AIBU to object to Hancock's Half Hour?

[TiddlesTheTiger]

I took exception to this episode. I complained to the BBC and they replied.
I won't say, yet, what I wrote or what they replied so if you have a few spare mins have a listen to the episode and give me your view.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b007yntz .

said, not ssid!

I'm listening now. I used to love listening to Hancock's Half Hour when I was a child. Nice to hear Bill Kerr again after all these years!

Apropos of ..... something or other, I had porridge this morning. It was lovely.

However, I understand if you found it misogynistic. You have to remember the time in which it was written and recorded. Also Hattie Jacques was more than a match for the men who actually came over as rather useless - ridiculous even - in comparison.

The sketch was intended to be ironic.

@TiddlesTheTiger

Why do you think posters do dishes?

Why not? I do, and listen to things at the same time.
I also listen while doing various other things eg sawing branches.

Blimey! You're a bigger woman than I am, Tiddles. I'm impressed. You wouldn't get me near a saw, I'd probably injure myself. Mind you, I'm not much good with the dishes either but my dishwasher is (most of the time).

@ShagMeRiggins

Thank fuck this wasn’t about Matt. I was struggling with the idea that he and his turtleneck had been given their own show.

Me too 😂

“Did Magna Carta die in vain?” just looked into my head.

Popped^

Thanks for highlighting this OP. Genuinely.

I spent many a happy evening sat with my dad watching H H H Hancocks half hour as a kid and I didn’t realise it was on BBC sounds so thank you.

@TiddlesTheTiger

I took exception to this episode. I complained to the BBC and they replied. I won't say, yet, what I wrote or what they replied so if you have a few spare mins have a listen to the episode and give me your view.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b007yntz .

Yet another poster who gets the hump about something they can't be bothered defining.

Half and hour is not "a few spare minutes".

@Clarabe1

I hope op doesn’t come across Sid James. She will self combust.

If she listened to the whole episode, she did!

Thank you OP, I’ve been a bit stuck for my 4 Extra fix recently, so I’m back on this bunch of fools. Love it!

It's really important in the 60s that people did start talking about domestic violence, raising awareness. There was humour, there were kitchen sink dramas but it needed to be talked about. What no one had was phone lines, websites, leaflets, stickers in public loos, etc. It was really hard to get information on lots of topics.
For years campaigners fought to publicize that middle class professional men beat up their fragrant housewives, it wasn't just a Friday night, handy with his fists, working class, she asked for it problem.

Please don't try and ban old comedy shows. Lots of people hid in plain sight and everyone else, if they wanted to look for it, got a tiny glimpse into a different world. Listen to round the Horne, thank fully gay men don't risk arrest anymore and have to use Polari.

Whenever the BBC plays something like this on schedule they give it a warning saying views and humour our representative of the time.

Surely you had to actively search that our in order to be offended?!

I object to a handful of The Canterbury Tales, shocking to modern sensibilities. Let's ban Chaucer, he's been knocking around far too long.

@longwayoff

I object to a handful of The Canterbury Tales, shocking to modern sensibilities. Let's ban Chaucer, he's been knocking around far too long.

Well, there's potentially some gay or trans phobia in them. He was definitely a bit snarky about the Pardoner and the Summoner...he'll have to be cancelled for that, even if the use of the word Cunte is de rigeur these days. And some body shaming of the woman's beard in the Miller's Tale...

You'll love this, OP

@tttigress

Surely you had to actively search that our in order to be offended?!

No, I have genuinely been listening to random Hancock's Half Hour programmes on BBC Sounds.

This post reminds me of Ben Elton 's brilliant book, Identity Crisis where Samuel Pepys is put on trial and convicted for sexual crimes committed centuries ago. Absolutely ridiculous!

YABU are you serious? This is from years ago

Bloody hell. Ukraine being destroyed before our eyes OP and you've got nothing better to do than trawl the archives looking for offence? Fahrenheit 451 and be done with it.