So now double entendre is verboten eh.
As a prologue, in England, faggots could be (smokes but obviously not by the menu board in the article), or these:
Faggot - Never knock faggots until you have tried them! They are a traditional British delicacy. Made by many butchers, they are meatballs wrapped in a casing of intestine. Delicious! The best known commercial brand is Brains Faggots - eat them with gravy.
http://www.effingpot.com/food.shtml
then, :
Mince - In English this is ground beef (or other meat).
Right, so buddy has a sign outside his pub:
Then of course, a couple of delicate, sensitive people see it (whilst driving by no less) and are, in the popular dramatic usage of today, 'offended'.
A LANDLORD who had an anti-gay sign referring to mince and faggots outside his pub has been found guilty of a public order offence.
Adrian Taylor, 54, of the Anchor and Hope Pub in Frome Road, was fined £250 with £250 costs following a half-day trial at Chippenham magistrates' court today.
Former pub landlords and gay couple John Williams, 40, and Lee Scaife, 26, from Trowbridge, reported the sign to police on May 3, after saying it referred to them and was derogatory to gay people.
The couple saw the sign, which was a blackboard attached to a post and said, "faggots and mince not on the menu" while driving past the pub, which Taylor and his wife had just taken over.
Both told the court they were disgusted and offended' at the wording.
Taylor, who has previously run pubs in Westbury and Bath, had denied writing the sign but admitted he found it amusing'.
http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/display.var.1770002.0.landlord_guilty_over_pub_sign_slur.php
The maudlin sensitivity of people today is enough to make you barf.
I'm telling the teacher on you.
:lol:
As a prologue, in England, faggots could be (smokes but obviously not by the menu board in the article), or these:
Faggot - Never knock faggots until you have tried them! They are a traditional British delicacy. Made by many butchers, they are meatballs wrapped in a casing of intestine. Delicious! The best known commercial brand is Brains Faggots - eat them with gravy.
http://www.effingpot.com/food.shtml
then, :
Mince - In English this is ground beef (or other meat).
Right, so buddy has a sign outside his pub:
Then of course, a couple of delicate, sensitive people see it (whilst driving by no less) and are, in the popular dramatic usage of today, 'offended'.
A LANDLORD who had an anti-gay sign referring to mince and faggots outside his pub has been found guilty of a public order offence.
Adrian Taylor, 54, of the Anchor and Hope Pub in Frome Road, was fined £250 with £250 costs following a half-day trial at Chippenham magistrates' court today.
Former pub landlords and gay couple John Williams, 40, and Lee Scaife, 26, from Trowbridge, reported the sign to police on May 3, after saying it referred to them and was derogatory to gay people.
The couple saw the sign, which was a blackboard attached to a post and said, "faggots and mince not on the menu" while driving past the pub, which Taylor and his wife had just taken over.
Both told the court they were disgusted and offended' at the wording.
Taylor, who has previously run pubs in Westbury and Bath, had denied writing the sign but admitted he found it amusing'.
http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/display.var.1770002.0.landlord_guilty_over_pub_sign_slur.php
The maudlin sensitivity of people today is enough to make you barf.
I'm telling the teacher on you.
:lol: