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chive
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I am disgusted that there are new stamps being released with children's television characters on them. Do the royal mail not know how offensive these are?
Firstly some religious groups like the exclusive brethren don't watch television. How are they meant to be part of UK society when even stamps discriminate against them?
Secondly, isn't Peppa Pig a...pig? Our Muslim and Jewish friends (don't we all worship the same God after all) will be unable to use these stamps.
Thirdly, Postman Pat is being represented. As the Royal Mail is being privatised, isn't this just an attempt to get around public discontent with this right wing decision by using a well loved children's character on a stamp?
Fourthly, Windy Millar is from Camberwick Green. I don't recall any ethnic minorities on this programme. Tis outrage.
Fifthly, Dougal, Bagpuss and Shaun the Sheep are all animals, what about those people with allergies?
Sixthly, is Uncle Bulgaria just being included to welcome those arriving from Romania and Bulgaria. It's political correctness gone mad I tell you.
Alternatively we could all grow up and realise that there are actually important things do get upset about - Syria, South Sudan, the government's abuse of the poor and disabled etc etc and stop giving a fuck about things that are not give a fuckable.
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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Andy Pandy and Teddy sharing a basket? Well, I think we can all see the 'lifestyle' agenda being pushed there, can't we?
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Boogie
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Captain pugwash and crew left out again!
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North East Quine
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I am shocked, saddened but unsurprised that there are twelve male characters and only two female (Peppa Pig and Jess the Cat).
The significant figure of Emily has been entirely air-brushed out of the representation of Bagpuss. Madam Cholet would have been as better choice than Great Uncle Bulgaria, but possibly the designers shunned this competent, managing female Womble out of a fear of strong females. Why was Windy Miller chosen in preference to Mrs Honeyman and her baby? I think we all know; the fecund woman represents a powerful symbol of not-male.
One of the characters, Postman Pat, represents an unhealthy representation of hetero-normativity, as every child in Greendale looks like him, sharing a clearly identifiable genetic trait (abnormally large nose.)
Rarely has the patriarchy been more oppressive than in the subliminal message passed onto our toddlers by these characters.
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Spike
Mostly Harmless
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quote:
Originally posted by chive:
Alternatively we could all grow up and realise that there are actually important things do get upset about - Syria, South Sudan, the government's abuse of the poor and disabled etc etc and stop giving a fuck about things that are not give a fuckable.
No. These are not important issues at all. What is important is that I can show off how much more intellectual and "right on" I am than you are
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Spike
Mostly Harmless
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And that's the last thing I have to say on the matter because I don't post in Hell as it's below my dignity
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Callan
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I notice a complete absence of anthropmorphic cows. This is clearly a calculated outrage against the Hindu community. Where's Keith Vaz when you need him?
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Spike
Mostly Harmless
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In fact I don't even read Hell as I am so much more clever than the rest of you
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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Spike, don't you have a really important meeting you should be hurrying to?
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Spike
Mostly Harmless
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I'm not reading this thread because it's anti-Semitic, but I'm the only person who realises this because I'm much cleverer than you.
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Ariel
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# 58
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I'm not reading this thread because I don't have time.
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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And I'm not reading it because it has outlandish foreign words like 'Madam Cholet' in it which someone like me can't be expected to have encountered before.
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Ariel
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# 58
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Don't be silly, Firenze. "Madam Cholet" is one of Flaubert's greatest novels. I wrote a review of this when it first came out.
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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I never read fiction.
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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Don't forget, though, Genesis is fiction, and I read the Bible because I'm Christian (I think), when I am not living in a pluralistic society.
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Marvin the Martian
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Waitaminute.
Wait.
Jess is FEMALE???
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Pooks
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quote:
Originally posted by Marvin the Martian:
Waitaminute.
Wait.
Jess is FEMALE???
Would U make it male?
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balaam
Making an ass of myself
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This is an outrage.
All of them are first class stamps. What about the poor people who can't afford the postal rates? This elitism has got to stop. Now!!!!!!11!!!!!11!one!!1!!
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North East Quine
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quote:
Originally posted by Marvin the Martian:
Waitaminute.
Wait.
Jess is FEMALE???
![[Eek!]](eek.gif) Wikipedia says Jess is male!! Surely Jess is short for Jessica, or Jessie?
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Welease Woderwick
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Jesse like my grandfather and Wod of Jesse's stem or something that has always sounded vaguely smutty.
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Tortuf
Ship's fisherman
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I think it is OK for any religious group to use the pig stamps as long as they use a sponge instead of licking.
As to the rest of it, I am offended because they only use children's cartoon figures instead of adult cartoon characters.
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
# 619
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quote:
Originally posted by Pooks:
quote:
Originally posted by Marvin the Martian:
Waitaminute.
Wait.
Jess is FEMALE???
Would U make it male?
No it would make it 'Juss'. Which is what toddlers scream before flinging their Tiny Tots Training Beaker at you.
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lilBuddha
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quote:
Originally posted by chive:
Alternatively we could all grow up and realise that there are actually important things do get upset about - Syria, South Sudan, the government's abuse of the poor and disabled etc etc and stop giving a fuck about things that are not give a fuckable.
I do hope this was intentionally ironic.
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Scarlet
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quote:
Originally posted by North East Quine:
quote:
Originally posted by Marvin the Martian:
Waitaminute.
Wait.
Jess is FEMALE???
Wikipedia says Jess is male!! Surely Jess is short for Jessica, or Jessie?
But the Wikipedia article has multiple issues, it says; so feel free to continue believing whatever you like.
