Casting aside the Doctor Who conundrums of "Ae Bonny Romance"…
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Simpsons
∂³∑x² — 1 year ago(July 01, 2024 12:17 PM)
Episode 8 of season 35 is a blatant racist attack on the culture of Scottish identity and makes a mockery of what being a Scot is.
Now it's all true and funny but if those effeminate Indians can't get Abu on their screens any more because some idiotic American was ashamed of their heritage then equity means that everybody should be treated with the same brush
While almost every Scot will be the first to tell you that they are an angry, alcoholic, charming bawbag we shouldn't stop Germans from clicking their boot heels together, Jews overcharging for common items and Australians from spitting and walking about barefoot in our light entertainment media
I propose an
Abu versus Willie
wrestling match on The Simpsons!
With only Indians, from India, getting to vote on who the victor is
While there will be much love for Abu in India the people there have a great sense of humour and would love Willie just as much.
Plus, think of the income with the largest population on the planet all coming together to watch a cross-cultural event and voting on it
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Bobby Tomlinson — 1 year ago(July 01, 2024 12:41 PM)
Everybody loves Willie and everybody loves Abu.
Or rather they used to. Now everyone is suddenly ashamed of Apu and we are all racists for laughing with (note WITH, not ‘at’) him before. It’s all shamed us just like Dot and Bubble.
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∂³∑x² — 1 year ago(July 01, 2024 02:03 PM)
I'm pretty sure Indians like Apu just fine the way he was Bobby
It's just these bastardised "American-Indian" people who think that they somehow still hold claim to a heritage which is so alien to them it makes them racist against their own cousins
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∂³∑x² — 1 year ago(July 01, 2024 02:32 PM)
I've only ever caught it in the background and so I'm not quite up to speed with how it is all going but apparently they predicted 9/11, Selma and Patty are dead (And so's Ned's wife), Apu is racist because he's from the wrong caste, Willie is Willie and Principle Skinner became PC Principle after eating some Steamed Hams
I'm sure there's more to it all but they made a movie too apparently
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Bobby Tomlinson — 1 year ago(July 01, 2024 02:37 PM)
Well when I ask somebody to describe modern day Simpsons to me, they always just go ‘Spider-Pig…Spider-Pig’ and then just collapse with laughter. It looks lots of fun so I should never have fallen out of the habit of watching it.
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∂³∑x² — 1 year ago(July 01, 2024 02:44 PM)
People so the same type of thing with a cartoon called Rick and Morty Bobby
I tried watching it but it never gelled with me and then I saw a bunch of young men stand on tables in McDonald's on YouTube and they were all yelling about a Szechuan sauce that came out in the mid-1990's and I figured they hadn't tried it
Everyone knows that the sweet curry sauce was the one everyone wanted back then (On a McRib)
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Bobby Tomlinson — 1 year ago(July 01, 2024 03:03 PM)
Yes I remember all of that hoo-ha too. I don’t think that we got it over here so I also hadn’t tried it. We just had ketchup, sweet and sour, sweet curry and BBQ and that was all you needed. It was comical and strange to see people going mad over some obscure sauce that nobody cares about.
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∂³∑x² — 1 year ago(July 01, 2024 03:28 PM)
We did have it in the UK Bobby but it was rather a lot of nonsense that nobody liked
It was around that time when Val Kilmer was Batman, 1995 or thereabouts. They had just started the Monopoly game and I think there was something about getting a Coca-Cola yoyo you could get too
All I remember was the Bat Burger and the McRib, they were great
After they were off the menu I went for the Quarter Pounder Deluxe (That was a secret menu item that had to be cooked up fresh every time, like a Filet-O-Fish) and cost the same as a regular Quarter Pounder with Cheese. Then they slowly stopped doing that and tried to introduce the Big Tasty, which has seemingly failed and been replaced with the Quarter Pounder Deluxe again (But 30p more than the Quarter Pounder with Cheese now).
That all said and done I haven't eaten a British McDonald's in an age. And have only tried other ones for comparison's sake. The best of which, oddly, was in Chynah
But yes, that sauce was not all of that and I've no idea why young men who were likely not even conceived of when it was available went all silly for it
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Bobby Tomlinson — 1 year ago(July 01, 2024 03:58 PM)
I think that it’s this need to all have a shared thing if you get me. To all be in on something together and sort of bond over it whilst not actually bonding at all.
In the olden days there were only a few TV channels and little of the way in other avenues of entertainment. Friends would ask each other if they watched the latest episode of The Brittas Empire the night before and all laugh together over how funny it was. Then they would share cheats and hints over getting past the next tricky spot in Slighty Magic or Beneath a Steel Sky. These days of a glutton of entertainment, it is all about memes and that is how they now share moments and bond. Silly memes.
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∂³∑x² — 1 year ago(July 01, 2024 04:19 PM)
I could have killed the programmers of Beneath a Steel Sky Bobby
Great game though, once you get out of the first three rooms
Well, every generation as its things I suppose. It just seems silly to me and I guess that's why chicks like older men because they remind them of the security of a father or grandfather. Now the guys into young chicks…dudes, are you stupid or something?
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