Offended Yet?

Die, spider

As part of the meeting during which I was politely asked to get this site off Wolverhampton University's server, 'the quicker the better', someone made a comment. Well, there were lots of comments - 'shocked and appalled' was a very popular phrase, for example - but one in particular completely knocked me off my stride. It went something like this, 'I found [your site] deeply offensive - and not just to me personally but also, I'm sure, to many, many different groups and communities'. Now, while being strongly of the opinion that 'not offending anyone' isn't necessarily A Good Thing, I've never thought of this site a remotely offensive. It's a gentle, calming thing - serene, even. I keep my sinister, dark side in the offices of The Weekly, where it belongs. But, I'm a democrat, so I've decided to put it to you, good people of the internet.

So - are you are outraged and disgusted or lulled and warmed by this site? Or anything in between? Also, and this is very important, be sure to tell me which group or community you (or feel you) chiefly belong to. For example "Your site made me feel nauseous and physically dirty. I am Welsh." or "I was pleased and charmed by your site as it never took the easy, lazy route of making fun of people who have big ears. I am part of the community of people with huge, stupid, flappy ears - like vast, fleshy plates or something." Would you please be so glorious as to email your verdict here,

Thank you.



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Random Selection of Replies

Name

Offended?

Alliance

Comment (may be quoted out of context)

MC

 No

An unshaven-armpitted American Jewess

Laughed with husband the first time.

NOP

 No

Er, she's a Texan. That's it.

But doesn't like paintball geeks. (I think she must mean you, Sarah.)

TN

 No

A white, Anglo-Saxon, heterosexual, middle-aged, middle class, able-bodied man from the south of England, with a public school and university education.

Get a haircut.

KT

 No

She's an 'American high-tech worker, living in sin with my partner of several years' type.

Rather, amused and pleased.

DF

 No

American College Student

Pleasantly surprised.

IB

 No

Secret Agents

Our pallid, sweaty ankles, we cannot help.

EP

 No

Bird: short-ish, blonde-ish, left-ish.

Not for the purpose of getting laid.

MW

 No

Caucasian male American of German and Jewish descent

I do all the cooking.

KF

No

A left-wing, liberal (redundant), hippie flesh-kneader.

As you would an oyster.

JN

No

Thirty-something Australian female lawyer with no favourite spice girl at all.

I'm in a highly offendable category.

JM
No
I'm a woman, raised American in the USA by two Welsh parents Found the site
TF
No - aroused
Women who would like to have sex with your girlfriend You gonna put that up, or what?
JS
No
I just don't know what group I represent Squeeze actually and seriously.
RG
No
I'm a bird from the UK, living in Berlin Bit really
JD
No
I am a Polish-American (somewhat lapsed) Christian woman transplanted to Brierley Hill My ass off at everything.

JL

No

I'm an American woman.

I don't even pretend to be working.

