Bonkers world we live in.

[LiE]

If anything English GCSE needs more of mice & men...

 

[Voltar]

Well if a child and her mother say it should be scrapped, who are we to stand in their way?

 

[Demon]

We are now at the point that Schools are a text book example of "inmates are running the asylum"..

 

[StriderX]

We are now at the point that Schools are a text book example of "inmates are running the asylum"..

Uh no we are not.

 

[glenimp617]

You mean "of mice and them" surely?

 

[Chris Wilson]

Yet another example of one of my favourite sayings. "When we want your opinion, we'll tell you what it is"

(Meanwhile Ms.Ingrate, enjoy the free education and the way the western world has evolved so you're enjoying a democratic country, and not, as not so long ago, possibly working in a cotton field with a stick laid regularly across your back).

These attempts to kid glove ours and others illustrious or repugnant history and even rewrite its documentation through literature are an insult to our past authors, and even to history itself. It needs quashing, quickly and firmly.

 

[silvagti]

Delete the bbc.

This +1

We need to defund the BBC.

 

[StriderX]

This +1

We need to defund the BBC.

You make it sound as if you can't already do that... voluntarily.

 

[silvagti]

You make it sound as if you can't already do that... voluntarily.

Last time I checked I couldn’t due to owning a television and the “unique way the BBC is funded”!

Not legally at least unless I’m willing to stop watching any terrestrial TV stations and take down my aerial.

Ie unique as in “pay us or we’ll threaten you with legal action”. Even most dictatorships don’t force you to pay directly for their state run propaganda!

 

[GGizmo]

When it is said that history repeats, we can see how it happens.

When all reference to racial insults and slavery is removed, a few decades later someone will have the 'new' idea of selling people for money, and calling them names based on the colour of the person's skin.

The chances of a regular person reading or knowing the history at that point will be nearly zero.

Black history is being self cancelled by a mixture of black and white people who find the history too upsetting.

 

[adidan]

Last time I checked I couldn’t due to owning a television and the “unique way the BBC is funded”!

Not legally at least unless I’m willing to stop watching any terrestrial TV stations and take down my aerial.

Ie unique as in “pay us or we’ll threaten you with legal action”. Even most dictatorships don’t force you to pay directly for their state run propaganda!

From https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check...text=If you only do the,Disney Plus or Now TV

You don’t need a TV Licence if you never watch live on any channel, TV service or streaming service, or use BBC iPlayer. This applies to watching on any device.

If you only do the following, you don’t need a licence:

Watch on demand or catch up programmes on services other than BBC iPlayer
Watch S4C programmes on demand
Stream, rent or buy movies from providers like Sky, Virgin Media, BT TV, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney Plus or Now TV
Watch DVDs or Blu-rays,
Play videos clips through services like YouTube or to play video games.

So you can choose not to. You can use all those and watch on your TV.

 

[subbytna]

Call to remove Of Mice and Men from GCSE course

This Belfast student says racial slurs within the book leave her feeling uncomfortable in the classroom.

www.bbc.co.uk

These people need to spend some time in a mental institution!

For goodness sake, where will it end?

Not doing English A level because of 'racist' slurs etc in a book!

Same girl who likes Drake....just go check out some of Drakes lyrics.

Manufactured offence for social media coverage is all this is. Utterly pathetic.

 

[SPG]

The girls argument comes across as a bit weak

But what does a nearly 100 year old book teach modern kids? At some point a classic becomes more and more obsolete. It's just the nature of things.

Been saying this about Shakespeare for nigh on 42 years but the Shakespearean taliban are very powerful.

 

[ttaskmaster]

Been saying this about Shakespeare for nigh on 42 years but the Shakespearean taliban are very powerful.

Depends on several factors.
Most of his works are plays and are designed to be delivered as such, by competent actors. Simply reading them isn't half as good.

Romeo and Juliet is nice enough, but does harp on quite a bit. King Lear is a right mission.

Hamlet, however, is bloody brilliant... and probably why Mad Mel was able to do such a good job in what is possibly his best ever role.

 

[SPG]

Depends on several factors.
Most of his works are plays and are designed to be delivered as such, by competent actors. Simply reading them isn't half as good.

Romeo and Juliet is nice enough, but does harp on quite a bit. King Lear is a right mission.

Hamlet, however, is bloody brilliant... and probably why Mad Mel was able to do such a good job in what is possibly his best ever role.

My point entirely, you people are scary and fundamentalists

 

[iamtheoneneo]

It's one kid. OP literally getting one guyed.

 

[Feek]

I hope she never reads Roots.

 

[ttaskmaster]

My point entirely, you people are scary and fundamentalists

Fundamentalist? Just the opposite. Zafirelli/Gibson's version departs from all the traditional styles of portraying Hamlet as this dull, depressed, mopey ******.
Also, Helena Bonham-Carter in the first (perhaps even defining) role as the absolute nutter she is today in pretty much every film.

Hamlet movie review & film summary (1991) | Roger Ebert

I had a professor in college who knew everything there was to know about "Romeo and Juliet." Maybe he knew too much. One day in class he said he would give anything to be able to read it again for the first time. I feel the same way about "Hamlet." I know the play so well by now, have seen it in...

www.rogerebert.com

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Absolute ******* bonkers these pineapple flakes!!

"I can still tend the rabbits, George?" "Sure. You ain't done nothing wrong." "I di'n't mean no harm, George."