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* ButLiquorIsQuicker: The titular character of "Billerickay Dickie" at one points gloats that he was able to bed a woman named Sandy by giving her eight glasses of brandy.


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* ADickInName: The titular "Billerickay Dickie" essentially brags about sexual exploits he's had, many of which qualify as rape, so he's clearly not a good person in the slightest.
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* DontExplainTheJoke: Ian Dury's contribution to 1981's International Year Of Disabled Persons, "Spasticus Autisticus"', was banned from BBC airplay for being offensive - they weren't aware of Dury's [[NWordPrivileges polio-afflicted disabilities]].

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* DontExplainTheJoke: Ian Dury's contribution to 1981's International Year Of Disabled Persons, "Spasticus Autisticus"', was banned from BBC airplay for being offensive [[OffendingTheCreatorsOwn offensive]] - they weren't aware of Dury's [[NWordPrivileges polio-afflicted disabilities]].
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* NWordPrivileges: "Spasticus Autisticus" prominently features ableist language in its title (which includes the ableist slur "spastic" and the similarly derogatory use of "autistic" as a generic insult); Dury himself was paralyzed on his left side from a childhood polio infection and included the language as a satire of abled society's patronizing treatment of disability.

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* NWordPrivileges: "Spasticus Autisticus" prominently features ableist language in its title (which includes the ableist slur "spastic" and the similarly derogatory use of "autistic" as a generic insult); insult) and lyrics; Dury himself was paralyzed on his left side from a childhood polio infection and included the language as a satire of abled society's patronizing treatment of disability.

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* ProtestSong: "Jack Shit George", which protested against "whiners".

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* ProtestSong: NWordPrivileges: "Spasticus Autisticus" prominently features ableist language in its title (which includes the ableist slur "spastic" and the similarly derogatory use of "autistic" as a generic insult); Dury himself was paralyzed on his left side from a childhood polio infection and included the language as a satire of abled society's patronizing treatment of disability.
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"Jack Shit George", which protested against "whiners"."whiners".
** "Spasticus Autisticus" rails against the International Year of Disability, a disability awareness campaign by the United Nations that Dury (who was paralyzed on his left side) saw as patronizing.

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