Click here for Arsenal FC news and reports

Results 1 to 10 of 30

Thread: Now I'm no fan of retrospective political correctness, but on balance, even I'll

Hybrid View

Previous Post Previous Post   Next Post Next Post
  1. #1
    Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
    It's true enough that times and mores change and we adjust accordingly; one just wonders how far your story is from this story. Not very far at all, I'd suggest. A slippery slope?

    https://www.theguardian.com/books/20...age-harper-lee
    A linked piece from there refers to an instance where parents were required to give permission for their child to read Farenheit 451.

    https://www.theguardian.com/books/20...s-for-children

  2. #2
    Quote Originally Posted by Ash View Post
    A linked piece from there refers to an instance where parents were required to give permission for their child to read Farenheit 451.

    https://www.theguardian.com/books/20...s-for-children
    They'll be burning books within 12 months, trust me. (That doesn't mean they'll also burn people. That's patent nonsense.)

  3. #3
    Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
    They'll be burning books within 12 months, trust me. (That doesn't mean they'll also burn people. That's patent nonsense.)
    You mean pagan nonsense
    10 characters? Pile of cund.

  4. #4
    Quote Originally Posted by Ash View Post
    A linked piece from there refers to an instance where parents were required to give permission for their child to read Farenheit 451.

    https://www.theguardian.com/books/20...s-for-children
    LOL! You have to admire the sheer lack of awareness that has to go into something like that.

  5. #5
    Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
    LOL! You have to admire the sheer lack of awareness that has to go into something like that.
    This is a cyclical thing. We Americans are an incredibly ignorant bunch. I can remember reading a sanitized version of the Canterbury Tales when I was a kid. But they would change things to eliminate, not just the sexy bits, but the poetry. It's like, poetry bad.

  6. #6
    Quote Originally Posted by eastgermanautos View Post
    This is a cyclical thing. We Americans are an incredibly ignorant bunch. I can remember reading a sanitized version of the Canterbury Tales when I was a kid. But they would change things to eliminate, not just the sexy bits, but the poetry. It's like, poetry bad.
    Everyone is, in a way. Just by circumstances usually. Even though she loves him to bits, as does everyone else, of course, until I took her to see the Sweeney Todd movie, my wife had never actually heard Johnnie Depp's voice. She's foreign, see, and all the movies and television they import is dubbed and translated and therefore naturally re-interpreted.

    Profound really, and rather sad.
    "Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.

    "But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •