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(Daily Mail) Silly Today's outrage-causing BBC broadcast involves an electrocuted squirrel. That's just nuts   (dailymail.co.uk) divider line 46
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sirgrim [TotalFark] 2008-11-09 09:23:07 AM  
Sounds like a good name for a band.

 
Fapinator 2008-11-09 09:28:47 AM  
I'm just here to wait for the pic.

You know the one.

 
RubberFootMan 2008-11-09 09:28:49 AM  
4 complaints. Wooooo!

 
moops 2008-11-09 09:31:00 AM  
www.adairinspection.com

 
blazemongr 2008-11-09 09:31:22 AM  
At least it wasn't being licked by a giraffe.

/got nuthin'

 
Iron Chef Scottish 2008-11-09 09:35:39 AM  
RubberFootMan it's four complaints now, but just think how many can be added with the appropriate newspaper coverage. What a pile of wank.

 
Hemlock 2008-11-09 09:40:44 AM  
i19.tinypic.com
Did someone say 'nuts'?

 
The Rover 2008-11-09 09:41:25 AM  
Moops: Why do you just happen to have that picture?

 
palladiate [TotalFark] 2008-11-09 09:43:09 AM  
Iron Chef Scottish: RubberFootMan it's four complaints now, but just think how many can be added with the appropriate newspaper coverage. What a pile of wank.

Wank, maybe. But they're out to kill the BBC. However, they don't have Thatcher to appoint hostile administrators, so they have to do what they can.

Funny, if something like this was on, say, Channel Four, they'd be OK with it. You never see outrage over Sky, or their garbage, do you?

 
pinch_harmonics 2008-11-09 09:51:22 AM  
LMAO

 
ethics-gradient 2008-11-09 10:09:08 AM  
It was a grey squirrel anyway - they're vermin which means you can kill them anytime, and you should.

Daily Fail is getting to big for it's boots, needs to be taken down a peg or four. It's just a pretentious tabloid.

 
Popular_Demand 2008-11-09 10:09:22 AM  
I'm shocked. SHOCKED.

 
Hemlock 2008-11-09 10:12:13 AM  
Fapinator: I'm just here to wait for the pic.

You know the one.


I've been waiting for years.. YEARS!.. for the chance to post it.
Now I feel like a true Farker.
I can die in peace.

 
thalidomide new and improved 2008-11-09 10:14:41 AM  
farkin' S-C-O-R-E

 
skinink 2008-11-09 10:19:56 AM  

I bet the people who complained looked just like this:


mcgonnigle.files.wordpress.com


 
binnster 2008-11-09 10:26:21 AM  
Better red than dead: Bill Oddie's quip over electrocuted squirrel angers [four] BBC viewers

The Daily Mail's hate campaign against the BBC is stretching abnormally thin these days...

 
michaeld5 2008-11-09 10:27:47 AM  
Those British people, still so effing self-righteous after all these years.

weblogs.variety.com

/Probably one person complained to the BBC.

 
W6XRL4 2008-11-09 10:32:48 AM  
blazemongr: At least it wasn't being licked by a giraffe.

/got nuthin' nuttin'


FTFY

 
Huskadoodle 2008-11-09 10:40:17 AM  
Its just pining for the fjords

 
CowboyUpCowgirlDown 2008-11-09 10:41:33 AM  
I just love smoked nuts.

 
FriarReb98 [TotalFark] 2008-11-09 10:41:58 AM  
RubberFootMan: 4 complaints. Wooooo!

We all know that each complaint represents a billion viewers, so that's four billion viewers!

 
Huskadoodle 2008-11-09 10:53:58 AM  
Was it a Norwegian Blue Squirrel

 
Begoggle 2008-11-09 11:14:43 AM  
i230.photobucket.com

You know what really grinds my gears?
Electrocuted squirrels.

 
kenchie 2008-11-09 11:21:02 AM  
michaeld5: Those British people, still so effing self-righteous after all these years.


Yes, Americans would never whip themselves into a frenzy over an exposed nipple on TV or anything like that would they?!

 
HipsterHolocaust 2008-11-09 11:31:20 AM  
kenchie: Yes, Americans would never whip themselves into a frenzy over an exposed nipple on TV or anything like that would they?!
This. I'd welcome our English friends to spend a few hours watching some of our prime time dramas, if seeing a fried squirrel upsets them so. A real choice murder or two would turn them whiter than they already are. However, they are genuinely (and rightfully) puzzled by our puritanical approach to nudity and sex, given how permissive we are when it comes to the worst sort of violence.

