Compare The…
There is an article by Peter Jones on the Guardian website complaining that the “compare the meerkat” advert is racist. Apparently his Ukranian girlfriend and a Latvian lodger have difficulty pronouncing the word “market”. When they say the word in broken English it comes out sounding like “can you find a husband for my sister so she can get a passport?”
It is typical of the Grauniad to try to find offence in absolutely everything. Now if you want 100% weapons-grade offence, then the G.O.T. should be your abusemonger du jour. No reading between the lines required there.
Nice headline, though: Meerkat forces? Not Good Enough. The funny thing is that all of the comments (certainly all of the heavily recommended ones – got bored after the first couple of pages) can be summed up as “Peter, you’re a knob” so it’s no wonder he disabled the comment facility prety sharpish.
(Hat-tips galore, Hannibal via Donal, ToryBear via Guido for the story etc etc, G.O.T. for the great picture)
How Peter Jones could even consider writing that “article” is a mystery to me, how the Grauniad deemed it fit for publishing is a mystery to me – the only thing I find offensive is that this piece of prejudiced shit was ever conceived and printed in the first place. I personally think that he advert is rubbish and that it is not funny, but it is entirely inoffensive and I defend the company’s right to transmit whatever inoffensive crap they want!