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JR, sometimes you make me laugh and sometimes you are a complete p**t. One guess as to what I think of the above comment. And no, I didn't find a lot of Fawlty Towers funny either.

Sorry Mary. We'll just have to agree to disagree on PC matters.

On a comedy note, I regard Fawlty Towers as one of the best ever written TV comedy programmes, along with "Dads Army", "Allo Allo", "'Til Death Us Do Part", "Love Thy Neighbour", (all four of which could now be considererd Non -PC), "Open All Hours", "Porridge" and Ronnie Corbett's "Sorry".

J.R. wrote:Sorry Mary. We'll just have to agree to disagree on PC matters.

On a comedy note, I regard Fawlty Towers as one of the best ever written TV comedy programmes, along with "Dads Army", "Allo Allo", "'Til Death Us Do Part", "Love Thy Neighbour", (all four of which could now be considererd Non -PC), "Open All Hours", "Porridge" and Ronnie Corbett's "Sorry".

I think I have said it before, I don't like unfairness, hence pasts of Fawlty Towers, when Basil wins at the bookies springs to mind. Similarly with "Sorry".

Dad's Army and 'Allo, 'Allo, I love, the other two I ddin't really see (no TV and at CH). Ronnie Barker can do no wrong, nor can David Jason (except Frost, the first one I saw was about an abducted child so I never watched it again)

I thought the Basil Fawlty character was taking the mickey out of those types of people so I think the programme was trying to be on your side

I agree with you about fairness but think pc has gone too far

I know black people and Indian people who think it is ridiculous to stop a jam company using gollys as a trade mark (for instance

All those silly rules are losing the point

We need to stop all racism but the pink liberals get their knickers in a twist about the most irrelevant things while real racism from people from every colour continues, but in my opinion much less so than 10 years ago

I agree Robin, but all it takes for evil to conquer is for good men to say/do nothing (can't remember the exact quote).

I also agree about Fawlty Towers and found some of it very funny, but overall, I am not one of those people (like my husband) who can watch it again and again.

No, I agree and feel that people who watch any comedy programme over and over tend to be the ones who can bore people by quoting endlessly from them

'Don't tell him, Pike...'
sorry.. this is in the context of my current work situation, as shared on another thread on this Forum

stupid boy

They don't like it up 'em
or have I misremembered.....?

Alan! (Oi! Geezer!) I enjoyed this link to the Oxford newspaper, but failed to find the right article, I think. However, I'm having a cup of very strong coffee and have just read a fascinating memoir from Oxford called "An Angel told us to Claim Our Hut". The cold of 1947! with a new baby and only a hut in which to live... I felt like doing a Princess Diana "I will never complain again".

I find newspapers/ parish mags from other places so interesting. But I'm : so sorry! More coffee...

"DON'T PANIC !!!! DON'T PANIC !!!!"

On the PC note, here's an absolutely true story from yesterday afternoon.

Dorking FC won their VASE Vase Cup game, and I was helping celebrate in the early evening with most of the team outside the club bar.

Four of our forwards and mid-field players are black and come from South London.

The alcohol had been flowering copiously, (naturally) !

Club Secretary walks from the bar to say that a certain very expensive 4 x 4 was blocking a car in the car-park.

JR, (well-oiled), states in a loud voice, "Don't worry, Ray, with these four here it won't be there for much longer now !!!!"

I'm oferring NO prizes for anyone telling me who laughed the loudest , and no, it wasn't just polite laughter.

That was exactly my point

The black and Indian people I know don't give a stuff about that sort of thing

It's the bleeding-heart liberals that keep on harping on the tired old 1970's theme

And the BBC particularly Radio 4 has been completely taken over by them

huntertitus wrote:That was exactly my point

The black and Indian people I know don't give a stuff about that sort of thing

It's the bleeding-heart liberals that keep on harping on the tired old 1970's theme

And the BBC particularly Radio 4 has been completely taken over by them

I'm glad to see that other people are as enlightened as the O'Riordans on that suject.

Who are the O'Riordans?

Amber, youngest daughter was trying to play a simple computer game when about three, and couldn't master it.

At the top of her voice in front of loads of relatives,

"Oh ! For Fox sake !!"