Political Correctness gone mad

[Smooth Operator 10]

A lass was on the radio this morning saying her bloke was a taxi driver in Gateshead and he wasn't allowed to hang tinsel in his car, iirc she said it was the same last year.

 

I'd imagine Dean's taxi firm would be hit by this ban as it's the biggest in Gateshead.

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Well it must be true then. Quick, phone the Daily Mail!

 

P.S. What religious connotation does tinsel have? Could there be another more legitimate reason?

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Sorry Rabbi Renton, i seem to have given you a flea in your kippa!

 

The connection is simply that tinsel is a christmas related decoration and they take offence to it. This wife was also on about the taxi drivers being asked not to refer to Christmas but to say festive period instead! Basically not specify the particular occasion, so next time Ramadam comes round I expect not to hear a peep out of the Jews then?????

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Excuse me for asking for a source; some wifey of a taxi driver on the radio doesn't really count for me. If you think its true though, contact the Mail or TalkSport, they'll make it the headline in 5 minutes.

 

Don't know if you're being ironic about Ramadam btw.

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Me neither.

 

I think i'm being more iconic than ironic tbh.

[Meenzer 15304]

This asylum seeker mate of mine told me all Jews get free tinsel for Rubadub. I'm confused now.

[BlueStar 0]

Some guy rang up Bill O'Reilly (radio bloke in the US) and said people were banned from wearing red and green in a certain town. He ranted on and on, encouraging people to dress up like Christmas trees and line the streets, even after several people rang him to say it was all bullshit.

 

Syndicated controversial talk show host Bill O’Reilly said on his radio show:

 

“In Saginaw , Michigan , the township opposes red and green clothing…on Anyone, In Saginaw Township they basically said anybody, we don’t want you wearing red or green. I would dress up from head to toe in red to green if I were in Saginaw Michigan .”

 

-- Bill O’Reilly

 

WNEM TV-5 Talked to Saginaw Township supervisor Tim Braun who says O’Reilly’s comments are flat out not true. Braun goes on to say the township hall has red and green Christmas lights adorning the building at night.

http://www.wnem.com/Global/story.asp?S=4235657

Edited December 15, 2005 by BlueStar

[manc-mag 1]

This asylum seeker mate of mine told me all Jews get free tinsel for Rubadub. I'm confused now. 

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Wacky Jnr gets a free meal at Byker Sally Army Soup Kitchen.

[Meenzer 15304]

This asylum seeker mate of mine told me all Jews get free tinsel for Rubadub. I'm confused now. 

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Wacky Jnr gets a free meal at Byker Sally Army Soup Kitchen.

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I've met Byker Sally. Face like a slapped arse and her soup's worse than gruel. Wouldn't cross her though, she's got an army, ye knaa.

 

 

 

 

(And I haven't even started on the mulled wine yet... )

[Smooth Operator 10]

This asylum seeker mate of mine told me all Jews get free tinsel for Rubadub. I'm confused now. 

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Wacky Jnr gets a free meal at Byker Sally Army Soup Kitchen.

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FACT

[BlueStar 0]

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[The Fish 10648]

I'd reckon it's more likley to be some soft shite from the local council then any Jewish militant anti-tinsel mob.

 

or perhaps it's just a barrel of bollocks mind?

[Guest alex]

A lass was on the radio this morning saying her bloke was a taxi driver in Gateshead and he wasn't allowed to hang tinsel in his car, iirc she said it was the same last year.

 

I'd imagine Dean's taxi firm would be hit by this ban as it's the biggest in Gateshead.

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A taxi driver told me that asylum seekers got free tellies and another one told my mate Paul that they got free cars

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Cars with free tellies in tbh.

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It's true btw. Well, the bit about us being told that by taxi drivers is anyway.

[Smooth Operator 10]

Welcome to Wifey World News, a subsiduary of the Bint Broadcasting Corporation

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How do you think the phrase "old wives tales" came about? From wifey's in the know that's how!

 

I'm off to tune into HISOTWM FM now for the lateset news.

 

Her

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[manc-mag 1]

A lass was on the radio this morning saying her bloke was a taxi driver in Gateshead and he wasn't allowed to hang tinsel in his car, iirc she said it was the same last year.

 

I'd imagine Dean's taxi firm would be hit by this ban as it's the biggest in Gateshead.

