Two's in.
Did you actually watch Alf Garnett, as I am not sure you understand the message
from the show.
Maybe I am not getting your point, but as far as the show was concerned, the
joke was at Alf for being an idiot, and not at the expense of any black people.
It was not saying whites are superior or that blacks are inferior, but rather that
Alf was out of touch and he was in the wrong.
I have just remembered something, which I found very funny
(but may upset some posters).
While on one of the Bold 'something' exercises in Germany, one of my best mates
(I am too scared to say he was of Asian origin, as this will be seen as validation by some), who was a fellow Bristolian, but had parents from India, used to dress up
as a punka wholla, by wearing old sheets, every time visiting officers would come
by the squadron location. My troop commander would say that we did not know
his name, but that he just followed us all over the world to serve tea (at this point, please note that this was my mates idea to do this, amongst many other bizarre
stunts).
To me this whole episode was massively funny, because the visitors believed the
story every time......And for no other reason
.
Just to balance this up a bit. While staying at another camp in the South of
England, this same mate had been out for a few drinks late one night, and decided
he could not walk back to camp. With his beer goggles on he saw an approaching
taxi, and jumped out in front of it, saying 'oi mate take me home'
Now, for the rest of us with our normal eye sight working, it was plain to see he
had just jumped in front of an MOD black mini metro......Being driven by the
Sergeant Major
