# Polish government to probe if Teletubbies are gay **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 28, 2007, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polish-government-to-probe-if-teletubbies-are-gay/405800 "2007-05-28T17:00:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2007, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polish-government-to-probe-if-teletubbies-are-gay/405800/1 "2007-05-28T17:00:54Z")
No, I’m not making this up. You thought this meme would end with Falwell? Story [here.](http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070528/en_nm/poland_teletubbies_dc_1) But at least they’re planning to ask psychologists to evaluate the show’s gayness quotient, instead of just assuming like Falwell did. [insert your own Polish joke here] ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2007, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polish-government-to-probe-if-teletubbies-are-gay/405800/2 "2007-05-28T17:02:41Z")
No surprise here. The right-wing Polish government is heavily socially conservative, and strongly influenced by the Polish Catholic establishment. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2007, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polish-government-to-probe-if-teletubbies-are-gay/405800/3 "2007-05-28T17:07:23Z")
Do the teletubbies even have genders? ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2007, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polish-government-to-probe-if-teletubbies-are-gay/405800/4 "2007-05-28T17:09:24Z")
La-La and Po are girls. Dipsy and Tinky Winky are boys. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2007, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polish-government-to-probe-if-teletubbies-are-gay/405800/5 "2007-05-28T17:11:05Z")
[QUOTE=Kimstu] La-La and Po are girls. Dipsy and Tinky Winky are boys. [/QUOTE] Learn something new every day! 🙂 (A boy with a purse? Now I’ve seen everything!) ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2007, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polish-government-to-probe-if-teletubbies-are-gay/405800/6 "2007-05-28T17:12:03Z")
Well, it isn’t technically the Polish Government, it’s a government appointee that is the head of a children’s watchdog group. But way to go 2 for 2 on the misleading thread titles, **BrainGlutton**. ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2007, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polish-government-to-probe-if-teletubbies-are-gay/405800/7 "2007-05-28T17:14:28Z")
Wow. Straight from the “Answers you didn’t know had questions” department. So how do they measure its “gayness quotient” (GQ)? Do they sit the Teletubbies down and show them alternative pictures of male and female models in various stages of undress? Do they test their trivia knowledge of fashion and show tunes? Or have they developed an external Gaydar device? _wooooOOOOOOOooooooo! wooooooOOOOOOOooooooo! Warning! Danger! GQ reading 9.5! Subject is gayer than Paul Lynde! Warning!_ ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2007, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polish-government-to-probe-if-teletubbies-are-gay/405800/8 "2007-05-28T17:14:38Z")
[QUOTE=ladyfoxfyre] Well, it isn’t technically the Polish Government, it’s a government appointee that is the head of a children’s watchdog group. But way to go 2 for 2 on the misleading thread titles, **BrainGlutton**. [/QUOTE] Way to go 1 for 1 on being completely wrong. It’s a government appointee. You’re about as correct as the folks in that other thread, which is to say, completely incorrect. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2007, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polish-government-to-probe-if-teletubbies-are-gay/405800/9 "2007-05-28T17:33:26Z")
Anybody who thinks it isn’t the Polish government that is doing the probing here needs to take it up with the author of the article in the OP’s link: > [@](#): > > WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland’s conservative government took its drive to curb what it sees as homosexual propaganda to the small screen on Monday, taking aim at Tinky Winky and the other Teletubbies. […] > > Poland’s rightist government has upset human rights groups and drawn criticism within the European Union by apparent discrimination against homosexuals. > > Polish Education Minister Roman Giertych has proposed laws sacking teachers who promote “homosexual lifestyle” and banning “homo-agitation” in schools. ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2007, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polish-government-to-probe-if-teletubbies-are-gay/405800/10 "2007-05-28T17:38:35Z")
[QUOTE=Evil Captor] Way to go 1 for 1 on being completely wrong. It’s a government appointee. You’re about as correct as the folks in that other thread, which is to say, completely incorrect. [/QUOTE] And…if you had read the entire post which you quoted, you would have read where I said that already. Idiot. You’re about as good at reading for comprehension as an illiterate, which is to say, not at all. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2007, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polish-government-to-probe-if-teletubbies-are-gay/405800/11 "2007-05-28T17:38:53Z")
[QUOTE=Kimstu] No surprise here. The right-wing Polish government is heavily socially conservative, and strongly influenced by the Polish Catholic establishment. [/QUOTE] Maybe so, but this is silly even by Bill Donohue’s standards. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2007, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polish-government-to-probe-if-teletubbies-are-gay/405800/12 "2007-05-28T17:42:30Z")
