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Originally Posted by orangebird
You can't have it both ways - why is it funny to take the mickey out of transsexuals, but not spastics?
A lot of it is very close to the bone, but that's how it was in the 70's and I for one am glad that todays overwhelming PC directive hasn't affected a brilliant bit of television.  |
A very good point. To what extent do we only laugh at the things we haven't been banned from laughing at?
I'm not sure they're quite the same in this case though. In the one case the metal leg braces are necessary medical intervention, in the other the surgery is elective ... however I don't want to get in to over-analyzing.
Another recent selection:
More fingers in pies than a leper on a cookery course
as nervous as a very small nun at a penguin shoot