PeeDee, I am still looking for a 200cc Tiger Cub and have seen some on ebay, rather tatty and fetching stupid money.As for the Worlds fastest Indian, I have the DVD and when I get fed up, thats the one with Anthony Hopkins I watch,just proves money cant buy everything, contrary to popular belief. failing that, The Wild Geese where a gang of mercenairies are left stranded ………get it buy it, but watch it, a good film/

Lincoln. 7

Geese…I saw that “Live” at the cinema!!!
Indian. Ah, you have the DVD. Do me a favour. In the bit wher Hopkins first gets to the USA, there is a security guard outside a building at the Docks. I am sure it is George Clooney as an un-named extra. Clooney, big fella, looks like me.

On Bikes, when I was a nipper, my older Brother had a bright-Red Royal Enfield. I think it was an Electra? I can still remember the sound of that, after he’d dropped an Anvil on the kickstarter of course!

BumbleBee.

I too remember the Spastics Society and people with Downs referred to as Mongols. I also remember at school when anyone who was clumsy or lacking in sporting ability was referred to as a ‘spazzer.’ I also remember seeing in the notes of people with Downs the abbreviations NWBW, NWOT and DWYT.* It’s all to do with moving with the times. In the 1890’s, people with what we would now see as dementia were labelled, officially and medically, as imbeciles and thrown into institutions to die. Which is exactly what would have happened to your Mother and my Father, we wouldn’t dream of that now.

NWBW = Not Worth Bothering With.
NWOT = Not Worthy Of Treatment.
DWYT = Don’t Waste Your Time.

There are numerous variations on the above theme but those are just three that I can recall.

PeeDee.

You felt insulted by me? I feel insulted by the tone, language and content of the majority of your posts. You wrote….

“I’ve had enough kids – thus tests – to search for it. My language hasn’t caught up with the times, that’s all.”

Amniocentesis is for Down’s Syndrome and other neural tube defects such as hydrocephaly and anencephaly. I don’t think the term Mongolism was still in medical usage when these tests became routine so your excuse that your language hasn’t caught up with the times is, well, just that, an excuse.

PeeDee, you either really don’t think before you post, or the internet brings out something of the bigot in you.

As for the OP’s original question regarding Love Thy Neighbour, yes, I am of an age to remember it. While it is true to say that the ‘white honky’ usually ended up as the butt of any joke, it is also true, for me personally, to say that whatever joke he unded up as the butt of was very thin.

Regards,

kev35

LOL!! Jesus H Tapdancin Jugglin Christ LOL.

I know when the tests came in, but popular usage of the written language (Or being right on and PC) does not change the way people converse. I still use a Biro to write, I Hoover the floor. I shop at the “P” shop because they are the only ones open at 11pm. A spastic is not derogatory and Mongolism isn’t meant to be.
Never ever tell me, or anybody else that they don’t think. And do not assume you can speak on behalf of somedody else in these “Minority groups” because that in itself assumes they cannot. That is more belittling than the olde worlde names being used. And actually used WITHIN those elements of the community. Wheelchair bound youths refer to each other as crips or mongs. The Asian lad up the road tells us he’s going to the “P” shop.
So, if the above, plus the fact I support the Death P (With rigourous qualifications) makes me a Bigot, I love the new name!

On the OP, all the “Laugh” lines came from the names they greeted each other with. The rest of the programme wasn’t any good at all.

Unlike Till Death. Where the whole program was good, and the racist Alf was always proven wrong and made to look a fool……..a fact clearly forgotten (Or overlooked because they are actually too thick) by teh PC brigade which has most of the episodes banned from modern broadcast.

Funny that, I was listening to some old Hancock’s half hour. The PC brigade haven’t got round to that yet, boy did dear old Hatti get some stick for being (a) Fat (b) Thick (in the script) and (c) Female. Oh, but hang on, she’s White, so it doesn’t matter. Silly me.

Clips are often used in Open Uni. programes to highlight the way racist views have changed.
…or have they? It’s not allowed on the public broadcast system, but I hear just as much racism these days as in 1970’s. Very especially against the Arabian or ”istan nations.

And, the other thread wa closed before I could answer a repulse of a personal insult to me, from somebody that once knew better.
Yes, I know it’s Downs, and I know why it was originally Mongol.
I’ve had enough kids – thus tests – to search for it. My language hasn’t caught up with the times, that’s all.
As for the other insult, well, if that’s your level, you play there.

I missed the 60’s but in 74 / 75ish I went from a Moped (Mobylette Super) to a Suzy 250 Hustler. The Mobylette was as heavy as the Suzy! (Nearly)
I always wanted a Triumph Tiger Cub.
….but I discovered cars instead.

As for the Indian, you have of course seen the spectacular film “The Worlds fastest Indian”.

Ah… so you’re not howling for the death penalty for murders that you approve of?

There’s a word for that sort of thing. Begins with “H”.

Got no clue what you mean. “My” approval was as stated, 12-nil jury etc.

H for Hitler? GODWIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Where’s my £5.

Killed in Jail 😎
Colin Hatch
He was jailed for life in 1994 after being convicted of killing seven-year-old Sean Williams while on parole for a previous child sex attack

Exactly. When you first become attracted to your partner, is it because you’re thinking about what any possible offspring would be like? Hardly.

So, if she had clear Mongolism, brain damage etc. but was a wonderful person and you had the same sense of humour, you’d have Married?
Gimme a break.
AND, I’m not being offensive to those afflicted with such things, just stating life.

Really? 😮
I’ve never researched it. Surley he had some other evidence…and don’t call me Shirley.

Well Shirley, we actually did. UK, just like USA has “Operatives” in every country. The WMD was a convenient ploy to get in there and finish the job, IMO.
As for us actually using our own intel., no matter IMO. We shall always stand by the USA and I’m sure she will stand by us in every major crisis. (Well, you did before you voted that idiot in)

The WMD’s never turned up, we KNOW he had them 5 years before, so where are they? Don’t answer that, it’s a thread on its own.