Apparently it’s over Dick Van Dyke’s “Cockney” accent.
(not really… but it should)
I now demand someone uses AI to merge in Mary Poppins swearing using clips from Julie Andrews – [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=376UbhXgWcU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=376UbhXgWcU) . She really had a potty mouth.
Make Sweary Poppins a thing
I would also like to point out, that during the Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious song, there is a woman who repeatedly hits her husband on the head with a tambourine.
I hope this has been noted and evaluated, as I consider this to be a form of micro-aggression.
As a white middle-class spokesperson for the Khoikhoi nomadic pastoralists, many are offended by Mary Poppins because I told them to be. I praise this great change.
Yes, no one knows who they are, what “hettenhot” means or will ever use it in their life, but this is a great change nonetheless.
Ok sure… Like someone would put down any movie because it went from U to PG
Any child too young for a PG certificate isn’t going to have the first clue what “Hottentot” means or why it’s an outmoded, discriminatory term, and wouldn’t be influenced by hearing it a couple of times. Frankly I suspect that most adults wouldn’t know either.
I guess at least they’re not trying to cut it and pretend the original version didn’t exist this time.
I don’t remember much practical difference between U and PG films, so, meh? Gives a bit of a flag there might be something, parents can decide from there.
I’m confident that there’s been many instances of kids coming into primary school and calling other kids things they shouldn’t, which does upset them and cause the teachers to have to deal with both sets of parents, and it’s not fair on kids to either hear racist terms or to unwittingly use them.
I’m equally confident that the number of these who’ve used the word ‘hottentot’ after/because of watching Mary Poppins is vanishingly small.
But IDK what else the BBFC could have done if they had to rewatch and rectify it: early media age works are now sufficiently old that some will be significantly out of step with modern values that they require a rethink.
We saw it with *Song of the South* 23 years ago, rightly, and it’s going to affect many other movies, shows, and songs as what was acceptable then is actually unacceptable to many people now.
If they do that for Mary Poppins, they’ll have to do the same for Wizard of oz. Because The Cowardly Lion says “What makes the hottentots so hot” in his song.
I’m on the fence with this one. It’s not like they’re stopping people from watching it, if it’s really a problem they should probably edit it out like they do with other films and other words, or do an AI replacement, considering that’s where we’re headed, to another word entirely. Maybe it’s a good talking point if a kid says “Parent, what is a hottentot?” but given kids these days aren’t even watching older films cos remakes keep being made for them… I don’t know. It seems performative. They’re doing something without actually doing anything helpful.
Pretty sure you could find something that is potentially offensive to somebody from some demographic in every ‘U’ rated movie ever made.
The world has gone mad.
> Use of the term Hottentot is now deprecated and considered offensive, the preferred name for the non-Bantu & Bantu speaking indigenous people of the Western Cape area being Khoekhoe (formerly Khoikhoi), San People and Xhosa people of which share the same ancestral DNA Haplogroup L0 & Haplogroup A
Who the diddly-fuck makes these decisions?
I personally loved it when Mary called Mr Banks a fucking cunt.
Kinda surprised it wasn’t a PG already given the references to suicide near the end of the film.
Why am I reading this shit & asking myself wtf is going on?????
Is that the bit where all the chimney sweeps are covered in soot dancing on the roof with sticks and the crazy navy guy looks at them through his telescope makes a racist comment and fires a cannon at them? Because to be honest I was amazed they diddnt cut the 3 seconds last time I saw it on telly.
You cut it, the right-wingers get mad. You leave it in with a warning, the right-wingers get mad.
They’re telling on themselves.
Been re-classified for a 60th anniversary re-release
First it was Only Fools and Horses, then it was Fawlty Towers and now it’s Mary Poppins. Good to see the BBFC succeeding where the Luftwaffe failed.
I much prefer adding a warning over removing the original.
I don’t necessarily mind a re-edit if it makes a piece more inclusive, but I think there is a danger in erasing racist and sexist history. So if they edit I think they should make the original available somehow.
Oh dear god why don’t they just burn everything to do with history just to mollycoddle the wokerati!
I’m not bothered by this change particularly, but I do think it’s nonsensical to say that young children might simultaneously be upset by this, while also repeating it without understanding what it means. It’s one or the other surely?
Congrats ratings board, you’ve just taught me a new word.
The Daily Mail comments section is going to be absolutely frothing.
