Mind your Language.
May 23rd 2010, 6:37 pm
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May 23rd 2010, 6:43 pm
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May 23rd 2010, 6:57 pm
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Re: Mind your Language.
The show as about a young English ESL teacher teaching a class of foreign students. They had several nationalities/ethnic groups represented as students.
IIRC, the student nationalities were:
French woman
Swedish woman
German woman
Chinese woman
Indian Hindu woman
Japanese guy
Hungarian guy
Greek guy
Italian guy
Pakistani Muslim guy
Sikh guy
Oddly no Russians, Jews,Yanks, Hispanics or African students. Maybee they didn't want to go over a certain class size.
May 23rd 2010, 7:04 pm
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Re: Mind your Language.
I was a little kid when I saw the show (in the early 80s). It wasn't like Black Face, no crude caricatures. It seemed to me as just light hearted humour using stereotypes.
The show as about a young English ESL teacher teaching a class of foreign students. They had several nationalities/ethnic groups represented as students.
IIRC, the student nationalities were:
French woman
Swedish woman
German woman
Chinese woman
Indian Hindu woman
Japanese guy
Hungarian guy
Greek guy
Italian guy
Pakistani Muslim guy
Sikh guy
Oddly no Russians, Jews,Yanks, Hispanics or African students. Maybee they didn't want to go over a certain class size.
The show as about a young English ESL teacher teaching a class of foreign students. They had several nationalities/ethnic groups represented as students.
IIRC, the student nationalities were:
French woman
Swedish woman
German woman
Chinese woman
Indian Hindu woman
Japanese guy
Hungarian guy
Greek guy
Italian guy
Pakistani Muslim guy
Sikh guy
Oddly no Russians, Jews,Yanks, Hispanics or African students. Maybee they didn't want to go over a certain class size.
They never had an American, for some reason they can never talk the language...
May 23rd 2010, 9:51 pm
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Re: Mind your Language.
Conf mate - along side this Benny Hillfest etc.... what's with the Lebansese love for Bud Hill and Terence Spencer....? I had no idea at all about these guys until I was here..... They really are sh*t.... but revered for some reason.....
May 24th 2010, 6:58 am
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Re: Mind your Language.
Benny Hill was a genius though - only taken off the air because some do gooder studio twats felt he might offend the .01% of feminists who cannot take a joke and distinguish between real life and TV. Pity he was at the height of his popularity.
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May 24th 2010, 8:54 am
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Re: Mind your Language.
I thought Benny Hill simply died. Anyway, Mind Your Language would seem politically incorrect these days. Making fun of ethnic minorities and their attempts to speak English. The teacher always came across as a real wimp.
May 24th 2010, 11:03 am
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Re: Mind your Language.
He may have been a genius, but I just couldn't stand looking at him, cant honestly say i ever watched a complete show