Must not pretend to be homosexual

David Walliams has outraged Britain's Got Talent fans by "pretending to be gay".

The judge, who was married to model Lara Stone for five years, jokingly ran after a seriously sexy half-naked acrobat on tonight's show.

While he was hoping to make viewers laugh with the gag, he received a backlash on Twitter for allegedly offending the gay community.

One viewer wrote: "I despise @davidwalliams & his tired faux camp 'am I arent I' gay bulls**t. Being gay or camp is normal life not a lame joke to be used BGT."

Shortly afterwards, a different viewer tweeted: "Am I the only one who doesn't think David Walliams is remotely funny? This pretending to be gay crap is getting monotonous now."

The comments came after David got a tad over-excited when French act Charlie Placais walked out on stage wearing just a pair of jeans.

When the contestant walked off stage after dazzling the audience with his tanned chiseled torso, the judge jokingly ran after him.

After catching up with him, David wrapped his arms around Charlie's naked torso and told him he was "brilliant".

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Must not joke about rape

Ray Badran says he received death threats online from a joke he told involving the word rape.

That was one of the first tweets that Ray Badran received last year that make him realise something wasn’t right.

A few nights earlier, the Sydney stand-up comedian had been confronted by an audience member at a warm-up gig for last year’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival after she objected to a joke he made using the word “rape”.

In what Badran considers one of his worst gigs, he ended up walking off stage frustrated and saying “f**k off and die”.

The joke goes something like this: “If you’re black you can do jokes about being black, if you’re gay you can do jokes about being gay … so I’m not sure if you can tell just by looking at me but … I can do rape jokes.”

Badran estimates he had told the joke to about 50,000 people before that Melbourne gig last year without any complaints.

“It’s self-deprecating — that’s why I can get away with it,” Badran tells news.com.au.

And as far as his comedy goes, Badran says that joke is about as “edgy” as his stand up gets.

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'Luvvie' is as bad as the N-word(?)


(In both Britain and Australia, "Luvvie" refers to the influential clique in the entertainment and literary industry.  Their views are strongly Leftist and they are very sure about what is right and wrong.  They don't think much of ordinary people either.  They are happily elitist)

Calling actors ‘luvvies’ is as offensive as using racial slurs, Tom Conti said yesterday.

The 74-year-old star was backed by fellow veterans of the stage and screen Peter Egan and Dame Janet Suzman.

The three have become embroiled in an astonishing war of words with a Labour councillor after he called celebrities ‘livid luvvies’ for protesting about plans for a new supermarket in north-west London.

Shirley Valentine star Conti, who lives in a £17.5million mansion in Hampstead, told the Daily Mail that to use the word ‘luvvies’ was ‘as abusive as “Yid” or “n*****” and it’s a horrible expression.

The row began after councillor Theo Blackwell wrote to his local newspaper citing the endless complaints from well-heeled residents in the area, including Oscar-winning actress Emma Thompson.

He noted that they attacked plans from Tesco or Sainsbury’s but did not care about setting up ‘roadblocks’ to stop Ocado delivery drivers. Mr Blackwell also accused the same campaigners of making ‘spurious claims against the new Cycle Superhighway route’.

And he ended his letter by stating: ‘So let’s have less of the “livid luvvie” protests – not everyone locally thinks the same on all these issues.’

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Scotland: Football fans for free speech

On Sunday, I stood singing with thousands of my fellow Celtic supporters in Celtic Park. It wasn’t just because our team were being presented with the League Championship trophy (our fifth title in a row) or even because the sun was actually shining in Glasgow. No, many of us were bouncing because it now looks likely that the Offensive Behaviour at Football Act (OBFA), which has criminalised hundreds of football fans for singing ‘offensive’ songs, is set to become the first major battle of the new Scottish parliament.

Put another way, it looks like the OBFA is going to be scrapped. The Conservatives, Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems all oppose the legislation, meaning that the Scottish National Party (SNP) – which introduced the legislation in 2012 – is outnumbered in the Scottish parliament by 65 to 63 seats. The failure of the SNP to secure an overall majority in the Scottish elections means that the legislation is now extremely vulnerable.

