How dare they give a shit about people with disabilities!
...is basically the thrust of this anti-Beeb missive from the Mail, grumbling about the fact that telephone numbers are to be read out by newsreaders.
Supposedly it's to 'avoid offending' people who are blind are partially sighted.
Or possibly - just possibly, mind you - it's so that they actually might have a chance of knowing what the fucking numbers are. You know, just a thought.
The cunt quoted by the Mail told its (former) sister paper the Standard:
'All the BBC's bigname presenters received this email from Peter Horrocks saying that whenever they refer to an on screen phone number or email address they should no longer say, 'You can see the number on the screen now', because it might offend blind people - and could even be illegal.
'But where does it end? Does that mean presenters will be banned from saying: 'If you don't want to know the football scores look away from the screen now', because that could be just as offensive. It's insanity.'
Where does it end? I imagine it ends there, given that it ends there. You fucking pointless piece of garbage. Of course they won't be 'banned' from saying that. How dare newsreaders at the Bolshevik Broadcasting Corporation be told that they need to give a shit about people who may have disabilities!
Er, no. It's not "PC gone mad" every time you give a shit about someone. It's just good manners, most of the time.
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February 18th, 2009 - 19:08
There’s a similar pisspot effort on their website today about the bible in libraries.
Muslims have said they would like the koran on the top shelf because it is a holy book and should be above all others. The government said fair enough, we don’t want to cause offence but if we do that we will put all religious texts, including the bible, on the highest shelf.
Hence this absurd fucking story from the Mail that the bible has been put out of reach of library users in case it offends muslims.
Are christians shorter then muslims? Do muslims have long Mr Tickle arms and christians little stumps? Are christians unable to use the little steps libraries have?
And who the fuck goes to a library to rent the bible/koran anyway?
I demand Dacre’s head on a fucking pole!
February 18th, 2009 - 21:10
I wonder whether anyone since The Likely Lads has ever NOT wanted to know the footie result before watching the highlights. No doubt it’ll turn up in Littlejohn’s shite as one of his ‘finger-on-the-pulse’ observations.
I would’ve thought that the only people wanting The Koran or Bible would be people of other persuasions. As with the footie, true believers will already know the score.
ITV helpfully read out their Brit award phone numbers to avoid upsetting Duffy.
February 19th, 2009 - 08:55
Reading out numbers is also handy so people can write them down without having to glance up at the screen every few digits.