biggie
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It's nice seeing that the Mexican government has their shit in order; something said on a BBC programme is far worse then their ongoing issues with drugs and numerous murders.
Someone woke him up?
I wonder how often the praise option gets clicked.I hope people are taking a moment to fill out the complaint form.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/forms/
TiVo
I hope people are taking a moment to fill out the complaint form.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/forms/
I wonder how often the praise option gets clicked.
Will book mark the link so next time the BBC does something brilliant,I will let them know.
(I know they don't give a shit about what I think.)
LOL... I'll pass. Let them be what they want to be, if I disagree with it that badly, I'll just stop watching.
-Robert
Views of this show shouldn't be so serious, after all they are watching this show and should know better.
Without stereotypes a lot of funny comics wouldn't have any jokes.
Yes we want 'hard working' xenophobic stereotyping.
As a side issue:
I always found it odd that the Spanish and Portugese got South America, and the British and French got North America - look who ended up rich and who poor. I would have thought that South America has at least the same potential as North America. I wonder what went wrong, perhaps they did not have a revolution/freedom at the right time? Anyone know?
I've got to be honest the whole mexican segment seemed like it was shoehorned in as an excuse to say something that would get them in the papers this week. I think that's a bit sad really. I think they might have jumped the shark with that bit.
I think it was probably okay for the UK. In the United States (where I'm from as well) it wouldn't fly at all. The Mexicans here pick our crops, build our houses and build our office buildings. If you go to a Home Depot in most cities, they are there looking for work.
People here like to blame the illegal immigrants for all kinds of things, but they almost never look to the real guilty party in this issue... the people who give illegal immigrants jobs in order to pay less than minimum wage without having to abide the by the rules of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
I'm not sure if you realize this but this could be taken as an insult too, as you basically just said "mexicans are illegal immigrants who only do menial labor and hang out in front of a hardware store to beg for jobs". That doesn't exactly paint a positive image of them better than fat and lazy. They might have gone too far with their comments but you are being a bit bad too.
If you want some entertaining reading check out the comments here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/201...n-ambassador?commentpage=all#end-of-comments:)
a few years back, there was a tv dramatization of some ghasty Edwardian soft-porn lesbian bilge on the BBC in which a scene depicted Anna Chancellor pleasuring her downstairs maid, er, downstairs with what looked like a policeman's truncheon.
The Graun's tv reviewer (might have been Sam Woolaston, prob not Nancy Banks-Smith) wrote: "it's not every day you see a leatherclad dildo on the BBC. Unless it's Jeremy Clarkson."