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The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has rather churlishly ruled that four innuendo-packed radio ads for Mattesons smoked sausages "could cause harm to children". The first ad - broadcast on Forth One, Clyde Radio and Real Radio - promisingly began with a male voice saying "Mmm, Mattesons smoked pork sausage... " It …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Pardon?

    "However, although it was not sexually explicit, the innuendo was sufficiently strong to present a problem if it was heard by older children"

    So totally unlike a lot of rap songs then which apparently are perfectly acceptable to broadcast when children might be listening.

    What the hell is wrong with a bit of smutty innuendo?

    What we really need is a Sid James Icon

  2. Richard 81

    21 complaints?

    Pah. Also, do children even listen to the radio any more?

  3. 2FishInATank
    Grenade

    ODFO ASA FFS

    The victorian era called, they want their morality back.

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Got to be said

    Mrs. Slocombe would give one to her pussy.

  5. Anonymous Coward
    Megaphone

    ASA - ODFO!!!

    **WARNING: SHOUTY COMMENT. SMALL CHILDREN AND THOSE OF A NERVOUS DISPOSITION SHOULD AVOID. OLDER CHILDREN SHOULD ALSO AVOID. IN FACT, EVERYONE SHOULD. EAT YOUR RUSKS, MUMMY WILL BURP YOU SOON.**

    Seriously, WTF??? Could be a problem "if heard by older children"?? Most "older children" are more than passingly familiar with hardcore German porn FFS, I don't think a radio snippet of 'Carry On Stick Your Sausage In' is going to really corrupt them! Jesus wept, are these people on a diferent fucking planet to me? Have they not walked down a street and seen girls barely in puberty dressed up in Disney-inspired microskirts and crop-tops with a crowd of squawking morons surrounding them trying to cop a feel whilst they all yell about how wonderful blowjobs are?? I don't see how a relatively original radio ad is going to corrupt them!

    Argh. It's not even noon and I need a drink....!

  6. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    FFS

    ...that's all

  7. Tim Brown 1
    Paris Hilton

    Job done for Mattesons

    1) Create suitably bordeline ad

    2) Get reported to the toothless watchdog that is the Advertising Standards Authority (having members of your Ad agency ring in to complain can help with this)

    3) Pull the ad anyway because you don't want to spend more money on it.

    4) Get lots of free coverage of the ASAs decision (whichever way it goes), in the tabloids.

    Paris just because.... oh you know the rest.

  8. The Dark Lord
    WTF?

    May I be the first to say...

    for fuck's sake. Our fucking taxes are getting wasted on this shit!

    A new phrase needs to be brought to bear on these complainants (which should also apply to Personal Injury blaggers): "Get a fucking grip you mithering wank-bag."

    Sorry, rather a lot of swearing in this post.

  9. Scott 19
    Coat

    Get a Life

    Please parents Get A Life or even better yet enter your angle in a pagent where other parents are as blinkered as you are to your kids.

    And parents wonder why they have to stand outside court and defend there mass murdering children "But i didn't even let them listen to the radio when they where young, so i don't understand how they could do such things".

    Because we all know where inuedo on the radio can lead to.

  10. Field Marshal Von Krakenfart
    Paris Hilton

    Music?

    Was the music on the ad Mozart's "Magic Flute"?

    Paris, who also likes a big sausage

  11. Anonymous Coward
    Flame

    Anyone remember Allo Allo?

    Suggestive innuendo too much for kids?!?! What on earth did these people watch as kids themselves.

    Lets protect the next generation so much they cant deal with the world at large.. Thats the governments new plan for continuing its own existence.

    Flames coz we're gonna have to burn it all soon just to start again.

  12. Stef 4
    Pint

    What a carry on.

    It's only a shame Sid James wasn't doing the voice-overs.

  13. Richard 11

    Innuendo

    That wasn't the most subtle innuendo I've ever 'come across'...

  14. Anonymous Coward
    FAIL

    stupid idiots!

    If the kids understand the innuendo, then this is the least of your worries. Birds, meet Bees

    Shhhhsss and we wonder why we have the highest teen pregnancy rates in europe....

  15. Andy 97
    Happy

    Excellent

    What a great bit of extra free marketing for them....

    Hooray for the regulators.

