How did they get away with that?

steddyeddy · 18-09-2015 5:08pm #1

This isn't a thread about light sentences being handed down in courts. I was listening to the radio while getting a hair chop and Frankie goes to Hollywood's song Relax came on. The lyrics are "relax don't do it before you want to cum". A bit explicit for the time really.

Also watching re runs of Are You Being Served and I noticed how much they got away with for the time. Miss Slocum had a pet cat which she called her "pussy". She had such lines as "I'm sorry I'm late it was raining and I had to thaw my pussy out this morning".

Any others spring to mind?

Valetta · 18-09-2015 5:09pm

steddyeddy wrote: »

This isn't a thread about light sentences being handed down in courts. I was listening to the radio while getting a hair chop and Frankie goes to Hollywood's song Relax came on. The lyrics are "relax don't do it before you want to cum". A bit explicit for the time really.

Also watching re runs of Are You Being Served and I noticed how much they got away with for the time. Miss Slocum had a pet cat which she called her "pussy". She had such lines as "I'm sorry I'm late it was raining and I had to thaw my pussy out this morning".

Any others spring to mind?

The black and white minstrel show.

steddyeddy · 18-09-2015 5:11pm

Valetta wrote: »

The black and white minstrel show.

Yea very true but I can understand how they got away with it at the time. The time wasn't as enlightened as now. Gollywogs in Noddy where another one.

Mint Sauce · 18-09-2015 5:13pm

Channel 4 have had a series on recently called 'It Was Acceptable In The...'

80s was on the other day, some of the debates on TV, and references to black people were pretty shocking, with them present in both, was pretty shocking.

Panthro · 18-09-2015 5:14pm

Theresa Lowe presenting 'where in the world'.
Shure Ireland wasn't ready for that level of sexiness.

And it still isn't!

Cold War Kid · 18-09-2015 5:15pm

steddyeddy wrote: »

I was listening to the radio while getting a hair chop and Frankie goes to Hollywood's song Relax came on. The lyrics are "relax don't do it before you want to cum". A bit explicit for the time really.

They didn't get away with it. It was banned on BBC Radio 1.

Not that explicit either - it would have gone over children's heads. They would have just assumed it was about relaxing and taking it easy, not stressing. "When you want to come" - I guess, when you want to arrive? :pac:

Menas · 18-09-2015 5:15pm

I think back in 1984 most younger people understood what the lyrics to that song meant, perhaps not the nuances of what you needed to 'relax' in order to 'come'...and their parents (and censors) didnt. It was banned on some stations of course which helped its popularity.
Prince had some mad dirty songs out in that time too....but no one older than 25 was listening to him.

gumbo1 · 18-09-2015 5:15pm

Blazing saddles! The entire movies gag reel.

18-09-2015 5:15pm

steddyeddy wrote: »

This isn't a thread about light sentences being handed down in courts. I was listening to the radio while getting a hair chop and Frankie goes to Hollywood's song Relax came on. The lyrics are "relax don't do it before you want to cum". A bit explicit for the time really.

Also watching re runs of Are You Being Served and I noticed how much they got away with for the time. Miss Slocum had a pet cat which she called her "pussy". She had such lines as "I'm sorry I'm late it was raining and I had to thaw my pussy out this morning".

Any others spring to mind?

Wasn't it banned by BBC?

Morcambe and Wise sharing a bed.

pavb2 · 18-09-2015 5:16pm

Don't think anything will top Love thy Neighbour for the racism starred Rudolph walker from east Enders.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Thy_Neighbour

ScouseMouse · 18-09-2015 5:19pm

pavb2 wrote: »

Don't think anything will top Love thy Neighbour for the racism starred Rudolph walker from east Enders.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Thy_Neighbour

No No No. If you want racism, try Alf Garnett. In Sickness and in health. Pure gold - but racist as hell. Calling a black man MARIGOLD!

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy · 18-09-2015 5:21pm

Captain Pugwash had character's called Seaman Staines and Roger the Cabin Boy. Master Mates sounds a bit dodgy as well.

steddyeddy · 18-09-2015 5:24pm

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy wrote: »

Captain Pugwash had character's called Seaman Staines and Roger the Cabin Boy. Master Mates sounds a bit dodgy as well.

How in the name of Greek buggery did they get away with that?

efb · 18-09-2015 5:25pm

Innuendo - that's why

Ruu · 18-09-2015 5:28pm

Fawlty Towers had loads of them, the thick Irish builder. The Major using the n word a few times as well.