[QUOTE=ladyfoxfyre] Well, it isn’t technically the Polish Government, it’s a government appointee that is the head of a children’s watchdog group. But way to go 2 for 2 on the misleading thread titles, **BrainGlutton**. [/QUOTE] Not sure what other thread you’re talking about, but the title of this thread is not at all misleading. It reflects precisely what is in the article quoted by the OP. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2007, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polish-government-to-probe-if-teletubbies-are-gay/405800/13 "2007-05-28T17:44:11Z")
[QUOTE=mhendo] Not sure what other thread you’re talking about . . . [/QUOTE] I think she means [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=422537) one. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2007, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polish-government-to-probe-if-teletubbies-are-gay/405800/14 "2007-05-28T17:44:41Z")
> [@ladyfoxfyre](#): > > And…if you had read the entire post which you quoted, you would have read where I said that already. Then why did you take exception to the thread title? What, in your opinion, is the difference between “a Polish government appointee” taking an action as part of her official duties, and “the Polish government” taking that action? > [@ladyfoxfyre](#): > > Idiot. You’re about as good at reading for comprehension as an illiterate, which is to say, not at all. I’m not sure you’re exactly the person who ought to be scolding other people about reading comprehension deficiencies, frankly. ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2007, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polish-government-to-probe-if-teletubbies-are-gay/405800/15 "2007-05-28T18:12:26Z")
[QUOTE=Kimstu] Then why did you take exception to the thread title? What, in your opinion, is the difference between “a Polish government appointee” taking an action as part of her official duties, and “the Polish government” taking that action? I’m not sure you’re exactly the person who ought to be scolding other people about reading comprehension deficiencies, frankly. [/QUOTE] Well, the comment about reading comprehension bit was sort of tongue in cheek anyway. My point was that this lady was appointed to a position as a children’s entertainment watchdog, and she’s taken it on herself to go after the Teletubbies thing. It’s not as though some high order came down from top state officials in the Polish government to her desk that she needed to start investingating possible homosexual undertones in the Teletubbies program. There’s a bit of a difference. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2007, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polish-government-to-probe-if-teletubbies-are-gay/405800/16 "2007-05-28T18:19:15Z")
> [@ladyfoxfyre](#): > > It’s not as though some high order came down from top state officials in the Polish government to her desk that she needed to start investingating possible homosexual undertones in the Teletubbies program. So if the thread title had said “Top state officials in the Polish government undertake to probe if Teletubbies are gay”, you’d be quite right to complain that the title was misleading. But since the thread title as it stands represents exactly what the linked news article said, I don’t think you’ve got a valid criticism here. ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2007, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polish-government-to-probe-if-teletubbies-are-gay/405800/17 "2007-05-28T19:01:41Z")
So much is made of a televsion character. You’d think he/she was running around trying to get a date with everything that moved. If people could only focus thier attentions on shit that it’s worthy of the world would be a much better place to live in. Instead of stupid bullshit like if somebodys gay . Fucking dumbasses. Makes me want to give them a little swat upside thier fucking melon. Oops! Calm down … calm down … there thats better …think of Jesus and childrens never waning love…ahhhhh all better. :smack: Never mind me. Move along… Move along … Nothing to see here … ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2007, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polish-government-to-probe-if-teletubbies-are-gay/405800/18 "2007-05-28T19:08:22Z")
[Dipsy] “Big hug fow **Omegaman**!” [/Dipsy] 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2007, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polish-government-to-probe-if-teletubbies-are-gay/405800/19 "2007-05-28T19:28:08Z")
[QUOTE=Mindfield] wooooOOOOOOOooooooo! wooooooOOOOOOOooooooo! Warning! Danger! GQ reading 9.5! Subject is gayer than Paul Lynde! Warning! [/QUOTE] No subject is gayer than Paul Lynde. ---
**Author:** ![Ensign\_Edison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ab992/32.png) [@Ensign\_Edison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ensign_Edison)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2007, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polish-government-to-probe-if-teletubbies-are-gay/405800/20 "2007-05-28T19:41:47Z")
It’s stupid to get worked up over, but until I actually saw Teletubbies I never realized…Tinky Winky really is kind of gay. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polish-government-to-probe-if-teletubbies-are-gay/405800.md?page=2)