To protect readers’ sensibilities, all the rude words were sprinkled with asterisks, although since the [Daily] Mail’s definition of “rude” extends to biological terms such as “penis”, it was a bit like gazing at an ASCII representation of a snowstorm on a ZX Spectrum circa 1983. Perhaps next week it will produce a free sheet of asterisk stickers for readers to plaster over their own genitals, lest they catch sight of them in a mirror and indignantly vomit themselves into a coma.
Charlie Brooker on the Brand-Ross incident
3 years ago