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Topic History of: Bent-Beeb, U Couldn't Make It Up Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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Hedda
ContraversialView wrote: Surely the fiercely ferreting Ms Racoon is just further exposing the irrational extremes to which such bent-media made modern Witch Hunts might go ?
I'm agreeing in my clumsy fashion.
This business of banning people we perceive as reprobates (or the media perceives) like Savile, Glitter etc etc. It's not too far away from the Nazis burning books and banning music.
Mind you, Oscar Wilde's writings were verbotten for a couple of decades.
ContraversialView
Surely the fiercely ferreting Ms Racoon is just further exposing the irrational extremes to which such bent-media made modern Witch Hunts might go ?
hedda
could be true but are we going to examine the sexual background of every well known person in history ?
What about the Pyramids ? and the Coliseum or buildings built in the last century..the architects ? bound to be some bent ones.
This is dangerous stuff. It starts with removing those blue plaques and eventually headstones..maybe graves.
ContraversialView
From the 5-Star+ Racoon Arms.
" In 1932, the BBC, pride of the British people, commissioned the architect Lieutenant Colonel G. Val Myer, to design a building as their corporate headquarters (Broadcasting House) which would embody the spirit of the organisation as they pushed their version of British values across the airwaves to a world still coloured pink on the map of ‘the Empire’.
The building was designed to look like a great ocean liner sailing across the airwaves. Today it is strangely reminiscent of the ill fated Titanic. In the ‘bow’ of the building, Lord Reith commissioned a sculptor to carve out of stone the figures of Prospero and Ariel from Shakespeare’s The Tempest. So far so good.
Sadly, the sculptor he chose was none other than Eric Gill, a man who confessed in his own diaries to being a prolific paedophile; who had an incestuous relationship with his sister, his dog and his own young daughters..."