  16. Sooty

    i take it

    the ASA don't watch a lot of childrens tv if they have a problem with a bit of innuendo. it might be different these days but it used to be nothing but, and the children were completely oblivious.

  17. kaiserb_uk
    Headmaster

    Far worse (better)

    The 'Janet and John' stories on Wogan?

    Anyone remember the 'Fat Harry White' sketch from Mark and Lard?

    This country is built on innuendo and smutty subtext goddammit, I can't imagine who they're going to pull off next.

  18. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Suggestion

    I don't think the printed transcripts come across as particularly smutty.

    Any chance that Lester and the lovely Moderatrix would be able to re-enact them for us in glorious MP3-ovision?

  19. Anonymous Coward
    Thumb Up

    I'm going to buy some Mattesons

    A little bit of smutty innuendo might set my wife thinking in the right way for a change

    Anon for obvious reasons

  20. Aortic Aneurysm

    Nothing worse than...

    Those god awful adverts for cider (i think - cant remember the brand, but if anyone has heard them, they will know what I mean).

    Irn bru has been doin the exact same for years and years, not exactly denting sales for them.

    1. think up suitable borderline advert

    2. make it 1960's smutty.

    3. broadcast it when children listen

    4. %$^$%^$%

    5. PROFIT !

  21. Neil Barnes Silver badge
    Coat

    So if you were to roast this sausage...

    It'd be innuendo and out the other?

    Why thank you. How kind.

  22. RichyS
    Thumb Up

    Seconded

    I'll happily second the motion (ooh er) for a Sid James icon.

  23. Anonymous Coward
    Thumb Down

    So Mrs. Smegma's cat's got boils again

    ... because of all the smut and filth that's on the telly / radio / interwebs these days.

    When I was a lad we had this. Not only was it broadcast at times when children might be listening, it was AIMED at children.

    "If chocolate and nougat (Nugget!)

    make you smile

    Big One

    Sticks out a (BANG!) mile

    If you like your nougat (Nugget!)

    To last you a while

    Big One

    (BANG! BANG!)

    Sticks out a mile"

    And did we all grow up sniggering perverts? No. Not really.

    I guess the cat boil medicine you get these days just doesn't do the job like the old one used to.

  24. EdwardP
    Flame

    Interesting...

    I wonder how innuendo could possibly affect the kind of innocent children this was designed to save.

    The whole point of innuendo is you're not explicitly saying anything naughty, you're tricking the listener into making the connections themselves, connections that your cotton-wool encased kids couldn't possibly make with their tiny uncorrupted minds.

  25. Pete 43
    Joke

    Carry on porking?

    I had swine flu but I'm feeling Perky now!

  26. LuMan
    Coat

    Innuendo

    I went into the pub for a double entendre once.

    The barmaid gave me one!

    ..Yeah, yeah. Don't get up. I'm off...

  27. Captain Hogwash

    I don't remember all this fuss...

    when Julie Walters finished her ad for dishwasher or laundry products (can't remember which) with the words "eveybody loves a good boffin".

  28. Miek
    Boffin

    Anyone remember Allo Allo? >> Oh yes

    I remember 'Allo 'Allo, used to watch it when I was little; didn't do me any harm; I think

  29. Craig 12

    hurr durr

    While I'm usually against Political Correctness Gone Mad. this is a decent decision. The world is way too adultified for kids these days. Even the stuff suitable for kids isn't suitable for kids (I wouldn't take any kid to see transformers 2 for example).

    This isn't 'birds and bees' natural stuff... it's dirty talk to sell sausages of all things. Can't Mattesons just make a decent sausage (from local, organic meat perhaps rather than injected water and delicious sounding 'Non-UK Beef protein casings') and win over some customers via tasting good?

  30. Graham Marsden
    FAIL

    We need a "Won't Someone Think Of The Children!" icon...

    ... next to be banned: repeats of Carry-on films, saucy sea-side postcards, St Trinians films...

  31. Reverend Brown
    Grenade

    Two words.

    Namby pambies.

  32. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Can't be nearly as bad

    as the Hillshire Farms "Go Meat" commercials. Saw one last night and it nearly put me off sausages entirely.....

  33. Tawakalna
    Grenade

    nudge nudge

    lawks only knows what these 21? was it? whining Mary Whitehouse* clones would make of eric idle's Breakaway adverts from the 1970s then. Hopefully have apoplexy and die.