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irish_lord99
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@ Spike: ![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif)
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rolyn
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quote:
Originally posted by Ariel:
I'm not reading this thread because I don't have time.
I'm not reading this thread because it's making my brain hurt.
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Pooks
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quote:
Originally posted by Firenze:
quote:
Originally posted by Pooks:
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Originally posted by Marvin the Martian:
Waitaminute.
Wait.
Jess is FEMALE???
Would U make it male?
No it would make it 'Juss'. Which is what toddlers scream before flinging their Tiny Tots Training Beaker at you.
Ah! A voice of experience I take it? I am firmly of the opinion that tiny tots are really little demons in disguise. I am shocked that the OP has neglected to mention that those odd ball characters on the new stamps are in fact portraits of real heroes. It was they who managed to keep those little beaker-tossing-demon-tots from killing the rest of humanity.
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Schroedinger's cat
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# 64
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quote:
Originally posted by Boogie:
Captain pugwash and crew left out again!
That's because it doesn't really include Roger the Cabin boy.
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Rev per Minute
Shipmate
# 69
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The now-evil Royal Mail (which was our property, given away to their mates by the current government, bunch of... [cont. p94]) is simply following on from its stamps last year which featured the different faces of an alien time traveller. Everyone who understands the Bible knows that only God can control time and of course that He only created life on Earth, so these so-called stamps were in fact an attempt to indoctrinate our children in anti-Christian beliefs.
(Any resemblance between myself and a person of the same name who posts on the Doctor Who thread is entirely coincidental... ![[Paranoid]](graemlins/paranoid.gif) )
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Huia
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# 3473
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A stamp with Dougal?
Why do you guys get all the goodies? NZ Post has never been so imaginative as to feature my hero.
It's not fair!
Huia - flouncing off to find what else she can be offended by.
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RooK
1 of 6
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I only understand who these characters are because I studied Greek at uni, which I went to even though I as raised by a one-armed piano tuner and am therefore lower-class, and despite the fact that my biological family was all killed by a tragic misunderstanding at the Soylent Green factory. How I can be bothered to worry about such outrages when I'm obviously a miserable 70-year-old virgin with acute tendonitis is a testament to how clever I am.
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Starbug
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RooK, we've seen your tendonitis and it's anything but cute.
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Anglican't
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# 15292
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I will not contribute to this thread because, despite my advanced knowledge of Hebrew and Ancient Greek, I do not understand most of the basic English words you hoi polloi are using.
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Eutychus
From the edge
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That's a bit of a non sequitur, innit?
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orfeo
Ship's Musical Counterpoint
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quote:
Originally posted by rolyn:
quote:
Originally posted by Ariel:
I'm not reading this thread because I don't have time.
I'm not reading this thread because it's making my brain hurt.
I'm reading this thread because I bloody well have to. In terms of reasons to be offended, I'd say I win.
Also, you're all damn lucky I happen to know what this thread is about without a link.
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Piglet
Islander
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quote:
Originally posted by Firenze:
Andy Pandy and Teddy sharing a basket? ...
Nothing wrong with that - we share our sofa (and indeed the rest of our house) with numerous teddy-bears of varying proportions.
What does bother me is the omission of the Clangers.
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orfeo
Ship's Musical Counterpoint
# 13878
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quote:
Originally posted by Eutychus:
That's a bit of a non sequitur, innit?
Translation please!
I'm not familiar with 'innit'.
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Alan Cresswell
Mad Scientist 先生
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Such a display of ignorance shows that it is fortunate you were never in a position to teach others.
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Erroneous Monk
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# 10858
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I am glad Windy Miller has been included. The incontinent of flatus are so often overlooked.
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deano
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I hope Mr Benn is on them. I always liked the shopkeeper as I do like to highlight successful small businesses.
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Albertus
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Though I do wonder how successful he was, given that he never had any other customers and never charged Mr Benn for anything.
I'm sure you're pleased, though, by the programme's satirical depiction of the many transformations of your sometime MP: every week a different costume - Viscount's robes, 60s technocrat's white coat, C17 Leveller's sea-green ribbon and buff jerkin...
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Liopleurodon
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I am not offended. I am entertained by the fact that you think I have character flaws but the reality is that you don't understand my INTJ ways and that misunderstanding leads you to think that I'm not perfect.
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leo
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quote:
Originally posted by RooK:
I only understand who these characters are because I studied Greek at uni, which I went to even though I as raised by a one-armed piano tuner and am therefore lower-class, and despite the fact that my biological family was all killed by a tragic misunderstanding at the Soylent Green factory. How I can be bothered to worry about such outrages when I'm obviously a miserable 70-year-old virgin with acute tendonitis is a testament to how clever I am.
Really enjoying this thread for it's light-heated banter.
Until you waded in insensitively.
Guess we need to toughen up and ignore you.
Meanwhile, everyone else, take the piss because it saves stains on the sheets.
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irish_lord99
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# 16250
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A sock don't count Leo.
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
# 10422
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Why do you think the banter is lighthearted, leo?
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Ariston
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I resent the fact that you think there isn't a line of women outside the sacristy every Sunday just waiting to join me for sherry to discuss how wonderful my sermon slagging off Christianity was, before joining me in a discussion of the only three things I like to talk about—thick books I'll tell you I've read, my hard theological positions I tell you are correct, and sex.
Ladies, I say it's the biggest ever, and I'm never wrong. It'll be over quickly, because I'm confident.
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comet
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quote:
Originally posted by Ariston:
It'll be over quickly, because I'm confident.
if I had a dime for every time I heard that...
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