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Nick Wade
Nick Wade
11 months ago

So glad I longer pay for a TV licence. Would “She’s into group”, or “Get me some fanny!” be acceptable dialogue on the heterosexual version?

Is society pushing me towards becoming a Victor Meldrew, or is it a natural consequence of being older and not subject to external factors? Questions to ponder.

Michael Taylor
Michael Taylor
11 months ago
Reply to  Nick Wade

Its not just the victor meldrews of the world that are noticing the hacks at the BBC are doing what hacks do best. Producing cheap, shock value, jerry springer esque garbage in “progressive” LGBTQABCD+ wrapping paper in an attempt to pass it off as original and interesting.
Or maybe im a victor meldrew too

Roddy Campbell
Roddy Campbell
11 months ago
Reply to  Nick Wade

Society. The world has coarsened. No more subtlety. Each transgression is normalised, creating an arms-race to shock.

Michael Taylor
Michael Taylor
11 months ago
Reply to  Nick Wade

Its not just the victor meldrews of the world that are noticing the hacks at the BBC are doing what hacks do best. Producing cheap, shock value, jerry springer esque garbage in “progressive” LGBTQABCD+ wrapping paper in an attempt to pass it off as original and interesting.
Or maybe im a victor meldrew too

Roddy Campbell
Roddy Campbell
11 months ago
Reply to  Nick Wade

Society. The world has coarsened. No more subtlety. Each transgression is normalised, creating an arms-race to shock.

Nick Wade
Nick Wade
11 months ago

So glad I longer pay for a TV licence. Would “She’s into group”, or “Get me some fanny!” be acceptable dialogue on the heterosexual version?

Is society pushing me towards becoming a Victor Meldrew, or is it a natural consequence of being older and not subject to external factors? Questions to ponder.

Stephen Walsh
Stephen Walsh
11 months ago

Public service broadcasting at its best, and a fine use of the license fee.

Walter Marvell
Walter Marvell
11 months ago
Reply to  Stephen Walsh

Exactly. Don’t bother to over-think it. The BBC is an aggressive evangelical for what it calls Diversity. It is actually Identitarianism, a State-backed ideology which blankets every editorial note of its output 24/7. Protected/privileged Nine good; Patriarchy and white History bad. An Equality obsession to rival a Communist state. Its is now poisonous. It should lose its Charter and be disgraced for overtly generating fear and popular hysteria during Lockdown and again for its warped nonstop Climate Hysteria (handy to profit from via Natural History programming too) even if most schoolchildren are suffering from anxiety from its ranting. . Beyond unfit, the BBC is now a social toxin and danger. Boycott it.

Julian Pellatt
Julian Pellatt
11 months ago
Reply to  Walter Marvell

Spot on! BBC, ITV, Channel 4 – the lot. All sub-standard and propaganda machines.

Julian Pellatt
Julian Pellatt
11 months ago
Reply to  Walter Marvell

Spot on! BBC, ITV, Channel 4 – the lot. All sub-standard and propaganda machines.

Walter Marvell
Walter Marvell
11 months ago
Reply to  Stephen Walsh

Exactly. Don’t bother to over-think it. The BBC is an aggressive evangelical for what it calls Diversity. It is actually Identitarianism, a State-backed ideology which blankets every editorial note of its output 24/7. Protected/privileged Nine good; Patriarchy and white History bad. An Equality obsession to rival a Communist state. Its is now poisonous. It should lose its Charter and be disgraced for overtly generating fear and popular hysteria during Lockdown and again for its warped nonstop Climate Hysteria (handy to profit from via Natural History programming too) even if most schoolchildren are suffering from anxiety from its ranting. . Beyond unfit, the BBC is now a social toxin and danger. Boycott it.

Stephen Walsh
Stephen Walsh
11 months ago

Public service broadcasting at its best, and a fine use of the license fee.

Simon Neale
Simon Neale
11 months ago

An easy way to bypass these problems, as the producers of I Kissed A Boy, which concluded on Sunday, evidently saw, is to populate the island exclusively with gay men. 

A far more entertaining way would be to introduce an unknown number of trans people, both pre- and post-op, and record the ensuing mayhem.
Meanwhile, a more exclusively niche audience is being catered for with a re-imagining of One Man and his Dog.

Jonathan Smith
Jonathan Smith
11 months ago
Reply to  Simon Neale

Cats and pigeons come to mind. Feathers everywhere.

“re-imagining of One Man and his Dog.” ~ Phil Spencer is allegedly a gay icon. Two birds with one stone.

Last edited 11 months ago by Jonathan Smith
Jonathan Smith
Jonathan Smith
11 months ago
Reply to  Simon Neale

Cats and pigeons come to mind. Feathers everywhere.

“re-imagining of One Man and his Dog.” ~ Phil Spencer is allegedly a gay icon. Two birds with one stone.

Last edited 11 months ago by Jonathan Smith
Simon Neale
Simon Neale
11 months ago

An easy way to bypass these problems, as the producers of I Kissed A Boy, which concluded on Sunday, evidently saw, is to populate the island exclusively with gay men. 

A far more entertaining way would be to introduce an unknown number of trans people, both pre- and post-op, and record the ensuing mayhem.
Meanwhile, a more exclusively niche audience is being catered for with a re-imagining of One Man and his Dog.

