The chocolate body of Christ

Om nom nom

thanks to flip flop flying for this deliciousness

Nothing is funnier than swearing and stereotyping

Let’s face it, in these bleak times of crunchy credit,  Monbiot sticking two big sweaty thumbs up for nuclear, and Paris Hilton doing politics in a bikini that gets on Channel 4 news no less (I mean, that’s real news right?) we need some delight in our lives.  Delight such as a list of swearwords that the BBC deem unacceptable.  <unt, 3rse, c o k, and every 15 year old permutation inbetween.  How wonderous. Discovered because they didn’t encript their expletive database for their olympic monkey widget.  The monkey widget is of course the 2.0 sporn from the new BBC summer olympic ident done by Gorillaz artist Jamie Hewlett.  It’s a pretty mixture of shameless promotion for his new opera (called, ‘monkey’) coupled with sweeping cultural stereotypes.  I love (read hate) that when the big sporting summer event of the year arrives, the sponsors and their respective agencies loose all bottle and imagination.  This time round planners and creatives up and down the land have essentially been given the same brief: sell our product but do it ‘Eastern’.  Cue Karate, Noodles, Chopsticks, Dragons, Pointy Hats, Women with funny makeup, and other such obviousnesses.  Every second ad on the telly window features some sort of nod to the orient.  How tedious.  Or am I just exposing my ingrained western prejudices by getting annoyed at what I think is stereotyping and a fundamental lack of imagination or realism?  Or should I just enjoy my ‘taste of the orient’ burger from McDonald’s and be done with it?

 

Why the FIA president is so offensive I’ll never know.  Answers in the comments below.