We shouldn’t be under any illusions. When it comes to civil liberties, these parties can be every bit as illiberal as the SNP. Nonetheless, the removal of this toxic legislation from the statute books would be huge victory for those of us who have fought long and hard against the OBFA.

Under the OBFA, you can be sent to prison for five years for singing a song that a police officer deems offensive, either at a match, on the way to or from a match, or even in a video posted online. There is no objective definition of what constitutes an offensive comment or song – it is an entirely subjective law.

Instead, the police are left to decide what is and isn’t offensive. As a result, Dundee United supporters have appeared in court for calling Aberdeen fans ‘sheep-shaggers’ online; Celtic fans have ended up in police cells overnight for singing Irish republican songs; and Rangers fans have been sent to prison simply for writing and singing naughty things about Celtic supporters and Irish Catholics.

The overwhelming majority of people dragged before the courts under the OBFA have been working-class young men. This means that hundreds of young men have ended up with criminal records, have lost their jobs and, as a result, are unable to apply for all sorts of jobs in the future.

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Must not mention that there are a lot of Muslim suicide bombers

The leader of Italy’s second-largest political party was performing at a show in Padua on Saturday when he praised the victory in the mayoral election of "Bangladeshi" Khan, who is British and whose family are originally from Pakistan.

The comedian noted that London's first Muslim mayor is an example of what unthinkable surprises life can hold in store and as proof that one must never stop dreaming, only to proceed to joke: "Now I want to see when he blows himself up in Westminster."

The remark by the leader of the Five Star Movement (M5S), an anti-establishment party founded by Mr Grillo in 2009, came at a sensitive time as  his own party’s candidate, Virginia Raggi, is the leading contender to become the next mayor of Rome.

Stefano Esposito, a PD senator, demanded to know what the mayoral candidate  Raggi thought of the joke: “What does Raggi think of the racist insult that her boss directed at the mayor of London?

Same question asked by Ettore Rosato, the PD's leader in Parliament: "Racism and generalisation by Beppe Grillo is not funny and offend integrated people and free voters. What does Virginia Raggi say about Westminster?"

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Must not mention that African females tend to have large bottoms

Blake Lively thought she was being funny with an Instagram post, but a lot of people aren't laughing.

On May 17, the expectant mother shared a split photo of herself on Instagram while donning an elegant gold Atelier Versace dress. One of the images showed her from the front, looking stunning, her baby bump just starting to show. The other image of the split showed her from the back, showing off her derrière.



"L.A. face with an Oakland booty," she captioned the side by side post of her on a Cannes red carpet, where she has been effectively owning the film festival in the South of France.

The post has enraged many of her 8 million Instagram followers (and many others), as they felt that she is toeing the line of racism.

To be fair, some fans found the humor in Blake quoting lyrics from Sir Mix-a-Lot's 1992 curvy-girl anthem "Baby Got Back," in which he fondly raps about a woman's backside. Others, though, felt she was being intensive and they filled her Instagram with their displeasure.

"Unbelievably problematic," one person commented, "using women of color's bodies as a joke. I guess you just want people to know you're racist and you don't give a s---."

Another said Blake's caption "is pure racism and sadly no white folks will ever understand that. Nice bodies have no geographical nor ethnic limitations. She should be ashamed of herself and how much do you want to bet she's never stepped foot in Oakland in her privileged life?"

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‘Size matters’ billboard promoting breast augmentation sparks outrage



A giant billboard on a major freeway in Murrieta, California is stirring up controversy, with a local high school student launching a petition to have it taken down.

The billboard features two takeaway coffee cups — a smaller one labelled ‘B’ and a larger one labelled ‘D’ — with the phrase “size matters” separating the two.

The sign was erected by plastic surgeon Brian Eichenberg back in January to advertise his most popular procedure — breast augmentation. He argues the ad is really just about prompting a discussion.

