Quote:The advertising watchdog has received dozens of complaints about a paint advert which a comedian called "massively offensive".
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The advert, part of a series called Life Stories, includes a song about the four-year relationship between the characters Hannah and Dave.
The lyrics state that "now a baby's coming and they don't know what it is", before continuing: "Hannah's hoping for a girl, Dave's just hoping that it's his."
What's not to like?
There must be millions of men who look at 'their' child and think:
'Hmm... probably not.
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More:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-la...e-62552706
I initially felt the controversy might be over "they don't know what it is" (despite sonograms). Since it's the offspring now that later decides whether it is he, she, they, animal, vegetable, mineral, etc.
Due to all the rival celebrities and complaining nobodies each contending for Woke sainthood status ("I'm more politically virtuous than you are!"), comedy will apparently have to return to the slapstick days to avoid stepping on the countless varieties of sensibilities breeding out there.
Yah, slapstick is "violent", but generic violence is paradoxically okay. Even the nanny-state watchdogs of this era tolerate the most violently graphic acts in history via movies, TV, video games, comic books, etc -- a level that absurdly exceeds the tame stuff they raised Cain over back in former decades and intermittently succeeded in quashing or curtailing.
It's "words" they worry most about breaking their bones today, not stones. (Not anything new, but the list was a lot easier to keep track of when it was just that handful of traditional profanities that offended. Today you literally need a monthly update to stay abreast of the evolving verbal offenses and breaches of "we are all of noble rank and its sentiments now" etiquette.)