Today is VJ Day, when we will all be celebrating the hard-fought victory in the East. But the weedy BBC have failed yet again, in their 'mission' to try and be whatever is the woke term these days.
Rudyard Kipling was an inspiration to so many people, and his stories have given so much pleasure to schoolchildren and their parents all over the world.
His home, https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/batemans isn't that far from here and thousands of visitors revel in such an important place where history was made and is still revered.
A gentleman on another website showed this magnificent rendition of 'The Road to Mandalay', by the great Charles Dance, and I can assure you, that you'll weep at the end of it all. The awful BBC's wet under-managers, or whatever they're called, have rolled over at the whim of some singer, who thinks that 'The Road to Mandalay' has 'racist' undertones.
Bollocks!
Just listen to this and see where, as usual nowadays, the blasted tax-payer-funded bunch in W1A are just not getting it...
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What self-opinionated vegetable reads racism into that? The soldier speaks affectonately of his Burmese lover. Mind you, he also speaks of her smoking a big white cheroot so it's surprising that the antismokers haven't jumped aboard.
On a point of politeness, all the troops were standing at ease, all the civilians were sitting neatly except that one scruff in the front right group who sat with his legs crossed all the way through.
Ironically those who fought were defending institutions such as the BBC and freedoms such as the right to quote Rudyard Kipling.
Thank you, The J...
Was that blair?
Wouldn't trust him an inch!
Too damned right, Mr H!
The more I watch this, the more I understand so much more of how Rudyard Kipling was streets ahead of the 'journalism' from back then.
I really should go to Batemans. It isn't far, but as a balding Scrobs, I tend to wither amongst fame.
Oh wow! Just played it and what an emotional rendition by Charles, and that Cockney accent was just perfect. I could see it all in my mind's eye and almost shed a tear myself. I don't know the music but guess it could be by Elgar or possibly Dvorak as it sounds akin to the old Hovis advert with the hilly street. As for racism, er, um, der, WHAT? WHERE WAS IT?? What a load of sphericals by a load of utter
knob- heads!!! They must belong to the same club who banned Noddy and Bigears because the inclusion of Gollywogs was deemed to be racist (I had one as a child and never connected it as representing a black person) and I'm surprised Morecambe and Wise haven't been banned because they often shared a bed. To me, these people have subliminal desires that echo the opposite of what they purport to demonstrate against because their interpretations of innocent prose would never enter the heads of rational and sane people such as you and me.
Goosey, it's here!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omd9_FJnerY
Just hurts so much...
Goosegirl - I think you got it the wrong way round. Eric and Ernie must be on the way to sainthood BECAUSE they were two blokes in the same bed. Reminds me of "two old men sitting in deckchairs".
I think the BBC possibly refusing to allow Land of Hope and Glory on the last night of the proms may be a step too far for many. I hate to say it but possibly time to defund the BBC.
You're definitely not hurting me by saying we must defund the BBC, Pips!
They're an absolute shower, and becoming a laughing stock!
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