These traditional seaside postcards are just too saucy for the 'woke' generation
THESE kiss-me-quick quips from traditional saucy seaside postcards would no doubt prove too much of a handful for today’s snowflakes.
We told yesterday how comic Colin Mills fears he will be “cancelled” by sensitive youngsters for his bawdy postcard-style humour.
He says his shows are inspired by the pun-filled tongue-in-cheek humour of the traditional British postcard.
Colin said: “I do feel like a dinosaur when you compare it to the old days and I’m only 53, but it has changed so fast in the past five years and it’s getting tougher.”
But it’s not the first time the cheeky cards have faced stony-faced censors.
In the 1950s, postcards filled with buxom bosoms, hen-pecked husbands and double-entres by illustrators Bamforth and Co and Donald McGill were outlawed by local councils.
Entrepreneur Ian Wallace bought the rights to the Bamforth collection in 2001 and re-released the images to mark their 100th anniversary in 2010.
He said in 2013: “Some shops had their entire stock confiscated and Bamforth’s themselves faced some 160 prosecutions.
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“You look at those same postcards now, especially in view of the language you hear comedians using on the television, and think “you must be joking” because they seem so tame.”
Here we present some classics to get us all in the mood for a Great British break….
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