Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes pulled from Aldi shelves

[Originalsyn]

I'm surprised these people aren't all over the lesbian kiss in doctor who last week

You can guarantee they would be if it was a male kiss.

[Rixis]

You can guarantee they would be if it was a male kiss.

We've had that in the soaps too. Gay kissing isn't the outrage it once may have been over here.

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Maybe less nowadays, but when so many people watch them, I'm sure a bunch of kids see them. I saw plenty of that shite as a kid.

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They also did a play on the lack of masculinity of the Blood Elf males, as shown in his quests, screams etc

There's also the quest in ungoro where you have to rescue the maidens, and one of them is a male blood elf who has dropped his purse, the npc you are with constantly refers to him as a her

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You can guarantee they would be if it was a male kiss.

Hasn't captain jack kissed a few guys on dr who/torchwood?

[Trassk]

We've had that in the soaps too. Gay kissing isn't the outrage it once may have been over here.

yeah but it still causes it, firstly by the typical ultra conservative nutjobs, then by the typical overly sensitive macho straight men.

[Rixis]

As well as the blood elf who you can pick to ride with you in the punching Deathwing quest.

[Trassk]

Hasn't captain jack kissed a few guys on dr who/torchwood?

Torchwood was on at a much later time then doctor who.

[Rixis]

yeah but it still causes it, firstly by the typical ultra conservative nutjobs, then by the typical overly sensitive macho straight men.

Meh, sure, everything causes outrage, just not so much any more.

[Trassk]

There's also the quest in ungoro where you have to rescue the maidens, and one of them is a male blood elf who has dropped his purse, the npc you are with constantly refers to him as a her

isn't it mature of blizzard that the only implied gay interaction is making a joke out of it.

[The Glitch]

isn't it mature of blizzard that the only implied gay interaction is making a joke out of it.

I think its more making fun of the players that make such a fuss about blood elf males looking *gay*.

[Deleted]

I think it's not enough to take these books off the shelf. They should start burning books they don't like.

[Runeweaver]

isn't it mature of blizzard that the only implied gay interaction is making a joke out of it.

That's not the only gay interaction that takes place in WoW. People seem to have forgotten about the Night Elf and Tauren (cannot remember their names), in the Molten Front questline.

[Trassk]

That's not the only gay interaction that takes place in WoW. People seem to have forgotten about the Night Elf and Tauren (cannot remember their names), in the Molten Front questline.

what you mean two 'best buddies' with only people being able to speculate them being a couple, yeah, that may have been something in 1960s, but in 2013-14 its weak compared to what companies like valve can do.

[Reeve]

Seems like the solution to finding a word in a book sold by a supermarket chain offensive is to not buy the book, not to tell the supermarket chain not to even carry the book.

[Trassk]

supermarkets like tescos stock adult magazines on top shelves of the magazine rack. Maybe we should have them removed because lola's big boobies might offend Debby and lil'billy.

[Rixis]

what you mean two 'best buddies' with only people being able to speculate them being a couple, yeah, that may have been something in 1960s, but in 2013-14 its weak compared to what companies like valve can do.

And if they put an actual gay couple in the game and screw it up, they get a load of shit for it. Not every little nuance needs to be catered too. They embraced the communities mockery of the blood elf male by making them girly in some of the questlines. It wasn't some underhand jab at gays.

Never seen porn in Tesco. Not saying they don't stock it, but they definitely don't in my local, porn is one of those things you only really see half wrapped in brown paper on the top shelf of local newsagents.

[Trassk]

my newsagent has porn too, just not wrapped in brown, its pretty much on the top shelf with boobies and bums on display.

[Rixis]

Of the two I've been in recently, one has the porn on the top shelf where the magazines on the shelf below cover the lower half, the other has the bottom half wrapped in brown paper/brown bags so you can read the name and kinda see the woman on the front. They self censor the tits etc anyway.

It's a dying (should be dead) medium anyway.

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Hah, awesome. Just found this article:

http://www.theguardian.com/books/201...e-illustration

A chapter cut from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory for being "too wild".

[Trassk]

guess so, but if the internet died it would be needed again one day.

But yes steering this convo back from boobies to that of childrens books..

funny thing I can remember Dahl invented words in his story, like blithering bogvumper!, or Snozzcumber, or whizzpopping, or trogglehumper

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Hah, awesome. Just found this article:

http://www.theguardian.com/books/201...e-illustration

A chapter cut from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory for being "too wild".

okay never heard about this one till now either. But still at least this one was more of an edit rather then just keeping the book off shelves.

[drwelfare]

ALDI? The same place I buy my 99 cent energy drinks and canned chicken & dumplings?

I was unaware they even sold books

[Adam Jensen]

There's also the quest in ungoro where you have to rescue the maidens, and one of them is a male blood elf who has dropped his purse, the npc you are with constantly refers to him as a her

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Hasn't captain jack kissed a few guys on dr who/torchwood?

Quite a few and I think he kissed the Ninth, but not romantically.

Jack is omnisexual, he goes after anything with a pulse.