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<body> <div id="header"> <span class="left"> <span class="back"><a href="lthread_list.php?webtag=DEFAULT"><span class="image mobile_back" title="Back"></span></a></span> <span class="image mobile_logo" title="Beehive Forum Logo"></span> </span> <ul> <li> <a class="reply_all" href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=41485.0&return_msg=41485.15"> <span class="image mobile_reply_all"></span><span class="text">Reply to All</span> </a> </li> <li> <a class="navigation" href="#"> <span class="image mobile_navigation"></span><span class="text">Show messages</span> </a> </li> <li> <a class="main" href="#"><span class="image mobile_menu" title="Menu"></span> </a> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="menu main"> <ul> <li><a href="lthread_list.php?webtag=DEFAULT">Messages</a></li> <li><a href="lpm.php?webtag=DEFAULT">Inbox</a></li> <li><a href="lsearch.php?webtag=DEFAULT">Search</a></li> <li><a href="llogon.php?webtag=DEFAULT">Login</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="menu navigation"><a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41485.1">1–10</a><a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41485.11">11–20</a><a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41485.21">21–30</a>…<a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41485.51">51–58</a></div> <div id="page_content"> <h3 class="thread_title"><a href="index.php?webtag=DEFAULT&amp;msg=41485.15">Dumb question</a> </h3> <div id="messages" data-navigation="41485_15_58_10"> <a name="a41485_15"></a><div class="message" id="message_41485_15"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: 99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)<span class="message_time">21 May 2015 16:10</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: graphitone <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 21 May 2015 16:14"></span></span> <span class="message_count">15 of 58</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41485.15">41485.15</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41485.13">41485.13</a></div> <div class="message_body"> The revisionists have rewritten Enid Blyton's works to take out anything offensive like golliwogs. Pity they can't do the same to Jeremy Clarkson really, there'd be nothing left.</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=41485.15&return_msg=41485.15" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="41485.15"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a41485_16"></a><div class="message" id="message_41485_16"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: 99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)<span class="message_time">21 May 2015 16:13</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 21 May 2015 16:39"></span></span> <span class="message_count">16 of 58</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41485.16">41485.16</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41485.12">41485.12</a></div> <div class="message_body"> <div class="quotetext"><b>quote:</b> <a href="messages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41485.11">99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)</a></div> <div class="quote">I shit on political correctness.</div> <div class="quotetext"><b>quote:</b> <a href="messages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41485.12">Additional Reductions (DSMITHHFX)</a></div> <div class="quote">You shit on yourself.</div> <p>No, on political correctness. I am not politically correct, nor am I political correctness itself. Ergo, I do not shit on myself and your assertion is, accordingly, bollocks.</p> </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=41485.16&return_msg=41485.15" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="41485.16"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a41485_17"></a><div class="message" id="message_41485_17"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: graphitone<span class="message_time">21 May 2015 16:23</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: 99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 21 May 2015 16:31"></span></span> <span class="message_count">17 of 58</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41485.17">41485.17</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41485.15#a41485_15" target="_self">41485.15</a></div> <div class="message_body"> <span class="emoticon e_giggle" title="(giggle)"><span class="e__">(giggle)</span></span><br /><br /> Shurley there must have been other children's writers that included references to golliwogs. Wonder if they got the same attention? Or was Enid the only racist out there? I know from a recent edition we've got, her 'Faraway Tree' books have had a character name edited from Fanny to Franny. Less contentious, but shows the progress the easily offended have made. That said language is always evolving and what meant one thing back in Enid's day can and does mean something different nowadays. Something has to give and to be honest I'm not so entrenched in nostalgia and rose tint that I couldn't bear her hallowed tomes from ever being changed from the original.</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=41485.17&return_msg=41485.15" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="41485.17"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a41485_18"></a><div class="message" id="message_41485_18"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: 99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)<span class="message_time">21 May 2015 16:38</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: graphitone <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 21 May 2015 19:17"></span></span> <span class="message_count">18 of 58</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41485.18">41485.18</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41485.15#a41485_17" target="_self">41485.17</a></div> <div class="message_body"> <p>You can tell her books are old fashioned because Mr Policeman doesn't shoot the golliwogs.</p> <div class="quotetext"><b>quote:</b> <a href="messages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41485.17">graphitone</a></div> <div class="quote">I'm not so entrenched in nostalgia and rose tint that I couldn't bear her hallowed tomes from ever being changed from the original.