Sweary Poppins

[jamiefairlie]

I see Hottentot is now offside. What am I going to say now when the temperature is too high?

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68402362

[Goldentony]

the only two uses of that term that i've ever heard are the 1964 children's musical comedy film Mary Poppins and the lyrics to the song Thee Most Exhalted Potentate Of Love from the Smell Of Female EP by The Cramps

[checkoutgirl]

the only two uses of that term that i've ever heard are the 1964 children's musical comedy film Mary Poppins and the lyrics to the song Thee Most Exhalted Potentate Of Love from the Smell Of Female EP by The Cramps

Also in a song by Shakespears Sister. Was never curious enough to ask what is means though.

[Goldentony]

Also in a song by Shakespears Sister. Was never curious enough to ask what is means though.

OK, so far this seems mostly to be an issue among 80s goths from what I can tell

[Gulftastic]

Gammon snowflakes are screaming about this on Twitter. This is censorship gone mad (despite there being no actual censorship) and means the end of the world.

[Cleveland Steamer]

killdozer CANCELLED

[Goldentony]

shit, the 80s goth call was right! what the fuck was happening in the 80s!!!

[phantom_power]

Well I don't know what this word means so how can it possibly be offensive?

[Stoneage Dinosaurs]

Honestly they should make it an 18 so that no child has to sit through it ever again

[frajer]

🎶 Can't say a thing,
Can't say a thing
These days, can you?

I've got a film it's now racist to view
🎶

[El Unicornio, mang]

The Cowardly Luon uses the word in Wizard of Oz

What makes the Hottentot so hot?

So presumably that'll be getting its rating bumped up at some point too

[Famous Mortimer]

Love the thought of gammons organising "Mary Poppins" watch parties

[Butchers Blind]

I'd never heard the word until that article. That's right, I've never watched Mary Poppins.

[jamiefairlie]

The Cowardly Luon uses the word in Wizard of Oz

So presumably that'll be getting its rating bumped up at some point too

Yeah but that's because of them hanging midgets in the background as a lesson to any of the rest of the jumped up little cunts asking for a pay rise.

[Norton Canes]

killdozer CANCELLED

And Shakespears Sister

[frajer]

Yeah but that's because of them hanging midgets in the background as a lesson to any of the rest of the jumped up little cunts asking for a pay rise.

Also when the Cowardly Lion says put em upppp put em upppp he's talking about cocks into arses.

Ban this sick filth.

[jamiefairlie]

Also when the Cowardly Lion says put em upppp put em upppp he's talking about cocks into arses.

Ban this sick filth.

And the Tin Man's all stiff and needs oiling, yeah I bet he does, the sick perv.

[Butchers Blind]

The Sound of Music is a U but there's that scene where the other nuns call Maria a dirty slag.

[jamiefairlie]

The Sound of Music is a U but there's that scene where the other nuns call Maria a dirty slag.

And then all lez up, well in the version I saw they did anyway. On reflection I'm not at all sure they were real nuns to be honest.

[Kankurette]

Only song I've heard it in is Tom Lehrer's We Will All Go Together When We Go, which was written in the '50s, I think?

[Bad Ambassador]

And it uses the word 'Eskimo' in the same line, although it's now often considered offensive. Lehrer gets a pass, I think, because of the times and his generally progressive outlook.

[Noodle Lizard]

I don't see why they don't just merge the U and PG ratings together, there's no practical difference between the two.

I'm not sure about the merit of changing a certificate from one to the other over an archaic slur which you wouldn't be aware of before going in, though, wouldn't it be better to add one of those "some of this old shit might be upsetting now" disclaimers to the head of it? Sometimes I wonder if the BBFC just does things to remind you they're there.

[Kankurette]

And it uses the word 'Eskimo' in the same line, although it's now often considered offensive. Lehrer gets a pass, I think, because of the times and his generally progressive outlook.

Yeah, he does use 'wetback' in one version of In Old Mexico but he's not too bad on the slur front otherwise.

[The Mollusk]

And yet Dycke Van Dyke's cockneyface gets a free pass? Makes me sick. Makes you sick as well. Sick world.

[madhair60]

WHAT van WHAT??? etc

[Senior Baiano]

I heard that pakistani grooming gangs ordered them¹ to ban mary poppins. And they² had to do it, because of woke.

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[Mr Vegetables]

The context of this is that an old man who used to be in the navy mistakes some chimney sweeps for black people, then starts firing at them with cannons which he has in a boat on the  the top of his house

I'm surprised that nobody said anything about that bit really

[Midas]

Never actually watched this

Went on YouTube and spent what felt like hours alone in the shivering cold watching Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious with funereal solemnity

This is good, is it

[Mr Banlon]

The Sound of Music is a U but there's that scene where the other nuns call Maria a dirty slag.

Every one of the 'favourite things' she lists are euphemisms for kinky sex stuff.

[Famous Mortimer]

Every one of the 'favourite things' she lists are euphemisms for kinky sex stuff.

I put my foot through the CD player and sent Julie Andrews the bill