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Re:Anti-royal protesters are being arrested in the U.K. as '... by HideousKojima on Monday September 12, 2022 @06:35PM (#32818067)
Yeah but the UK is where you can get arrested for making your girlfriend's pug do a Nazi salute as a joke (but somehow Father Ted doing similar Nazi jokes gets a pass)
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Re:Anti-royal protesters are being arrested in the U.K. as '... by gerdesj on Monday September 12, 2022 @08:32PM (#32819268)
Citation needed but I suspect you are probably right about the pug.

Father Ted is Irish as in Republic of Ireland as in not UKoGB - we share a very, very strange border. Having said that, Father Ted was turned down by RTE for being too Irish and was eventually financed by the BBC! Thankfully it eventually aired because it is absolutely belting.

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Re:Anti-royal protesters are being arrested in the U.K. as '... by rgblambda on Monday September 12, 2022 @09:30PM (#32819715)
Everything about your second paragraph is incorrect. Father Ted was never pitched to RTE. The creators had a prior working relationship with Channel 4 so it was pitched to them, not the BBC. It was produced by Hat Trick Productions, a UK based television production company who also make Have I Got News For You. All indoor scenes were filmed in London with outdoor scenes being filmed in different parts of Ireland.

The cast and creators were Irish though.

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Re:Anti-royal protesters are being arrested in the U.K. as '... by aembleton on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @03:36AM (#32821589)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-43478925
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Re:Anti-royal protesters are being arrested in the U.K. as '... by ChuckNorris89 on Monday September 12, 2022 @07:07PM (#32818509)
>making your girlfriend's pug do a Nazi salute

Wait, what? Pretty sure dogs don't have the anatomical capability to do a nazi salute. At best they can just lift a leg up, but is that really a nazi salute?

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Re:Anti-royal protesters are being arrested in the U.K. as '... by HideousKojima on Monday September 12, 2022 @07:10PM (#32818533)
For your enlightenment: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Meechan
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