Dennis the Menace set to be ruined by the P.C. crew

Karilyn · Post by **Karilyn** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 6:48 pm

Huh? Who the hell is that? He ain't the Dennis the Menace I remember...

Post by **DarkSurfer** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 6:55 pm

Water wrote:
The article wrote:The cartoon character is depicted in a new TV series without his catapult, water pistol and peashooter.
Dennis the Menace has a catapult? What's he use it for, pillaging castles?

Catapult = Slingshot I think :U

Water · Post by **Water** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 6:57 pm

The Big Cheese wrote:
Water wrote:
The article wrote:The cartoon character is depicted in a new TV series without his catapult, water pistol and peashooter.
Dennis the Menace has a catapult? What's he use it for, pillaging castles?
Catapult = Slingshot I think :U

:U That makes sense, I guess...

Britfags.

Karilyn · Post by **Karilyn** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 7:00 pm

JESUS FUCK, I just got through reading the wikipedia article on the UK version. I'm sure there was a bit of wiki-bias in there... But it seriously made it sound like the entire comic was basically a jock-like kid generally bullying, torturing, and beating the crap out of gay boys.

HOLY JESUS FUCK. That ain't cool.

Water · Post by **Water** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 7:06 pm

Hm. According to Wikipedia, the U.S. version of Dennis the Menace debuted bodaciously three days before the U.K. version. How did this happen? I mean, I know it's the 1950s, and it's a dispute between two different nations with different laws, but did anyone at least try to take legal action?

I guess the two syndicates probably just agreed to keep their versions of Dennis in their own respective countries. Gee, I wish folks could settle their differences that way these days.

Bill Nye the Science Guy · Mon Aug 17, 2009 7:26 pm

its apparent not many of you know THIS Dennis The Menace

but think about it, if they can get away with this, they might start doing it with more shows, they could make a Politically Correct Torchwood and Doctor Who! D:

owait

Sarah Jane Adventures

Miss Starseed · Post by **Miss Starseed** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 7:31 pm

Well I don't have much experience with the shows you're speaking of, but wasn't Doctor Who just recently revamped anyways? I heard from people who watched the prior season(s?) of that show that they changed things in that one as well.

I-it's already happening.

The Idiotic Oracle · Post by **The Idiotic Oracle** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 7:34 pm

Bill Nye the Science Guy wrote:its apparent not many of you know THIS Dennis The Menace

but think about it, if they can get away with this, they might start doing it with more shows, they could make a Politically Correct Torchwood and Doctor Who! D:

owait

Sarah Jane Adventures

NOT FUCKING POSSIBLE.

Anyways, those three shows are the Doctor Who Spectrum. Doctor Who can be enjoyed by most ages.

Sarah Jane Adventures is a little more childish for those cute british kids. (and me...)

And Torchwood is for the Doctor Who loving, Captain Jack obsessed, adult minded folk.

so far my favorite moment in any episode of Torchwood is when Gwen walked into the greenhouse area and found Jack and Ianto having sex. HEL-lo!
XD

Karilyn · Post by **Karilyn** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 7:37 pm

Bill Nye the Science Guy wrote:its apparent not many of you know THIS Dennis The Menace

but think about it, if they can get away with this, they might start doing it with more shows, they could make a Politically Correct Torchwood and Doctor Who! D:

Slippery slope is always a weak argument.

But if it's half as bad as the wikipedia article makes it sound, it makes me sick to my stomach that this comic wasn't canceled years ago. It sounds like it goes way beyond the lines of something that should have been acceptable.

Do we REALLY need a comic that glorifies hatred and bullying of gays, and represents such a bigoted individual as a hero?

Post by **Superior Bacon** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 7:57 pm

Karilyn wrote:
Bill Nye the Science Guy wrote:its apparent not many of you know THIS Dennis The Menace

but think about it, if they can get away with this, they might start doing it with more shows, they could make a Politically Correct Torchwood and Doctor Who! D:
Slippery slope is always a weak argument.

But if it's half as bad as the wikipedia article makes it sound, it makes me sick to my stomach that this comic wasn't canceled years ago. It sounds like it goes way beyond the lines of something that should have been acceptable.

Do we REALLY need a comic that glorifies hatred and bullying of gays, and represents such a bigoted individual as a hero?

It was the 70s; being gay wasn't exactly a-okay. Which doesn't excuse the comic, but you have to remember the time period.

re: pc-version: I'm sorry, but that's ridiculous. I hate how everything now has to be so PC and perfect. Let the old comic be the way it was; covering up the past isn't going to change it.

Post by **corsica** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 8:12 pm

Denis the Menace was never good to begin with.

Null · Post by **Null** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 8:34 pm

Karilyn wrote:
Bill Nye the Science Guy wrote:its apparent not many of you know THIS Dennis The Menace

but think about it, if they can get away with this, they might start doing it with more shows, they could make a Politically Correct Torchwood and Doctor Who! D:
Slippery slope is always a weak argument.

But if it's half as bad as the wikipedia article makes it sound, it makes me sick to my stomach that this comic wasn't canceled years ago. It sounds like it goes way beyond the lines of something that should have been acceptable.

Do we REALLY need a comic that glorifies hatred and bullying of gays, and represents such a bigoted individual as a hero?

Are you talking about the softies?

Plasma · Post by **Plasma** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 8:42 pm

Regarding the whole gay issue:
Walter wasn't gay. He didn't seem to have any sexuality. Which isn't that hard to believe, considering they're flipping children! The entire 'Walter is gay' dispute comes squarely out of idiots believing that if you fill a stereotype, you must therefore be a person that the stereotype confers to.
The only thing Walter is is a pansy. Bullying pansies is not a point for a moral outrage over

Post by **corsica** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 8:44 pm

why are we starting drama over a 'Denis the Menace' thread.

Plasma · Post by **Plasma** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 8:51 pm

Lolita wrote:why are we starting drama over a 'Denis the Menace' thread.

Well, we didn't start it. Other people started it, and we followed it on.
Because we like drama.
Its fun.

People normally ignore that.

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Dennis the Menace set to be ruined by the P.C. crew

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