Indians React to Mind Your Language (British Comedy)

Oats means sex

To have his oats means to have sex…

Cow juice is my new name for milk 😂

Glad you enjoyed it, guys. I've not seen that programme for years. I used to love it.

What an unfortunate end to Barry Evans life (the English teacher ).

Having your oats, is slang for having sex

When Ranjeet said his friend had he's oats last night that means he got lucky under the sheets.

Aaaah, the 70s. Things were different then!

I miss having a milkman....for those younger viewers the milkman drove an electric van carrying milk, eggs, orange juice, cheese, and occasionally potatoes. Delivery was between 5am and 9am. Big supermarkets pretty much killed them off by undercutting the price of milk until the milkman was a thing of the past.🥛🐄😞

Having his oats = sex

Having your oats is a euphemism for sex in the UK. But vulgar, but not obscene.

if somebody had its oats last night he had sex. the expression sow your wild oats

Apparently this was a big hit in India and many parts of Asia.

Got his oats, sometimes, Sowed his wild oats i.e. got some jiggy.

Back in the mid 1970's we just ran on comedy. Moving to the UK was nothing like it is today, this series had laughs on all sides. Clearly shows biases, my whole family watched this, Mr. Singh, my English teacher once mentioned this in class in a classic way. We had no (insert true red neck) racism then, we got along.

more of this show please :)

I haven't seen that show for ages. Still funny now. 😂

The person playing Ranjith's character is actually SriLankan and he did a darn good job. I was shockingly surprised when i learnt he wasn't a Punjabi.

Getting your oats means having sex.

Rhe teacher was murdered

You guys should react to "the kumars at #42"

Thank you guys for reminding me of this show, I loved it years ago:)

In England "having your oats" is a colloquium sex...

Please tell me you are doing more of these?

Something that desperately needs to be reinstated into the UK Immigration process!

This is not allowed to be shown on British TV anymore. Deemed too politically incorrect these days...yet it was popular in many countries and quite a few countries made their own version of it.

As funny as this programme was and can still be. It unfortunately plays into so many racist, prejudice and stereotyping tropes of the white British population. Many, many of the jokes and accents that wer protrayed in this sitcom would be totally unacceptable and highly offensive today. There are many instances of the name calling that the characters use against one another which are rooted in reacist stereotypes of the time and unfortunately still held by some today.

It was nice to see you both enjoying the jokes and the humour from an innocent stand point. I must admit as a British born person of mixed heritage I have watched and enjoyed the humour of the show but it is important to be aware of the subtext and undertones rooted within the program which was created during a time in British history where there were (not too dissimillar to today) hightened racial tentions between white and ethnic communities and lots of discord around immigration.

On a lighter note I recommend watching and doing a reaction to the show "Goodnes Gracious Me"

In a similar vein and if you haven’t caught it already, check out the “How to Speak Australians” series hilarious and very rude!

I love this show

Of course, such broad racial stereotypes would never be allowed today, but in MYL defence, the students were all loveable characters, who were very kind. Whereas the negative characters in the show were the white people. Also, series four of the show was produced by the late Albert Moses who played Ranjeet Singh.

This really does make me laugh...English is easy grammar and horrible spelling and plenty of use of unintelligible idioms.

Loved watching this as a child❤

Interestingly, this show is considered problematic, and problematic, here in the UK. It is seen as being offensive to other nationalities.

I remember watching this as a child. I also thought Mr Brown was very kind. The other characters I found very likeable too.

The part that I liked about the show was the word play.

I have seen people from other countries react to the show, and it seems much loved in other countries.

I sometimes feel that we worry too much about offending others, when we are not actually offending the people that we think that we are.

For example: I am disabled, and people worry about saying certain words, in case they are offensive to me. They also say that you cannot make jokes about disability.

Personally, I do not worry about what words are used too much, and I enjoy a good joke, what matters to me, is whether a person means me harm or not.

What does bother me is, able-bodied people telling other people what they think is offensive to disabled people. They are taking away independence from us having a say in our own lives. I can assure you, that I am very capable of being offended all by myself, I am not disabled in this area.

In other words, gatekeeping, can bring a different set of problems with it. I am much more offended by gatekeeping disability, than I am by words and jokes.

The show was about the humour of misunderstanding. Sadly everything is seen a "racist" now.

What a wonderful reaction to this brilliant TV show. To see you both laugh was so lovely to see. All the characters in the show had their own unique personalities, which were all fantastic, and so funny.

You sound like ranjeet