Twatting Britain

Asda – whatever you want,
except the word “****”

This is yet another example of what pisses me off about the UK. A book is being reprinted with a change in the text because one word has upset a few parents who don’t want their kids reading it. Of course, these parents obviously have no ******* idea of the language theit little preciouses are using at school.

The part of the text that got me more than anything else was that Asda would refuse to stock My Sister Jodie after “a complaint from one shopper”.

One.

A single, ******* one.

Out of 28,000 sales.

That’s an enormous 0.00357142857% of total customers, if my maths is correct. And because of that, they’ve withdrawn it from sale.

It reminds me of when I was back in Low Fell and wanted to get some Richard Laymon books out. I couldn’t find some of them on the shelves, so asked if they had them in stock. “Yes”, was the reply,”but you’ll have to reserve them as they’ve been removed.”

Someone (and I mean “one”) had complained at the content. Of a horror book. In the adult section. Thus it was taken from the shelves and only obtainable if you paid money to make a reservation for it.

The country’s gone to ****. Is it any wonder I’m not hanging around there any more?