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MooseBreath

Supermarkets sell frightfully offensive halloween masks

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I am Rod Hull

I am Rod Hull

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was it that bad?

 

Yes, yes it was. The placard should say "Burn the Pope". Wasn't he a Roman Catholic? (or do I have it the wrong way round which will invalidate my point and you can ignore it).  ;) 

Rincewind

Rincewind

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I don't get where the Irish part comes from?

 

Guy Fawkes wasn't Irish and Catholicism isn't Irish either.

I got it the wrong way round I think.

 

Bad example. The cancer comparrason was good.

Guest MattP

Guest MattP

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Well I've got my placard for Guy Fawkes night in New Parks this year sorted.

What's the right way round?

Stadt

Stadt

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Who sits there and thinks "Wooah! Holy shit! That could be offensive to somebody I must complain and get everybody on Twitter to be all like ehmargurd Asda are all offensive to the people with issues like in their head! I'm going to get some major PC points."

They're the mentalists

Zingari

Zingari

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I don't get where the Irish part comes from?

 

Guy Fawkes wasn't Irish and Catholicism isn't Irish either.

Guy Fawkes was from York . 
 
His brother Nifen Fawkes moved down the road  to Sheffield and started a very successful  cutlery business .
Larry_LCFC

Larry_LCFC

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Saw this on the news earlier. Thought how utterly pathetic it is. How many people would look at those costumes and the names of them and relate them back to some stereotyped mental health patient sitting in a dark corner rocking forwards and backwards. Its just a name. Who actually cares? The costume isnt offensive, its purely because they used the words "mental health". This country is so patheticly sensitive. Get a grip.

I am Rod Hull

I am Rod Hull

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Who sits there and thinks "Wooah! Holy shit! That could be offensive to somebody I must complain and get everybody on Twitter to be all like ehmargurd Asda are all offensive to the people with issues like in their head! I'm going to get some major PC points."

They're the mentalists

 

People are more offended by this crap than they are by the Romanian/Bulgarian crime wave thats hit us in the last year or so and have little or no care for whats coming when 50-75 thousand of them turn up here next year  lol

Danno

Danno

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Pretty sure I can remember them being on sale last year too. And every year for that matter. The chief exec of Mind sounds like someone trying to justify his salary. His minions are just a crock of shite. They should be heaped into a big tank and set on fire.

They should heap any person over the age of 9 who celebrates Halloween in there as well. Utter tossers.
ADK

ADK

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People are more offended by this crap than they are by the Romanian/Bulgarian crime wave thats hit us in the last year or so and have little or no care for whats coming when 50-75 thousand of them turn up here next year  lol

 

:unsure:

Alf Bentley

Alf Bentley

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I am being treated for depression at the moment. One of the reasons for my self harming that is happening again.

It's time this sort of demeaning and insulting marketing was stopped. It is highly offensive to the extreme, especially more so for those who are incurable.

What if they did the same for cancer patients?

 

Well said. Glad you asked that last question. If "mental patients" are going to be portrayed as blood-soaked maniacs with hatchets, they'd have to distort cancer patients, too....maybe attach a grim reaper's scythe to the shoulder of the costume to suggest that cancer is always fatal or somehow suggest that it's catching? I bet the non-PC people who had family members with cancer would split their sides laughing...

 

I'm not into over-sensitivity or political correctness, and I suspect that there'd have been no problem if they'd just called their costume "scary axeman", even "mad axeman"....why be so stupid as to call it "mental patient"?!

 

I know 5 people who have been hospitalised with mental illness; 4 of them are employed and 1 is a carer; 3 are or have recently been in long-term relationships; 2 are (responsible) parents; all are intelligent, interesting people....with annoying qualities, like the rest of us. That may be an untypical "sample" as all suffered acute, not chronic illness (more serious in short-term, maybe less so in long-term).

 

None has ever been violent. Most have mentioned what a big problem the stigma of mental illness is....and most conceal their medical history from employers and anyone other than close friends/family (would a recovered cancer patient do that? in some cases, I suppose, but less so).

 

If we're going to be non-PC, should we also return to racist chanting, throwing bananas etc?

Rincewind

Rincewind

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Yesterday in the last h the last hour of our show we had a woman taking about her past depression and how she copes. She plays the guitar keyboard, into photography, writes lyrics among other things. Very interesting person although she cited God as helping her daily by praying frequently.  You could say her faith has kept her sane through her illness. Personally I think she is a fairly strong person anyway and filling her life with activities keeps her mind so busy she doesn't think about her illness. She does not have a TV either so sees nothing that may upset her.

Guest MattP

Guest MattP

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Ah my bad! A bit behind the times I see! :)

 

Oh I say....

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