Political Correctness Gone MadFreddy Woo writes: "I once worked on an animation to help highlight the issues homeless people face in winter. The client was happy with the work, then a note came back that the ethnic mix of the characters were wrong. These were cartoon characters. They weren't meant to be ethnically anything, but we were forced to make one of them brown, at the cost of about 10k to the charity. This is how your donations are spent. Wisely as you can see."
How has PC affected you? (Please add your own tales - not five-year-old news stories cut-and-pasted from other websites)
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 10:20)
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Balamoryis far more PC. A real Scottish island would be full of pasty-faced Celts who would burn any outsiders in a giant wicker man to appease their sun god. Instead we have:
Two Afro-Caribbeans
A camp policeman
A camp English eccentric inventor
A Geordie girl in a wheelchair
Her aunt, who seems to have Alzheimer's
A female bus driver
A kindergarten teacher with freaky hair.
"Me Too", from the same stable, is just as bad - everyone is a single parent, including the boss-eyed market trader, the camp teacher and the camp Virgin Trains steward.
(, Sun 25 Nov 2007, 21:51, 7 replies)
In Tobermory on the Isle of Mull (the setting for Balamory)life is actually like that (the fish and chip van at the harbour even sells scallop suppers)
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A kindergarten teacher with freaky hair.Not to mention teeth that make her look like she was a horse in a previous life. God bless British dentistry . . .
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Spotted.Have you noticed on Ballamory how the opening titles go through each character in the programme in an 'introductory' way...and then for no reason whatsoever cuts to a Pakistani lady getting her kids ready for school?
It's like the Beeb thought 'oh bollocks, we thought we'd ticked every single PC box but we've forgotten to include any Pakistanis.
Nooooo!...what can we do? We haven't cast anybody...the show's been passed for broadcast....We.are.fucked....Quick - TO THE EDITING SUITE!'
Smacks so much of a knee-jerk reaction that was completely unnecessary but purely and patronisingly emphasises the Beeb's fear of being non PC.
(btw - I always thought the inventor was Scottish but was just trying to talk posh...shows what I know)
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He's only camp...To get the ladies.
You know that school teacher is as repressed as all hell. As soon as the credits roll PC Plum is up to all sorts of perversions.
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Don't forget Postman Pat!Introduced an Asian family to redress the balance of not having any ethnic minorities in the show.
Has anyone at the BBC actually been to an idyllic English rural backwater recently? Ethnic faces are generally conspicuous by their absence, certainly up in my neck of the woods anyway. Oh, and the voices they gave the family were truly hideous and quite offensive in my view.
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Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Mon 26 Nov 2007, 12:29,
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Archie the InventorPlayed by Miles Jupp who was, in a past life, a regular on 'The Live Floor Show' in which his stand-up act involved him playing a pompous, aristocratic, 30-something former-public-schoolboy with all manner of perversions.
Sadly, Youtube seems to have no videos that I can link to...
He was a comic genius, it's such a shame he's been reduced to doing kids' TV.
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Ah, but you've got to love 'Me Too'First time I saw it, I thought it was a spoof. Amazing. Must look up some songs from it on youtube...
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