    Sid James icon? good idea but really I think that we need a Frankie Howerd* "oo-err missus" icon!

    *for the benefit of colonials - Mary Whitehouse, a whinging complaining self-righteous old trout of a God-squadder who moaned about every bit of tit and bum on telly back in the day, thankfully long shuffled off this mortal coil, would probably have been elected President in the US of A for her moralistic puritanical interfering claptrap.

    *my comedy hero ever since he hilariously humiliated my mum in Blackpool in 1968!

  34. Richard 102
    Coat

    Innuendo?

    I thought that was a term for Esperanto porn.

  35. Anonymous Coward
    Thumb Up

    Thirded

    Yes, a Sid James icon please.

  36. Anonymous Coward
    Coat

    Infamy

    Infamy ! Infamy ! They've all got it in f'me.

  37. Smarty Pants

    HARM

    WTF it could cause harm????

    only if I got irritated and threw the radio at em

  38. Pavlovs well trained dog
    FAIL

    oh lordy

    Roll on the TaliBrown and his New Religion of control.

    Oh so glad I moved out of the UK.

    We've got some good IT jobs going in Cape Town if anyone else wants to move here.

  39. mmiied
    FAIL

    nonsence

    the whole point of innuendo is it is invisible to the innocent in order to get innuendo you need to have some understanding of what it is talking about to begin with so nobody who is innocent will be offended and those offended will be victims of there own corruption

    on annother note did any of you watch animanics cartoons they where FULL of inuindo and they where amed at kids

    "HELLO NURSE!!!"

  40. Richard Porter
    Joke

    Re: I had swine flu but I'm feeling Perky now

    Just as long as you're not feeling Pinky ...

  41. JohnG

    "Roger that Fiona"

    Which Fiona was to be rogerred?

  42. Phu
    FAIL

    Children

    This attitude of not letting children hear swear words or sexual innuendos or see nude women has got to stop. Don't get me wrong, I'm not suggesting we go around handing out porn mags to 5 year olds, but we do need to stop worrying about it.

    I'm 29. When I was 6 every kid in the playground had a full repertoire of swear words to hand. They were all familiar with fuck, shit, piss, bastard, etc, and they all used them frequently (and appropriately) when the teachers weren't around.

    Likewise, every kid has at some point seen their parents naked. They already know what a naked human being looks like. Keeping them from seeing nudity isn't going to prevent anything.

    Likewise, I think its extraordinarily insulting to children to everywhere to suggest even the youngest of kids would hear "where do you like to stick your saussage?" and immediately consider porking the nearest little girl.

    Adults everywhere need to learn what their kids are really like before wasting time on this nonsense.

    -- Richard

  43. Grease Monkey Silver badge

    It's minority rule

    Why is it that the ASA continually pander to a tiny minority. 21 complaints? So IOW the vast majority of parents do not feel that these adverts could be in anyway harmful to their kids. The ASA need to be taken outside and shot, or failing that their powers need to be looked at very carefully. In particular the code needs to be rewritten so it is not open to "interpetation" (ie blatant misinterpretation) and they need to have their powers modified so that they can only apply the rules to the letter to block this "interpretation" nonsense.

    There have been plenty of cases where seriously misleading and offensive adverts have been allowed to run, but gods forbid that a little innuendo should slip out.

    Then there are the British Heart Foundation ads that the ASA have banned because some people found the fact that heart disease is serious quite distressing. Well of course they fucking do. That's the whole point. How are you going to get people to help your charity if your message is "Heart disease. It's a bit of a pisser."?* Which is about all the BHF have left to them after the ASA have blocked so many of their adverts.

    *Apologies to Peter Kay

  44. oldredlion
    Go

    Down with 'em!

    "...tell me where you like to stick it. ... Mmm, Mattesons smoked pork sausage. You want it."

    It's a pity they didn't use the same voice as the Cadbury's Caramel advert.

  45. Chika
    Grenade

    Missing the point

    It isn't the children that would be harmed by this. It's all those prudish shouty types who are too embarrassed to admit that they don't like innuendo or those that have worked out that the best way to stop stuff like this is to play the NSFC card.

  46. Anonymous Coward
    Grenade

    Innuendo ...

