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[Danllan]

I was aware of the madness around 'gender stereotyping', and that the thought police had got their paws onto the subject but now they've started taking action it almost beggars belief how daft it is.

The worst sin, in one of the first two ad's to be banned, is showing a woman with a pram... the bast*rds! Nearly fpur people have complained about this, and now the add is banned... I wonder what we - collectively - might find sufficiently 'offensive'* to complain about and get banned.

Philadelphia and VW ads banned for gender stereotyping

Ads for cheese and an electric car fall foul of new rules banning the showing of gender stereotypes.

www.bbc.co.uk

*Apologies to those from Edinburgh, and my mother is an Edinburgh girl (so it's not a case of disliking the people), but whenever I hear of something being 'offensive' to liberals I mentally hear the word in a whining, male Edinburgensian accent - don't know why, but the fact remains. (In fact, thinking on it, I guess that Billy Connolly is to blame, anyone soft or pansy-like he mentioned in his routines had an Edinburgensian accent)

 

[alex04w]

Like most of these ideas, they have not thought them through. Then again liberals do not think about others.

So men putting a baby on a conveyor belt is offensive.

Can we take it that the Simpsons will now be banned from being shown in the UK as it shows Marge putting baby Maggie on the conveyor belt at the supermarket and losing her momentarily? And secondly banning it again as it shows some checkout woman as being too stupid to notice it is a baby and scanning it like the groceries?

Total madness all round.

 

[Danllan]

Like most of these ideas, they have not thought them through. Then again liberals do not think about others.

So men putting a baby on a conveyor belt is offensive.

Can we take it that the Simpsons will now be banned from being shown in the UK as it shows Marge putting baby Maggie on the conveyor belt at the supermarket and losing her momentarily? And secondly banning it again as it shows some checkout woman as being too stupid to notice it is a baby and scanning it like the groceries?

Total madness all round.

The first thing I thought about was The Simpsons.

 

[MiJ]

Put the thought police to work at stopping all the violent street deaths and burglaries.

 

[Muck Spreader]

I have always found it bizarre that adverts can be pulled with so few complaints. I always rember all the fuss about this ad a good few years ago.

 

[The Agrarian]

I was aware of the madness around 'gender stereotyping', and that the thought police had got their paws onto the subject but now they've started taking action it almost beggars belief how daft it is.

The worst sin, in one of the first two ad's to be banned, is showing a woman with a pram... the bast*rds! Nearly fpur people have complained about this, and now the add is banned... I wonder what we - collectively - might find sufficiently 'offensive'* to complain about and get banned.

Philadelphia and VW ads banned for gender stereotyping

Ads for cheese and an electric car fall foul of new rules banning the showing of gender stereotypes.

www.bbc.co.uk

*Apologies to those from Edinburgh, and my mother is an Edinburgh girl (so it's not a case of disliking the people), but whenever I hear of something being 'offensive' to liberals I mentally hear the word in a whining, male Edinburgensian accent - don't know why, but the fact remains. (In fact, thinking on it, I guess that Billy Connolly is to blame, anyone soft or pansy-like he mentioned in his routines had an Edinburgensian accent)

I always thought he was more glaswegian. Rough hound that he is. When I think edinburgensian, I think Malcolm Rifkind etc

 

[Danllan]

I always thought he was more glaswegian. Rough hound that he is. When I think edinburgensian, I think Malcolm Rifkind etc

Jolly good, well spotted, Billy Connolly is a Glaswegian (TFF has its own Holmes! ), which is why I wrote 'I guess that Billy Connolly is to blame, anyone soft or pansy-like he mentioned in his routines had an Edinburgensian accent'.

 

[The Agrarian]

Oh I see.

Don't think Rifkind would be a pansy though.

 

[Danllan]

Oh I see.

Don't think Rifkind would be a pansy though.

Of course not, just as not all New Yorkers are. But there is, nevertheless, a particular accent that some New Yorkers and some of those from Edinburgh have which is nauseatingly whiny - I have a relative with just such a voice who is, for an irony, a Tory and ex commando. He's in no way effeminate or whiny in himself, his words or his actions. But his voice still sounds it...

 

[caveman]

Of course not, just as not all New Yorkers are. But there is, nevertheless, a particular accent that some New Yorkers and some of those from Edinburgh have which is nauseatingly whiny - I have a relative with just such a voice who is, for an irony, a Tory and ex commando. He's in no way effeminate or whiny in himself, his words or his actions. But his voice still sounds it...

Is he Mancunian?

 

[Danllan]

Is he Mancunian?

No, I wrote that he sounds whiny, not like a c*nt.