TC
No
Slacker Yank - lately turned Anglophile while dating Brit Chick. Limey women as frigid? They are WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!!!
JD
No
Old Man from Salem I retch at the sight of even the box
KM
No
Irish-Scottish-Native American(Cherokee)-American living in Germany Living in beer
EJM
No
Scots-Irish Canadian-American, blond, heterosexual woman. Ever get this far into it.
BM
No
Typical resident of Venice Beach in California. Come here, you'd like it.
AD
No
A Scottish laird or something, probably. Makes me oh.
TF
Yes
Short, fat, bald men over 50 who can't get any. Living with my elderly Mother and her cat.
MW
Yes
Wildly heterosexual My hair gets all frizzy in the rain
DM
No
Texan Got a bunch here.
LM
No
Young, white, outback living Aussie. Why dont you have any nude photos of overstuffed polar bears?
MC
Yes
Catholic Pouring of dark bile from people's heads
AP
No
A white protestant in N Ireland Have enormously huge bottoms
M
No
Women-with-PMS-surfing-the-internet-before-going-to-sleep Anyone has the potential
JC
No
German. Heathen. Student. I find Julia Roberts and Oprah equally appalling
KJ
No
One eighth Lapplander. Really, really stupid.
JC
No
Northeast American female contractor Willing to wax.
AB
Yes
Unspecified Starting with "offence".
PM
No
Polyamourite You'll endanger your keyboard.
DM
No
German-Norwegian decent Canadian Forest Workers with average sized penises that enjoy Chocolate Milk, Internet porn and Ponytails Aroused and violated.
MA
No
I love cheese Those frigging Yankees.
AB
No
24 year old student guy from beautiful Rotterdam having fun in life. Greetings from The Netherlands.
EA
No
Bisexual American who thinks Margret is really cute. Men are easier to date than women.
EH
Yes
American I can spell colour, so does that help?
MP
No
Gun fetishist Crack open another bottle of Pinch,Milo.
E
No
An American mathematician who owns pet mice. As trying as your girlfriend.
RM
No
Dutch, 23-year-old, male computer-programmer-slash-artist. I find your use of language quite pleasant.
GS
No
New Zealand male living in London. I have naked pictures of her.
NA
No
Female American geek living in the Netherlands. Not the most difficult person in the world to live with.
TE
No
European. Live in a third.
PA
No
Canadian woman. Fan and I will be sure to.
S
No
Scottish. Banging drums outside the windows of foreigners.
WAL
Yes
Fat male mysogynistic computer geek. (Now that's a rarity, eh kids?) Female on the planet.
TS
No
English, married (no children), spend most of day laughing at american colleagues. I managed to waste plenty.
DDN
No
Filipino-American IT-poseur. You ARE Margret.
AT
No
1/8 Maltese, enjoys blood sports, all-girl boarding school. In face, most impressed.
SL
No
White Hetro Male. Didn't get all the way through you.
C
No
American female single mom. Pity.
LB
No
Armpit shaving female. Margret getting her own.
MD
No
Human male. You obviously feel strongly.
LC
No
American female computer geek. Nearly as traumatic as life with you
SS
No
American male. I don't know what.
JC
No
Sicilian/Welsh/Scots/French Vinlander, Moorish Asatruar, Anarchist, Married, NRA member, RPGeek, Comichead I need to know about life.
PE
No
30 years married in middle England. I undertake.
MV
No
Fetishistic Society Of Dark Haired Green Eyed Cat-like Vixens; Northern American Division. Utterly traumatized by the lack.
RHY
No
Caucasian female American engineer. After 6 years of "living in sin".
TJ
No
Doesn't know. Little white round ball with no bridge.
J
No
People who like to slack at work. My co-workers so they could enjoy it too.
KJW
No
Half English, half German woman. Made my parents seem almost normal.
RB
No
Heading-for-thirty-something male. Thought the site fair enough.
AC
No
A ninja. To a rather delicious colour.
TAM
No
Caucasian US male. I'll tell you the best way to make sure I don't do it to you.
PK
No
Citizen of the world. Stop those people now.
AG
No
Quivering inadequate hopeless male. Iit was the middle of Toxteth.
MB
No
Boy on safari for several years amongst the Demon Mormos of Utah Terrirtory. State-sponsored pornography.
JJ
No
American female. Unfortunately, I feel terrible.
JR
No
Male heterosexual anglo-saxon of independent means. Probably not very surprising.
M
No