18-09-2015 5:29pm

efb wrote: »

Innuendo - that's why

Whose end?

For Forks Sake · 18-09-2015 5:29pm

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy wrote: »

Captain Pugwash had character's called Seaman Staines and Roger the Cabin Boy. Master Mates sounds a bit dodgy as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAaJRy2-138

Thephantomsmask · 18-09-2015 5:32pm

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy wrote: »

Captain Pugwash had character's called Seaman Staines and Roger the Cabin Boy. Master Mates sounds a bit dodgy as well.

http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/pugwash.asp

Kermit.de.frog · 18-09-2015 5:57pm

The old kia-ora ad would not get the go ahead today i'd say! Just about every black stereotype is represented in 42 seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LvLn9PWln8

mariaalice · 18-09-2015 6:04pm

We use to watch Benny Hill with our parents and fall about laughing at the end of the show with the speeded up bit of him chasing women through the bushes.

Eugene Norman · 18-09-2015 6:11pm

steddyeddy wrote: »

How in the name of Greek buggery did they get away with that?

Are you confusing the 80's with Iran, perhaps?

F1ngers · 18-09-2015 6:12pm

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy wrote: »

Captain Pugwash had character's called Seaman Staines and Roger the Cabin Boy. Master Mates sounds a bit dodgy as well.

steddyeddy wrote: »

How in the name of Greek buggery did they get away with that?

They didn't:

Libel case regarding double entendres

There is a persistent urban legend, repeated by the now defunct UK newspaper the Sunday Correspondent, that ascribes sexually suggestive names – such as Master Bates, Seaman Staines, and Roger (meaning "have sex with") the Cabin Boy – to Captain Pugwash's characters, and indicating that the captain's name was a slang Australian term for oral sex.[2] John Ryan successfully sued both the Sunday Correspondent and The Guardian newspapers in 1991 for printing this legend as fact.[3] The origin of this myth is likely due to student rag mags from the 1970s.[4]

Eugene Norman · 18-09-2015 6:13pm

Ruu wrote: »

Fawlty Towers had loads of them, the thick Irish builder. The Major using the n word a few times as well.

But that's what is taboo now, not back in the day.

PARlance · 18-09-2015 6:16pm

No mention of Rainbow yet?

A classic
https://youtu.be/CgbcQIT7BMc

Can't embed on mobile.

Tarzana2 · 18-09-2015 6:16pm

steddyeddy wrote: »

This isn't a thread about light sentences being handed down in courts. I was listening to the radio while getting a hair chop and Frankie goes to Hollywood's song Relax came on. The lyrics are "relax don't do it before you want to cum". A bit explicit for the time really.

Also watching re runs of Are You Being Served and I noticed how much they got away with for the time. Miss Slocum had a pet cat which she called her "pussy". She had such lines as "I'm sorry I'm late it was raining and I had to thaw my pussy out this morning".

Any others spring to mind?

Weren't they actively trying to be provocative in both these examples?

18-09-2015 6:19pm

Cold War Kid wrote: »

They didn't get away with it. It was banned on BBC Radio 1.

Not that explicit either - it would have gone over children's heads. They would have just assumed it was about relaxing and taking it easy, not stressing. "When you want to come" - I guess, when you want to arrive? :pac:

There's nothing like a banning to guarantee the success of a tune.

In the US there was a brand of condoms called Jiffy - I think it was the 80's when they came on the market (heehee). The slogan was "Real Men Come In A Jiffy".

I think the US would implode if that was an advert currently in print!

Hellrazer · 18-09-2015 6:24pm

Well we used to have golly bar ice creams over here.
The N word was a common name for a dog of a certain colour.

You cant ask for a "sambo" in a shop anymore without getting strange looks.

Pffft...political correctness gone mad I tell you!!!!

Bring bag the ham sambo!!!

Menas · 18-09-2015 6:28pm

Hellrazer wrote: »

Bring bag the ham sambo!!!

Bar man.... I demand a Ham Sambo with a healthy dollop of english and a Black and Tan this instant!

Kermit.de.frog · 18-09-2015 6:32pm

PARlance wrote: »

No mention of Rainbow yet?

A classic
https://youtu.be/CgbcQIT7BMc

Can't embed on mobile.

That is fake though, as in, never aired I take it?

PARlance · 18-09-2015 6:34pm

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

That is fake though, as in, never aired I take it?

News to me, was under the assumption that it was aired.

padd b1975 · 18-09-2015 6:34pm

Chat shows with presenter and guests chain-smoking throughout.

How did they get away with that?

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