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[Goldie1275]

Read about this a couple of days ago, its very sad to hear about this getting a complaint about.
Children don't see things the ways teenagers and adults do. Children tend to accept people until adults point out imperfections. I see nothing wrong with this presenter and I'm sure the children watching the show probably didnt even bat an eye lid.
It's good for childrento have diversity IMO...

[Ethel]

Their children are more likely to be harmed by their own stupidity if they don't realise the BBC can't do anything because of anti discrimination law. Boys & girls alone (channel 4?) should be enough to convince anyone of the damage over cossetting parents do to their kids.

[taffy1967]

Well I have to admit that back in 1975 this frightening looking bloke with no eyes (except for a blue electric replacement on his forehead), one arm, a very scary sounding voice and an electric armoured wheelchair did more than frighten me. Yes it scarred me for life, especially as he was an absolute racist who developed a race of hate filled super creatures contained in killing machines: -

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And only Mary Whitehouse and her 'National Viewers And Listeners Association' (or whatever they were called) complained that it was too frightening for the kiddies at the time.

Okay I'm being slightly tongue in cheek here, but yes I agree with everyone and it's a lot of nonsense to sack that woman. Kids will see and hear far worst things on TV and in school, no matter how much you try to wrap them up in cotton wool.

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Edited by taffy1967, 27 February 2009 - 03:04 PM.

[scrog]

thats easy for you to say but how did your wife feel about it in 1996

well apart from the ovious

she was and felt fantastic they are the 4th set of triplets in 20 years in boston and none since

hard work dont even start to discribe it LOL

she got to 37 weeks and had them naturaly what a woman

[racer36]

thats easy for you to say but how did your wife feel about it in 1996

well apart from the ovious

she was and felt fantastic they are the 4th set of triplets in 20 years in boston and none since

hard work dont even start to discribe it LOL

she got to 37 weeks and had them naturaly what a woman

well done on tha kids,seem like a good parent

on the topic tho,as people have said they are going to see far worse things in slightly later life !

998dave has made a good sum up i think !

personally id say try and take legal action against them stupid *melonsing* parents for the act of discrimination?

surely its bad enough she has a hand missing let alone parents pointing it out,complaining and trying to sack her

Edited by racer36, 26 February 2009 - 08:15 PM.

[taffy1967]

Well I have to admit that back in 1975 this frightening looking bloke with no eyes (except for a blue electric replacement on his forehead), one arm, a very scary sounding voice and an electric armoured wheelchair did more than frighten me. Yes it scarred me for life, especially as he was an absolute racist who developed a race of hate filled super creatures contained in killing machines: -

TXrUyOurnOI

And only Mary Whitehouse and her 'National Viewers And Listeners Association' (or whatever they were called) complained that it was too frightening for the kiddies at the time.

Okay I'm being slightly tongue in cheek here, but yes I agree with everyone and it's a lot of nonsense to sack that woman. Kids will see and hear far worst things on TV and in school, no matter how much you try to wrap them up in cotton wool.

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Oh and I'm afraid that the nightmares returned last year: -

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Edited by taffy1967, 27 February 2009 - 03:04 PM.

[Juju]

Daleks & Cybermen deffo gave me the willies as a child.

My Headmaster at school, from the age of 7 'til 11 had only one hand (Mr Blackman - I think he might have been gay too, in hindsight, but I shall never know for sure )

He used to play the piano brilliantly with his stump & assemblies were cracking.

I don't remember anybody whinging that we could all see the fact that he had less-than-the-ordinary-number of hands. (But that was the 70s-80s).

My friend Helen only has one leg & she whips her falsie off in public when she gets tired & needs to give her stump a bit of a massage. It's great! We just get surrounded by kids going "Oooooooooooh!!"

[mrslaphead]

Daleks & Cybermen deffo gave me the willies as a child.

My Headmaster at school, from the age of 7 'til 11 had only one hand (Mr Blackman - I think he might have been gay too, in hindsight, but I shall never know for sure )

He used to play the piano brilliantly with his stump & assemblies were cracking.

I don't remember anybody whinging that we could all see the fact that he had less-than-the-ordinary-number of hands. (But that was the 70s-80s).

My friend Helen only has one leg & she whips her falsie off in public when she gets tired & needs to give her stump a bit of a massage. It's great! We just get surrounded by kids going "Oooooooooooh!!"