Mad loony women. It has given me lots of ideas.
TM
No
Men who look gay. Everything else is fine though.
DH
No
Bear. With dogs in head.
KD
No
I'm a short(ish) Northerner with truly bad hair. For posterity.
EK
No
Jewish American teenage girl. I love british people! You're all so damn funny!
CK
No
Sons of English fathers and German mothers. Don't worry boys.
JM
No
A woman; of Irish-American descent. Likes to leave the toilet.
RC
No
Recovering ex-Midlander, male, usually drunk. Just wondered.
DT
No
English, living in Niedersachsen with my German partner. Especially on the toilet seat.
RH
No
Your basic straight white English male. As if I needed a new reason.
SP
No
Man Reproduced the lingerie.
YD
No
White male heterosexual cyberpunk freak. Up in the end.
TF
No
Office. We live in Norfolk.
LAL
No
Wiccan Discordian Universalist Hippigoth Gamer-geek freakazoid young lady, of half Russian-Jewish and mixed British/Irish/Scottish ancestry. It made me feel intensely.
TI
No
2nd Year Maths Undergraduate. Should.
JW
No
Mancunian Student. Congratulations.
JI
No
Masochist. I'm speaking utterly non-sexually here.
CG
No
From Cape Town, but live in London. I thought.
DR
No
Over-educated and under-employable. Even if it is propping up.
VT
No
American. Female. Bisexual. Pagan. Polyamorous. Quite enjoy BDSM. If only they knew what I do on my weekends off.
JF
No
Married American urban male. She is a married American urban female of the worst type.
AR
No
I am a red-headed American woman, 35 years old. I have rolled on the floor.
JJ
No
Boer. I'm what they tend.
EM
No
Just-turned-30, long-haired, scarred, tattooed, smiley happy biker. Officials to hand.
ML
No
American. A vacuum nozzle shoved where the sun doesn't shine.
W
No
White male middle-class hunting shooting Jaguar owner. Took me like that.
LHS
No
I'm an educated, employed, married-to-the-mother-of-my-two-children, heterosexual, slightly overweight caucasian male of Austrian descent. I fall.
SK
No
American. Sex must be awfully good.
ML
No
White German left wing expat in London. I need the free advertisment.
BC
No
Middle-aged Texans that can play several woodwind instruments. I'm BC.
BS
No
Macintosh Programmer. My wife!
K
No
24yr old female of Hungarian/Canadian descent. I stumbled.
SG
No
American Diversity Awareness Manager. Underwear on too tight.
DW
NO
White, Brit., in Tokyo. She really doesn't mind.
JG
No
English/Irish/Scottish/Danish Australian. Beige. Female. Low-income, semi-employed student. Non-American. Nymph. If you find out where they live, I'll be happy to help.
DKF
No
Wiccans for Christ who believe in Budda. Sort of turned on.
GW
No
American Female. I most certainly didn't.
SF
No
American university student of German-Italian descent. You can't hope to offend me.
LH
No
Special. I feel the need.
PMN
No
British, male, approaching 40. My life has gained new worth.
BB
No
The local chapter. Flush twice please.
RO
No
A lawyer. I'm a lawyer.
CS
No
Scottish pinko liberal student. Sorry I'm ill.
SP
No
Rabid red-necked gun owners. Live somewhere in the desert.
AP
No
Liberal American student. I'm for.
EK
No
I am an official groupie of Seth Cohen. I belong.
RB
No
Goths. If only.
AA
No
Mexican male of Barbados descent. que?
TM
No
Lecturer in IT. Doing my DDs
SH
No
I am a fat scientist. I was reduced.
ATE
No
American. Is anyone smart enough.
MA
No
White European with an Italian American fetish. Poor man.
T
No
Very English Bloke We don`t talk about that.
CD
No
Laughing telecommunications worker. Off all morning.
PB
No
UK male. I'll give you that one.
DC
No
Pseudo normal. Look away I see Green.
AE
No
Not marked up. And news.
M
No
23-year-old girl from London. It made me.
JF
No
I'm Canadian. So hard.
DW
No
Non-standard Texan. You have warmed the cockles.
NB
No
Layabout almost student I would've looked rather stupid eh?
IA
No
American Wasting energy trying.
TL
No
Jamaican-English-Canadian-Scottish male. I also enjoy eating.
JW
No
Loyal UT gaming fanatic. Come.
VX
No
Some bloke. By the violent shades.
EO
No
24-year-old Catholic-born & raised Filipina. I haven't seen you naked.
DS
No
21 year old white British male from the "alternative scene". I can.
RW
No
Welsh git who can't read a word of English. Floating.
MD
No
Dirty otter I have similar fetishes.
MD
No
Email-less friend of a dirty otter. My bollocks finally dropped.