Jesus Christ, some bellend who has a BA Degree from the ‘School of Eternally Offended’ and couldn’t even operate the Costa Coffee Machine finds a nice little empire to build upon and invent problems to find a cure for.
Mega thunder cunts. All of them.
Honestly, as long as they don’t cut or censor it, or modify it in any way, this really doesn’t matter.
Still, I find it odd that any such “slur” from so long ago would get any notice from the viewer, nor could I imagine young children suddenly using it in a supermarket. No one would know what it meant either way.
Imagine a parent taking their 5 year old to watch this, but, opting not to due to the warning about potentially offensive discriminatary language.
Can you imagine the “working party” that spent weeks on this?
All those meetings, with coffee and cake.
Wankers
What about the Fuzzywuzzies in Dad’s Army? They don’t like it up ’em.
It’s that scene where the black guy walks by and tells Mary Poppins what a mighty fine day it is and she says “up yours, n******!” and walks away
Foooooooomin! PC gone mad!!!11!!1!1!!!
Oh, sorry that’s the old version, hang on
So ridiculous!!1!1! Go woke go broke !!1!!1!!
(It’s a shit film anyway)
Yea out of all the things going on in my kids life right now this is up there
So, film goes from U to PG (Which most people see as the same anyway) because there is a word children may not recognise as unacceptable and may repeat.
Seems fair. Bet the boomers will hate it.
So all these years, calling all men stupid was just fine, but now 17 people in South Africa have ruffled feathers so they have to do something about it?
Apparently Rim Rim a Rim Rim- Rim Rim Me and Superpenertratealuciousextralabiablowus is unacceptable.
State of the fucking country and someone’s got the time and wherewithal to come up with this bullshit…
I prefer the much maligned sequel, Alien vs Mary Poppins: the bitch is back.
Yeah kids at school are always calling eachother “hottentots”.
I never thought I would see the day when Mary Poppins would be getting heat. But her we are.
I am concerned that my other favourite film ‘The Sound of Music’ might be next in the firing line. We cannot very well sing Edelweiss proudly, can we?
What about the Jungle Book?? Will it no longer be acceptable for King Louie to be the King of the Swingers, the Jungle VIP, who has reached the top, and had to stop? Will he be accused of blackvoice??
40 comments
Apparently it’s over Dick Van Dyke’s “Cockney” accent.
(not really… but it should)
I now demand someone uses AI to merge in Mary Poppins swearing using clips from Julie Andrews – [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=376UbhXgWcU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=376UbhXgWcU) . She really had a potty mouth.
Make Sweary Poppins a thing
I would also like to point out, that during the Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious song, there is a woman who repeatedly hits her husband on the head with a tambourine.
I hope this has been noted and evaluated, as I consider this to be a form of micro-aggression.
As a white middle-class spokesperson for the Khoikhoi nomadic pastoralists, many are offended by Mary Poppins because I told them to be. I praise this great change.
Yes, no one knows who they are, what “hettenhot” means or will ever use it in their life, but this is a great change nonetheless.
Ok sure… Like someone would put down any movie because it went from U to PG
Any child too young for a PG certificate isn’t going to have the first clue what “Hottentot” means or why it’s an outmoded, discriminatory term, and wouldn’t be influenced by hearing it a couple of times. Frankly I suspect that most adults wouldn’t know either.
I guess at least they’re not trying to cut it and pretend the original version didn’t exist this time.
I don’t remember much practical difference between U and PG films, so, meh? Gives a bit of a flag there might be something, parents can decide from there.
I’m confident that there’s been many instances of kids coming into primary school and calling other kids things they shouldn’t, which does upset them and cause the teachers to have to deal with both sets of parents, and it’s not fair on kids to either hear racist terms or to unwittingly use them.
I’m equally confident that the number of these who’ve used the word ‘hottentot’ after/because of watching Mary Poppins is vanishingly small.
But IDK what else the BBFC could have done if they had to rewatch and rectify it: early media age works are now sufficiently old that some will be significantly out of step with modern values that they require a rethink.
We saw it with *Song of the South* 23 years ago, rightly, and it’s going to affect many other movies, shows, and songs as what was acceptable then is actually unacceptable to many people now.
If they do that for Mary Poppins, they’ll have to do the same for Wizard of oz. Because The Cowardly Lion says “What makes the hottentots so hot” in his song.