    Innuendo -- like youth -- is wasted on the young.

    Prudishness is in fact a mortal sin, is what these think-of-the-children, do-gooding, saddo's fail to understand.

    Modern life disgusts me.

  47. asiaseen

    The fallacy

    in all this "think of the children" nonsense is the idea that children are innocent.

  48. imposter
    WTF?

    mmiied

    Applying hammerhead to nail there. Well done. "Harm" is a strong term. A small child subjected to degrading porn might be harmed (and honestly, most porn is pretty degrading) but this is different. And rubbish.

    However the level of over protection from sexual anything we give children is awful. Studying shakespeare we never learnt the innuendo before A Level (english wasn't my subject I stopped after GCSE) and so as I later learnt, missed a very large chunk of the meaning of the plays out. Much ado about nothing? More like much ado about vagina (nothing being slang at the time... you get the idea). The fact we have rampant STDs and teen pregnancy is pretty much due to the lip service we give sex education because culturally it's bad to talk about. Most 16 year olds don't actually understand what genital warts or, or haven't been made to consider that the more you put it about the more likely something bad will happen. It's shameful. Compared to that sort of genuine harm, this pales into insignificance.

  49. Steve Foster

    In light of the original ad...

    ...I think we should all tell Matthesons to stick their sausage up the ASA!

  50. Donn Bly
    FAIL

    Just another group trying to self-justify their position without thinking first

    The only way anyone could be "harmed" by this is if they are already corrupted with worldly knowledge**, and if they have enough worldly knowledge to take this as anything other than innocent, then the corruption has already taken place and these ads cause no further damage.

    As such, the idea that the ads "harm" children is utterly ridiculous and false.

    ** Heaven forbid that we actually allow our children to KNOW anything. Next these "Think of the children" types will be claiming that knowledge of biology, even amongst "older children" is harmful because they might get exposed to knowledge of how the natural reproductive cycles work.

  51. Ben Cooper

    @Sooty

    Too right - I remember when even Blue Peter were at it:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSO3-jKoRBQ

    I've got a feeling that this was a deliberate attempt to get free marketing, and the suckers at the ASA fell for it. Innuendo only works if you understand what it's alluding to, so it's impossible to corrupt anyone this way...

  52. raving angry loony

    innuendo?

    That's the thing about innuendo. If you understand the references, then you've already heard a lot worse. If you don't understand the references, then you never will.

    It's the dirty-minded Puritans who are the main cause of the problem. They understand the references, and therefore think that everyone has as dirty and filthy a mind as they do. Instead of letting it go, they complain because somewhere, someone might be having a good time and that can't be allowed.

    This is the same kind of busy-body fuckwits who are killing the innuendo in your typical panto, and turning them into Hollywood versions of the Smurfs.

    It's obvious that Britain didn't do enough to kill off its Puritans. Time for another purge, I say.

  53. Ben Rosenthal
    Coat

    down with this sort of thing!

    and now that's been said, I'm off to play with my twanger.........now now, no need for rudeness, it's just my plucking instrument.

  54. The Metal Cod
    Grenade

    ASA are Suckers...

    This is the same ASA who rebuffed my complaint about one of those bloody awful "The average salary in IT is £37,000 a year" adverts claiming they had seen statistics proving otherwise.

    Gutless soulless... you know the Bill Hicks reference. The ASA is an outdated dinosaur in need of euthanasia

  55. Graham Marsden
    Coat

    Innuendo....?

    ... isn't that an Italian suppository?

  56. Spot the Cat
    Headmaster

    WTF

    are creative meal solutions? Marketing spokeswankers!

  57. trevorb43

    A hole vs B hole

    I don't know what agency did those spots, but they must have a sister agency here in the states.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmpisOn4FmE

  58. Anonymous Coward
    Flame

    Oh for fuck sake!

    So Norman from Shireboroughbury was so incensed he and his knitwear circle complained to the ASA?

    How are these people brought up? Do they go to separate schools with morality lessons or do they see career advisers who inform them, sadly of course, that the only use they could be to society would be as bespectacled moral guardians? Stupid namby-pamby closeted insecure fucks hiding behind child welfare because mummy never let them talk about their pee-pee.

    Raaarrrrrrrrrgggghhhh!!!! Etc.