SJ
Um.
Chicken trainer. No, it doesn't
EM
No
Kinky White Male. Wish.
RS
No
American. Anything except the chilling.
MRA
No
Single English Bloke. Look like Mother Theresa.
JM
No
Irish. Decidely.
E
No
Peculiar Goth of Celtic Ancestry. Irritates the living.
MG
No
Some other bloke. Therapeutic.
EB
No
German female in English exile. English boyfriend is relieved.
JK
No
American woman. I am.
GB
No
Green-eyed, American-female who writes fantasy novels. Thinks Mike Barbero.
JSC
No
Californian surfer. Getting older and thinking of getting a tattoo to prove my youth.
B
No
Editor of Mortuary Science Magazine. Had a nice time.
SA
No
Tree-hugging, feminist, bisexual Witch. It's fucking.
HS
No
Not a whiny activist git. Bunch.
EL
No
People who are really, seriously difficult to offend in general. Carbonation does horrible things to my digestion.
E
No
Dutch The same queen and a penchant for scones and cream.
WV
Yes
A big fan of the French actor Jacques Tati. My mate's just married one.
AB
Yes
A man. Lack of small mammals.
JW
No
American. I felt your site.
SD
No
Irish. The self righteous horse.
C
No
American desert hellhole dweller. My boyfriend and I are beat.
TQ
No
Irish female college graduate. On her hands.
DR
Yes
White trailer park trash UK style. Nakedness.
CT
No
Canadian. I am part of the community.
M
No
American. The state of Florida should be set adrift for the stupidity of the people that live there.
AM
No
Irish/Englishman. Happily attached to a woman at least.
BL
No
American. Your unhappiness has raised my spirits.
MBB
No
Guy dressed in home-made pikachu costume. Where are the free teens?
DS
No
Yank living in Australia. But unfortunately, I am unable.
BR
No
47-year-old feminist. You are kidding?
DE
No
English-speaking seventh-generation Canadian male I am made calm.
J
No
White Anglo-Saxon' with a dash of Danish I couldn't find anywhere that showed.
H
No
I am a 16-yearr-old white, middleclass, girl living in affluent West London. Comprehensive.
RS
No
British of English-Irish origin. Thanks for a Sunday afternoon.
KP
No
Canadian So far I think.
IG
No
Pink Irish girl. Like a walk in the park.
RS
No
Bloody typical pedantic, Northern, annoying working-class bigot. Amused and, oddly.
BR
No
Comic book artist. Tighter than Dennis Hopper.
AG
No
North londoner and white. Bag old bat.
JS
No
Local #23 Drive vans.
MM
No
White, American woman. Girls with no teeth.
CR
No
Femininely abused young white American. I honestly have no idea why I'm emailing you.
JH
No
White, heterosexual male. Everything.
PK
No
Thin, relatively educated, computer freak. Fat, lazy poultry faeces
CK
No
I am English, white a male under 35. My girlfriend's collection of stupid stuffed toys.
JL
No
Bloke. Turn their own lack of a sense of humour into some kind of moral stance.
MK
No
Some other bloke Keep making me.
MW
No
German. BFBS
AA
No
Unshaven, pagan, gamer housewife and mother from the US. Lava soap and steel wool.
JH
No
Black Chicagoan living in (much) sin with a sexy, white Chicagoan Breed romantically.
JL
No
Asian-American woman married to German/French/Native American/Scottish American man living in Boston. Passed on to me and my husband.
MW
No
Male Holy Warrior Against the Anathema that is France. Entrancing breath.
RC
No
American. Um, yeah.
NB
No
Ex-pat British woman in New Zealand I found myself in gales.
SA
Yes
Women who are so "insane" that they see justification in most of your girlfriend's actions. Your purpose is to worship her.
ND
No
Fat. Maybe it is because of the lavatory bleach.
OS
No
I represent the people of the Earth. Smart ones.
RR
No
I am a dangerously sociopathic alien telepathic force bent on the destruction of humanity. I am also Canadian.
E
No
Male, (very) white, Anglo-Saxon (Welsh and English ancestry, mostly), middle-class, evangelical Christian Just in case you were curious.
JW
No
Computer game bloke. Bendy trousers.
F
No
Australian teenage male. Want you.
CA
No
Woman Slightly above scrutinizing.
TLF
No
Family. Fat, freckly, female face.
SC
No
American. Vile rotting man guts.
JW
No
Member of vast, right-wing conspiracy. American. For at least a couple of hours (a personal record).
JF
No
18-45 In the following.
R
No
American teenage girl. A horrible infestation of Japanese beetles.
