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dave
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Re: Assange makes 1st public appearance in 2 months

said by StuartMW:

Mr Humphries was also gay although that was never explicit as I recall.

Only if mincing around, general swishiness, and double-entendres with laugh-track are not considered 'explicit'.

Not one of the finer products of British culture.

(This isn't modern revisionism. I knew it was a horrible piece of crap at the time.)

StuartMW
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StuartMW

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Well Are You Being Served? is about 40 years old and from a time when societal norms were different. I think it's unfair to compare it with today's standards.
dave
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dave

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said by StuartMW:

Well Are You Being Served? is about 40 years old and from a time when societal norms were different. I think it's unfair to compare it with today's standards.

I'm not. I saw it when it was first broadcast in the early 1970s and thought it was dreadfully unfunny then.

But back to your original point: yeah, it was explicit. That was the entire joke: "he's a homosexual: ha, ha".

StuartMW
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StuartMW

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Well I meant explicit in the sense that he never came out and said I'm gay/homosexual (tolerated in our time). It was however very obvious. Splitting hairs maybe... and I'm not even a lawyer