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May 24th 2010, 11:19 am

#31

Meow

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Re: Mind your Language.

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Originally Posted by lionheart

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.

More a case of being very culturally insensitive, which is not quite the same thing. I think that most people have a wider world view now, so do not see other races/nationalities in quite the same stereotypes as they did then. Like many things it was probably not meant to be insulting, but is very much of its time.

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May 24th 2010, 4:09 pm

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Re: Mind your Language.

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Originally Posted by Grace O Malley

He may have been a genius, but I just couldn't stand looking at him, cant honestly say i ever watched a complete show

Was it his classically handsome features that put you off or was it just to highbrow?

May 24th 2010, 4:36 pm

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Re: Mind your Language.

I performed the Benny Hill salute on a drunken train ride in Taiwan once (long story). The large French contingent in our party went beserk..."regardez! eets Bennee 'ill!"