Muppet show unfairly depicts
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saaby93

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32,038 posts

202 months

Monday 22nd February 2021
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Frogs and pigs?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-5615...

Issues with music licences too.



Quisling

539 posts

63 months

Monday 22nd February 2021
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OH fk OFF

That's it

just kill me now

Biker 1

8,415 posts

143 months

Monday 22nd February 2021
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What the fk? World's gone even more mad...

Quisling

539 posts

63 months

Monday 22nd February 2021
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I'll just leave this here

https://youtu.be/VEMWyBWw0cA

The Wookie

14,189 posts

252 months

Monday 22nd February 2021
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ShoooRn

219 posts

121 months

Monday 22nd February 2021
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Honestly with half the warnings they've shoved on the Disney plus programs I have sat there and wondered the entire way through "where is this thing they've warned us about?"... maybe I'm not as easily offended as some.

southendpier

6,035 posts

253 months

Monday 22nd February 2021
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Watched Zulu yesterday.

no warnings.

Was shocked.

Who can I tweet?

mrporsche

742 posts

66 months

Monday 22nd February 2021
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How can you unfairly depict a frog ??

A Winner Is You

25,831 posts

251 months

Monday 22nd February 2021
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southendpier said:
Watched Zulu yesterday.

no warnings.

Was shocked.

Who can I tweet?
A film that depicts both sides in a balanced and measured manner, you'd never get away with that today.

Short Grain

3,432 posts

244 months

Monday 22nd February 2021
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These people see something offensive wherever they look because they're looking for it! They'll twist things in their heads until they can claim offence to someone or something. Sad thing is, the more they look, the more they 'find', the more they convince themselves they are right!

We had Mary Whitehouse when I was young, who would've censored everything.

Who was the bloke that jumped on her bannedwagon?

Halmyre

12,313 posts

163 months

Monday 22nd February 2021
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ShoooRn said:
Honestly with half the warnings they've shoved on the Disney plus programs I have sat there and wondered the entire way through "where is this thing they've warned us about?"... maybe I'm not as easily offended as some.
Interesting about the Siamese cats in Lady and the Tramp. I've probably not seen that sequence since I was a child, but at the time I probably just thought "these are just nasty cats", never occurred to me that their ethnicity was relevant.

However, I do believe that the Muppets doesn't help to overcome the stereotypical image of drummers.

anonymous-user

78 months

Monday 22nd February 2021
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mrporsche said:
How can you unfairly depict a frog ??
Stripy t shirt and a string of onions?

scenario8

7,659 posts

203 months

Monday 22nd February 2021
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OpulentBob said:
mrporsche said:
How can you unfairly depict a frog ??
Stripy t shirt and a string of onions?
(All) The French wear hoops, not stripes, don.t they? Or am I thinking of all burglars?

stuartmmcfc

8,775 posts

216 months

Monday 22nd February 2021
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mrporsche said:
How can you unfairly depict a frog ??
Did they? I didn’t read that in the article.
I read bits about negative portrayals of Native Americans and people from the Middle East and Cash singing in front of a Confederate flag and the deletion of an episode contains a convicted Paedophile- all of which seems reasonable to me but I missed the bit about frogs?

john2443

6,503 posts

235 months

Monday 22nd February 2021
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scenario8 said:
(All) The French wear hoops, not stripes, don.t they? Or am I thinking of all burglars?
What do French burglars wear then redface

scenario8

7,659 posts

203 months

Monday 22nd February 2021
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john2443 said:
scenario8 said:
(All) The French wear hoops, not stripes, don.t they? Or am I thinking of all burglars?
What do French burglars wear then redface
Very good question. I must ask some bike riding, baguette eating, beret wearing friends of mine how they depict their burglars in popular culture.

They’ll still be at lunch though.

vixen1700

28,005 posts

294 months

Monday 22nd February 2021
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scenario8 said:
john2443 said:
scenario8 said:
(All) The French wear hoops, not stripes, don.t they? Or am I thinking of all burglars?
What do French burglars wear then redface
Very good question. I must ask some bike riding, baguette eating, beret wearing friends of mine how they depict their burglars in popular culture.

They’ll still be at lunch though.
A quick Google search shows French burglars are dressed as Frenchmen but with Zorro style masks.

tangerine_sedge

6,232 posts

242 months

Monday 22nd February 2021
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stuartmmcfc said:
Did they? I didn’t read that in the article.
I read bits about negative portrayals of Native Americans and people from the Middle East and Cash singing in front of a Confederate flag and the deletion of an episode contains a convicted Paedophile- all of which seems reasonable to me but I missed the bit about frogs?
You idiot! You're not supposed to actually read the article, you're supposed to just get the pointy sticks and burning torches out!

Jevvy

236 posts

193 months

Monday 22nd February 2021
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Opened thread expecting this...




JagLover

46,172 posts

259 months

Monday 22nd February 2021
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Jevvy said:
Opened thread expecting this...

They would probably be doing a better job.