[Thoroughly Tasteless] Reader's Letter Of The Day

I'm surprised that The Metro printed this one:

Housemates who slam doors in the late hours. Should I moan or just give them a copy of Anne Frank's diary as a helpful guide to being quiet?

Jo, Bristol.

How not to win the hearts and minds of the Afghan people ...

From The Metro:

A young Afghan girl has been killed after a box of public information leaflets dropped by an RAF aircraft landed on top of her, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed.

The box failed to break apart in mid-air and hit the young girl, who was taken to a hospital in Kandahar where she later died. The leaflets were dropped over a rural area of Helmand province by an RAF C130 Hercules on June 23...

"Global warming blamed for unusual cold spell"

No, seriously!?

Via ASI and Mark J Perry.

Those Mohammed cartoons...

This whole debate has kicked off again, they weren't even that funny...

The most infamous one is this:

Yeah, like these terrorist masterminds would blow themselves up? They use young and impressionable, or indeed mentally handicapped people to do their murdering for them. Further, if depicting Mohammed is forbidden, how would these buggers recognise the man in the picture?

Anyway, no doubt, they'll start bombing my foreign embassies tomorrow, or boycotting this 'blog or something.

Racism is so not funny

I was absolutely appalled at work when a colleague told me the one about the black Jewish boy*. I think that this sort of thoroughly offensive 'humour' should have been left dead and buried in the 1970s, along with Bernard Manning.

* The boy asked his Dad whether he was more Jewish or more black. His Dad replied that it was a difficult question and asked why it was relevant. "Well" said the little boy "The lad at the end of the road wants to sell his bike for £20. I'm not sure whether I should offer him £10 or just nick it".