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Who was a fan of this comic?
I'm thinking about collecting all of these- only problem is, they've been made "PC".
They were originally peppered with comments that are now considered racist..

Punk Rooster wrote:Who was a fan of this comic?
I'm thinking about collecting all of these- only problem is, they've been made "PC".
They were originally peppered with comments that are now considered racist..

Got the full set of Tintin comics when i was a kid. Still have them somewhere.

I'm sure there was monkey references in there....

maybe something like "you impudent monkey".

Punk Rooster wrote:Who was a fan of this comic?
I'm thinking about collecting all of these- only problem is, they've been made "PC".
They were originally peppered with comments that are now considered racist..

They've been censored? In my edition of Le Lotus Bleu, a character explicitly refers to an asian character as a "dirty chink".

Pseudo wrote:

Punk Rooster wrote:Who was a fan of this comic?
I'm thinking about collecting all of these- only problem is, they've been made "PC".
They were originally peppered with comments that are now considered racist..

They've been censored? In my edition of Le Lotus Bleu, a character explicitly refers to an asian character as a "dirty chink".

You either have an old one, or that's their idea of "toning it down"...

Classic Tin Tin on youtube that is dubbed over by a pair of blokes. Some quite rude stuff but funny all the same.

Sorry doesnt help your want for the comics!

Always preferred Asterisk and Obelix.

Wedgie wrote:Always preferred Asterisk and Obelix.

see appropriate thread... (entitled "Asterix the Great")

Yeah, i've read about 90% of them

The Red Sea Sharks was probably my favourite.

SBS had an interesting doco on Herge about 12 months back.

Tintin (also with a few animated films & talk of a live action one to it's credit) was created by Herge in Belgium
a country where they put mayonaise on their chips the sick units!

Sadly it looks like Tintin, amongst others, has fallen victim to the PC/racist police.

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/ ... 062157.ece

Shame people seem to be so over-sensitive these days. As a child I had a toy golliwog as seen in the Noddy books but I certainly didn't become a racist. Takes a lot more than a cartoon character or a kids toy to create one. As well as the 'offences' mentioned in the article I also believe that Snowy has been pictured smoking a cigar at least once so that would need to be changed too of course.

Regards
JAS

Snaggletooth Tiger wrote:Tintin (also with a few animated films & talk of a live action one to it's credit) was created by Herge in Belgium
a country where they put mayonaise on their chips the sick units!

Hey...nothing wrong with mayo on chips...it's well yummy especially with some bratties at an Oktoberfest.

Regards
JAS

Well we now have Tintin as our PM!
As for Mayo on chips, nothing wrong with that, or tomato sauce but vinager

The way we're going, harking back to our childhoods, I may have to start a thread about Biggles. Another veteran of the PC battle.

What about Kingswood Country.

They got away with a hell of a lot...

"Money on the fridge Wog!!"

Im a fan too, i had quite a lot of them when i was a kid, and i use to borrow them from the school library, even the foreign lauguage versions if the english versions were out. I couldnt read them but i had read them so many times i knew the storey any way.

apparantly there is a movie version on the way, but i dont know if its an animated version or movie, does any body know?

Long live Rastapopolus!!!

They are still available brand new in Australia at most good book stores - ditto the GREAT Asterix books!

Alternatively E-bay would have heaps of 2nd hand ones

Love Tin Tin and Asterix.

Might try and find a few myself.

TroyGFC wrote:Well we now have Tintin as our PM!
As for Mayo on chips, nothing wrong with that, or tomato sauce but vinager

Vinegar on chips is sensational, just ahead of gravy, then sauce. Mayo = homo man milk...