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A taxi driver told me that asylum seekers got free tellies and another one told my mate Paul that they got free cars

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Cars with free tellies in tbh.

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It's true btw. Well, the bit about us being told that by taxi drivers is anyway.

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He probably tells the asylum seekers he had Telly Savalas in the back last week too mind.

[Guest alex]

Welcome to Wifey World News, a subsiduary of the Bint Broadcasting Corporation

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How do you think the phrase "old wives tales" came about? From wifey's in the know that's how!

 

I'm off to tune into HISOTWM FM now for the lateset news.

 

Her

Indoors

Sitting

On

The

Washing

Machine

 

FM

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Old wives' tales aren't true though

[Guest alex]

A lass was on the radio this morning saying her bloke was a taxi driver in Gateshead and he wasn't allowed to hang tinsel in his car, iirc she said it was the same last year.

 

I'd imagine Dean's taxi firm would be hit by this ban as it's the biggest in Gateshead.

68314[/snapback]

A taxi driver told me that asylum seekers got free tellies and another one told my mate Paul that they got free cars

68318[/snapback]

 

Cars with free tellies in tbh.

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It's true btw. Well, the bit about us being told that by taxi drivers is anyway.

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He probably tells the asylum seekers he had Telly Savalas in the back last week too mind.

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You're fucking in for it Mr Blobby

[Gemmill 43853]

Source?  Who's banning them?  Which taxi companies?

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Hanukkabs tbh

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[manc-mag 1]

Source?  Who's banning them?  Which taxi companies?

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Hanukkabs tbh

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I'm glad someone else on here has the barest rudiments of an edumercation. We're wasted on here tbh mate.

[Gemmill 43853]

Source?  Who's banning them?  Which taxi companies?

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Hanukkabs tbh

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I'm glad someone else on here has the barest rudiments of an edumercation. We're wasted on here tbh mate.

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It was a sympathy lol tbh.

[manc-mag 1]

I dont think I get any other kind tbph

[Rob W 0]

A lass was on the radio this morning saying her bloke was a taxi driver in Gateshead and he wasn't allowed to hang tinsel in his car, iirc she said it was the same last year.

 

I'd imagine Dean's taxi firm would be hit by this ban as it's the biggest in Gateshead.

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A taxi driver told me that asylum seekers got free tellies and another one told my mate Paul that they got free cars

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That would be one of them taxi drivers who pays tax on all his income and tips then

[Radgina 1]

Nazi GOLD tbh!

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The Swiss'll look after it for us.

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Actually the "hat" is called a Yamulke and ther is some Jewish bird in New York making bras out of them !!!!

[BlueStar 0]

Aye, based on a line from an MC Paul Barman song

[Radgina 1]

Aye, based on a line from an MC Paul Barman song

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exactly.... I see you read the Metro paper too !!!

[Gejon 2]

A lass was on the radio this morning saying her bloke was a taxi driver in Gateshead and he wasn't allowed to hang tinsel in his car, iirc she said it was the same last year.

 

I'd imagine Dean's taxi firm would be hit by this ban as it's the biggest in Gateshead.

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Well it must be true then. Quick, phone the Daily Mail!

 

P.S. What religious connotation does tinsel have? Could there be another more legitimate reason?

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Presumably if the drivers wanted to express their Christianity in some other way they could dress up as Jesus over xmas instead. With all loin cloths n that.

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Best post ever! FACT!

[zico martin 89]

This asylum seeker mate of mine told me all Jews get free tinsel for Rubadub. I'm confused now. 

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a real laugh out loud there too fella

[Rob W 0]

A lass was on the radio this morning saying her bloke was a taxi driver in Gateshead and he wasn't allowed to hang tinsel in his car, iirc she said it was the same last year.

 

I'd imagine Dean's taxi firm would be hit by this ban as it's the biggest in Gateshead.

68314[/snapback]

 

Well it must be true then. Quick, phone the Daily Mail!

 

P.S. What religious connotation does tinsel have? Could there be another more legitimate reason?

68317[/snapback]

 

Presumably if the drivers wanted to express their Christianity in some other way they could dress up as Jesus over xmas instead. With all loin cloths n that.

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Best post ever! FACT!