Paul T
Paul T
11 months ago

The show was defeated from its first moment by the simple knowledge that in real life vast numbers of gay men do not bother to ask the first name of the person they have just had sex with until after. It was therefore just a camp, flappy-handed simulation of the straight version.
The lesbian version should be much more interesting; absolutely anything could happen.

Alison Wren
Alison Wren
11 months ago
Reply to  Paul T

Not sure how many actual lesbians would volunteer. Plenty of the male variety and their ladyd*cks would though!!

Alan Osband
Alan Osband
11 months ago
Reply to  Alison Wren

Lucky them , they’ll have one another with whom to make connections . Surely they would not be so bigotted as to insist on ciswomen partners .

Alan Osband
Alan Osband
11 months ago
Reply to  Alison Wren

Lucky them , they’ll have one another with whom to make connections . Surely they would not be so bigotted as to insist on ciswomen partners .

Alison Wren
Alison Wren
11 months ago
Reply to  Paul T

Not sure how many actual lesbians would volunteer. Plenty of the male variety and their ladyd*cks would though!!

Paul T
Paul T
11 months ago

The show was defeated from its first moment by the simple knowledge that in real life vast numbers of gay men do not bother to ask the first name of the person they have just had sex with until after. It was therefore just a camp, flappy-handed simulation of the straight version.
The lesbian version should be much more interesting; absolutely anything could happen.

Jonathan Smith
Jonathan Smith
11 months ago

“posing in feather-bowers and chapless pants.” Feather-bowers? Shurely shome mishtake? Boas if you please as in the serpent… and “chapless”? Just chaps.

Jonathan Smith
Jonathan Smith
11 months ago

“posing in feather-bowers and chapless pants.” Feather-bowers? Shurely shome mishtake? Boas if you please as in the serpent… and “chapless”? Just chaps.

Cynthia W.
Cynthia W.
11 months ago

“straight people have been forced to do this kind of humiliating stuff on television for years”
“Forced” how? Don’t participants in “reality” television actively seek out opportunities to be on the programs?

Cynthia W.
Cynthia W.
11 months ago

“straight people have been forced to do this kind of humiliating stuff on television for years”
“Forced” how? Don’t participants in “reality” television actively seek out opportunities to be on the programs?

Arkadian X
Arkadian X
11 months ago

I really don’t know how they pass the time in Oxford, but when the author says,

“Unless you took the sensible precaution of disconnecting your television in anticipation, you might have noticed that Love Island returned to ITV2 last week. ”

I am force to question what planet he lives on.

Arkadian X
Arkadian X
11 months ago

I really don’t know how they pass the time in Oxford, but when the author says,

“Unless you took the sensible precaution of disconnecting your television in anticipation, you might have noticed that Love Island returned to ITV2 last week. ”

I am force to question what planet he lives on.

Charles Stanhope
Charles Stanhope
11 months ago

‘Special measures’ yet again, how very tiresome.

Charles Stanhope
Charles Stanhope
11 months ago

‘Special measures’ yet again, how very tiresome.

Nicky Samengo-Turner
Nicky Samengo-Turner
11 months ago

And I thought that CSM was Company Sergeant Major, not Chocolate Speedway Merchant?

Nicky Samengo-Turner
Nicky Samengo-Turner
11 months ago

And I thought that CSM was Company Sergeant Major, not Chocolate Speedway Merchant?

William Cameron
William Cameron
11 months ago

It’s like the fall of the Roman Empire. I nearly cancelled our Tesco order because it’s covered in Pride flags.

Last edited 11 months ago by William Cameron
William Cameron
William Cameron
11 months ago

It’s like the fall of the Roman Empire. I nearly cancelled our Tesco order because it’s covered in Pride flags.

Last edited 11 months ago by William Cameron
Steven Targett
Steven Targett
11 months ago

Haven’t watched television in years. Articles like this rather reinforce that decision. How could a program like Love Island or its gay equivalent possibly be entertaining or a worthwhile use of my time?

Steven Targett
Steven Targett
11 months ago

Haven’t watched television in years. Articles like this rather reinforce that decision. How could a program like Love Island or its gay equivalent possibly be entertaining or a worthwhile use of my time?

Allison Barrows
Allison Barrows
11 months ago

It won’t be long before this audience will be drinking Brawndo and watching “Ow my b*lls” while ‘batin’.

AJ Mac
AJ Mac
11 months ago

Good shot. The cultural norm was already too close to Idiocracy for comfort in 2006. This lurid drivel sounds like it could be called “Ooh, more balls!”–or left unaired after pangs of relenting shame.

Albert McGloan
Albert McGloan
11 months ago

Paging Dr Lexus …

AJ Mac
AJ Mac
11 months ago

Good shot. The cultural norm was already too close to Idiocracy for comfort in 2006. This lurid drivel sounds like it could be called “Ooh, more balls!”–or left unaired after pangs of relenting shame.

Albert McGloan
Albert McGloan
11 months ago

Paging Dr Lexus …

Allison Barrows
Allison Barrows
11 months ago

It won’t be long before this audience will be drinking Brawndo and watching “Ow my b*lls” while ‘batin’.