</div> <p>I'm not particularly entrenched in nostalgia, and I find her writing a bit excruciating now TBH, but changing her words to suit political correctness or modern social mores is just plain wrong IMO. It would be like covering Michelangelo's David because he's showing his 'thingy'.<br /><br /> What are they going to do with <em>Fanny By Gaslight</em>?</p> <div class="edit_text">EDITED: 21 May 2015 16:39 by MR_BASTARD</div> </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=41485.18&return_msg=41485.15" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="41485.18"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a41485_19"></a><div class="message" id="message_41485_19"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)<span class="message_time">21 May 2015 16:41</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: 99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 21 May 2015 19:11"></span></span> <span class="message_count">19 of 58</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41485.19">41485.19</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41485.15#a41485_16" target="_self">41485.16</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Your funeral, your way.<br /><br /> <span class="emoticon e_horror" title=":-&"><span class="e__">:-&</span></span> </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=41485.19&return_msg=41485.15" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="41485.19"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a41485_20"></a><div class="message" id="message_41485_20"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: graphitone<span class="message_time">21 May 2015 19:20</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: 99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 21 May 2015 20:41"></span></span> <span class="message_count">20 of 58</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41485.20">41485.20</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41485.15#a41485_18" target="_self">41485.18</a></div> <div class="message_body"> That's similar to what some olden days people did with statues around the Vatican. Some overly pious types decided willies weren't appropriate and chopped them off.<div class="edit_text">EDITED: 22 May 2015 07:38 by GRAPHITONE</div> </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=41485.20&return_msg=41485.15" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="41485.20"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a41485_21"></a><div class="message" id="message_41485_21"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)<span class="message_time">21 May 2015 19:48</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: graphitone <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 21 May 2015 20:35"></span></span> <span class="message_count">21 of 58</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41485.21">41485.21</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41485.15#a41485_20" target="_self">41485.20</a></div> <div class="message_body"> And that was just the choir.</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=41485.21&return_msg=41485.15" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="41485.21"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a41485_22"></a><div class="message" id="message_41485_22"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)<span class="message_time">21 May 2015 19:54</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: ALL<span class="message_count">22 of 58</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41485.22">41485.22</a></div> <div class="message_body"> <a href="http://www.salon.com/2015/05/19/welcome_to_twitter_you_tree_swinging_ngger_twitter_responds_to_the_presidents_new_account_as_only_it_can/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialflow">http://www.salon.com/2015/05/19/welcome_to_twitter_you_tree_swinging_ngger_twitter_responds_to_the_presidents_new_account_as_only_it_can/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialflow</a></div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=41485.22&return_msg=41485.15" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="41485.22"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a41485_23"></a><div class="message" id="message_41485_23"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: graphitone<span class="message_time">21 May 2015 20:36</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 21 May 2015 20:37"></span></span> <span class="message_count">23 of 58</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41485.23">41485.23</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41485.15#a41485_21" target="_self">41485.21</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Were they not more concerned with the balls department? But I see what you're getting at. <span class="emoticon e_pipe" title=":-Y"><span class="e__">:-Y</span></span> </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=41485.23&return_msg=41485.15" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="41485.23"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a41485_24"></a><div class="message" id="message_41485_24"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Peter (BOUGHTONP)<span class="message_time">21 May 2015 22:40</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 22 May 2015 00:29"></span></span> <span class="message_count">24 of 58</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41485.24">41485.24</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41485.15#a41485_22" target="_self">41485.22</a></div> <div class="message_body"> If someone is actually from Nigeria, is it still ok to call them a chinky paki abo scouser kiwi coconut yankee kraut sprout, or would that be bad?</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=41485.24&return_msg=41485.15" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="41485.24"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="message_page_footer"> <ul> <li class="right_col"><form accept-charset="utf-8" method="get" action="lmessages.php" target="_self"><input type="hidden" name="webtag" id="webtag" class="bhinputtext" value="DEFAULT" dir="ltr" /><input type="hidden" name="msg" id="msg" class="bhinputtext" value="41485.25" dir="ltr" /><input type="submit" name="submit" id="keep_reading" value="Keep reading…" class="button" /></form></li> </ul> </div> </div> </body>