'Humour' on layouts - good or bad?

[kevinlms]

Nah. Nudey scenes & naughty words fail to trouble me in the slightest. The one thing i do find offensive to my intelligence though, is the vacant-cranium Daily Mail types who have been spoon-fed the word 'snowflake', who think they're being witty by repeating it ad-nauseum ;-)

Snowflakes?

 

Perhaps you could do a snow scene, then further along the layout, do a beach scene with people in bathers, laying on deckchairs, ice cream vans and the like.

 

Yeah, I know I got carried away with the meaning of snow flake.

[Devo63]

A little vignette I've always wanted to reproduce on my 4mm scale layout was one I saw either on a 7mm scale exhibition display or in a magazine. If it was a mag I've never been able to find it since. It must be between 20 and 30 years since I saw it but it has alway stuck in my mind.

 

The scene was set up in front of the town hall with the mayor and aldermen in their official attire, a small gathering of onlookers and representatives of the local press. The focus of the gathering were two cars parked at the kerb. One was a brand new Morris Minor van, with a well dressed (new looking overalls) man, labled "Council Health Controller". The other vehicle was a scuffy little Austin 7 with hand painted signs front and rear saying "Rat Catcher". The driver standing next to this was equally as scruffy as the car, had a couple of fox terriers at his feet and was painted with quite a sour look on his face.  

[Andy Kirkham]

LGB surely?

 

   

 

 

Personally it's not a problem. But I can understand that some people may be offended.

 

But if you keep it to Carry On levels then I don't think anyone can really complain since the films get shown in the middle of the afternoon and we have old episodes of Round The Horne being repeated on Radio Four Extra at breakfast time and that's full of homosexual humour. As is The Navy Lark with "left hand down a bit". Just that many people back in the day didn't quite get it. 

 

I still don't understand why Larry Grayson saying "Shut that door" was considered to be so hilarious.

Edited May 11, 2018 by Andy Kirkham

[RedgateModels]

Fourgig East has lots of little touches, Stig in the queue for the kiosk (don't ask why there's a queue in the first place!) and the furniture removal van in the background. My OO Summat Colliery has an "R M Web & Co" coal lorry on it too

[MarkSG]

My OO Summat Colliery has an "R M Web & Co" coal lorry on it too 

 

Fully loaded with nutty slack, I trust?

[t-b-g]

I am all in favour of a bit of humour but when it comes to nudity and figures depicting sexual acts, I always think of the mum and dad with young kids seeing it at an exhibition.

 

On a home layout, anything goes but I think we need to show a little restraint at a family friendly show.

[Dee-Ess]

I still don't understand why Larry Grayson saying "Shut that door" was considered to be so hilarious.

People of his persuasion would say ' je t'adore' to a person they were attracted to, and it is therefore a play on words.

[Steamport Southport]

People of his persuasion would say ' je t'adore' to a person they were attracted to, and it is therefore a play on words.

 

Now that is informative.

 

I found a guide somewhere on the internet that explained some of the more obscure Polari and slang that was used on some of the radio shows such as Round The Horne. I find it hilarious what they were getting away with in the 1950s and 1960s. Right under the noses of all the bigwigs at the BBC.   

 

 

 

Jason

[F-UnitMad]

Fourgig East has lots of little touches, Stig in the queue for the kiosk (don't ask why there's a queue in the first place!) ...

Why is there a queue to the kiosk in the first place??

[souwest]

_{In the same way that several heritage railways have WW2 days with or without German uniforms or with or without Nazi Uniforms.   I think in general the Nazi uniforms are verboten, but whether german military uniforms appear is down to each companies choicer and perception of damage limitation.  Equally of course no mainland UK railways saw germans (or Nazi) forces so not really recreating history.}

[Vistisen]

Fully loaded with nutty slack, I trust?

A tanker full of froth?

[Welchester]

People of his persuasion would say ' je t'adore' to a person they were attracted to, and it is therefore a play on words.

 

I used to wonder whether there was a smutty innuendo in the name 'Everard'.

 

 _{Equally of course no mainland UK railways saw germans (or Nazi) forces.}

 

Except as prisoners of war.

