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Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...

Last post by The Brain - Today at 05:17:02 AM

Andrew has been arrested

For false St Cuthbert claims?

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Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...

Last post by garbon - Today at 05:16:35 AM

He was originally buried on Holy Island, but disinterred after the viking raids started and went on a bit of a wander round NE England ending up in Durham Cathedral.

I think she may just have mangled her tenses. It would be very odd for someone in her job not to know where Cuthbert was buried.

Very odd looking fossil btw.

Yeah the odd fossil drew me in when I read it this morning in bed, the misleading quote woke me up.

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Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...

Last post by garbon - Today at 05:15:44 AM

Andrew has been arrested

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Gaming HQ / Re: The Miscellaneous PC & vid...

Last post by The Brain - Today at 04:23:00 AM

Anal exams aren't obviously sexual acts in normal countries

I hope in Sweden that they are at least performed consensually without an aim to cause pain.

Depends. You probably want to avoid those cheap fly-by-night basement anal exam clinics.

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Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...

Last post by Richard Hakluyt - Today at 03:57:02 AM

He was originally buried on Holy Island, but disinterred after the viking raids started and went on a bit of a wander round NE England ending up in Durham Cathedral.

I think she may just have mangled her tenses. It would be very odd for someone in her job not to know where Cuthbert was buried.

Very odd looking fossil btw.

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Gaming HQ / Re: The Miscellaneous PC & vid...

Last post by garbon - Today at 03:55:56 AM

Anal exams aren't obviously sexual acts in normal countries

I hope in Sweden that they are at least performed consensually without an aim to cause pain.

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Gaming HQ / Re: The Miscellaneous PC & vid...

Last post by The Brain - Today at 03:52:01 AM

Anal exams aren't obviously sexual acts in normal countries, but I get that this is . Trivializing violence should be enough.

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Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Norgy - Today at 03:39:29 AM

We're not great readers anymore in Norway. Mostly, Norwegians read Clungia O'Mahpussy's "Dry Months, Wet Nights" rather than something informative.

Spoiler for O'Mahpussy's latest: If you can't find the clit, say you are a Christian and ban abortions.

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Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...

Last post by The Brain - Today at 03:38:53 AM

Vikings weren't that depraved.

[Call of Duty advert banned for trivialising sexual violence]

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Gaming HQ / Re: The Miscellaneous PC & vid...

Last post by garbon - Today at 03:35:22 AM

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czd831elpz5o

Call of Duty advert banned for trivialising sexual violence

An advert for a Call of Duty game has been banned by the UK's advertising regulator for trivialising sexual violence.

The commercial for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 featured fake officers at an airport security check - as the real ones were too busy playing the game.

Viewers complained the video, which included a man being told to strip down while an officer put on gloves and said "time for the puppet show", was "irresponsible and offensive".

Gaming company Activision Blizzard UK Ltd said the ad promoted the 18-rated video game and was therefore targeted at adult audiences only, who had a higher tolerance for irreverent or exaggerated humour.

The spot ran on YouTube and video on demand services, including ITV and Channel 5, in November 2025.

It was one of several used to promote the latest game in the Call of Duty series.

The campaign featured the idea that replacements had to step into different job roles, because the original staff were playing Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 instead.

The ad in question featured an airport security setting, with one actor explaining they were the "replacers".

A man was then told he had been randomly selected "to be manhandled" before being told to remove his clothes down to "everything but the shoes", while the female officer put on a pair of gloves.

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) received complaints from nine viewers who believed the ad trivialised sexual violence.

Activision Blizzard UK Ltd said the ad had been reviewed by Clearcast, which provides pre-clearance of TV advertising, and had been approved with an "ex-kids" timing restriction.

It added it was not broadcast during or around children's programming or content likely to appeal to under-16s.

The company claimed it depicted a deliberately implausible, parodic scenario that bore no resemblance to real airport security procedures.

According to the firm, the ad in question did not sexualise the act of performing searches - and that the humour referred to discomfort rather than sex.

It added that even if some viewers inferred innuendo, it did not contain explicit content or objectifying imagery.

'Irresponsible and offensive'
The ASA said the story included a non-consensual, invasive search of a man passing through airport security.

However, it acknowledged the video did not include explicit imagery and the man remained clothed for its duration.

But the watchdog noted the humour was "generated by the humiliation and implied threat of painful, non-consensual penetration of the man".

The ASA concluded that the advert trivialised sexual violence and was therefore irresponsible and offensive.

It therefore ruled the ad must not appear again in its current form.

Two further complainants also questioned whether the ad encouraged or condoned drug use, due to a scene where the replacement officers picked up a prescription medication container and winked.

This complaint was not upheld by the ASA.

It is not the first time an advert for the video game series has been banned.

In 2012 an advert for Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 which showed armed men firing at a lorry was given a daytime ban by the ASA for scenes of violence and destruction which were "inappropriate" for young children.