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1987: On The Piste for a Ski Holiday | Niche Sports | Classic Documentary | BBC Archive
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How did Freddies language at 48:45 get past '87 BBC editing?
"It wasn't me. It was some stupid B4STARD behind!"
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I briefly thought that but thought it had been left in for context as to the entitlement of the bloke where the real answer in a race is if you left it dangling of course someone would run it over. See also the uncommented on carnage as all the ski gods and goddesses of the DHO come to grief on the first bit of actual pitched skiing they had to do. Looked at now it's quite a subversive bit of TV (BBC bias!) disguised somewhat by the plummy accent of the voiceover e.g. contrasting the harmless* singalong of the proles with the foodfight of the toffs.
It's interesting how now the standards of punter skiing on the guided trip (stem ahoy) and the kids' race training would be much higher. Guess we have a lot to thank equipment for.
Still think Kevin was a plant given they introduced him later into the narrative.
*I guess aural harm is still a possibility.
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Just seen this pop up on my YT feed too - loved it when I first saw it and I remember my late Dad in tears of laughter watching it. We weren't a skiing family but with Ski Sunday it helped inspire me to take up skiing a few years later, followed by moving to Switzerland a few years after that!
And thank you to whichever of the esteemed gentlemen above sent me the DVD - I still have it
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Dave of the Marmottes wrote:
Worth a rewatch as a point in time doc of the state of the British class system. Like the Eric Idle vicar.
Jesus Wept!! (pun intended)...if you closed your eyes you'd genuinely think it was him!!
I was waiting on him to finish the sermon with "And now for something completely different".
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