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On 2025-07-18 11:46:11 +0000, Daniel70 said:

> On 18/07/2025 6:53 am, Your Name wrote:
>> On 2025-07-17 10:10:42 +0000, Blueshirt said:
>>> Your Name wrote:
>>>> On 2025-07-17 06:31:17 +0000, Theory11 said:
>>>>> On Thu, 17 Jul 2025 2:26:37 +0000, The Doctor wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Spot on about the political correctness!
>>>>> 
>>>>> It has taken over most tv programmes made today.
>>>> 
>>>> TV shows, movies, books, stage plays, workplaces, schools,
>>>> shops, public transport, government departments, ... the
>>>> idiocy of  Political Correctness has taken over EVERYWHERE.
>>>> :-(
>>> 
>>> The worst thing is the edits made to old books so as to not
>>> offend people today... Miss Marple & Hercule Poirot have had
>>> some of their comments/inner monologues changed in modern
>>> re-prints of some Agatha Christie novels. Harper Collins use the
>>> term 'emendations' on the copyright page... I call it butchery!
>>> 
>>> Of course, with Agatha Christie this is nothing new really as
>>> "Ten Little Niggers" had its title changed [twice] decades
>>> ago... but this time silly stuff like "native", "gypsy", "Jew"
>>> and "Nubian" (etc.) have been replaced to "reflect modern
>>> sensibilities".
>> 
>> Morons have also complained and forced changes to "Noddy", Sesame 
>> Street's Bert and Ernie, "The Famous Five", Roald Dahl's books, etc. 
>> among many many others.   :-(
> 
> "The Famous Five"?? What the hell was wrong with a group of (five) kids 
> entertaining themselves, often without ANY adult supervision?? And why 
> pick on "The Famous Five" without mentioning "The Secret Seven"??

No doubt "The Secret Seven" is also on the Politically Corect morons' 
"hit list" ... pretty much everything and anything is. :-(