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Saturday, 17 September 2016

Grim Up North

Described here as a "Gritty.... socially realistic" drama, Grim Up North portrays a very different era. However, I struggle to see as "realistic" a chirpy schoolboy telling how his Dad made him late for school by giving him a belting, then because he was late for school he'd had to stay back and get caned by the headmaster - to which the father's response is that he'll give him another belting for getting caned.  Surely this is pure comedy rather than realism?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

A good leathering never did any harm... or so I was told as a boy!
Old Tom

Targetarear. said...

Definitely comedy. 'Dad' is Harry "Loadsa Money" Enfield.

Anonymous said...

Very funny, James. The humor always STINGS on this blog :-)

I say CP good. PC bad !
Raising two wonderful daughters myself (strictly & lovingly), albeit in the 1980s/90s, I have always strongly agreed with the wise, insightful Janus editors who stridently suggested & supported a "good bare-bottom caning" AKA " a sensible pants- down caning" for naughty girls at home. And here, I quote twice from the Editorial in Janus 1979, Vol 8 number 12....plus ca change, James. Don't spare the rod.
Or as my strict, kind, religious Southern mother told me as a lil' girl in the 1960s
"a stinging bottom right now will stop you getting into trouble when you gotten older, Brenda !"

Oh my! And for sure, she pulled my cotton panties down, to bare my poor, soft, alabaster-white buttocks for her terrible, nasty, whippy-thin rattan cane (the "botty smacker") as she said this line. Corporal punishment was simply normal & necessary for me & my sister. And Oh my! Is indeed necessary for y'all wayward princess brats !

I am asked at church by new congregation moms with young daughters about discipline in the church-aligned-Bible-fashion of the South. Well, Oh my! Parents who care, cane on the bare !
Thanks & kind regards, James.
Brenda xx