…obviously the scene which showed her with George and how drunk she was, this very young girl who could have been his daughter…and how eagerly this ‘father figure’ abused that situation ….obviously that wasn’t good to watch…

Yes, I mean it was of it's time but nowadays we'd be calling that rape. That aside, it's such a funny film and Dessie absolutely steals the show

….a funny line/bit right at the end was when Dessie was in the pub and celebrating ‘7lb 12oz’ and the old guy says…was it a baby or a turkey…?…when Dessie said it’s a baby/ahhh, that’s a grand size baby….small turkey, though….:laugh:…I just love that kind of wholesome humour….some of it wasn’t so wholesome and I liked that as well… :laugh:…

…yeah, it was of it’s time but it’s that he kept her underwear as well so that he could ‘brag’ and had a ‘souvenir ’…I found that all very difficult…

And I think they probably dealt with him/his character as harshly as he could have been dealt with at the time, it just wasn't considered sexual assault or rape back then (horribly and wrongly) him being made out as a sleazy pervert was about as much as he could get

…yeah, it was dealt with well, I have to say…because even ‘of its time’, it didn’t portray that behaviour and those actions from George as being any acceptable thing, it was shown as him being perverted…I mean, Dessie wasn’t that man…it was very specific at being that one older guy…what was nice, I thought…is how much mindsets had actually moved on…(…I’m thinking about mindsets and judgement with things like the Magdalene Laundries…)…and how accepting the family and outer community were with single motherhood…the judgement being laid was that it was that older pervert, George…and even now in these times…?…there would be some judgement in Sharon also for being a victim….on social media etc…we see similar stuff often, that older guy just couldn’t help himself, poor thing……