn’t using the company account.

[Bjornebye]

1 hour ago, Strontium Dog said:

 

It would depend whether fish gelatine had been used to clarify it.

Aah right so a vegan needs to buy a bottle then get it checked out by a fish down the local pond. Got ya. 

 

[Numero Veinticinco]

1 hour ago, moof said:

So you’re allowed to threaten to kill people, on the company email, as long as it’s a joke?

I don’t think he was threatening to kill anybody, mate. In fact, even if taken literally and not being a sarcastic sod, which he obviously was, he was taking about writing a series. He was a bit of a tit, little else. 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

1 hour ago, Strontium Dog said:

 

It would depend whether fish gelatine had been used to clarify it.

Same with beer too, isn't it?

 

Another reason why Grolsch is better than Stella.

[Section_31]

1 hour ago, Sugar Ape said:

Couple of stories today caught my eye. 

 

First Lena Dunham is adapting a story into a film about a Syrian refugee which has caused murder. 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/oct/30/lena-dunham-syrian-refugee-film-backlash?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

 

One of the comments from a professor in Maine:

“Surely there are storytellers who have actually been refugees, or at least had some experience with what it means to be marginalized, who could write this screenplay adaptation with authenticity & … not white privilege. Hard to think of a worse choice for this than Dunham.”

 

Now, I think Lena Dunham is a talentless hack as much as the next person and she’s a bellend as well for reasons stated in that article, but do you really have to be a refugee to adapt that screenplay? I don’t know. I mean, I don’t recall the calls for only Norwegians who actually survived the Breivik massacre to write that recent film.

 

The other story is about some divvy who edits a magazine for Waitrose responding to someone who pitched an article about Vegan food with a bit of a rude response:

 

“Hi Selene. Thanks for this. How about a series on killing vegans, one by one. Ways to trap them? How to interrogate them properly? Expose their hypocrisy? Force-feed them meat? Make them eat steak and drink red wine?”

 

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/oct/31/waitrose-magazine-editor-william-sitwell-steps-down-over-email-mocking-vegans?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

 

Bit of a bellend response no doubt but he’s been forced to stand down. Do you really deserve to lose your job and livelihood for being a dickhead in a private email?

I remember Jimmy McGovern involving the Dockers in his Dockers drama and it was shite.

 

Interview people by all means, but if you've ever been to a writing class you'll see why people who make it big are paid well. 

[SasaS]

It would probably be more interesting if serial killer thrillers were written by actual serial killers.

Or if you should have at least a couple of murders under your belt.

[Strontium]

1 hour ago, AngryofTuebrook said:

Same with beer too, isn't it?

 

Another reason why Grolsch is better than Stella.

 

Right. Guinness used to use it too, but they went vegan recently.