But it didn’t sit too well with 15-year-old Anna Gorski, who launched a Change.org petition three weeks ago to have it removed and is swiftly gaining hundreds of signatures.

“It’s degrading, it objectifies women’s bodies ... it’s not as harmless as he thought it was ... hundreds of people take it to heart, I think it’s offensive,” Ms Gorski says. “I don’t think size matters. I don’t think a billboard should be telling me that size matters.”

Dr Eichenberg said the divisive billboard has generated plenty of publicity for the company.

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Conservative Group Fights California AG’s Attempt to ‘Chill’ Speech

Though a federal judge recently ruled that a conservative nonprofit group doesn’t have to disclose its donor list to California’s Democratic attorney general, conservatives believe this case is just the latest in an ongoing fight related to political activity and free speech.

“This was a great victory for free speech for everyone in this country,” said Mark Holden, the general counsel for Koch Industries, and a board member of Americans for Prosperity, the group asked to disclose its donor list.

“This effort to chill our right to the First Amendment is critical to what the left’s whole agenda is,” Holden told The Daily Signal in an interview. “They talk about getting big money out of politics, but what they really mean is going after speech and activity they disagree with, made by groups they disagree with.”

But the legal fight is not over, because Harris intends to challenge the decision with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

The case centers around Harris’ aim to enforce a California state law that requires charities, such as Americans for Prosperity, to file a copy of their IRS tax return with the state, including a so-called Schedule B form that includes the names and addresses of donors who donated more than $5,000 during a year.

In his order, Real said Harris had failed to prove that the state needs donor information to properly investigate charities active in California.

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Leftist Hate speech Hoax now admitted

The Texas man who sued Whole Foods Market for allegedly writing an anti-gay slur on his cake has admitted that it was a hoax. Jordan Brown dropped his lawsuit against Whole Foods and has now apologized.

Brown alleged that he went to Whole Foods Market and bought a cake and had a bakery associate write “Love Wins” on it. He then claimed the associate wrote a homophobic slur instead.

From Fox News:

The Texas pastor who sued Whole Foods in April for allegedly writing a gay slur on a cake he bought withdrew his lawsuit on Monday and apologized to the supermarket chain for perpetrating a hoax, KVUE reported.

"The company did nothing wrong," openly gay pastor Jordan Brown wrote in a Monday statement. "I was wrong to pursue this matter and use the media to perpetuate this story."

Brown said in April that he requested a cake from Whole Foods with the phrase “Love Wins” written on it, but when he received his cake there was a homophobic remark added. Brown made the accusation in an Internet video and launched a lawsuit shortly thereafter.

But alert viewers quickly pointed out that the icing style used to write “Love Wins” and the gay slur appeared to differ, and Whole Foods released surveillance video showing the cake being purchased with the UPC code in a different location than Brown's video, suggesting the cake had been opened and tampered with.

The baker who sold Brown the cake is gay. A subsequent internal Whole Foods investigation cleared him of the allegations.

Brown did say why made up the story. Whole Foods has countersued Brown and there’s no word if they have dropped their own countersuit.

Hopefully, Whole Foods continues its suit against Brown. There has to be a public example made of those who invent these types of hoaxes.

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Mass.: Academy of Notre Dame cancels classes after racist threats

Pretty obvious that it is another hoax.  The modus operandi is familiar

A Catholic school in Tyngsboro is canceling classes tomorrow after a typed note threatening black students at the school was found in a bathroom, police said.

This follows “a series of racist and racially insensitive social media postings” targeting students at the Academy of Notre Dame, a kindergarten to high school.

“We do not believe there is a credible threat against the school, but we are conducting an active and ongoing investigation at this time,” Tyngsboro police Chief Richard D. Howe said.

Other offensive messages have been posted to Instagram and Twitter, targeting the Upper School, over the past several months, police said. Investigators are reaching out to officials at Twitter as well as Facebook, which owns Instagram. Police first opened an investigation into the social media postings in February, and the investigation remains ongoing. The typed and printed message is the first piece of physical evidence presented to police.