J
No
White, lower middle-class, Californian slacker. I like pudding.
BB
No
36 year-old transgendered F-to-M writer. I've had the pleasure.
PRG
No
Bored computer geek. You don't want to use one of my spares.
PB
No
Drain on phone company profits. Look weak and insipid.
AL
No
Texan woman. If the state of Wisconsin was nuked.
PR
No
Asshole American Blame Canada.
O
No
Geeky American. I love to admit.
AK
No
Australians living in Canada. Quite definitely in the toilet.
C
No
Short, round, curly-haired, bi-sexual pagan. How many can I?
HS
No
New Zealand woman (secretly Welsh). Streaming down your face.
T
No
Italian American living in New York. I liken it to a river.
MS & JR
No
Thinks stupid, cynical abuse and hatred is amusing. I am a member of the community.
NM
No
A young, liberal, college-educated, minority queer woman. The only harm your site has brought me to is a very slight burn.
HW
No
America WASP. American who feels.
JG
No
Welsh granny. It's all the same in a hundred years.
NS
No
IT Graduate working for an investment bank. Surely they could build ONE.
MR
No
German. Exactly the same way your girlfriend does.
JZ
No
Married UK male. Shortly before it blew 12 litres of oil across the road and seized.
USB
No
White, Anglo-Saxon male. I can't possibly be offended, legally.
BJ
No
A nurse of twenty-five with pierced nipples. Once shocked they spew forth.
ST
No
Mississippian To be exact.
WC
No
30/w/m/detroit Dirty
NW
No
Not Welsh. Any form of unauthorised reproduction.
DJ
No
23-year-old, white, male PhD student with two mums. Illustrating strange parallels.
JG
No
Atheist Libertarian who lives in the U.S. Something I've never had the fortune to experience.
MS
No
Grouse Aussie bloke. Cracker.
RL
No
Barely-post-PMS Margret sympathizer. I'm not psychotic most of the time.
KF
No
Roman Catholic-role-playing-rennie/reinactor-otaku fanatic-educated at a woman's college-Libertarian-butter hating-European Americaness Everyone else should sod off and mind their own business.
TN
No
Dutch transplant to America. Beer drinking former paintball nut. YES.
DFP
No
Japanese-Irish-German Californian. Not by your site, but by my husband.
JJ
No
Norwegian, male and in-between relationships. You uhm... are human.
M L-F
No
English male, early thirties a London NW-something now married to a Schwabian, working in Bavaria, living in Salzburg. Of Christian persuasion. Filmed pants.
PG
No
English, male, thirty three, shaven headed. I really should have been working.
JO
No
Meeja hoor Sexfish.
M
No
New Zealander I thought the title was a link and tried to click on it.
RS
No
Primarily visual man. You can forward any you get.
NW
No
White British from near Wolverhampton. Making it red and swollen. Lovely eh?
R
No
Middle-class Americana Stiff and destitute.
MM
No
Typical ex-Brummie Anglo-Danish-Israeli bloke about to marry an Indonesian. Or a sheet of Perspex. Who knows?
RV
No
I am a female student of the world. I feel strangely.
S
No
Female, white, a total mixture of European origins, a bit strange, Graduate, moderate feminist. Sorry if you find that scary.
SS
No
I am the Margret in my relationship. (Out loud, on the tube) for about two months.
ML
No
Woman. Myself and the entire office.
SG
No
Tidy, heterosexual male. Leave me wildly.
AM
No
American. So hard.
JS
No
White American male heterosexual. This is a classic statistical error.
PN
No
27-year-old Welshman. Have you any idea why phonetic is spelled with a 'ph'?
G
No
Pagan. I cried.
KG
No
27 year old woman living in NJ. Torture kittens on the net.
K
No
Canadian living in America. Enough said.
K
No
Blond American. Ditched an American.
SA
No
No organisational ties. I personally have no problem.
JR
No
I'm an american male, slightly geeky, slightly round. I'm trying, but it's not working.
JP
No
I am Welsh. I felt nauseous and physically dirty BEFORE reading your site due to the fact that I am Welsh and dirty is what we do best.
DE
No
22-year-old, bisexual American. You also suck and so does the site.
NF
No
Female, white, irish, catholic upbringing [now aethiest], vegetarian, arty new media type. Exceedingly serene.
MC
No
American in the state of Michigan. Keep up the good work.
FH
No
Person who just makes if difficult for everybody. Yeuch, how could you?
D
No
Thirty-something, female professional. Frankly moist.
