Of mice and men

[Bombers right foot]

Some idiotic college girl wants the book banned because it upset her, well you dozy snowflake don’t f£££ng read it then.
What’s next burning all books before the year 2000 because these pant wetters get so upset over them, morons the lot of them.

[Omegstrat6]

What I'd like to know is which "being offended by" trumps which other "being offended by"? I mean, I might be offended by somebody else taking offence to something. Who is right?

Of course there are many things that the majority of people would find offensive and this is why there are "protected" characteristics under The Equalities Act for example, but too many are taking the "being offended by" to laughable extremes. The problem with too many of these self-entitled "snow flakes" is that they do not understand that just because someone feels offended by something does not make them automatically in the right and they also seem totally unwilling to see things in their historical or cultural context. IMHO the Rowan Atkinson video on free speech and on being offended should be required study for debate in schools.

[Joy_Division]

Some idiotic college girl wants the book banned because it upset her, well you dozy snowflake don’t f£££ng read it then.
What’s next burning all books before the year 2000 because these pant wetters get so upset over them, morons the lot of them.

These idiots get offended by something they read in a book which has been around since long before they were born, yet seem totally at ease with seeing blokes with make up on swanning down the road on Pride Day with their a r s e cheeks hanging out. Could not make it up.

[Leicesterbaggie]

What was said of Hitler’s Germany? First you burn books then you start burning people!

[SwedishBaggie]

What I'd like to know is which "being offended by" trumps which other "being offended by"? I mean, I might be offended by somebody else taking offence to something. Who is right?

Of course there are many things that the majority of people would find offensive and this is why there are "protected" characteristics under The Equalities Act for example, but too many are taking the "being offended by" to laughable extremes. The problem with too many of these self-entitled "snow flakes" is that they do not understand that just because someone feels offended by something does not make them automatically in the right and they also seem totally unwilling to see things in their historical or cultural context. IMHO the Rowan Atkinson video on free speech and on being offended should be required study for debate in schools.

Rowan Atkinson’s speech on free speech is excellent and well worth a watch.

On an aside, in his speech he mentions one of my favourite sketches of all time from ”Not the nine o’clock news”: ”Constable Savage”.

Constable Savage has repeatedly arrested a man due to ludicrous charges, such as:

Loitering with the intent to use a pedestrian crossing

Looking at me in a funny way

Smelling of foreign food

Walking on the cracks in the pavement

Urinating in a public convenience

Etc, etc

The man arrested is a Mr Kadogo, and when Constable Savage is asked whether Mr Kadogo is coloured, Savage replies: ”Not that I have noticed sir”.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[mickd1961]

Rowan Atkinson’s speech on free speech is excellent and well worth a watch.

On an aside, in his speech he mentions one of my favourite sketches of all time from ”Not the nine o’clock news”: ”Constable Savage”.

Constable Savage has repeatedly arrested a man due to ludicrous charges, such as:

Loitering with the intent to use a pedestrian crossing

Looking at me in a funny way

Smelling of foreign food

Walking on the cracks in the pavement

Urinating in a public convenience

Etc, etc

The man arrested is a Mr Kadogo, and when Constable Savage is asked whether Mr Kadogo is coloured, Savage replies: ”Not that I have noticed sir”.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

A truly brilliant sketch Thomas.

When the inspector says……”Savage….your a biggot” and Savage replies….”thank you sir”.

“It’s not a compliment Savage” says the inspector !🤣🤣🤣


Not The Nine O’Clock News is the best sketch show of my lifetime……stuff like this is sorely missed these days.


My favourite all time line from the show was when Pamela Stevenson was pretending to be one of our then famous news readers Angela Rippon quoting Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher……


“Mrs Thatcher is concerned about the number of out of work young black people…….there simply are not enough of them!!” 🤣🤣🤣

Rowan Atkinson is a genius.

[SwedishBaggie]

A truly brilliant sketch Thomas.

When the inspector says……”Savage….your a biggot” and Savage replies….”thank you sir”.

“It’s not a compliment Savage” says the inspector !🤣🤣🤣


Not The Nine O’Clock News is the best sketch show of my lifetime……stuff like this is sorely missed these days.


My favourite all time line from the show was when Pamela Stevenson was pretending to be one of our then famous news readers Angela Rippon quoting Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher……


“Mrs Thatcher is concerned about the number of out of work young black people…….there simply are not enough of them!!” 🤣🤣🤣

Rowan Atkinson is a genius.

Agreed about Atkinson and the show, and, of course that stuff like that is indeed sorely missed today, Mick.

⭐️⭐️⭐️

[WBA1955]

The best sketch I saw on Not The Nine o'clock News was the strike breaker during the rail strike in the eighties.
He took the only train running that day to Nottingham and two people got on.
They sang Roland, Roland Davies, the biggest scab the world has ever seen. They had a big picture of him behind them as they sang. 🤣

My sides ached.
He retired the following week, I wonder why.

[westcountryvillain]

NTNON was a bit before I was old enough to understand, Little Britain was the one for me and even though it still feels recent it would be never be aired first time round in today's perpetually offended woke world. Our freedom to laugh and parody ourselves has been eroded.

[DaveP67 is back!]

Of Mice and Men was a book ahead of its time, it showed racism and exploitation for what it was at the time, a book everyone should read at school.