I’m on the fence with this one. It’s not like they’re stopping people from watching it, if it’s really a problem they should probably edit it out like they do with other films and other words, or do an AI replacement, considering that’s where we’re headed, to another word entirely. Maybe it’s a good talking point if a kid says “Parent, what is a hottentot?” but given kids these days aren’t even watching older films cos remakes keep being made for them… I don’t know. It seems performative. They’re doing something without actually doing anything helpful.
Pretty sure you could find something that is potentially offensive to somebody from some demographic in every ‘U’ rated movie ever made.
The world has gone mad.
> Use of the term Hottentot is now deprecated and considered offensive, the preferred name for the non-Bantu & Bantu speaking indigenous people of the Western Cape area being Khoekhoe (formerly Khoikhoi), San People and Xhosa people of which share the same ancestral DNA Haplogroup L0 & Haplogroup A
Who the diddly-fuck makes these decisions?
I personally loved it when Mary called Mr Banks a fucking cunt.
Kinda surprised it wasn’t a PG already given the references to suicide near the end of the film.
For a minute, I thought they might have reinstated [the song that got cut from the original release.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6eFWPLyDA4)
Why am I reading this shit & asking myself wtf is going on?????
Is that the bit where all the chimney sweeps are covered in soot dancing on the roof with sticks and the crazy navy guy looks at them through his telescope makes a racist comment and fires a cannon at them? Because to be honest I was amazed they diddnt cut the 3 seconds last time I saw it on telly.
You cut it, the right-wingers get mad. You leave it in with a warning, the right-wingers get mad.
They’re telling on themselves.
Been re-classified for a 60th anniversary re-release
First it was Only Fools and Horses, then it was Fawlty Towers and now it’s Mary Poppins. Good to see the BBFC succeeding where the Luftwaffe failed.
I much prefer adding a warning over removing the original.
I don’t necessarily mind a re-edit if it makes a piece more inclusive, but I think there is a danger in erasing racist and sexist history. So if they edit I think they should make the original available somehow.
Oh dear god why don’t they just burn everything to do with history just to mollycoddle the wokerati!
I’m not bothered by this change particularly, but I do think it’s nonsensical to say that young children might simultaneously be upset by this, while also repeating it without understanding what it means. It’s one or the other surely?
Congrats ratings board, you’ve just taught me a new word.
The Daily Mail comments section is going to be absolutely frothing.
Jesus Christ, some bellend who has a BA Degree from the ‘School of Eternally Offended’ and couldn’t even operate the Costa Coffee Machine finds a nice little empire to build upon and invent problems to find a cure for.
Mega thunder cunts. All of them.
Honestly, as long as they don’t cut or censor it, or modify it in any way, this really doesn’t matter.
Still, I find it odd that any such “slur” from so long ago would get any notice from the viewer, nor could I imagine young children suddenly using it in a supermarket. No one would know what it meant either way.
Imagine a parent taking their 5 year old to watch this, but, opting not to due to the warning about potentially offensive discriminatary language.
Can you imagine the “working party” that spent weeks on this?
All those meetings, with coffee and cake.
Wankers
What about the Fuzzywuzzies in Dad’s Army? They don’t like it up ’em.
It’s that scene where the black guy walks by and tells Mary Poppins what a mighty fine day it is and she says “up yours, n******!” and walks away
Foooooooomin! PC gone mad!!!11!!1!1!!!
Oh, sorry that’s the old version, hang on
So ridiculous!!1!1! Go woke go broke !!1!!1!!
(It’s a shit film anyway)
Yea out of all the things going on in my kids life right now this is up there
So, film goes from U to PG (Which most people see as the same anyway) because there is a word children may not recognise as unacceptable and may repeat.
Seems fair. Bet the boomers will hate it.
So all these years, calling all men stupid was just fine, but now 17 people in South Africa have ruffled feathers so they have to do something about it?
Apparently Rim Rim a Rim Rim- Rim Rim Me and Superpenertratealuciousextralabiablowus is unacceptable.
State of the fucking country and someone’s got the time and wherewithal to come up with this bullshit…
I prefer the much maligned sequel, Alien vs Mary Poppins: the bitch is back.
Yeah kids at school are always calling eachother “hottentots”.
I never thought I would see the day when Mary Poppins would be getting heat. But her we are.
I am concerned that my other favourite film ‘The Sound of Music’ might be next in the firing line. We cannot very well sing Edelweiss proudly, can we?
What about the Jungle Book?? Will it no longer be acceptable for King Louie to be the King of the Swingers, the Jungle VIP, who has reached the top, and had to stop? Will he be accused of blackvoice??
[removed]