Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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11 February 2010
14:0540292When I was very young, just before I graduated up to the Victor and Valiant comics I liked the Beano. Much better than its main rival the Dandy.
One of my favourites was Dennis the Menace and he is still going in the comic now, except....he has been knobbled by the pc brigade.
He no longer bullies Walter the Softy (they have even given Walter a girlfriend, heaven forbid!)
He has his catapult and pea shooter but no longer fires them at people
He no longer gets slippered by his dad....
Even Gnasher no longer bites people!
How boring, how sad and how pathetic to bow down to the nuttier sections of today's sad society.
DC Comics deserve to go bust now for neutering their characters....
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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11 February 2010
14:1640294If I became a dictator in this country Barry, rather than round up any religious or political groups, the first lot I`d sort out would be the political correct brigade.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
DT1- Location: Dover
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11 February 2010
14:2140296He got slippered by his Dad but continued to be naughty, hmmm.
Maybe this is where some of these 'PC nutters' got their ideas from, punishment clearly doesn't work.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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11 February 2010
14:2440297do the bash street kids still exist, i used to like them, lord snooty was my favourite(no offence PB).
i think it was the dandy that had desperate dan, eating cow pie.
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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11 February 2010
14:3440303They are probably called the 'Lets sit down and discuss your issues' street kids.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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11 February 2010
16:2040312I love that Jeane. I think it would be much funnier if it wasn`t so serious. (That sound right?). Howard, I think Desperate Dan would be eating a 10 pounder McD if he was still about today.
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Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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11 February 2010
16:3240314very good Jeane.
Colin, I expect that Desperate Dan would have turned vegetarian.. no more cow pie!!!
11 February 2010
16:3940315Or maybe "organic cow pie". You know, the same stuff but ten times more expensive!
11 February 2010
16:4240317I believe that the government views both Dennis and Gnasher's change in behaviour a proof positive that both ASBOs and the Dangerous Dogs Act are working.
Meanwhile I hear that Billy Whizz has been diagnosed with ADHD and is responding well to Ritalin.
Mini the Minx is now living as a male and wishes to be known as Malcolm the Minx whilst awaiting surgery to reassign his/her gender.
Do forumites have any up to date news of others?
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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11 February 2010
16:5340318I think Plug is still on the NHS list for his teeth to be sorted.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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11 February 2010
17:0040321apparently the publishers have bowed to public pressure and allowed denis to send softie walter threatening text messages.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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11 February 2010
17:3140328Well note my first post where I referred to the Valiant comic.
Remember Captain Hurricane? The big tough Royal Marine who sent the Jerries and Japs flying with his fists during his 'ragin' furies'.
He has been sent on a temper management course.
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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11 February 2010
17:3640330I remember Desperate Dan using real pickaxes as toothpics and in one strip whilst trying to woo a ladylove using an angle-grinder to try and smooth down his bristles
Smiffy from the Bash Street Kids was one of my favourites.
11 February 2010
19:2440341OMG how stupid. When a kid's comic falls victim to a political force then I think all is lost. I also find it bewildering that kids seem to be getting more nasty and violent, more inclined to stab, shoot, or bully people, more prone to anti-social behaviour, more capable of getting drugs or under-age binge drinking, and more threatening generally. I actually think that this type of PC censorship contributes to this behaviour because kids cannot express and give vent to any of their inner feelings with such suppressed material.
Guest 644- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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11 February 2010
20:0040349Exactly so. When exactly do kids set out to emulate comic book characters anyway? I don't recall ever trying to imitate Dennis the Menace or my sister Beryl the Peril! Yet again entertainment media becomes a scapegoat for social problems and is forced to bend to fit the simplistic and unrealistic view that kids cannot distinguish fantasy and reality.
Whatever next? I suppose Judge Dredd will holster his gun and instead dish out ASBOs to Mega City One denizens or an anger management course to Judge Death.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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11 February 2010
20:0940354Bring back Bill and Ben, wouldn`t hurt anyone. Not even a little weed. The days when the `F word` meant flobalob.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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11 February 2010
20:4840365now you're talking colin, bill and ben!!
i wonder what they smoked that made them speak they way they did?
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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11 February 2010
20:4940366Weed I imagine Howard. Although I should think the little house knew something about it, don`t you?
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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11 February 2010
20:5540370i never read anything about a police raid colin, maybe it will be in the express next week?
Guest 666- Registered: 25 Mar 2008
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11 February 2010
21:0140371Not to mention those not so F.A.B. Thunderbirds flying around everywhere belching great clouds of noxious gases that would burn a hole in anything, let alone an ozone layer
We made up our own comics at school in the Art room and in it Mr. Whale - his real name - the swimming teacher / sadist was pictured merrily whacking us with his snorkel as usual.
My favourite scene was Mr. Bamford throwing his wooden duster at some slouch, causing his dandruff to fall and all the class submerging under the resuting 'avalanche'.
Suppose Tom and Jerry are next to be sanitised - oh dear...
Oh Boy!, That'll be the day.........
