Women, Know Your Limits.

Video Link. A cautionary tale for all womankind, from the mid-90s BBC show "Harry Enfield and Chums" (Thanks, Richard Metzger!)

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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Kulia

I think I’ve been to those parties!
entropyred

I remember watching this a few years ago on YT – still as horrifyingly funny as the first time.
eustace

Those plummy accents! What a treat.
Anonymous

It isn’t plummy it’s LIMEY.
And yes, that is how we all speak.(never begin a sentence with “and” as it is a conjunctive.)
SpeckledJim

These sketches were the funniest part of the show. They feel more like the work of Paul Whitehouse (The Fast Show) than Enfield though.

There’s another one giving advice on how to get restless children to go to sleep: GIVE THEM GIN. Classic, have never been able to track it down online.
- Xeni Jardin
  
  @SpeckledJim, I believe this is the clip you seek.
zuzu

Seriously though, we should return to the gold standard. ^_^

I think I’ve been to those parties!

Me too. They’re called yuppies, and they make me feel uncomfortable and awkward in ways that group sex parties in warehouse lofts never do.

Never. I can’t live the button-down life like you. I want it all: the terrifying lows, the dizzying highs, the creamy middles. Sure, I might offend a few of the bluenoses with my cocky stride and musky odors — oh, I’ll never be the darling of the so-called “City Fathers” who cluck their tongues, stroke their beards, and talk about “What’s to be done with this Homer Simpson?
LogrusZed

It’s funny because it’s true.
starcadia

It’s just like a woman to post an old video that was funny up until the fifth time we saw it, and then faded from our memories. Good thing YouTube isn’t like driving or people would die at worst, and would have to get out of the car to parallel park at best. We could all learn a lesson or two from the above video.
Xeni Jardin

I’m most fond of kittens.
SpeckledJim

Xeni please thank your husband for finding that clip for me. Much appreciated.
envirotex

@Xopher, I had the same experience the first time I saw this a few years back. The effect has persisted ever since.
Johnny Cat

I love the dispersement of education part the best.
Hosidax

Venomous Harridans!

Ack!

LOL
Mindpowered

Don’t worry, the Kitten, Unicorn and Faerie standard will soon be implemented across exchanges worldwide.

You’ll soon be able to trade pixie dust and cuddly warm kittens along with old standby’s such as Citigroup and Goldman Sachs.
Anonymous

Beard growth? Kittens? BEARD OF KITTENS?

Women should have beards of kittens. They’re so soft!
biddy

With all of the recent uke “girls”, the rape can be a fun game, and the prevalence of very young Asian girls on boing, boing recently, I can’t help but wonder – Satire or simply (and unfortunately not enough) hyperbole?
eustace

…and now I’ve spent the last half hour wandering from Cholmondley-Warner clip to Cholmondley-Warner clip. Not complaining! Just gotta take a break to breathe. Laugh out loud indeed.
druranium

Ladies, sarcasm is a valuable thing at this point …(let’s face it)
IamInnocent

I’m most fond of kittens.

Which proves that one can be sweet and the most ballsy boingboinger ever. God knows that I don’t want to go all mushy but having been raised by a woman and a cat…

My mom, born in 1909, in such a situation as describe in the video, would have simply raised her eyebrows slightly and gone with a just loud enough “Ha!” for all that silly, thoughtless talk to stop in that instant. Gold standard…
MagicFingers

Hasn’t this been on BB before?

Still very funny though
Ghede

This seems… familiar… Has this been posted before? I remember it on a website, but I can’t think of any place I frequent that this would have been posted before…
Xopher

I VERY rarely laugh out loud, or even giggle to myself, while sitting alone at the computer. (Laughter is social for me; while it’s not exactly voluntary, I hardly ever do it when I’m alone, for some reason.)

However, “Look at these venomous harridans” made me laugh out loud. In fact I laugh again every time I think it.

I fear I may now have what BITD we called a “wombat keyword.”
Anonymous

Those are not English accents – sounds South African to me.
Teapunk

This is what they still teach in the Vatican, british Bishop Williamson also talks about the the overheating of the female brain.
But then of course he also famously denies the Holocaust.
Celibacy can do weird things to you and probably messes with your brain. A lot.
Noodle

I remember watching this on TV, all those years ago. There are plenty of sketches with Mr Chumney-Warner like this. I think there was another one called Women: Don’t drive!
Raj77

@17; these are English comedians deliberately mangling the cut-glass vowels of the era and class being portrayed.
beneditor

it would be entirely remiss of me not to include “Women, don’t drive” in this post:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39qdhbkTko4

Wherein you may find links to pretty much all the rest of this excellent and educational series.
Big Ed Dunkel

Hear, hear. Women, let your natural sweetness shine through.
David Carroll

So does this mean the FRS will be moving to a kitten standard? My broker is an idiot. He tells me there is no kitten futures market! How can that be?