I really do love this English PSA about not calling people "faggot" and stuff, mostly because homophobic slurs are so much sexier in British! Anyway, now gays are mad about the PSA, of course-but only mostly because the Football Association, which did the PSA, wussed out at the last minute on its debut. Also? In the end I don't really think the PSA's conceit (that men say things at sporting events they wouldn't say elsewhere) works-don't English people call each other "bender" and "poofter" constantly in the office and on the Tube? I mean, that's how we roll in New York even, and we're not even a rapidly-devolving glassing-friendly penal colony of angry shit-faced louts.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
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Don't be silly - that's just what they call cigarettes over there.
Ugh, white-collared shirts are soooooo tacky.
Hmmm, maybe I should reconsider describing my last two drunken weeks as going on a bender ....
They are all a bunch of skanky ladyparts.
"Bender" and "Poofter" are a bit quaint. "Shirt Lifter" and "Turd Burglar" are more modern coinage.
Peep Show is pretty keen on "sausage muncher."
And yet ironically, nearly all British men in the US are assumed to be gay. Something about the accent, and the years of single sex education that leave them tongue-tied and weird around women.
Ah, we English...we have a name for meatballs too. Wikipedia:
The best-known commercial brand is Mr Brain's Faggots, a frozen food product available in Britain, which is made of liver and onions rolled into meatballs and served in a sauce. These faggots differ significantly from the traditional recipe.
Pictures of the product are a popular joke in some Western countries because of additional meanings of the name. Faggots were used as the subject of an infamous 2004 radio advert by the UK supermarket chain Somerfield.[6] The commercial featured a husband challenging his wife's repetitive routine of a set meal for each day of the week. While he wanted lasagne, he was told that, as it was Friday, he was to have faggots. He responded: "I've nothing against faggots, I just don't fancy them." This advert was subsequently deemed to have breached the rules on Good Taste, Decency and Offence to Public Feeling of the Advertising and Sponsorship Code, and was banned from future re-broadcast by the industry regulator, Ofcom.
The country, on the whole, appalls.