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.

Valetta · 18-09-2015 6:34pm

Eanie meanie minie mo.......

Menas · 18-09-2015 6:38pm

padd b1975 wrote: »

Chat shows with presenter and guests chain-smoking throughout.

Football managers smoking in the dug out during a game, they were plentiful!
Cant think the name of the goalie who sparked up during a game though....

Jimbob1977 · 18-09-2015 6:44pm

Sabrina's hit song from 1987

'Boys, Boys, Boys'

Her nipples were cleary exposed on half a dozen occasions.

I wasn't complaining.... but how did that escape the censor.

Grange Hill in the early 1980s was full of casual racism

Kermit.de.frog · 18-09-2015 7:08pm

PARlance wrote: »

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

That most certainly is fake and never aired. It's a p!ss take. Some of the comments say it was an in-house staff joke production.

One eyed Jack · 18-09-2015 7:31pm

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:

Err... well, it's only 30 years later like

This one I didn't get for a long time either, didn't know why my sister singing it vexated my parents so much -

This one I got though -

NachoBusiness · 18-09-2015 7:58pm

In the 80s I had two LPs that even today would be controversial, to say the least. One was WASP's. F**k Like A Beast of which the 12" picture disc had a doberman attempting to rape some scantily clad women. Mate of mine had the same picture disk and had it confiscated by the head and was told he would only get it back if he could produce a letter from his parents saying they approved of him having it. The second was Scorpions' Virgin Killer on which the front cover of the album had a naked little girl of around eight, only thing protecting her modesty a broken glass effect around her genitalia. Remember selling both to Freebird for two quid or so each in the 90s (along with a bunch of other LPs that I got feck all for) just so I could successfully back Mininehoma in the national.

moc moc a moc · 18-09-2015 8:01pm

steddyeddy wrote: »

The time wasn't as enlightened as now

Either that, or people had better things to do with their days than be perpetually offended by everything like nowadays

pavb2 · 18-09-2015 8:07pm

NachoBusiness wrote: »

In the 80s I had two LPs that even today would be controversial, to say the least. One was WASP's. F**k Like A Beast of which the 12" picture disc had a doberman attempting to rape some scantily clad women. Mate of mine had the same picture disk and had it confiscated by the head and was told he would only get it back if he could produce a letter from his parents saying they approved of him having it. The second was Scorpions' Virgin Killer on which the front cover of the album had a naked little girl of around eight, only thing protecting her modesty a broken glass effect around her genitalia. Remember selling both to Freebird for two quid or so each in the 90s (along with a bunch of other LPs that I got feck all for) just so I could successfully back Mininehoma in the national.

Reminds me of a guy at school just as punk hit the streets, his parents were very middle class, conservative and he knew they wouldn't approve of Him purchasing it so he bought the album Never Mind the B*****ks by the Sex Pistols and mailed it to himself saying he'd won it in a radio phone in competition.

Their single God save the queen was banned not sure how many others were.

Buona Fortuna · 18-09-2015 8:12pm

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:

Yeppers

Look at some of Lilly Allens lyrics

Sittin in the wet patch, spent ages giving head.

Bit embarrassing if you start singing them on your own too

riffmongous · 18-09-2015 8:16pm

Buona Fortuna wrote: »

Yeppers

Look at some of Lilly Allens lyrics

Sittin in the wet patch, spent ages giving head.

Bit embarrassing if you start singing them on your own too

Wow never noticed that song before, I must never have paid attention to the lyrics 'you never make me scream'

Buona Fortuna · 18-09-2015 8:19pm

riffmongous wrote: »

Wow never noticed that song before, I must never have paid attention to the lyrics 'you never make me scream'

riffmongous · 18-09-2015 8:27pm

Buona Fortuna wrote: »

Yeah I looked it up after reading your post, on wiki first and I didnt recognise it so I assumed it must be a b-side or something

I must have heard it dozens of times and never picked out anything beyond the chorus. This happened to me recently too with Milow's Technology, just heard on a radio it in the background and thought it sounded like a nice pleasant song, I thought the chorus was 'I'm tired of using technology, why dont you sit down and talk with me'

NachoBusiness · 18-09-2015 8:36pm

Cold War Kid wrote: »

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:

Well, I distinctly remember arguing with friends at the time (in the local castle, with ten smokes we'd somehow managed to get our hands on) that the song was not actually about refraining from biting sweets* at all [I'll get to that] but was in fact actually about 'going to the toilet'. We kept on hearing about it being banned, there was no avoiding that, and from memory that was the only reason we could come up with, in our 11 year old minds.

Oh, the 'sweets' thing...

Well, the song was clearly about Chewits, everyone knew that!

Relax, don't do it, when you wanna suck a Chewit.

kfallon · 18-09-2015 8:40pm

gumbo1 wrote: »

Blazing saddles! The entire movies gag reel.

I think BS was laughing more at the racists than with them tbh

ArnoldJRimmer · 18-09-2015 8:45pm

Ezer Goode, Ezer Goode, he's Ebenezer Goode...

mynameis905 · 18-09-2015 8:48pm

Mariah Carey 'Honey'

And it's just like honey
When your love comes over me
Honey I can't describe
How good it feels inside

Aidric · 18-09-2015 8:53pm

Des Cahill has been getting away with it for far too long on RTE.

One eyed Jack · 18-09-2015 9:06pm

When released in the United States, the song caused a minor controversy. However, it managed to reach the top five of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at No. 4 and at No. 2 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart, after receiving extensive play on modern rock radio, which was more accepting of the song's subject matter.

Source: Wikipedia

And more recently... Beyoncé! :eek:

"Blow" is a disco-influenced R&B and funk song which has several other musical influences and elements featured in it. It received comparison to songs from the 1970s and 1980s mostly by Prince and Janet Jackson. Lyrically it talks explicitly about oral sex and cunnilingus through heavy innuendo in line with Beyoncé* 's sexual tone. Following its release, it received positive reviews by music critics who hailed it as one of the most explicit and best songs on the album. Its variety of musical genres and production were also praised as well as Beyoncé's vocal performance. Due to several promotional remixes of the song, "Blow" managed to peak at number one on the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart without an official release as a single.

Source: Wikipedia

For Forks Sake · 18-09-2015 9:24pm

ArnoldJRimmer wrote: »

Ezer Goode, Ezer Goode, he's Ebenezer Goode...

Got any salmon??

Whitewinged · 18-09-2015 9:35pm

Peter Gabriel, Sledgehammer was really brilliant.

The lyrics are filled with metaphors for sex. I never noticed when i was younger, i just liked the video.

How did they get away with that?

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