tintin " crude, racist and must be banned"
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untethered
For industry & decency
tarannau said:
Yes.
tarannau said:
It'd be interesting if the Vlaams Belang manages to take Flanders out of the EU, leaving Brussels stranded in a sea of disEUtopia.
Kaka Tim
Half Arsed and Slapdash till I Die
I always thought they were duller than ditchwater cobblers as well.
If your going for jonny forigner comice stories for kids its got to be Asterix. not that Jimmy Sommerville look-a-like git.
Although I would now love to read Tin Tin in Tehran.
I seem to remember a spoof 80s version where Tin Tin and Capt Haddock were living on a london council estate and fighting the cops.
If your going for jonny forigner comice stories for kids its got to be Asterix. not that Jimmy Sommerville look-a-like git.
Although I would now love to read Tin Tin in Tehran.
I seem to remember a spoof 80s version where Tin Tin and Capt Haddock were living on a london council estate and fighting the cops.
N_igma
Epistemic nuisance
Louloubelle
Well-Known Member
N_igma said:
coffee
all over monitor
Thank you
eta
I read tin tn as a kid and found it incredibly dull, the cartoon was rubbish too and I was easily entertained as a kid
I hate the idea of banning / censoring anything but it's not right to publish racist books for kids to read. Obviously
further eta
I used to read my cousin's comics as a kid and he had some old comic books for the 40s and 5os that he'd inherited from some other relative. Anyway, some of the stories in them were incredibly racist, one in particular comes to mind which was called "The Little N****** Boy* and featured a "coon" style representation of an African kid with a bone through his nose and exaggerated huge lips who was always trying to steal watermelon. The N word was on every page. The books was a kind of compilation of boys own stories with heroic Europeans defeating evil native Americans and Africans. I wish I still had the book as it was a mine of information about the racist views that were prevalent at the time. I'd read it myself and I'd donate it to an ant-racist project / library as it was an important book. I wouldn't give it to kids to read though. Obviously.
tarannau said:
belgium is the world capital for comics. as for beer, chips and mayonnaise and mussels, don't start me.
one drawback though: Johnny Halliday.
Tintin really was dull, though, I mean Asterix was a little racist at times (the slave pictures, anyone?) but got away with it because it was, by some margin, the funniest thing that the French have ever been responsible for producing. At times one of the funniest things from anywhere, full stop...
BlackSpecs said:
Brilliant!
poster342002
PROPER leftwing socialist
I can see that copies of Tintin in the Congo are going to start flying off the shelves, now, as sales of the book rise as a result of this fuss. How many people had even heard of it before now? I hadn't - and I used to have quite a few of the books as a kid,.
Talk about an own-goal, here.
Talk about an own-goal, here.
RenegadeDog said:
definitely, the goscinny ones. the uderzo (a belgian) ones aren't that good.
poster342002 said:I can see that copies of Tintin in the Congo are going to start flying off the shelves, now, as a result of this fuss. How many people had even heard of it before now? I hadn't - and I used to have quite a few of the books as a kid,.
Talk about an own-goal, here.
I wouldn't mind finding the one with the soviets.
untethered
For industry & decency
guinnessdrinker said:
"Soviets" and "Congo" are available in one handy omnibus edition.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Adventures-Tintin-Land-Soviets-Congo/dp/1405228946/
At least, they will be when they're back in stock.
poster342002
PROPER leftwing socialist
See what I mean? I bet it's one of their bestsellers, now.untethered said:At least, they will be when they're back in stock.
It would have languished in obscurity (and possibly gone out of print, eventually) had this fuss not been kicked up
Maybe we should ban pretty much everything Kipling ever wrote. Oh, and we'd best get His Dark Materials out of bookshops too, in case they offend the Christians. But we'd best get rid of The Horse and His Boy while we're at it, in case the Muslims think we're ignoring them.
I hate the CRE so very, very much.
That said, having it in the childrens section is a bit odd. What parent buys their child Tintin in the Congo?
I hate the CRE so very, very much.
That said, having it in the childrens section is a bit odd. What parent buys their child Tintin in the Congo?
poster342002
PROPER leftwing socialist
I was puzzled by that "woah woah" thing for years, too.chazegee said:The biggest problem with Tintin is the fact that his stupid dog goes 'woa woa'
I always pronounced it in my mind as "wurr wurr" and wondered just what sort of dog made a stupid fucking noise like that in real life - until I realised it's actually the French phonetic-spelling of a barking noise. Still confused ? Think of the sound a dog barking makes, now write it down exactly as it sounds...
Good point about Horse and His Boy... I wonder if the film makers will make that one?
GarfieldLeChat
fucking awesome but wrong
well if we ingore belgains and of course lie and lump...Belushi said:
guinnessdrinker said:
I don't know but you could be correct about this.
I can't judge the beer from own experience, but I heard enough about it to safely assume you are correct
You forgot witloof (what is that called in English?) and sprouts.
Have no idea who that is.
salaam.
In Bloom said:What parent buys their child Tintin in the Congo?
I think it is nowadays more of a collector's item than anything else.
I used to read Tintin/Kuifje because it has so many translations but I could never connect with the style of it, always more or less patronising in nature.
I always prefered Willy Vandersteen's Suske & Wiske (also available in many languages) and of course above all: Asterix
It is true however that Hergé is popular in Congo still today.
salaam.
They'll probably just tone down the racism as much as they can and make sure that they haven't accidentally hired an all blonde cast for the bits in NarniaRenegadeDog said:
Of course, it's not really an integral part of the overall story. Theoretically, you could leave it out of the series altogether and not even miss it. It's not even that good compared to the others anyway. The Last Battle's going to be a bit of a challenge, I reckon they might take out the Middle Eastern aspects and turn Tash into a more literal Satan figure.
In Bloom said:They'll probably just tone down the racism as much as they can and make sure that they haven't accidentally hired an all blonde cast for the bits in Narnia
Of course, it's not really an integral part of the overall story. Theoretically, you could leave it out of the series altogether and not even miss it. It's not even that good compared to the others anyway. The Last Battle's going to be a bit of a challenge, I reckon they might take out the Middle Eastern aspects and turn Tash into a more literal Satan figure.
Yes, I suspect the Horse and His Boy and The Magicians Nephew wont be filmed (if they're going to make a series of them).
I always liked the bolshie dwarves in the Last Battle, they were having none of it.
Louloubelle
Well-Known Member
Aldebaran said:
With who?
the Chinese? the Arabs?
Serious question.
I get the impression that most Congolese children have to spend too much time digging with their bleeding fingers for Coltan / Cassiterite and trying not to get raped and murdered to have much time to go to school let alone read tin tin books
Aldebaran said:
This is the truth that the politically correct brigade cannot fathom.
Aldebaran said:
Full points to you, Aldebaran.
