I recorded and watched this at the last weekend and just like when It Ain't 'Alf Hot Mum occasionally gets a viewing you have to sit through the continuity announcers grave tones announcing how this program contains scenes, language, racial overtones and images of a former time that viewers might find offensive. At the end of said program Mr continuity then intones " if anyone feels they have been affected in any way by this program then please contact XXXXXXX...."

Jesus H. Chrysler have we become so bloody infantilised that we have to have "trigger" warnings before every bloody piece of entertainment, followed by call centre telephone numbers writ large across the screen at the programs end so that those of a moronic disposition can get the psychiatric treatment now needed thanks to that terrible TV station showing hurty things!!?

This is apparently happening now in theatres showing Shakespeare, warning us about scenes of sex, and violence which some people may find upsetting, good God almighty please strike these buggers dumb!
Thankfully at least one actor (Ralph Fiennes) has kicked back at this absolute non-sense.


QUOTE...

"Audiences have gone 'soft' - Ralph Fiennes.

Trigger warnings put out before plays mean that modern audiences have gone "soft", actor Ralph Fiennes has said.

"The impact of theatre should be that you're shocked, and should be that you're disturbed, I don't think you should be prepared for these things", he told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg.

The Harry Potter and In Bruges star said that warnings for scenes that may affect people physically should remain, but that as a lover of the theatre he never experienced trigger warnings in his youth.

Fiennes is starring in a modern stage retelling of Macbeth this year."






What worries me greatly is that these perpetually offended snowflakes will soon be running the country, so what happens when say a Vladimir or third world dictator growls at them?

Dash off into their safe space whilst clutching a comfort blanket? Indulge in a spot of deep breathing at a "wellness" class, who can guess?

Myopic as it may seem on my part I believe that troglodytes such as we happy few, may still exist amongst the young and hopefully make it into the gene pool of society at large and will be prepared to grab life's nettle and show the same hardy robustness of former generations.

Just to annoy Sarge

I hear that the tough, vigorous humanoid that is Jacinda Ardern has applied to join the 101st airborne!!!

There is hope yet. ( Laughs. )







Fearing the Para's wrath, Fred buys ticket to a backwater shithole and hunkers down for the long haul.