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More Facebook censorship



An incredibly powerful image of a father cradling his sick son in the shower has garnered an outpouring of support despite it being removed by Facebook more than once.

The moment was captured by Heather Whitten in November 2014 as her husband, Thomas, comforted their son Fox who was hospitalized for salmonella poisoning after the photo was taken.

Whitten recalled the moment in a Facebook post earlier this month, writing that her husband had spent hours in the shower with Fox as he tried to keep their son's fever down, and as the water rinsed the vomit and diarrhea off of them both as it came.

The mother-of-four, who is a photographer, lives with her husband and children in Southern Arizona  and described it as 'a powerful moment for us as parents,' according to The Mirror.

'As I sat in the shower with the two of them I was just overwhelmed with the scene in front of me,' she wrote.

'This man. This husband and partner and father. He was so patient and so loving and so strong with our tiny son in his lap.

'His whispers of reassurance to Fox, that he would be ok and that Thomas would take care of him were so steady and so honest.'

But she noted that while the photo depicted a special moment for them as parents, people were quick to comment on the nudity in the photo. 'I was taken aback by how many people missed the story or didn't even look past the nudity to find the story,' she wrote.

'They were just hung up on them both being nude and being in the shower. I had crossed a line. It was too intimate. It shouldn't be shared publicly. But, I disagree.

'My family may be different than yours. But, that doesn't make your way right or my way wrong.'

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That good ol' blackface again



American neuroses about race have not yet totally spread to Australia. It seems to be a common thing among Caucasian populations to find blackface funny.  But you have to be careful about what you laugh at these days

VICTORIA’S Frankston Bombers football club is in hot water after posting images of teammates in blackface on social media, with calls for an inquiry into the matter by the Mornington Peninsula Nepean Football League.

When approached for comment the club’s president Chris Sharman attempted to downplay the incident.

“There was nothing racist about Saturday’s event. We ran an iPod Shuffle Night where everyone dressed up as their favourite musicians,” he said.

However, not everyone is in agreement with Sharman.

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Must not compare Mrs Trump and Mrs Obama



He's got a point.  The beauty ideal worldwide is Nordic.  Even some Japanese ladies blond their hair.  And Mrs Obama herself straightens her hair.  So Mrs Tump, with her blue eyes and straight fair hair has it made, whereas Mrs Obama is a very long way from that ideal.  And one wonders if even blacks think black is beautiful: Black men have a well-known preference for white women

A cartoonist has been accused of racism after he portrayed Michelle Obama as masculine and butch next to a pageant-ready Melania Trump in a controversial drawing.

The cartoon - which has been branded 'racist and misogynistic' - shows a muscular Mrs Obama wearing a green dress with a bulge in the groin area.

Stood next to her is a feminine, smiling Melania Trump in a pink dress and holding a Trump sign.

The artist Ben Garrison tweeted the picture on Friday with the caption: '#InTrumpsAmerica The #FirstLady will be Great Again!

Twitter reacted with fury to the drawing, with dozens of people defending the First Lady.

Femi H tweeted: 'Honestly this is racist as hell and reverts back to stereotypes that black women are angry and masculine.'

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UK: We’ll chant what we want

The annual varsity sporting tournament between the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University is a big event – and the foul-mouthed chants that are exchanged between each side are a big part of what makes it so enjoyable. They’re part of a ritual that everyone loves.

And, as happens with every other fun thing on campus, a couple of Sheffield students’ union officers have decided to try and get them banned. A motion calling for the ‘classist’ and ‘sexist’ chants to be banned is being debated by the SU council tomorrow.

Now, like all sports chants, the varsity songs are pretty robust: ‘The wheels on your house go round and round’, which Sheffield students chant at the Sheffield Hallam end, is one example; ‘I’d rather be a poly than a cunt’, which is fired back in response, is another.

