Story from the UK Daily Mail here.
Not much to add really, but I laughed out loud. I love the bit where the wife has to go and sit in the car park.
One further observation - love the way the headline is in English English, and the page title is in American English.
The link says, “Father’s fury over children’s pornographic sweet wrappers”
That’s English English to me.
Oops, I see what you are talking about. The page title (viewable in my page tab), is American English.
Well, you know…
It really does look like they’re having sex.
Yep, they’re definitely getting pretty funky on those wrappers. I wouldn’t like them either. (Bummer; I like Maoam.) I wouldn’t cause a scene at the store, but I wouldn’t buy them.
You would make a purchasing choice based on a cartoon on a sweet wrapper? Has the world gone totally insane, or is it just you?
It wouldn’t have any bearing on whether I’d purchase them, but yes, the lime is ravishing the lemon. And those cherries are being treated like the tramps they are.
That is one lucky fruit.
That’s a lime? The artist needs to go back to anthropomorphic fruit drawing school.
No outrage here but what the hell is going on with those wrappers?
What does the candy company explain it away as?
Is he really supposed to be humping the fruit?
I’ve seen this candy on pages before this for the exact reason stated. I have to ask why his child would associate it with sex. Did daddy and mommy do something like that in front of the minors?
The candy company is not portraying humping fruit as far as they are concerned.
I think the first time this was brought to my attention it was a page about how some people tend to see sex objects in daily items.
And to make it worse, the sweets are called MAOAM, which as any fule kno is the exact noise a citrus fruit makes at the moment of climax.
My children are all grown up, but if a five-year-old asked me what the fruit were doing I’d just say they were kissing or cuddling. The fruit don’t seem to have any genitalia, let along be doing anything with them, so I only think somebody with a really dirty mind would think they are “having sex”. But, as I think D.H. Lawrence once observed, it’s the people with dirty minds who want the censorship.
It’s cartoon drawings of fruit with facial expressions.
If you see humans having sex in that, you’re obsessed.
P.S. The ideal Daily Mail :rolleyes: headline would be:
Diana death due to immigration (fashion pictures on page 9)
I think you mean:
Diana death due to immigrant NHS workers: what will it mean for YOUR house price?
I would be interesting to know what the average time after release of a product that it takes to receive a graphics complaint.
I laughed, and it’s funny, but seriously, fruit fucking on my kids’ candy wrappers would kinda piss me off too.
Joe
Yeah, really. I personally see a lima or other bean, not exactly what I crave when I get a hankering for fruit-flavored sweets.
That man has a very dirty mind.
The lemon and lime are very much “bumpin’ rinds”.
Where do you think 7-UP comes from?
You mean they wring out the wet spot into cans? Eww!
The newspaper story is even funnier if you imagine Mr Simpkins’ outraged comments voiced in a thick Yorkshire accent.