The latest victim of this disease being Daisy Goodwin apparently.
Miss Goodwin, 57, who created the ITV drama series Victoria, said: ‘If you really want to nail the BBC for influencing the nation’s state of mind about Brexit, you might look at how often Dad’s Army has been shown on BBC2.
‘The BBC, if it wants to maintain its claim to impartiality, needs to retire the Home Guard (or send them on leave), because in the words of Private Frazer, ‘We are all doomed!”
Writing in Radio Times, Miss Goodwin accused the BBC of ‘getting it wrong’ in the Brexit debate, and suggested it was affecting public attitudes with the repeats, which she claimed attract ten times more viewers than Newsnight.
That’s how low these people are sinking. I really have nothing to add, other than to point and laugh at the lunatic.
Well Dad’s Army and anything else by Croft and Perry is hugely entertaining and can be watched time and time again, unlike the politically correct, diverse shit people like Daisy Fuckwit turn out.
yep, dads army is classic, taking the mick out of ourselves)
But according to the new comedy rules Dad’s Army can’t be acceptable anymore because it wasn’t written by enough women. Just like Monty Python and the Goon Show. Apparently Jo ‘throw acid at them not milkshake’ Brand is funny though.
If you really want to see what is true comedy gold these days, have a look at Amy Schumer in the US……
But objecting to this blatant sexism is white men being all precious and feeling threatened. These people have no self-awareness.
When repeated repeats of 30 year old comedy shows gain bigger audiences than a flagship current affairs programme, you have to ask just how bad/out of touch is Newsnight? Just possibly, Daisy, that was a stone better left unturned.
Quite so. But these people are so unaware, that they don’t get it.
I’m still trying to work out which planet you need to be from to perceive Dad’s Army as being pro Brexit. Is it because it is set during the 1940s when Germans were, for some unfathomable reason, cast as the baddies? Also, in what black is white up is down and short is long world is the effing BBC pro Brexit? Presumably she thinks that the BBC is sceptical about climate change as well.
The world they live in is the ‘complaints from both sides’ so ‘we got it about right’.
That is like one faction here complaining that our host doesn’t write enough about bikes and the other faction that he doesn’t write about cars at all. Complaints from both sides of ‘bike versus car’ debate, so must be ‘about right’!
The world can only wonder what Ms. Goodwin would think of “It Ain’t Half Hot Mum”. Probably not seen it because it has been considered no longer acceptable viewing by the maiden aunts of the BBC.
I recently reminded myself just how good that series was. Binge watched it on DVD. It would piss off all the right people.
I love ‘It Ain’t Half Hot Mum’ !
When the Indian 350 Enfield motorcycle was first imported into Britain in the late 1970s, I remember Superbike magazine doing a road test. The title of the write up was “It ain’t half slow mum”. I think that the bikes were fitted with a really small carburetor that made them very economical but gave very poor performance even for such a dated design.
@LR
OT – Migraine; BBC R4 1130 25 June
Sufferers are too perceptive; process too much eyes see, ears hear, nose smells etc and overload brain.
Yes, I do that subconsciously and migraine, but it’s averted crashes (saved my life?) many times on bikes (eg smelt diesel) & cars – self confessed speed freak.
Shame all interviewed were arty farty types.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000678d
* Smell, see, hear on bikes – thank you 1980s bike mags for drumming that in; Favourite was Motorcycle Mechanics, boxes of them in loft.
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@Stonyground
Superbike Mag – the centre spreads “insulated” my bike shed 🙂
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PS: Daisy – evil lefty usual ban happiness demand. Anyone named after a weed, flower, vegetable should be ignored. Dad’s Army must continue to be shown; air Steptoe too.
Lovely scenery and music
Walking routes to The Old Bailey
Good work.
Interesting point about migraines. I have a highly developed spacial awareness.
I see your Steptoe and raise you one Garnett.
Resonated with me, when migraine I want cool, dark, silence – no stimulus.
See? I’m 50+ now and stll see what others don’t – bald tyres (as in 0 mm) on a Mummy car in a car park today; Mrs Pcar didn’t see.
See screw/nail “puncture” on road etc
Good Mother – absorbing eyes, ears info; thinks & reacts fast saves child and phone – biker?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TB3lKc0e_g
Garnett? Dick Emery 🙂
Ah, yes, Dick Emery a motorcycle enthusiast, too. However, his brand of humour won’t go down well with the pearl-clutching, pompous, prissy, purse-lipped, poisonous, PC puritans of today.
Eddie Booth and Bill Reynolds?
Dick Emery camp banned, but Norton et al OK. History banned? Yet BBC Socialist camp millionaire leeches worshipped
Nice to see Ben Fogle has donated 1 year’s salary to >75 TV Licence fund
Bill Reynolds? Who? Which?
Music? Fishing? Vietnam War vet?
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Eddie Booth? Who?
Love Thy Neighbour?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGesyvKfAOA
btw I’ve ordered Turbo kit for the (de-restricted after delivery, before riding) ZZR 🙂
Yes, Love Thy Neighbour. Verboten these days.
Never found Love Thy Neighbour funny as child or now; Emery (was & is) & Garnett (was and 50%). imo 60/70s ITV comedy sitcom were poor
I did enjoy “On The Buses” – maybe because things with engines.
btw: the mummy 2x child seats Nissan Qashqai Reg SD07NPO with 0mm tread front tyres – would you inform police?
@LR
Your and your mates may like this, I did especially the “Traitor May” parts.
Justice For Northern Ireland Veterans Part 2 – Downing Street, London (BBC bias by omission)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk0t02zrlGc
See also youtube.com/watch?v=Nmvb66tvwCg
SD07NPO ?