At the time of writing, Pat Condell’s website at has been taken offline by Homestead with the message:”Sorry, the site you requested has been disabled” , not “exceeded bandwidth” or anything like that.Update! Don’t worry - I went up to Mount Sensible, and I saw a bespectacled wise man who passed me a couple of tablets and said

“Lo! For I am simply changing my host and not to worry about it”. 

So there you go. No conspiracy. Got me worried though!Also, some Youtube users are reducing Pat’s viewcount and popularity by stealing his content, worst offender being janelite007 I’ve already left a message on this person’s channel. Please do the same.Also, can everyone please send the following message to Youtube.

Hi - theYoutube user patcondell is having his videos stolen by the user janelite007Eg., this video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxbYBIlT6VEIs identical to this original video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3_qelW5qp4I feel this violates policy and users should be redirected to v=W3_qelW5qp4 and the views transferred. 

Talking of Freedom of Speech(or lack of it)http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7326476.stm

Comedian and writer Ben Elton has said the BBC is too “scared” to broadcast jokes about Muslims for fear of provoking radical Islamists.Elton, in an interview with Christian magazine Third Way, added that the broadcaster would “let vicar gags pass but would not let imam gags pass”.He said fear rather than “moral sensibilities” fuelled decisions about what material was appropriate.

So here’s a video:

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I was watching the 2005 Johnny Depp remake of Charlie and the Chocolate factory.

Conversation with girlfriend went along the lines of “I bet in some dark corner of teh interwebs, some sad lonely fucker has blogged about  Augustus Gloop’s portrayal being fattist/racist/somethingist”.

So I had a look the next morning, and I didn’t find that, I found even better!

http://www.typebrighter.com/2005/11/charlie-and-chocolate-factory-fraught.html

The blog author has written a fantastic piss-take, along the lines of Maddox’ “Unfastened Coins” video. And the commenters have taken the bait!

For example:

Early on in the film a story is told about how Willy Wonka goes to India to build a palace made completely out of Chocolate for an Indian Prince. Well it gets really hot and the palace starts to melt and the first drop of melted chocolate lands directly on the Indians forehead. I think the stereotype implications are clear. By all indications the so called “Oompa Loompa’s” are in fact African Pygmies. Additionally it is clear that Wonka doesn’t even regard them as real people. After he is done explaining that the “Oompa Loompas” do all the work in the factory he catches the fat kid eating out of the river of chocolate and says “Hey little boy my chocolate must be untouched by human hands”. Well we know that the factory workers must handle the chocolate. He’s basically saying they aren’t human.

Genius! And so a commenter has written

This movies racial overtones were so obvious that one has to be blind or stupid to miss it. To say that this is just a movie, enjoy it, just a childrens story, blah, blah, blah…. misses the entire point. it teaches kids that “black” people are; stupid, cheap labor, simple, not really human, primitive and less than “white” people. It also supports and justifies European colonial history and teaches kids that it was okay.

It makes a hilarious read, but at the same time, a little sad. Throw a bone at an idiot and he’ll come barking…

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Of course, it’s not offensive to anyone. The thing that IS offensive is this:

A story based on the Three Little Pigs fairy tale has been turned by a government agency’s awards panel as the subject matter could offend Muslims.

The digital book, re-telling the classic story, was rejected by judges who warned that “the use of pigs raises cultural issues”.

It’s almost as if the ruling of Becta was designed to set people against each other. I wrote and asked them about this phrase, and they pointed me to a wishy-washy press release, which didn’t answer the question at all.

Anyway, follow the comments on the PM blog - from which I found the following gem (credit to mittfh, not me)

Other candidates for censorship:
Cinderella - because her aesthetically challenged sisters are portrayed in a negative light.

Snow White - because her vertically challenged housemates do all the work.

Rumpelstiltskin - portrays vertically challenged people in a negative light.

Jack and the Beanstalk - where do we start? A cow, a thief, GM beans, a GM goose, and a cannibalistic tall person!

Sleeping Beauty - a narcoleptic, an “evil” elderley person, and a heterosexual “Love at first sight” match is soooo last century!

Hansel and Gretel - work it out for yourself…

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Pat Condell is back in his best video yet - the man is on fire!

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According to http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/7037803.stm

A Catholic worker at Manchester Airport was suspended after hanging an image of Jesus on a staff room wall.

Gareth Langmead, 40, was sent home from his job as a car parks supervisor after a complaint from a Muslim colleague.

He was off work for three days while an investigation was carried out and later reinstated with a clean record.

http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1&secti…
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comm…
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news…

Pat Condell has something to say about it!

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