But I’ve never heard of anyone being upset by these chants. Partly because everyone who goes to a varsity match knows what’s coming. But mainly because we’re all adults.

But, from their union offices, Sheffield’s student-political clique has taken it upon itself to tell the student body, and its many sports fans, what they can and cannot chant.

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'Selfie Queen' is a bad expression

I have no idea why



Parents have slammed Sainsbury's for selling a girls' T-shirt emblazoned with the slogan 'Selfie Queen'.

One mother, who goes by the username westcountrywoman on Mumsnet, posted a photograph of the 'offensive' garment which quickly sparked a heated debate.

One user, nicknamed MyKingdomForBrie, said she was appalled by the T-shirt designed for age three, writing: 'Horrible message for girls, pretty bloody depressing as is the whole culture surrounding it.'

Others blasted the design for being 'cringe-worthy', 'tacky' and 'sexist'.

However, despite the backlash, many parents said they did not find the 'Selfie Queen' T-shirt offensive.  'I wouldn't say inappropriate, just a bit naff really,' Pixilicious wrote, while WorraLiberty added: 'We're living in an age where selfies are very common/popular so it's just a silly little slogan that gives a nod to that.'

And it appears that many others are also in support of the slogan.

Indeed, a spokesperson for Sainsbury's told MailOnline that the 'Selfie Queen' T-shirt - made for ages three to 12 - is 'very popular' and 'lots of people like it.'

Defending the design, the retail chain said: 'Children love playing with cameras and taking selfies. 'The T-shirt was designed to be a fun, playful addition to our kidswear range and is popular with parents.'

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Police Scotland have gone to the dogs

Police Scotland are at it again. Not content with arresting Scots for writing Facebook statuses, or imprisoning Scots for singing songs in Glasgow, or warning Scots that those writing supposedly offensive tweets could be faced with a police visit, our petty commissars are now arresting Scots who post silly videos of their dogs on the internet.

In the video, the dog is seen raising his paw after Markus Meechan says ‘Sieg Heil’ at it. The video is not particularly clever or funny, but is it really worthy of a night behind bars?

Absolutely not. But so long as Police Scotland retain their censorious edge, and class anything mildly offensive as a hate crime, such silliness is bound to land someone in jail.

Scots are sick of the police chasing after people who are only guilty of being a bit rude while serious crimes escape investigation. This, mixed with many examples of their own incompetence, has meant that public confidence in Police Scotland has been consistently dropping since the unified force was created.

In response to his arrest, Meechan remarked: ‘I just want everyone to know that I don’t wish any ill-will on any race or anything, it’s just how shock comedy works.’

In justifying the decision, Detective Inspector David Cockburn said: ‘This arrest should serve as a warning to anyone posting such material online, or in any other capacity, that such views will not be tolerated'

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Advert for London ‘designer vagina’ surgery banned

AN ADVERT for “designer vagina” surgery has been banned over concerns it could make women unhappy with their bodies.

The ad — which appeared in London’s Metro newspaper — was for labia reshaping at the London Bridge Plastic Surgery clinic offering women the chance to “achieve a more natural appearance”.

It was canned after five readers blasted it as socially irresponsible and encouraging women to have unnecessary cosmetic surgery.

The surgery said 100 per cent of women undergoing the op were looking for a more “natural” appearance — while 91 per cent reported discomfort from clothing, 69 per cent discomfort when doing sports and a significant number reported discomfort during sex.

The clinic denied it was wrong to advertise the availability of such surgery.

The Metro said it considered the advert to be suitable because it is read by young professionals with plenty of cash who would not take offence at that type of promotion.

But watchdog the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said the description hinted that a pre-surgery labia might be somehow “unnatural” in appearance and banned the ad in its current form.

The London Bridge Plastic Surgery clinic added: “We never impose on our patients our views of what natural is and never tell a patient what is normal. “It is our patients who ask for a more natural or normal appearance and it is our role to tell them what or what is not possible.

