Ripper Street

[anotheoldgit]

I am surprised that there were no complaints regarding a certain remark that was made in Ripper Street on Monday night.

There were a group of men talking in their club, and one made a remark about the Irish, saying that Irish men are just 'Blacks' turned inside out, I use the word Black but i think the original description was much worse.

Can anyone remember exactly what the loud mouth man said?

He came to a sticky end however because an Irish man planted a bomb under his bed, and blew him up.

[ojread2]

Don't watch it - it's called being true to the way it was back then
It's how people spoke back then. It would be pointless using queens English in the slums now, wouldn't it?

[2sp_]

I've just watched the episode, recorded from last night.

I think he used the word "***".

I doubt there would be complaints as the word was used in context.

The MP that used the word was a racist (as alluded to by the Inspector when taking about his death). It would have been the word used by someone so intolerant of others in that particular time.

[2sp_]

Ahh, the swear filter caught it.

I really wasn't trying to offend by using it. It was a word that begins with N, ends in O.

[netibiza]

Like in the film The Butler they were all called house n*****s, offends us now, but that's how it was, and this film is this year's.

[Mamyalynne]

Anyone who watches Ripper Street knows how gritty, hard and brutal it is - perfectly fitted within the storyline.

Do we know that no complaints were received?

[Mrsspagnoli57]

Personally I was more offended by the use of the goat in the A/c D/c electricity trial.

[Mamyalynne]

Well, I cried when they killed off Joseph Merrick but isn't it a fabulous series?

[starone]

Sounds good. What programme is it on, someone? Anyone?

[Mrsspagnoli57]

Oh yes Mammalynne-it is very good. Gritty to the nth degree but I like the underlying storylines. Just waiting for DCI Reid to have some good fortune in his personal life for a change.!

[Mamyalynne]

Monday BBC1 9pm

[starone]

Thanks mamya. I shall have a look at it next Monday. Might be able to get this weeks if I can figure out how to use this catch up facility.