Nipples = Won't somebody think of the children!!! Whaaargaarbl
Graphic violence = oh, that's ok. At least we're not showing nipples or using the 'f' word.

America I love you but you're bringing me down...

 
Huskadoodle 2008-11-09 11:32:19 AM  
kenchie: Yes, Americans would never whip themselves into a frenzy over an exposed nipple on TV or anything like that would they?!

It was on the level of four or so that were actually whipped in to a Frenzy.

 
hatelabs 2008-11-09 11:37:31 AM  
www.hatelabs.com

The,....the...squirrel on the TV. Wha, what's wrong with him?!

 
opiumpoopy 2008-11-09 11:49:37 AM  
ethics-gradient: It was a grey squirrel anyway - they're vermin which means you can kill them anytime, and you should.

Quite right. I understand that the current Nanny StateTM advice is to catch them in a trap, and whack them with the back of a spade.

 
Funk Brothers 2008-11-09 11:50:41 AM  
Squirrels in water skis, squirrels with nuts, and squirrels getting shocked. Sounds like the squirrels are plotting to take over the world in 2012 according to the Mayans.

We need to prepare for our squirrel overlords.

 
spukey23 2008-11-09 12:01:44 PM  
squirrel please

 
moops 2008-11-09 12:08:21 PM  
The Rover: Moops: Why do you just happen to have that picture?

GISed for "electrocuted squirrel."

 
scare-crow 2008-11-09 12:21:54 PM  
www.createbrand.ru

One of the children from the article.

/Not pictured: Older brother in inflatable cage.

 
Epossumondas [recently expired TotalFark] 2008-11-09 01:09:04 PM  
moops: The Rover: Moops: Why do you just happen to have that picture?

GISed for "electrocuted squirrel."


Damn. I was hoping for a better story than that.

Make one up?

 
lotustuned 2008-11-09 01:09:57 PM  
HipsterHolocaust: kenchie: Yes, Americans would never whip themselves into a frenzy over an exposed nipple on TV or anything like that would they?!
This. I'd welcome our English friends to spend a few hours watching some of our prime time dramas, if seeing a fried squirrel upsets them so. A real choice murder or two would turn them whiter than they already are. However, they are genuinely (and rightfully) puzzled by our puritanical approach to nudity and sex, given how permissive we are when it comes to the worst sort of violence.

Nipples = Won't somebody think of the children!!! Whaaargaarbl
Graphic violence = oh, that's ok. At least we're not showing nipples or using the 'f' word.

America I love you but you're bringing me down...



Hehe, TV in the UK is atleast as violent as the US probably more so. The problem here, as with all people whining about death or violence on TV comes from people with children.

 
AliasUndercover 2008-11-09 01:21:33 PM  
I, for one, wouldn't mind seeing the occasional nipple on CSI.

 
One Thirty-two and Bush 2008-11-09 01:52:30 PM  
i533.photobucket.com

Electrocuted squirrel? So now there's more food available? Sweet!

 
Laz Long [TotalFark] 2008-11-09 01:54:09 PM  
Good enough excuse to link one of my favorite videos... Squirrel Launcher ^

 
Mr Squirrel 2008-11-09 02:32:37 PM  
farm4.static.flickr.com
From the US Army Survival Manual FM 21-76, p. 7-27

 
Cup_O_Jo 2008-11-09 03:46:27 PM  
Suicide Squirrels. When will they stop?
They are going to win the war aren't they?

 
simpsonfan 2008-11-09 06:00:38 PM  
They're just rats wi8th fluffy tails.

 
biggusJmanus 2008-11-09 10:04:40 PM  
Little f*cker deserved it. First they chew your wires. Then they subvert your poodle. Next, they steal your beer.

i154.photobucket.com

/electrocution is too good for the likes of them

 
christinep 2008-11-09 10:18:41 PM  
Goodie goodie yum yum

 
spukey23 2008-11-09 11:00:29 PM  
squirrels are just rats with good pr

 
Scaryduck 2008-11-10 04:50:14 AM  
Never mind that. Kate Humble, people.

i2.photobucket.com

The UK's new, not-mental-at-all posh totty.

 
Lemmy's Warts 2008-11-10 05:13:19 AM  
Scaryduck: Never mind that. Kate Humble, people.



The UK's new, not-mental-at-all posh totty.


Twice.

 
superm401 2008-11-11 09:00:18 PM  
Why did they have to show the squirrel? They could just have shown the electric cable where it had been bitten through

It's a wildlife show, not an electric cable show.
/duh

 
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