20 things your child will never do or understand

[Scunner]

Yes they are being over dubbed - in fact the one I mentioned by Delboy now airs as "There's bound to be a little shop open somewhere". Apparently the box set is riddled with dubbed lines and missing scenes. Love Thy Neighbour has been as good as deleted in full, certainly from television.

I do agree that comedy tastes change over time and I think my kids would be horrified by Love thy Neighbour - and that in itself shows the progress society has made. In fact, it's exactly my point - sitcoms are a fine way to observe life through the decades. It doesn't mean it was right, it records how people were. Because it was shown on tv or on DVD last night, it doesn't show how people are.

Changing wording (to almost nonsensical but acceptable alternatives) meddles with how things were. People should be allowed to see society as it was. There are far more shocking examples of "how we were" in the colonial history of our country. Text book rewrite anyone?

[kevin3]

I've got a DVD of the film Blazing Saddles and I think it's hilarious and Pakistani and Indian
friends have borrowed it and got copies done for their families.These same friends get very
angry at groups and organizations taking offence on their behalf and making a good living
out of making problems where there sometimes isn't any.Nobody should be allowed to tell
me what I find amusing or what I shouldn't laugh at.I can think of far better uses of their time.   

[Scunner]

And just to make the normal point, that in nearly all sits of the coms, the white guy ends up being shown to be a complete moron.

[Jacqui Harvey]

We have watched Rising Damp on Gold and it's still hilarious, but were just saying, it would not be made nowadays,because of all the"black" references to Philip.   Obviously, he always made a fool of Rigsby and he always attracted the girls.

[mercury]

I am with your daughter Menthol.. I never found Benny Hill remotely funny either. Sexist swine.. :-) :-) I didnt like Hancock until I got a bit older when I watched an old copy of The blood doner. I could never understand my Parents laughing out loud at him.
We used to listen to loads of comedians on radio..Jimmy Clitheroe, etc.etc and does anyone remember Workers playtime? Round the horn? I doubt if any of today's comedians would come across very well on radio.. My Dad told me that Archie Andrews was a ventriloquist on radio and bombed when he went over to TV..  That was their generation before I was born I hasten to add...

[mercury]

Finally... I hated Sing something Simple on a Sunday evening. My parents loved it.. It was a reminder that it was bath night and school the day after...

[Scunner]

Can anyone tell me what was funny about Frankie Howard?

I used to hate Sunday nights too - all that Songs of Praise and reaching a peak with That's Life!!

We used to be allowed to stay up now and again for the Saturday night midnight horror film, which was rarely scary at all. Then lie in bed the next morning in silence, because if my mum slept in past 8-30, we'd be too late to be dragged to church. If we went to church, my dad (who as a protestant didn't fancy joining us catholics) would make Sunday breakfast ready for our return.

[Jacqui Harvey]

I had come in from playing out with my friends have a wash and get dress up in my Sunday best and go to Sunday School every Sunday.  It was a Presbyterian  Sunday School and went on for 1 hour.   I could not get out of it, or pretend I had been attending, as my Auntie Daisy was the Sunday School Teacher and came to our house after Sunday School to have tea and cakes with her cousin, my Mum.  My Dad, who was a lapsed Catholic, was on my side, but he was overruled.   I went to Sunday School for ten years and got a book for good attendance every year.

[kevin3]

Frankie Howards hair was funny and that's about it.
Like you Keith we're catholics and my dad was a non-believer and he would cook
saturdays and sundays.We were dragged to church but sent to confession so sadly
we didn't always get there.Tommy Cooper didn't always make me laugh but I admired
him, making a living out of failure.Kenny Everett made me laugh,Norman Collier,Ken Dodd,
Max Wall sometimes,Barker & Corbett, David Jason,Les Dawson brilliant.But I don't find
many of todays bunch funny at all.May be an age thing.But I'm enjoying this thread.     

[mercury]

How would today's kids go on without a freezer..my Mums first refrigerator was run on gas and had a tiny freezer section at The top.. There was an ice cube tray which had a plastic handle on to lift the ice cubes out.. I remember my dad making ice cream in it with a packet mix.. It took ours of stirring until it set.. No one I knew had frozen food. In fact I didnt know there was such a thing until I was invited to tea at Barrie's house when I was 16.. His mum sent us down to The local shop and we had Walls frozen skinless sausages...
The only supermarkets that anyone knew about was The Coop... Shopping was done in town at individual shops. I remember My Mum coming home ladened down with loads shopping bags and brown carrier bags. It wasn't until later that we got a car... The first freezers were chest freezers and they used to go to a farm shop and buy half a lamb and pigs. I can remember going to The bottom market on a Saturday with my Mum and twirling around on a seat drinking Horlicks while she shopped..for the veg. Occasionally I would get a Walls ice cream wrapped individually made into a cornet.
How would we manage without the supermarkets of today. Everything under one roof.. Shop bought, frozen and instant.. Must say living Aldi since we came home.