Was that a private school ? because you hear allsorts of going ons at them posh boarding schools.

[taffy1967]

Daleks & Cybermen deffo gave me the willies as a child.

My Headmaster at school, from the age of 7 'til 11 had only one hand (Mr Blackman - I think he might have been gay too, in hindsight, but I shall never know for sure )

He used to play the piano brilliantly with his stump & assemblies were cracking.

I don't remember anybody whinging that we could all see the fact that he had less-than-the-ordinary-number of hands. (But that was the 70s-80s).

My friend Helen only has one leg & she whips her falsie off in public when she gets tired & needs to give her stump a bit of a massage. It's great! We just get surrounded by kids going "Oooooooooooh!!"

Was that a private school ? because you hear allsorts of going ons at them posh boarding schools.

Talking about private schools, have you seen the classic 1968 film called 'If' starring Malcolm McDowell (of A Clockwork Orange fame)?: -



The Bowie track has been added by whoever created this trailer, because that song doesn't appear in the film since it was recorded some 3 years after this film got made!: -
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The establishment getting just what they deserve: -
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I believe this was his first film, it was made in 1968 and is about the way kids were treated and behaved in upper class public schools. But this is the late 1960's and Revolution was very much in the air, so the ending pretty much fitted well with the times. It's also quite surreal as it flits from colour to black & white every so often and there's a very provocative scene in a cafe between Malcolm and the girl you see on the roof shooting everyone on the ground at the end.

Here it is and it's about 5 minutes in after he gets his face slapped: -
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(Oh and spot the Minis passing by and the one in the showroom window! Plus at 9 minutes in, it looks like the teacher is working underneath a Mini?)

Edited by taffy1967, 28 February 2009 - 10:37 PM.

[Juju]

Daleks & Cybermen deffo gave me the willies as a child.

My Headmaster at school, from the age of 7 'til 11 had only one hand (Mr Blackman - I think he might have been gay too, in hindsight, but I shall never know for sure )

He used to play the piano brilliantly with his stump & assemblies were cracking.

I don't remember anybody whinging that we could all see the fact that he had less-than-the-ordinary-number of hands. (But that was the 70s-80s).

My friend Helen only has one leg & she whips her falsie off in public when she gets tired & needs to give her stump a bit of a massage. It's great! We just get surrounded by kids going "Oooooooooooh!!"

Was that a private school ? because you hear allsorts of going ons at them posh boarding schools.

Yes! Yes it was. That was the junior school. The senior school was even more interesting. My maths teacher was convicted of making & supplying kiddie porn (he ran the Junior & Senior Photgraphy Club ), the then headmaster was also convicted in the same "ring" (not the headmaster from above, I hasten to add), one of my Biology teachers raped & killed his wife, another Biology Teacher wrote a book entitled "Child Sexuality & Christianity - a Radical Approach".

Somehow I'm an entirely normal & well rounded Scientist....

[Juju]

Oh my Gawwwwwwwds, it's made it to Wiki!!

My Old School. What a shower of c***s.

[mini93]

aaah theres only one coventry, thats for sure!

[Goldie1275]

Oh my Gawwwwwwwds, it's made it to Wiki!!

My Old School. What a shower of c***s.

oh my gosh yu can read the first chapter online too!
i thought my college was bad,
with only a couple of teachers being done for child porno, or the popular choice of hitting students,
public schools just dont seem real do they?

[chappy]

i know for a fact that my 4yr old niece would say

"whys she got a funny arm?"

and NOT


"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!"


then when its explained to her, she'd say: "oh..." and then carry on watching or playing.


it seems that there's so many parents that want to keep their children wrapped up in cotton wool.

Scrog has got it totally right! thats the way my parents were brought up and the way i've been brought up, and thats how i'll bring up my children (when and IF).


sam

[Quote]

Oh my Gawwwwwwwds, it's made it to Wiki!!

My Old School. What a shower of c***s.

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haha, i like the fact that at the top of the 'famous coventrians' list is a pornstar lol

Edited by chappy, 02 March 2009 - 07:37 PM.

[taffy1967]

Oh my Gawwwwwwwds, it's made it to Wiki!!

My Old School. What a shower of c***s.

Perhaps they should make a film all about that, because it makes the content of 'If' seem quite tame by comparison!