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Floyd Abrams Speaks Freely to Political Correctness on America’s Campuses

First Amendment expert warns efforts to block or suppress political speech will get worse before they get better

If you ask judges and lawyers to blurt the name that comes to mind when given the verbal prompt “First Amendment,” a fair percentage will reply “Floyd Abrams.” Since being asked by The New York Times to defend its right to publish the Pentagon Papers 45 years ago, the 80-year-old partner at the New York law firm Cahill Gordon & Reindel has become, as the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan put it, “the most significant First Amendment lawyer of our age.” He has been asked by ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN and Time Magazine, among others, to represent them in high stakes constitutional litigation, with clients as diverse as the Brooklyn Museum of Art, National Public Radio commentator Nina Totenberg, Al Franken and Senator Mitch McConnell.

So it got some attention when Mr. Abrams, disgusted by the proliferating problem of coerced disinvitations of speakers from college campuses and the shouting down of speakers whom a determined minority of students wish to prevent their fellow students from hearing, decided to speak out. In lectures delivered a year ago at Temple University in Philadelphia and a few weeks ago at the University of Iowa, Mr. Abrams declared that the greatest threat to American free speech presently comes not from government’s mega-sophisticated electronic surveillance techniques, but from within academia—principally from “a minority of students who strenuously and, I think it is fair to say, contemptuously, disapprove of the views of speakers whose view of the world is different from theirs, and who seek to prevent those views from being heard.”

Mr. Abrams notes that it used to be that those guilty of suppressing speech on campus were university administrators, who felt threatened by campus speakers whose positions on political or social issues departed sharply from their own, and who didn’t want students to hear them. Now the ones trying to prevent students from hearing political and social viewpoints are other students.

“There’s simply too much suppression of speech by students who don’t want to hear or have others hear what they don’t think should be said,” Mr. Abrams says. “It occurred to me that if I had to identify one ongoing threat with respect to the First Amendment it was campus intolerance to speech and campus willingness to ban or prevent speech of which students disapprove.”

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Must not think suicide bombers are likely to be Muslim

Police were today accused of 'bowing to political correctness' after issuing a grovelling apology for allowing a mock suicide bomber to scream 'Allahu Akbar' during a terror training exercise.

Greater Manchester Police were preparing officers for a 'Daesh style' extremist assault similar to those that killed hundreds in Paris and Brussels.

Footage of the terror exercise showed a masked 'suicide bomber' storming into the Trafford Centre and yelling 'God is great' in Arabic before fireworks exploded representing his suicide belt being detonated, while 800 bloody volunteers acted out being killed or injured as armed officers swept the mall for other jihadis.

But within hours the force issued a humbling apology after being accused of Islamophobia for assuming terrorists would be Muslim.

The decision to apologise has backfired, with Twitter outraged by the constabulary's political correctness, saying they were right to make the exercise as similar to previous ISIS planned attacks such as Belgium and Paris as possible.

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Must not connect Obama and chocolate coating



A NEW chocolate-flavoured ice cream created by a Russian company has faced criticism after from American commentators over its controversial name.

The ‘Obamka’ ice cream bar hit shelves in the city of Naberezhnye Chelny in late April, according to the Moscow Times.

The -ka suffix in Russian is used to designate something as small, so the name translates to 'Little Obama', Reuters reports.

The sweet treat, produced by Slavista, is a vanilla ice cream bar coated in chocolate and comes in a wrapper that "features an image of a smiling young African boy, wearing an ear ring and holding an ice cream".

Rasil Mustafin, deputy development director at the Slavista ice cream factory, claims the name of the product isn’t political at all, but was chosen due to the ice cream's chocolate flavour.

“There’s no political underpinning," Mustafin said. “We have no intention to offend anyone. Someone at the factory came up with the idea.”

According to the Moscow Times, the ice cream’s packaging was inspired by a Soviet-era cartoon in which little African children inhabited the fictional island of “Chunga-Changa.”

“We just like the name,” said Anatoli Ragimkhanov, financial director of the factory. “It’s so amusing.”

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