Monday 4 February 2008

Mustn't offend anyone

Just heard a wonderful one from Stephen Fry on QI. “The marriage suffered a setback in 1985, when the husband was killed by the wife.” Mustn’t offend women – who knows when one might experience a perfectly understandable need to kill her husband? “Well, she had to, didn’t she?” “What do you mean?” “Well, she did, didn’t she? That proves she had to.”

Likewise, in today’s Telegraph: The Home Office has produced guidance for civil servants (I was one once) saying they mustn’t refer to Islamist terrorists; just say “criminals” instead.

Sorry. Fuck that. Some women are bitches and kill their husbands, when the latter don’t do everything they’re told to. Some Muslims think Allah tells them to blow people up. They are Islamic terrorists. And a probable majority of other Muslims support them.
Now sue me.

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