What's the world coming to? Etc...
Don't fancy yours much.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/6375884/Mock-The-Week-in-trouble-over-Rebecca-Adlington-joke.html
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Political correctness gone mad - ugly people
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if something is true, how can it be pulled up for being politically incorrect?
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Rebecca Adlington resembled "someone who's looking at themselves in the back of a spoon".
LOL ! Excellent !
I think some of the people who complained might have misunderstood the title of the show : "Mock The Week" ......... were they surprised to discover that there was much "mocking" going on ?
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Quality. Sorry. Its cruel NOTHING to do with political correctness IMO.
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I'm sure Rebecca is thrilled at the publicity over this. Despite being a decent-looking girl she has made history as the first person to be so funny looking that her appearance has been treated like a disability.
In addition people all over the country who have never heard about any of this are now looking at her picture and saying "well, she actually does slightly resemble somebody who's looking at themselves in the back of a spoon"
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that was last year, wasn't it? Talk about old news.
Despite being a decent-looking girl
I put it to you that you have visual difficulties.Posted 2 years ago # -
I love the fact that because of this, they're now broadcasting the "humiliating" and "offensive" spoon joke to a far wider audience
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add me to that list shandy.
she does indeed.shes still fair pretty though :s
ide hit that
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The essential thing about "Sachsgate" was that, whether you found it amusing or not, an old man who hadn't really done anything to deserve it returned home and turned on his answerphone to find a series of messages left specifically for the purpose of humiliating him for comic effect, which also happened to have been broadcast. That direct intrusion into someone's life seems to me (whether it's funny or not) to be different from saying something derogatory (whether it's funny or not) about them when they aren't there.
You can quite clearly do a lot of comedy without a repeat of Sachsgate. It becomes a lot harder if you have to avoid simply being rude about people when they're not there. Especially if you're Frankie Boyle.
And I'm not sure how editorial decisions on Mock The Week are supposed to operate at all if there has to be a "clear editorial purpose for the inclusion of [each] joke."
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de hit that
looks like she already has.....by the branches of the tree..Posted 2 years ago # -
I'm also intrigued that this one was "humiliating and offensive" while claiming that the queen is so old that her vagina is haunted was alright. I'm sure it's possible to create a set of rules that distinguishes the two, but I'm not sure I can do it off the top of my head.
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Lets face it lads you have all done much worse
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She's not THAT bad. And she doesn't look for publicity, it seems a bit cruel. Funny, but cruel. Not sure anything should be "done" about it.
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I think it could be funny as the price of fame but would you be laughing if they said that about you?
I think she is fine. but is she fine about the comment? I'd be miffed.
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She's not THAT bad. And she doesn't look for publicity, it seems a bit cruel.
Oh come on coffeeking, she loves publicity. Although I agree that it's cruel, and I'm sure that she doesn't want her subjects discussing her pussy.
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BOBFOC
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I for once agree with coffeeking but not with griz.
She is not looking for publicity. Does she likes it? I guess so, but I am pretty confident that her main aim is to try to defend her Olympic title, not to be on mock the week.Posted 2 years ago # -
I don't much like the idea of a complete ban on discussing people on late night comedy shows who have other things to do with their lives besides being discussed on late night comedy shows, juan. I think you'd kill the format.
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Shandy - Lets face it lads you have all done much worse
Yes, but has she?
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Would I? Yes. Thats not a glowing indictment though.
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You've all done much worse. Aye. And been knocked back by worse too, no doubt
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juan - Member
I for once agree with coffeeking but not with griz.
She is not looking for publicity.You've got to be kidding Juan - she loves publicity. And anyway, you lot chopped the head off your Queen. So I think the comment about her pussy being haunted pales into insignificance in comparison.
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Ones only got to go to any bike ride or race,and see some that resemble ex cast members of fraggle rock,but then we are not famous.
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I wasn't talking about the queen.
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Bit of a cheap shot at somebody who hasn't set themselves up as anything other than a fast swimmer, and who at the time had only just come to prominence. Not worth resurrecting at this stage but somebody ought to tell Frankie Boyle to raise his game or get off the telly into working mens clubs.
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I take it youve never seen Frankie Boyle live? Hes quite a bit ruder than he is on TV.
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Frankie Boyle is a comedic genius, it WAS funny, he need not raise his game. However it was also cruel.
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FFS - you think "our Becks" is ugly? Did you see the captain of UCL on University Challeneg last night?
I'm still having nightmares now...
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She is not ugly, she has an interesting face.
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"Did you see the captain of UCL on University Challeneg last night?"
that was a man in a dress, though, when all's said and done.
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binners. On pull a pig nights I'd shock even you. I've been known to win a fair few of these being a competitive sort.
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If she didn't want to be in the public eye, she shouldn't have swam so fast. Publicity goes with the territory of being the best AND proving it in public.
I easily swim faster than the world record times. Come to that I could out bike Lance too. But I choose only to do it in private as I don't fancy the jokes!
On a more serious note, the BBC, actually the whole country is going to go to the dogs (faster than expected) if comics can't make jokes like that in the future.
FFS I wish society had some sort of proportion!
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But I choose only to do it in private as I don't fancy the jokes!
You must be one ugly bugger Posted 2 years ago #
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