[the truth]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Read you blog for the first time Rachael.

After this I will be reading it again, think you have hit the nail on the head.

He reminds us of our cantankerous, slightly racist and sexist granddads, dads and uncles (who we also love, despite their anachronistic outlooks on life) who lived in that fascinating era, the 1970s, when Jim’s type of comedy appealed to the working populations before alternative humour sneered it away. When kids could ride on chopper bikes without helmets, could get a clip round the ear without it being termed abuse, middle-class aspirants could drink Liebfraumilch without shame, get a “chinky” and working-class folks could go to the pub and eat chicken in a basket with a Babycham and smoke wherever they bloody well liked.

An unenlightened era maybe and I’m not condoning it, but people like Jim remind us of a time when people could say what they wanted and take the piss out of people without reproach. Because that is how ordinary working-class people in this country behaved, especially in the part of the world he comes from. I just think that nowadays people either have to PC and bland, or forcibly extrovert to get on and Jim is the antithesis of both but is trying his best to adapt. He’s not exactly a breath of fresh air- he exudes a more of a wine-soaked, fag-stenched, Brut smelling aftershave type of aroma that wafts through the airwaves into our homes and I think that is why the public have taken him to their nostalgic hearts.

nothing nsotalgic about it. jim is the only genuine person in there. he is also less sexist than most of the women. thank goodness there is 1 man left on tv who is allowed to give his genuine opinion. wont last long though. women can mock and sneer at men and get away with it and everyone is supposed to laugh it off, men say anything like nady gray and lose their careers and homes. this country is sexist, against men.