[RedgateModels]

On 11/05/2018 at 13:08, F-UnitMad said:

Why is there a queue to the kiosk in the first place??

 

Edited September 14, 2022 by RedgateModels

[Joseph_Pestell]

_{In the same way that several heritage railways have WW2 days with or without German uniforms or with or without Nazi Uniforms.   I think in general the Nazi uniforms are verboten, but whether german military uniforms appear is down to each companies choicer and perception of damage limitation.  Equally of course no mainland UK railways saw germans (or Nazi) forces so not really recreating history.}

 

Saw plenty of the Luftwaffe.

[Titan]

Damn! I was thinking of doing that!

 

Now I'll have to put it on the 'Nahh, been done before' pile.

 

You could have almost endless options for P.O. wagons - how about, Hartnell, Troughton, Pertwee, Baker, Davidson, Baker, McCoy, McGann, Eccleston, Tennant, Smith, Capaldi, Whittaker...

 

The first two of course being in black and white.

Edited May 11, 2018 by Titan

[Titan]

Saw plenty of the Luftwaffe.

 

Presumably not standing around on station platforms in uniform though!

[beast66606]

Presumably not standing around on station platforms in uniform though!

 

Not in uniform perhaps but if it was Codnor Park

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_One_That_Got_Away_(film)

[Joseph_Pestell]

You could have almost endless options for P.O. wagons - how about, Hartnell, Troughton, Pertwee, Baker, Davidson, Baker, McCoy, McGann, Eccleston, Tennant, Smith, Capaldi, Whittaker...

 

 

Pertwee was black and white in our household.

Edited May 11, 2018 by Joseph_Pestell

[10000]

_{In the same way that several heritage railways have WW2 days with or without German uniforms or with or without Nazi Uniforms.   I think in general the Nazi uniforms are verboten, but whether german military uniforms appear is down to each companies choicer and perception of damage limitation.  Equally of course no mainland UK railways saw germans (or Nazi) forces so not really recreating history.}

 

Never understood why they feel the need to have German troops holding up /attacking the train. 5th columnists in British or US uniforms maybe.

 

But the thing that annoys me is when people refer to both the Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe as Nazi uniforms. They never seem to include the Kriegsmarine in that context. No doubt there were party members in all the Germany forces but a lot who were not. Also many people are unable to see the difference in the Germany tank crews uniforms and the SS

[Nearholmer]

It would be far better if British people who can’t resist the urge to dress up as WW2 German military personnel were to go to French preserved railways, or perhaps Dutch ones, to strut their stuff. It would be authentic, and I’m sure the locals would know how to give them a suitable reception.

[sharris]

Never understood why they feel the need to have German troops holding up /attacking the train.

 

 

Are there any UK preserved lines that have acquired appropriate European stock that could be used with such a scenario? (German troops not necessarily holding up the train, maybe even driving it?). 

 

I know there are a few TKh49 Polish locomotives around the UK that almost qualify (apparently a pre-war design, but production didn't start until 1948), and the Nene Valley has a Danish (occupied in the second world war) locomotive, but again built just after in 1949. 

[Steamport Southport]

I don't think we saw any BR Standards or Mark Ones in the Second World War either.

 

 

I don't dress up as anything, but to me it's just the same as someone dressing in a Napoleonic War uniform, as a Viking or people doing English Civil War re-enactments. Or even as a cowboy.

 

Are we going to ban pirates? A bunch of cut throats and rapists, and probably the biggest selling fancy dress outfit for kids. Apart from maybe serial killers.

 

 

Yes, tone down the Nazi element, but it's mostly just harmless fun.

 

 

 

Jason

[F-UnitMad]

Saw plenty of the Luftwaffe.

Presumably not standing around on station platforms in uniform though!

Could be if they were under armed escort, though. (See post #112)

 

There's a famous WW2 photo of just such a situation taken at Paddington IIRC, about 1940. The looks on bystander's faces - well, you can imagine!

[brack]

I don't think we saw any BR Standards or Mark Ones in the Second World War either.

 

 

They're in every war film I've ever watched, what do you mean they weren't in the war?!

[10000]

They're in every war film I've ever watched, what do you mean they weren't in the war?!

 

Then watch "The Train" with Burt Lancaster