  59. Anonymous Coward
    Thumb Down

    The ASA

    Is a NGO, AKA a private company that is a sop to trading standards to stop them pushing for regulation of the advertising industry.

    They are a capricious bunch of idiots who tie up legit, honest advertisers (If thats not an oxymoron) who are trying to be on the right side of the regulations, whilst being a toothless, flatulent watchdog against those who really do take the p**s

    AC- Yes because I have to check advertising copy to make sure its correct, and I've wasted months over the "True Meaning" of a single word.

    Yes they are that petty

  60. Anonymous Coward
    Coffee/keyboard

    @Steve Foster

    That was gold Steve!

    You owe me a kb.

  61. Gray M
    Stop

    Woah there ...

    @ AC Posted Wednesday 22nd July 2009 10:53 GMT

    "Most "older children" are more than passingly familiar with hardcore German porn"

    And you don't see a problem with this?

    "Have they not walked down a street and seen girls barely in puberty dressed up in Disney-inspired microskirts and crop-tops with a crowd of squawking morons surrounding them trying to cop a feel whilst they all yell about how wonderful blowjobs are?"

    And you don't think this is a problem either?!

    -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    @ imposter Posted Wednesday 22nd July 2009 14:24 GMT

    "The fact we have rampant STDs and teen pregnancy is pretty much due to the lip service we give sex education because culturally it's bad to talk about."

    And ads full of smutty innuendo is gonna help ... how? In fact I would disagree that culturally it's bad to talk about, everybody is talking about this stuff, it's always in your face whether you want it or not.

    -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    @ AC Posted Wednesday 22nd July 2009 11:39 GMT

    "And did we all grow up sniggering perverts? No. Not really."

    Um, no? Not really? Some of the comments above suggest otherwise ...

    -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Seriously, none of you see ANY problem with this? Look I agree that if I was going to complain about something I'd pick on some of the more outlandish in-your-face stuff than this, but the principle is still valid. Do we REALLY want our kids exposed to this (and the rap lyrics full of sex and violence, and the billboards advertising X-rated TV programs, and on and on)?

  62. Cheshire Cat
    FAIL

    Glad I escaped

    The more I hear, the more glad I am that I escaped to New Zealand, home of the BOFH. Why do the loonies in the UK elect these people?

    (OK, I know civil servants are not elected, but it all filters down from the top)

  63. Bill 31
    Stop

    LOL

    Wish the watchdog down here in Oz was as strict as the UK one. I'm really getting tired of the "Advanced Medical Institute" ads that are posted up around the city and played on the radio/TV. These things are NOT sutible for children

  64. passionate indifference
    Happy

    I'm with you, Bill 31

    my first morning working here in Oz was greeted with someone using an oral sex allegory as a vehicle for selling nutrient-rich, uhm, breakfast cereal. most fun my girlfriend's had on a weekday morning for a while

    surely marketing agencies are now factoring in the ASA Effect

    for my part, I was brought up in a Goon Show loving household, and as a preteen had to work out exactly what sort of a relationship Hercules Grytpipe-Thynne and Moriarty shared, as well as getting a cuff across the back of the head when I asked about Seagoon's Pink Oboe...

  65. Dillon Pyron
    WTF?

    THAT's suggestive?

    I guess the good folks at whatever the UK has to emulate (not much, I hope) our Dept. of Homeland Security have a way to prevent these fine young lads and lasses from reading el Reg, where they might have seen articles featuring model railroad figurines "doing it". In broad daylight! In a park!

    Oh yeah, if hearing the ad is bad for the kiddos, can you imagine what actually eating a hundred kilos of those sausages will do to them? (quarter kilo a week for a year = 13 kilos * 8 years and we're off to the cath lab for a couple of stents).

  66. Goat Jam
    Paris Hilton

    Good Greif

    Sausage innuendo's? Of course, these are the same people that got all hot under the collar about "where the bloody hell are you" after all.

    All this stuff looks like an Enid Blyton Bedtime Story compared to the current ads running on TV here (Oz) that are spruiking feminine hygiene products under the tag line of "Be kind to your beaver" complete with actual beavers doing cute stuff in bed and on roller skates or whatever.

    What a bunch of pansies you guys are in old blighty.

