As Arkwright would undoubtedly say as he mused over the unsold fruit and veg lying astride his shop door way, “It’s been a funny sort of a day”. It has actually. No idea why. Amusing moments at work include a certain Loz COVERING and I mean totally splattering the walls, floor, door, window, cups, fittings etc of the staff room with tomato soup in a failed attempt to replace a tin opener with a standard butter knife, and actually that is the ONLY amusing thing that happened at work. Oh, unless you count the coleslaw from last night coming back to haunt me repeatedly (and the other unlucky staff (sorry guys in the stockroom)) through out the day.
I did spot something I wanted to rant about on Google news earlier…
Sony, those people who I really don’t like much and who I defended last year when they used scenes from a church “oop north” in one of their games have been told off by the Muslim community for using two lines from the Koran, such as it is, in the background music to one of their newest titles.
Obviously they did exactly the same as with the offended Christians and told them to sod off, it’s only a fucking game, get a life you tosspots.
Err sorry, no they didn’t. The game has been instantly pulled and millions of Allah praisers have been grovelled to by Sony and promised a reworked version WITHOUT the offending musicy bits in it.
Hang on… Why.??? Surely the most fair thing to do was leave the game as it was and maybe include a free booklet entitled “put up with it or fuck off” inside, full of ideas on how to shut the hell up and learn that religion is like everything else in the world… open to interpretation by others. I don’t care what beliefs you have but if someone insults them having insulted another faith then surely that makes it all fair and square and you can all get your heads back down and carry on your lives without worrying tooooo much that someone has borrowed two lines out of what is basically propaganda to use in a computer game IN THE BACKGROUND. Hell, the Bible gets bits pinched all over for games, bits from adverts (despite the apparent ban on that sort of thing) and inclusion in iffy songs. So why can’t you put up with that.? More importantly, why the bloody hell did Sony wimp out faster than you could say exploding luggage.???
Is religion still such a taboo.? It never was years ago, but you have to be fair about these things…
Personally I will take the piss out of anything. I don’t care how sick, taboo, backward it is, I am fair. If I see something I can laugh about then so be it, laugh I shall, what I won’t be doing is caring what people think of me for having those thoughts and saying those things about the world.
And for all that I shall leave you with one thought…
Why are disabled toilets the only cubicle big enough to run around in.?
(Thanks to the sickopedia for that one).