http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=48989 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sat, 25 May 2013 22:06:35 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=48989#post-141476 Wed, 03 Oct 2012 17:25:15 +0000 arthurminnit 141476@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>as a hard-core porn loving, obese, left handed, ginger haired, roman catholic, cat strangling, masturbator, i am NEVER represented anywhere.</p> <p>(mick hucknall doesn't count! he's not catholic!) </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=48989#post-141418 Wed, 03 Oct 2012 11:28:19 +0000 dvo4fun 141418@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>yep </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=48989#post-141375 Wed, 03 Oct 2012 07:26:31 +0000 sigmund 141375@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>5* </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=48989#post-141341 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 20:34:29 +0000 Nunnion Splendacular 141341@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>That's a bit spooky, I changed 'unicorn' to 'penguin' at the last minute. Not sure why.</p> <p>I was a bit worried this might be seen as 'racist' but it really isn't meant to be: it's more a reaction against the painfully politically correct 'inclusive' studio (I don't mean studio, there's another word, a bit like 'archive' or 'agency'?) pictures.</p> <p>You can go to a website for a family-run business of dumpling manufacturers in a welsh village, and they'll have a generic picture of a happy 'world village' community all smiling with perfect teeth, ready to answer your call. It's bloody annoying, every photo has to represent everyone all the time, even when there's no point. It's kind of quite patronising: it suggests someone will be offended, if they're not somehow represented. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=48989#post-141335 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 19:54:51 +0000 The All New Jeni B 141335@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>No unicorns?</p> <p>I must write and complain. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=48989#post-141332 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 19:33:48 +0000 Jeremy Hunt 141332@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>'a mexican with a head wound' 5*<br /> A mexican with a head is becoming more &amp; more of a rarity these days.La Droga.Every cloud.. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=48989#post-141310 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 17:27:13 +0000 Nunnion Splendacular 141310@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>The Guardian newspaper has reacted angrily to its own dating service, after the offensive image of two white, heterosexual professionals was used to advertise the business. Despite the wealth of orientations and backgrounds available to challenge preconceptions, a non-inclusive couple from Croydon accidentally slipped through the net.</p> <p>"With BLTs, LBWs and a whole world of nationalities to choose from, I was sickened to see this pair of stereotypes leering at me while I was browsing for love", complained one reader. "In fact ‘Looking for Love?’ is also an offensive strap-line, if you think about it for far too long. What’s so wrong about people cohabiting for the sake of their carbon footprints?"</p> <p>Editors have now replaced the grossly generalising image, choosing a collage designed not to appeal to anyone too directly. Depicting two lesbians from Malawi, a Mexican with a head wound, three midgets, a unicorn and a penguin, love-lorn idealists are still struggling to take offense, choosing instead to ‘Be Alloted a Random Life Partner’. </p>