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Ads for 'My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding' prompt complaints
The slogan “Bigger. Fatter. Gypsier” – used in Channel 4′s billboard campaign for the new series of the show – has been criticised as offensive and racist.
THE UK’S ADVERTISING watchdog has received almost 100 complaints over the latest ad campaign by Channel 4 to promote the newest series of the popular documentary series, My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding.
The billboard campaign, which features the slogan “Bigger. Fat. Gypsier”, printed over images of Travellers led the London Gypsy and Traveller Unit, as well as two London assembly members, to lodge complaints with the country’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).
Critics say that the use of the word “Gypsier” is offensive and racist, reports the BBC.
In a letter to the ASA, Gill Brown, from the London Gypsy and Travellers Unit, asked:
We wonder if Channel 4 would have been so ready to use adverts with similarly compromising images phrasing for other ethnic groups: ‘Jewisher’ or ‘more Asian’ or ‘Blacker’?
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Meanwhile, writing in the Guardian, Irish Traveller Christine Cawley described the tone of the adverts as “mocking” and said that the campaign “seems to be using who we are against us in a way that feels very hard to take.”
Cawley argued that the series in general was presenting an ” untrue or untypical image” of her community. ”The public don’t understand that we are more mainstream than they think. We work, our kids go to local schools, we go to church, we even have views about politics!” she writes.
However, Channel 4 has defended the use of the term, saying: “The word ‘gypsier’ refers to the fact that this series offers even greater access and insight to the communities featured, and the terms ‘gypsy’ or ‘gypsier’ are not being used in a negative context.”
Channel 4 said that the slogan was a play on the well-established original title of the series – which was itself “a spoof of the title of a well-known Hollywood film”. Furthermore, the channel said that everyone featured in the campaign had seen and approved of the posters.
“All images were taken with full consent and all aspects of the poster campaign fully comply with advertising guidelines,” Channel 4 said.
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It’s a scary thing that nearly 10 years after that spectacular crash there is not a single substantive regulation in place to prevent it happening all over again.
They can still gamble with depositors and savers cash in most countries, and they could still create another house of cards that will come crashing down, and come back to us with the exact same excuse of ”you have to bail us out or your savings and deposits will come crashing down with us”
Don’t worry though, we have a secondary school teacher who was a disaster in every ministerial portfolio he’s ever been in charge of on the case…
It’s strange how many seem to believe Hilary Clinton will be the solution and that she will take on big banking, when in fact it was her husband who repealed the Glass-Steagal act and her highest donors so far are Goldman Sachs
There are several reasons why Hillary can be said to be pro-bailout and pro-moral hazard:
1. She voted for it
2. Bill has said the repeal of the wall between depository and investment banking was the biggest mistake he made in his Presidency, she has said it was not a big deal.
3. She is SWIMMING in corporate cash, esp from the financial industry.
Much of the time we compare well to the US system. If I’m elected Taoiseach, I don’t have to worry, as Obama does, that my own party in parliament won’t support the policies I ran on, I know they will because of the whip (which has its downsides but IMO more pro than con) but in this case we compare badly, were v similar. We did no financial reform, at least they did some token reform and a token stimulus, we did nothing
They are not the same thing Ryan ..In Britain the Prime Minister bows to a sovereign Monarch , in Ireland the people are the sovereign !
You are so full of it Ryan !
Ireland is no longer SOVEREIGN,no if’s buts or any other argument about it,they like spain Greece Portugal etc etc have given up their SOVEREIGNTY to the unelected EUSSR.
Both Noonan and Kenny almost got away with the teachers pensions they never earned, they held their jobs for all the years in the Dail using substitute teachers to earn their pensions for them, the same substitutes usually graduates were not entitled to holiday pay or to contribute to their own public service pension.
Another example of low standards in high places.
If this judge cannot rule then why is he a judge ?
In fairness to Gerry Adams he can’t cut a hedge , but we don’t pay tax for Gerry Adams to cut hedges …that kinda thing …
Does this judge deserve to sit on the benches after proving total incapacity in the role for which he takes a salary ? particulary when Irish Law allows for Appeals … Why was it not referred to the Irish Supreme Court if he was too incompetent to rule , or why was another judge not appointed to the case in the first place !
Irish Law degrees ;- what a waste of a poor little calf’s skin !
She wasn’t too incompetent, I’m sure O’Malley J had plenty of opinions of an intellectual vigour that would put you to shame, however under the law she hasn’t the jurisdiction to express them..
We were promised during Traeties that Irish Law would supercede European law ..No wonder theUnion is going to break up ..it is so riddled with lies that it is now an unholy beast of a thing !
First thing of import to note, the ECJ is entirely unconnected to the European Commission and has regularly in fact ruled against the outcome the commission would have hoped for, so people shouldn’t worry about any kind of bias in this judgment..
Secondly, this has nothing to do with the promissory notes or the bank guarentee, both will be entirely unaffected by this decision..
Michael Noonan admitted that the Promissory Note deal was Illegal after he had it pushed through a drunken Dail.Stephen Donnelly questioned the illegality of it at the time …therefore the Promissory deal must be illegal !
If it illegal to drive a car when drunk then why is not illegal to vote on the future of the Nation when drunk ?
And the high court said that it was legal when Joan Collins took a case.. I think TD’s being drunk while in session is a disgrace, but it makes no difference as to the legality of the outcome of a vote
Non compus mentis is to do with criminal law, nothing to do with the legislative process.. And go ahead and change that law, won’t change the legality of the promissory note vote
The prom notes were converted into illegal sovereign debt by a vote backed by Fine Gael, Labour and a Michael Martin who said that he “trusted” the TAOISEACH … I WATCHED HIM AND HE LOOKING UP TO THE GALLERY OR CLOCK AS HE SMIRKED !
cAPS LOCKS SORRY !
The judge is obliged the remit the matter to the ECJ as EU law is “supranational” and all the judge is doing is saving vast amounts of taxpayer’s money and court time whilst seeking a definitive answer to a highly important question. Remember, both sides cannot be correct and the shareholders do have certain rights such as to peaceable enjoyment of their property free from state interference . It looks like clear interference so the role of the ECJ is most welcome as it will bring clarity to a very important issue for thousands of citizens !
Fair enough in one sense ..but Permanent T.S.B. is owned by the people of this State.
It is regulated by the Irish Central Bank and was at the time.
And the Bank guarantee was voted on by the Irish Government under advise from an Irish Attorney General !
Are all our legal set-ups only a front for Angela and the Rotcshilds or what ?
A pleasure Dermot,
These days I always check the gender of the judge when something unusual is announced..
Also note there is no mention of the “Supreme Court” which would tie in to your point about the supremacy of Irish Law…
This looks like a judge trying to buy time for the government. Let’s just see if PTSB will still be around by the time the ECJ rules.
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