Roasting Sacred Cows

Hans Gilde writes: "Pedophilia has been a big topic in the UK lately, there have been riots, beatings and vandalism resulting from [pedophile witchhunts]. In an attempt "to ask hard questions about the way society and the media deal with its most difficult problems" and point out "that famous people have a habit of denouncing things without knowing much about them", a comedian in the UK produced a TV show, described in an article in the NY Times, in which he actually got a member of Parliament to say the following, on the air, in all seriousness: "Using an area of the Internet the size of Ireland, pedophiles can make your keyboard release toxic vapors that can make you more suggestible."" This show is frankly hilarious, and the reaction to it is even better. You probably want to see the show, eh? It's available in .avi or Real and DivX.

Comments

Re:You see...

[tezmc]

In the UK a pedestrian always has right of way on a public road (after all they were using them a thousand years before cars were invented.)

I'd like to see you try that in London without getting mown down by a battered looking Datsun Sunny.

,Tez

Re:The problem with politicians

[Mike Schiraldi]

She read about it. How's that for detailed and useful knowledge of a topic you will be deciding on?

Hello, kettle.

Re:For the opposite perspective:

[Troller Durden]

Read the site policy. Trolls are not allowed. The editors there had no problem with removing comments written to just get a hysterical reaction.

Re:Men are the targets of these witchhunts.

[havachu]

In fact, British Airways has an official policy of not seating young children next to men when children fly alone.

Oh, yeah, that sounds like a *real* problem. I would actually request that the airline NOT seat an unsupervised young child next to me on an airplane. Do you really want a mommy-less brat dripping snot and whining next to you for X hours?

Re:Pedophilia is Bad How?

[Suidae]

Look, you can't go around asking people to defend their positions logically like that. They are likely to hurt their little brains.

Re:How is this funny?

[G-Man]

Well then, you had best not read Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal. Boy will you be in for a shock...

You see...

[11thangel]

It's not the kids fault for being idiots and talking ot people online that they never knew and then going out behind their parents backs and getting molested. And it's certainly not the parents fault for not watching their kids internet habits. IT's all the pedophiles and their evil toxic vapors. Just like Microsoft is really good but open source has been drugging the water and making us think GPL is good.

--End Sarcasm--

Re:You see...

[bellings]

Which highlights a notable cultural difference between the US and the UK (indeed most of Europe). In the UK a pedestrian always has right of way on a public road (after all they were using them a thousand years before cars were invented.)

What is this "pedestrian" crap you European's keep talking about? Is that some sort of pedophile on a horse or something? Makes sense that you would have those for thousands of years, you damn filthy Euro's and your liberal ways.

Here in God's country, we use the roads for what God created them for -- driving our SUV's.

411?

[Mike Schiraldi]

The Independent Television Commission ... said that 411 calls had come in to support the program.

Okay, i'm not going to say people should be forbidden from expressing their opinions on such issues, but is this really the right avenue?

"Hello, Information."

"Hi, i've got a bone to pick with you. The recent witch hunt against pedophiles is going too far. If we don't get a grip on this hysteria, we're--"

"Sir, i really believe this goes beyond my training as a telephone operator."

Re:The problem with politicians

[Anonymous Coward]

She masturbated to it. The point is that on camera she has to put up a big show of not watching.

It's like on IRC or AOL when you say you are putting someone on ignore by announcing that. Everyone knows damn well you did no such thing because you just have to know what's going on but at the same time you have to make believe you really did...even when the person makes a statements and you can totally think of the perfect zinger so you end up logging in as a second person and then repeating the comment with a joking laugh so you can feign surprise and deliver the zinger and thus make up for all those times the person outspoke you and thus caused you to put the idiot on ignore in the first place

oh bloody 'ell you've gone and ignore me now.

In USA this just wouldn't do

[magi]

Brits have an excellent taste for satire, and make excellent comedy series, I must say. They are also known for not taking religion too seriously, unlike americans. From an unknown source:

SAN FRANCISCO MAN BECOMES FIRST AMERICAN TO GRASP SIGNIFICANCE OF IRONY

SAN FRANCISCO - We spoke to Jay Fullmer, 38, who became the first American to get to grips with the concept of irony yesterday.

"It was weird," Fullmer said, "I was in London and, like, talking to this guy and it was raining and shit and he said, like, great weather, or something like that."

Said Fullmer: "And I thought - wait a minute, it's like, no way is it great weather."

Fullmer soon realised that the other man's 'mistake' was deliberate.

"This guy was pretty cool about it," Fullmer said.

Fullmer, who is 39 next month and married with two children, aged 8 and 3, planned to use irony himself in future.

"I'm like saying it all the time." he said. "Weekend last I was like grilling steaks and I like burned them to shit and I said 'great weather'."

I guess the last paragraph is the most illustrative. ;-)

Re:"Pedophilia is *good*!" - Greeks

[Anonymous Coward]

How do you separate the Greek men from the boys?

With a crowbar.