Sorry Bath cannot be done, Funny they maybe, but PC they are not, not to mention that they smoke in the film, almost criminal now.
I think you mean Carry on follow that Camel
Saw Carry on follow that Camel last month on UKGold wonderfully un PC with lots of Ali Baba jokes and everyone shouting "MUSTAFALEAK" as the Arabs fall to their knees.
Actually, the version of the story I read suggested that the Muslim parents were not intolerant at all.
The quotes definately implied that teaching about homosexuality was not the issue, but the age of the children was. They thought they were far too young to be introduced to sex at all (and I would say the same about my children), and were coming home asking about homosexual relationships. I suspect the same people trying to sexualise the teaching of 5 year olds are as shocked as anyone by sexual abuse of children. They don't see the irony that society that is so obsessed by child sex crimes is bent on the sexualisation of children, in school, on TV, in magazines and books and in clothing.
Sorry to introduce a slight thread drift but can anyone explain why a perfectly good english word, which in past times was used to describe a feeling of being happy and carefree, was hijacked by people who my Dad described as homos or poofters?
Can't we find them another word so we can restore the rightful meaning.
Agree with good words being highjacked, but the answer is not to find to new ones, your father had two perfectly serviceable words.
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Sorry to introduce a slight thread drift but can anyone explain why a perfectly good english word, which in past times was used to describe a feeling of being happy and carefree, was hijacked by people who my Dad described as homos or poofters?
Forsooth not hijacked, but morph-ed from one meaning unto another. Wilt thou have us talketh one way forever, yea without changes?
Verilly I say that language is likened to a living thing. It groweth and it changeth. Many are the words you use now that held fast to other meanings in time of yore.
..."thread drift"? What, pray, be this thread and how doth it drifteth? Is not thread the smallest part of fabric from which we garments do fashion? Doth it now have meaning anew?
It's a mystery as to how the meaning of the word "gay" came to be so drastically altered. How was this actually acheived? I was born in 1959, and in the late 60s, I was very familar with the words "homo" and "poofter" - although I didn't have the slightest idea about the botty stuff that El Grifo refers to. (In fact, I didn't have the slightest idea about front-botty stuff either, and probably still don't.)
So there must have been a particular year, in the late 60s or early 70s, when the word "gay" was put up and then universally adopted.
I can certainly recall that by the late 70s, the word "gay" had joined the various synonyms of "homo" and "poofter".
OK. Can I propose that in order for us to retrieve the word 'gay' and to be able to restore it to it's true meaning, we allocate another word for use by the botty brothers.
Saw Carry on follow that Camel last month on UKGold wonderfully un PC with lots of Ali Baba jokes and everyone shouting "MUSTAFALEAK" as the Arabs fall to their knees.
Yup. Please get your anti-Arab jokes correct !! Carry On Up The Khyber was the one with the Khazi of Kalabar !!!
