Yet Another Disgusting Thing to Complain About
A little while ago Silverback wrote a piece on his blog about all the seven people who had flooded in to complain about the use of the word "pikey" on the BBC.
Seven! Oh, that's as nothing! Two hundred have complained about the thing I'm going to write about! TWO HUNDRED! It must be important then. That's really, really lots, especially when compared with the sixty million who live in the UK. That's nearly, ooh, well, some percentage or other.
Heinz have withdrawn their commercial for Heinz Deli Mayo after those two hundred people complained about this piece of disgusting filth. Watch it for yourself, but try not to get corrupted or anything, because I won't be held responsible if it turns you gay. Or straight. Or anything else. Hope that's clear.
I heard a discussion about it on the Jeremy Vine show on Radio Two, where a woman with a Posh Voice (they're the worst, obviously) was saying it was terrible because children throughout the land would be confused because the child in the commercial calls a MAN, and what's more an AMERICAN man, "Mummy": and another woman was disagreeing, but in a rather lack-lustre way.
Only some time later did some bloke ring in as the Voice of Reason. He said that the plot of the commercial is actually that the Heinz Deli Mayo is SO good that it turns the children's mother into a New York chef. They are not REALLY living with a bloke from New York. The commercial is not really a bid to - to use that old phrase - Promote Homosexuality. It's what is known as a "joke". (If you happen to be one of the two hundred who complained, you can find out what a "joke" is here).
But still, hey, two blokes have a peck on the cheek and this could no doubt precipitate the downfall of civilisation as we know it, so Heinz have clearly done the right thing in saving the nation by withdrawing their commercial. Also the commercial was obviously not clear, especially when viewed by the kind of dreary people who get their kicks - sexual and otherwise - by complaining about Filth on Television. "Ooh, it's disgusting! Ooh! Let's watch it again and check just how disgusting it is!"
I shall leave the last word on this important topic to the man who rang in just before I forcibly ejected the car radio and threw it in its case.
"I don't mind homosexuality," he said, "but I don't want it thrust down my throat on television."
Seven! Oh, that's as nothing! Two hundred have complained about the thing I'm going to write about! TWO HUNDRED! It must be important then. That's really, really lots, especially when compared with the sixty million who live in the UK. That's nearly, ooh, well, some percentage or other.
Heinz have withdrawn their commercial for Heinz Deli Mayo after those two hundred people complained about this piece of disgusting filth. Watch it for yourself, but try not to get corrupted or anything, because I won't be held responsible if it turns you gay. Or straight. Or anything else. Hope that's clear.
I heard a discussion about it on the Jeremy Vine show on Radio Two, where a woman with a Posh Voice (they're the worst, obviously) was saying it was terrible because children throughout the land would be confused because the child in the commercial calls a MAN, and what's more an AMERICAN man, "Mummy": and another woman was disagreeing, but in a rather lack-lustre way.
Only some time later did some bloke ring in as the Voice of Reason. He said that the plot of the commercial is actually that the Heinz Deli Mayo is SO good that it turns the children's mother into a New York chef. They are not REALLY living with a bloke from New York. The commercial is not really a bid to - to use that old phrase - Promote Homosexuality. It's what is known as a "joke". (If you happen to be one of the two hundred who complained, you can find out what a "joke" is here).
But still, hey, two blokes have a peck on the cheek and this could no doubt precipitate the downfall of civilisation as we know it, so Heinz have clearly done the right thing in saving the nation by withdrawing their commercial. Also the commercial was obviously not clear, especially when viewed by the kind of dreary people who get their kicks - sexual and otherwise - by complaining about Filth on Television. "Ooh, it's disgusting! Ooh! Let's watch it again and check just how disgusting it is!"
I shall leave the last word on this important topic to the man who rang in just before I forcibly ejected the car radio and threw it in its case.
"I don't mind homosexuality," he said, "but I don't want it thrust down my throat on television."
posted by Daphne at 7:53 pm
5 Comments:
LOL at the last line - great double entendre there!
I've blogged about this too: http://paulannett.co.uk/heinz-say-men-kissing-is-offensive
It's SUCH a Freudian slip... OH YES THRUST DOWN MY THROAT PLEASE!
From time to time I gloat at my American friends because our country is so much more enlightened... oh.
My favourite homophobic comment is always the "it's not NATURAL!111eleventyone". Are those people signing away their rights to lifesaving medical treatment?
Oh, please say they are. There would be fewer very obnoxious people contributing to the gene pool...
And now we have Oreo adverts here !
I'm on the phone as we speak !
What I don't get is why that man at the end sat on his television while receiving oral sex from his Conservative Club chum.
I missed the brouhaha over this and can't get the youtube video to show.
As someone with a fondness for relationships with the less-fair sex - I'm annoyed I missed it!
200 complaints eh! More fool Heinz for being so weak they had to withdraw it just because of that. Sounds like a step BACK not just for gay rights/equality (which it wasn't about, let's remember) but for common sense. And as others have implied, there is so much hypocrisy among those that complain I can't take them seriously. I've just come back from Italy and guess what - men (who aren't gay) kiss on the street when they see each other. What would that woman on the phone do? Shield her children's eyes? And Rome is the birthplace of civilization.
Yet again those with authority condescend to pass judgement on what is / isn't acceptable / good taste etc. Appalling.
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