    Paris, because her beaver is in perfect working order I'm sure.

  67. Herby

    Two more words

    Girly Men

    Words taken from our esteemed governor when he refers to such things like ASA.

  68. Scott 19
    Troll

    @Gray M

    So a simply radio advert is now resposible for teens watching German Porn, STD's , Dressing up like red light works and becoming sniggering perverts. I surpose you wouldn't blame any of this on the parents though (as i'm guessing your angle is pure and innocent) and here lies the problem people like you thinking all the children need protecting from the world by banning everything.

    Nice attitude i bet your also happy that the police can arrest you for not proving your innocent went stoppped in the streets for having a camera.

    With your morality we should also ban as people have commented all Carry on films, 'allo 'allo, anything with Franky Howard in and every panto in the land.

    Or i could be just feding a troll, oh well may make him feel inportant for several seconds.

  69. Dr Patrick J R Harkin

    There have been 63 comments (as I type this)

    As a sign of support, we should post six more and then stop.

  70. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    @Scott 19 @Gray M

    I don't really care about this ruling, but Gray has some interesting points. How many people here are actually fathers (or mothers) and can speak from a position of a bit more informed knowledge?

    With respect to carry on films and 'allo 'allo etc, you know what you are getting when you sit down to watch them and the parents can make an informed decision about letting their kids watch, with an advert you can't. That's it, end of. You may want your kids to be exposed to this sort of innuendo, but rightly or wrongly not all parents do. It's not so much the content as the placing of that content.

  71. BossHog
    Boffin

    "The victorian era called"

    Did they call on their Transchronomic Phonoreverberator?

    "Root mean signal strength is down to 184 years; inform the engineer that we need more power!"

  72. Peter 42
    WTF?

    As a parent

    I have no qualms with my kids hearing stuff like this, or even seeing a tv-advertisment with some housewife stirring the boiling sausages saucily. I would draw the line at definite porn in advertisements though (total nudity, stiff appendages for example).

    Is it possible to complain about advertisements that do not include enough innuendo? They apparently received 21 complaints about too much innuendo. What if they got 50 complaints that the innuendo was too weak?

  73. Anonymous Coward
    Thumb Down

    @ Gray M, "Whoa There..."

    "@ AC Posted Wednesday 22nd July 2009 10:53 GMT

    "Most "older children" are more than passingly familiar with hardcore German porn"

    And you don't see a problem with this?

    "Have they not walked down a street and seen girls barely in puberty dressed up in Disney-inspired microskirts and crop-tops with a crowd of squawking morons surrounding them trying to cop a feel whilst they all yell about how wonderful blowjobs are?"

    And you don't think this is a problem either?!"

    I never said I don't think those are problems. In fact, I believe I was implying exactly the opposite - that those are the problems that *should* be addressed, as opposed to a radio ad with some mild innuendo, which is going to, at most, bounce off the kids we've allowed to go so far (*snigger*) without taking adequate precaustions ("fnar*)....

  74. Grease Monkey Silver badge

    Innuendo

    Back when TV was black and white and Benny Hill was still funny (yes really) he did a sketch which was a spoof documentary. In one clip Hill played an old lady school teacher talking about a badly behaved child in her class:

    Hill: "And there were the dirty songs in class."

    Interviewer: "He sings dirty songs in class?"

    Hill: "No he whistles them."

    And that's the point about innuendo. It's only dirty if you think it's dirty.

  75. Frank Bough
    WTF?

    Ermm...

    Shall I get my cock out?

  76. Gavin Bloeman

    Show us your crack!

    New Zealand's "Big FM" regularly broadcasts an advert with men singing "Show us your crack" - I think it's something to do with windscreen repairs. Makes me chuckle every time!

  77. Gray M

    @ Scott 19

    No, I didn't say that the radio ad is "responsible for teens watching German Porn, STD's , Dressing up like red light works and becoming sniggering perverts". Try re-reading ALL of the comments, including the ones I was responding to. It's called putting things in context.

    @ AC Thursday 23rd July 2009 13:53 GMT

    "In fact, I believe I was implying exactly the opposite - that those are the problems that *should* be addressed"

    Agree 100%, it just didn't come across to me that's what you were saying.

    (Hmmm ... maybe *I* should try re-reading all of the comments, and putting things in context ...)

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