Rising Damp Page 15

Quote: Teddy Paddalack @ 25th February 2019, 11:26 AM

Herc I'm sorry 84 was a bad year for you.

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Awww, thank you Teddy - well over all of that now, BUT not my gorgeous Jack Russell Daisy who died three years ago now and it still breaks me up. Have loads of photos and videos of her but I simply cannot bring myself to look at them - on this PC I am on now I have to be very careful what folders I open.

Herc I work of a day on Facebook and while I don't have a page myself I can obviously see that people have their entire lives on their pages including photos etc and that they are subjected to memory jogs by Facebook and not all the memories are good ones. so at least you can be grateful for the fact that you're still in charge of how you and your computer interact when it comes to sentiment, as many now have it handled for them from Silicon Valley .

I did look and consider Facebook if only to trace people I would like to get in touch with, after Friends Reunited folded which I was on; but it just looked too complicated and I couldn't be arsed at the time - glad I didn't.

Quote: Michael Monkhouse @ 30th July 2020, 9:26 AM

Some argue that such shows are racist because they depict racist views; others argue that they are non-racist because they satirise the racist views depicted.

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It was a pisstake, Hercules.

Of course...............

Watching this series - apparently there's some kind of virus going round - and it is, in the words of Sylvia Plath, totally f**king awesome.
Googling the show, I came across a fascinating discussion on the subject of racism. To summarise my findings as briefly as possible:
Are shows like Rising Damp racist because they depict racist views, or are they non-racist because they satirise the racist views depicted?
Some argue that shows like Rising Damp are racist because they depict racist views; others hold that they are non-racist because they satirise the racist views depicted.
'Shows like Rising Damp are racist,' argues one group: 'After all, they depict racist views.' 'No,' argues the other group, They are non-racist. They satirise these racist views depicted.'
However, this argument does not convince the first group. 'These shows are racist,' they argue. 'They must be racist because they depict racist views.' But the counterarguing group counterargues its counterargument: 'Yes, these shows do depict racist views. But they are non-racist because they satirise the racist views depicted.'
What do you think? Are these shows racist because they depict racist views? Or are they non-racist because they satirise the racist views depicted?
We took this discussion onto the streets. Are shows like Rising Damp racist? They depict racist views, don't they?... Or are they non-racist because they actually satirise these racist views depicted?
Some argued that these shows are racist, and pointed to the racist views they depict, whereas others held the opposite view, arguing that they were actually satirising these racist views.
Who knows?