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and think of the fun we'll have at Easter - a long line of crosses along the taxi rank at the Central

[ewerk 30096]

 

BBC chief: no more comedy shows with all-male panels

 

Corporation is acting on recommendations by the Trust to boost female presence on screen

Danny Cohen, head of the BBC's television output, has promised viewers that the corporation will not make any more all-male comedy panel shows.

 

Following recommendations made by the BBC Trust last year, Cohen has underlined his determination to see women appearing in the habitually macho environment of panel shows such as QI and Mock the Week. Talking to the Observer about his plans for better representing his audiences on screen, Cohen said: "We're not going to have any more panel shows with no women on them. It's not acceptable."

 

Cohen, who ran BBC1 until last spring and before that was the controller of digital channel BBC3, also said he had work to do to make sure there are more older women featuring in the corporation's television programmes.

 

"We are getting better," he said, pointing to the high-profile example of historian Mary Beard. "But we need to do more."

 

A BBC spokesman said that while it is possible that some panel shows recorded several months ago may still appear without a female team member or chairperson, every episode recorded from now on will include at least one woman.

 

"There may be very rare occasions where shows that were already recorded – or whose panels were already booked ahead of the order – still have all-male line-ups, but hopefully the change should really become apparent," the spokesman said.

 

In December, BBC management told programme producers there was "no excuse" for not having women on comedy panel shows after new sex-representation objectives were set by the BBC Trust. In July last year, the Trust asked BBC director general Tony Hall to get more women on air "as a matter of urgency" throughout 2013-14.

 

Panel shows were immediately chosen by Cohen as a priority and a problem that would be relatively straightforward to address. In-house and external producers were told to ensure that panel shows and quizzes involved at least one woman.

 

The BBC's entertainment controller, Mark Linsey, said that such programmes would be improved by the mix of sexes. "I'm making it clear to production teams that there's just no excuse for delivering all-male guest lists," he said.

 

The initiative followed the publication of a document commissioned for the Cultural Diversity Network in 2012 which had singled out the panel shows QI and Mock The Week for "rarely having women represented".

 

Attention focused on the issue in 2009, when Victoria Wood complained to the Radio Times about the "testosterone-fuelled nature" of such shows. "A lot of programmes are very male-dominated, because they rely on men topping each other, which is not a very female thing," she said.

 

Wood's words were echoed by Jo Brand, who said she no longer considered appearing on Mock The Week. "And neither do some male stand-ups I know," she said. "We didn't like the prospect of having to bite someone's foot off before they let us say something."

 

Television producers have argued that women often turn down the more competitive shows and Brand agreed that there are hefty disincentives, including the fears that they might not get a word in or may be edited to look stupid.

 

Brand said that QI, the general knowledge quiz show on BBC2, gave contributors more time to think and was less aggressive, but added that women were used as "window dressing" on shows such as Never Mind the Buzzcocks and were frequently ridiculed on They Think It's All Overand Have I Got News For You.

 

Kate Kinninmont, chief executive of Women in Film and Television, a group for women working in the industry, said last year that several of these shows had made progress: "People said for years there are no funny women and it was a struggle to get women on shows like Have I Got News for You. But that has improved, as has the number of women on Question Time."

 

Mock The Week is repeatedly cited as the worst offender. The topical show has an all-male line-up of regulars and series 12 managed to fill only five of 38 guest spots with female guests. Katherine Ryan and Holly Walsh appeared twice each, and Ava Vidal appeared once. Among other women to have braved the so-called bearpit of BBC panel shows are Ronni Ancona, Nina Conti and Sarah Millican.

 

Hugh Dennis, a Mock The Week regular, spoke recently about the armoury required by potential women guests. Millican, he said, had a kind of quiet confidence that allowed her to rise above the boyish banter. "She kind of happily sits there sometimes and doesn't bother fighting fire with fire. She looks as if she is thinking, 'Oh you get on with it'. And then, when she says something, she does it brilliantly," he said.

 

While television sitcoms starring women are enduringly popular – even if, in the case of Mrs Brown's Boys, the woman is a man – Armando Iannucci recently called for more women to write comedy scripts.

 

But Brand highlighted a "practical problem" of supply and demand early on: "There are far more male comics than women. When I started, there were about 200 male stand-ups and about 20 female – roughly one woman for every two-and-a-half panel shows."