Just in case someone hasn't seen it.
Boris Johnson's Spitting Image puppet unveiled
The TV programme, famous for its mockery of politicians, is set to be relaunched this autumn.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Wed 5 Aug 2020, 14:54,
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We're too easily offended as a nation for this to be anywhere near as good as it should be.
It'll be interesting to see how they manage to portray black personalities without massively offending a huge portion of the Twittersphere.
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I'm offended by this remark.
But then again also strangely aroused. I only hope they will ignore the snowflakes and get on with it. If this country needs anything right now its a return to the "I don't give fuck" school of entertainment.
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TBL I posted this on, Wed 5 Aug 2020, 15:23,
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And National Service.
And a return to the Gold Standard.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 5 Aug 2020, 16:34,
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The Birch? Bring back Crucifixion! Nail some sense into them!
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 5 Aug 2020, 17:58,
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Your response is to pre-emptively get upset at the thought of people getting upset at the things you imagine will upset them.
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brb welcome to my reed organ repair blog, Wed 5 Aug 2020, 15:25,
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I've read Mr P comments a few times now
and cannot see how he's actually getting upset? He did have a point about how "edgy" this show could get compared to the original.
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Wed 5 Aug 2020, 15:54,
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I could spell it all out for you point by point
but he responded to the unveiling of a Boris Johnson puppet by complaining about things he predicts to happen, based on and demonstrative of his own faulty and fearful perceptions of people he characterises as faulty and fearful.
WRT how edgy this show might be, it will be reflective of its time, just how it used to be. 30-50 years from now, new Mr. Penises will hark back to the 2020s as the paragon of edginess and permissiveness, or whatever virtue is held in nostalgic esteem by then.
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brb welcome to my reed organ repair blog, Wed 5 Aug 2020, 16:24,
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Thank goodness then that we've got you to constantly tell everyone how they're thinking wrong. Otherwise we might turn out to have opinions or something.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 5 Aug 2020, 16:37,
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God forbid
we should have unauthorised thoughts.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Wed 5 Aug 2020, 16:57,
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Because what I'm saying isn't presented as opinion..?
Because we are not exchanging ideas without engaging in any criticism?
What?
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brb welcome to my reed organ repair blog, Wed 5 Aug 2020, 17:10,
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My points still stands though.
I don't see how he's "upset"
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Wed 5 Aug 2020, 21:02,
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May your point stand proud until the ends of time.
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brb welcome to my reed organ repair blog, Wed 5 Aug 2020, 22:58,
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Where's the spelling out then?
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Thu 6 Aug 2020, 8:48,
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It was never requested.
TBH I don't think anyone should need it, it's obvious just how upset and fearful Mr. Penis is.
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brb welcome to my reed organ repair blog, Thu 6 Aug 2020, 14:23,
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Honestly, pal.
I think you come across as upset and fearful far more frequently than I do. But just like your latent racial prejudice, you don't seem to be able to recognise it and/or admit to it.
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Your response to the unveiling of a Boris Johnson puppet was to predict that anti-racists and black people would be upset by as yet unseen puppets of black people.
You turned a story about the reveal of a puppet of a white man into an anti-anti-racist right wing talking point about how this country is too easily offended.
To me, this looks like Daily Mail style racist fear.
Please now describe my latent racial prejudice.
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brb welcome to my reed organ repair blog, Fri 7 Aug 2020, 14:16,
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Not to me it's not
Please point it out
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Thu 6 Aug 2020, 17:58,
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I think by now I've elaborated enough in other replies but if you still need help, gaz bivvyboi.
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brb welcome to my reed organ repair blog, Fri 7 Aug 2020, 17:42,
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I hope you appreciate the irony in this post.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 5 Aug 2020, 16:08,
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Hopefully the grownups in various ethnicities will understand everyone is caricatured.
There will always be the professionally outraged.
Much of the sensitivity relates to the use of caricatures by racists in the past or just punching down generally.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Wed 5 Aug 2020, 16:02,
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Apart from Trump
- they've ditched the caricature and just gone for what he actually looks like
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buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Wed 5 Aug 2020, 16:12,
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We've found the limit beyond which exaggeration isn't possible.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Wed 5 Aug 2020, 16:17,
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The hair is too thick imo.
Too thick and too yellow.
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brb welcome to my reed organ repair blog, Wed 5 Aug 2020, 16:28,
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This one on the other had
pure grotesque
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buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Thu 6 Aug 2020, 3:56,
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How good should it be?
The original was very patchy, and bringing shows back relies on nostalgia over ideas and talent.
Nice to be proved wrong, but it should be as good as the Are You Being Served remake.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Wed 5 Aug 2020, 18:13,
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They had their glorious moments:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWZKuuFli2o
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The great thing about the British public is, they don't mind.
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gaijintendo Regular Member, Wed 5 Aug 2020, 19:31,
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People remember the puppet designs, but was the show actually that good? My only memory of it is that bloody song.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 5 Aug 2020, 16:07,
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What, this one?
m.youtube.com/watch?v=2iHa4sbHKoA
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Wed 5 Aug 2020, 16:11,
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That's the one.
I mean there's the other one I guess, but that's the one that always turns up.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 5 Aug 2020, 16:15,
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I just checked
and I don't recognise any of their other songs except those two.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Wed 5 Aug 2020, 17:00,
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Surprising how it has lasted.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Wed 5 Aug 2020, 20:23,
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I hum it when working with South Africans
I mean, I french, so I am humming a French song.
What?
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I think all the old episodes are still up on youtube....
Much of it doesn't stand up, really. Some of that is because it was satirising forgotten events of one week of the 80s/90s. Some is because Ian Hislop just isn't that funny. The last series or two were the worst.
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brb welcome to my reed organ repair blog, Wed 5 Aug 2020, 18:08,
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Take that, Thatcher!
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 6 Aug 2020, 2:16,
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