The most stupid thing I have read today!

Dick Whittington, he was another. Absolutely disgusting.

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Time to reclaim the name!
It’s the rude meanings that should be cut out not the proper name.

I hope these daft parents are never faced with the prospect of reading a Famous Five book to their children - how on earth will they cope with reading about Dick and his Aunt Fanny?

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So should change his name to Richard?

I don’t - wasn’t allowed when I was growing up and it sort of stuck, but a lot of people do, Susie, and I bet they don’t complain about Dick Turpin or Dick Wittington. Are we still allowed to say Dick Turpin rode Black Bess??

The world spins madder every minute!

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Along with Richard Wittington and Spotted Richard pudding? Definitely not. The Dungeon are right to stick to their guns!

I’m happy with dick … (but don’t quote me)

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Richard Turpin doesn’t quite have a ring to it.

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Lets call everyone christened Richard, Penis to save confusion.

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I’ve already had one warning from bot today …

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Now … Bot … doesn’t that sound a little salacious?

Only one? You are lucky - they seem to be stalking me. I am thinkijng of buying a tazer!!

@Zuleika rather than Richard head ( because that’s an American word for urinal ) it would have to be Richard Cranium

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And perhaps Anna Sewell should have been thrown in the dungeons for daring to call her book -
‘Black Beauty.’

P.S. . . just found this -

"Although animal abuse isn’t exactly a polarizing subject, it is believed that the book was banned in South Africa during the Apartheid era for featuring the word “black” in association with “beauty.”"

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If you want them to be truly offended play them any Kevin Bloody Wilson song. I might suggest the Featherbrain Championship. It is seriously bad language though.

I remember those halycon days of yore when we enjoyed our Indian summers often and we innocently called our friends ‘dick’ if he was a Richard without a hint of a snigger or a laugh - we would need to look into the sociolinguistic nature to determine its origin of course? but perhaps we have become more scientific now ; more puritanical too perhaps? and frightened by accusations of ‘you are not pure enough in your thoughts’?

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Slow day at the mail they have run out of z listers in bikinis .

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Cynical old me is wondering now if we haven’t been “played’ a bit by York Dungeon!

It was the dungeon who gave this story to the papers, no parents have been named or come forward and identified themselves, they haven’t produced a letter or email showing the complaint! No formal protest movement or letters to MPs? :rofl::rofl:

And they just say “several” parents. So how many’s that then? Three? Four? Not many out of their thousands of visitors🤣

I can’t help wondering if they’ve taken some casual remarks or a couple of nutter complaint letters and made them into a “thing” for a bit of publicity.

And it worked, they’re all over the national media suddenly everyone knows about the dungeon and it’s Dick Turpin ride :crazy_face:

More power to their elbow if that’s the case, well played :+1:

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No such thing as bad publicity :slight_smile:

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@Maree you took the words right out of my mouth. This was my immediate reaction when I first read the news story yesterday.

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They sound like a bunch of Dicks to me,like they havent used that and other words in front of the children,
Its about time those type of idiots got told where to go,so to speak.

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