Always one of my favourite words, illustrating the stupidity of a huge section of our species. When is behaviour "inappropriate"? Well it all depends on the changing morality. Was it "inappropriate" when women could not vote (or, in some countries, drive)? Is it "inappropriate" these days to suggest to a gorgeous lady friend, who fancies you, that perhaps you should both take mutual attraction a stage further? I find it "grossly inappropriate" that we have a Prime Minister who grasps at any truism or cliche like a magnet to a fridge in order to avoid actually running a government. Is this thread "inappropriate"?

Kevin Spacey uses the word INAPPROPRIATE! Wonderful. It is specifically useful for actors and the like (politicians, lawyers, judges and police are, essentially, actors).

Something must be inappropriate to or inappropriate for.

If you describe something as inappropriate but miss out to what or for what, your contention is an enthymeme: an argument with a hidden, suppressed or implied premise. Enthymemes are often weak arguments because the hidden premise is carelessly taken for granted. On inspection, it's frequently a weak point or even an invalidating point in the argument.

I find it "grossly inappropriate" that we have a Prime Minister who grasps at any truism or cliché...

The hidden premise here is that Prime Ministers should not use truisms and clichés.

On BBC News a Lib Dem woman talks about "inappropriate kissing". Oh for God's sake!

Fallon's "inappropriate" comment to dreadful Leadsom? "Your hands are cold? I know where you can warm them up".
How many of us deserve life in jail or possibly the death penalty (latest Trump solution to evil) if words like these are reinterpreted in the light of today's Victorian morality and attitude to sex?

JK2006 wrote:
On BBC News a Lib Dem woman talks about "inappropriate kissing". Oh for God's sake!

What do you expect someone who is in a looney party ?

Despite everything about Spacey so far, Glengary Glen Ross is still a masterpiece.

But this, you see Andrew, is the problem. Many people think one or other party is a "loony" party whereas we all know everyone has good and bad points, even communists and Moonies and Vegans and benefit cheats. Whereas we're all made up of good bits, bad bits and mainly in the middle bits and thinking in extremes is the pathway to Hell.

And a really nice text from the Labour MP to a young researcher is regarded as virtually rape. I seriously wonder about the mental stability of society.

There will be virtually nothing to watch on tv soon. Ban all spacey films, Weinstein films, Dustin Hoffman films, most 70s totp repeats and I'm sure many more to come. What used to be part of normal life (Saucy comments, touching knees, making propositions) are now seen as major news stories. I don't particularly like swearing, but I have to accept it at work, on tv, and in public.

Yes we all accept that times change and some things that might have been acceptable years ago are "inappropriate" today but it's all a bit confusing when "appropriate" behaviour in the 60s is not only condemned but prosecuted in 2017. I remember young fans in the 60s used to give you a pen, bare their little bosoms and ask us pop stars to sign a breast, please! They were the key places for autographs (always made me nervous in case I punctured one). Hopefully good baths, soap and showers in the ensuing 50 years have removed the evidence.

robbiex wrote:
There will be virtually nothing to watch on tv soon. Ban all spacey films, Weinstein films, Dustin Hoffman films, most 70s totp repeats and I'm sure many more to come. What used to be part of normal life (Saucy comments, touching knees, making propositions) are now seen as major news stories. I don't particularly like swearing, but I have to accept it at work, on tv, and in public.

I dont understand why the conversation didnt go...

Hoffman..Massage my feet

Runner.. Sod off. Would you like a cup of tea?

robbiex wrote:
There will be virtually nothing to watch on tv soon. Ban all spacey films, Weinstein films, Dustin Hoffman films, most 70s totp repeats and I'm sure many more to come. What used to be part of normal life (Saucy comments, touching knees, making propositions) are now seen as major news stories. I don't particularly like swearing, but I have to accept it at work, on tv, and in public.

ITV3 will ban repeats of 70s sitcoms but Midnight Cowboy is Hoffman's best movie.

I like what JK said about breasts though. An ex girlfriend of mine had her tits signed by a famous boy band and Danny Dyer signs tits in nightclubs.

How could the "Labour activist" (who looks like a dreadful bint) have been offended by that very nice complimentary text? Really her behaviour and complaint can only be described as inappropriate.