M
No
American No.
MG
No
Vegan anarchist with reasonably big feet. The least offensive thing in Christendom.
V
No
Single, male, Quake-playing, good-looking German. Err, man.
JDM
No
British, mobile-phone-owning bloke. In particular you should be congratulated on upholding the great.
CK
No
Carpenter and Film Critic. She's a woman, right?
DZ
No
Typical Australian male. On his hands.
JB
No
America male heathen of Norwegian / Irish / English descent. Giggling in my cubicle.
PH
No
British Bloke. Have spread.
R
No
Damned war-mongering American. The rest of the world calls.
HP
No
Helper monkeys. What you guys need is more corn.
N
No
Redneck from Alabama. Alabama jails funny.
KS
No
Caucasion/American Indian - American Joke them if they can't take a fuck.
L G-M
No
Housewife, mother of three sons, Jewish, a native Californian. Marion "Bitch Set Me Up" Barry.
Z
No
I represent Americans fro 13 years of age to 103 years of age. Warmed this site.
ER
No
23 year old mostly white (1/2 Mexican Indian) female. Boy toddler terror.
LC
No
Brit tied to a German lad. My mother locked herself in the cupboard.
KS
No
21-year-old, broke, college students in Toronto. Have illicit sex with females.
C
No
20something-linux-users-web-surfing-on-a-Saturday-night-nerds-of-America. I used to go out on Saturday nights.
MG
Yes
Wyoming resident. People have got the wrong idea about us!
I
No
Native American with Welsh/German wife. It makes me feel.
B
No
Thirty-something married man.with children. Blah blah blah, whatever.
FRW
No
American. More of this sarcasm stuff.
D
No
Australian woman. It's long.
HH
No
Scots-Irish American female. Your site has convinced me to try the armpit thing.
R
No
American woman. Need to overcome.
AT
No
From Seattle. It's about time somebody stepped up.
SH
No
American woman, aged 46, mother of 4. Stop doing that.
H & J
No
American Southernbelle turned transplanted Yankee aspiring business woman & anti-college sex and music are life Rock Star With anyone long enough.
DV
No
I am Australian. An expert judge.
BM
No
30-something, white male from NY. Some twist of irony.
AP
No
Drop-out kid. I had a migraine on the second day.
BN
No
From Minnesota. Spit milk out my nose.
RD
No
Gay, pagan, thirty-something Americans with a penchant for leather chaps and doilies. I took turns.
B
No
An American who does not live in California. You are doing the world.
ES
No
Psychotic, obsessive compulsive girlfriends group. I can't spell.
JR
No
I am a vegan lesbian NZer from a broken home, with huge boobs and no guarantee of lifelong employment Behind my IMac silently shaking.
JA
No
Female, English, 29, heterosexual, single. Care mate.
SI
No
Athiest, white, Australian canine owning/loving, vegetarian, single, non-violent, female Myself, you may feel free.
S
No
Welsh woman. Margret is a God.
BC
No
American Proud.
TB
No
Deeply and irrevocably American. Electronic musician freaks.
DF
No
Irish Jew. Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000
BM
No
Canadian White Male between the ages of 24-30. Form at your page.
JDP
No
A man, an American, and a Mormon. Strange world.
AD
No
White, mid-20's male and ex-Uni of Wolverhampton student. Psycho for the rest of us.
G
No
I'm a Paddy. Downs delight me.
D
No
The insane people of America. Are you trying to kill me?
P & Wife
No
English and part-German. Well no, we can't really.
N
Yes
Single, white, dumpy, neurotic, canadian male. Holy nun raping shit.
JA
No
I am a Wide Area/Local Area Network Administrator, Conservative Republican from California USA. I am 29 years old and make $30K (US) per year. Deep snorting style.

 

Except not.

I've had the Offended Yet? page up for quite a while and it's become rather heavy and unweildy now. Like, say, a glove with a kettle nailed to it. It seems a good time, therefore, to let it retire. That's to say, I'll leave it up, but not add to it further - feel free to email me with your offendedness and community status if you wish (you can do so by adding together these two things: TinCansAndString, and, adjacent to this alias, the second part of the address, which is @blueyonder.co.uk), it'll just be between us, though, I won't add it to the page.

So. Um. Thanks for everything.

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