Iggy Pop upsets 2 subis

BBC under fire over '****' word
23/10/2007 11:28 - (SA)

London - Britain's broadcasting watchdog criticised the BBC on Monday after ageing rock wild-man Iggy Pop used the expression "**** shop" on live television.

Pop made the comment during an interview after playing a set at the Glastonbury Festival in June, telling BBC 2 about how much he enjoyed walking around north London.

"The beauty of being me is that you can wear expensive clobber and you can walk down Camden High Street at a **** shop..." he said, in rambling comments late at night.

The presenters did not say anything about it at the time, but the BBC issued an apology the following day, saying Pop was probably not aware that the expression had passed out of "polite usage" in the last 30 years.

Small grocery store

"Iggy Pop is one of the wildest men in rock music and, as such, he has a built-in content advisory warning," said the BBC, which received two complaints about the remark.

But the Ofcom watchdog said the term breached broadcasting guidelines.

The BBC "failed in its responsibility to ensure that the offence caused was justified by the context, for example by lessening it through issuing an on-air apology as soon as possible after the incident occurred," it said.

"**** shop" used to be a widely used British term for a small grocery store, generally run by Pakistani or Indian families, which typically open later at night or on weekends than other shops.

It is now seen by many as having offensive or racist overtones.

What's the word?

P.A.K.I

TBH, while I understand it is offensive in Britain, I still don't get it. Aussie, Saffie, Kiwi, Subi . . . ???

A whole 2 complaints.

The entire community must be up in arms about this.

taipan wrote:A whole 2 complaints.

The entire community must be up in arms about this.

From filosofee and Makaveli.

Nah, were both from Fluffy i would guess.

Why do they have to be 'subi's? The way I see it, I wouldn't have complained but would've been mildly offended by his ignorance. Even the yokelist yokels I know wouldn't have said that. It's not hard to say 'corner shop' AFAIC.

Batfink Begins wrote:Why do they have to be 'subi's? The way I see it, I wouldn't have complained but would've been mildly offended by his ignorance. Even the yokelist yokels I know wouldn't have said that. It's not hard to say 'corner shop' AFAIC.

I would give pretty good odds that they were.

taipan wrote:I would give pretty good odds that they were.

Depends their vehemence on the subject. I mean, as I said, I wouldn't have complained but I'm so apathetic towards television etc. that I wouldn't complain about anything. Were I more keen or whatever, who knows - I may have complained.

Problem is, Iggy Pop is such a count that it would probably be one of the last things I would be watching.

More likely that the complaints came from guilt-ridden PC-liberals TBH. The event happened a few months ago now.

I think the whole point is that the upset was so mild that only 2 people complained. The proverbial storm in a teacup.

Well, it is a storm in a tea-cup - but the fact is it's never been 'OK' to say that and with all the undertones to the comment I'm not surprised.

Batfink Begins wrote:Well, it is a storm in a tea-cup - but the fact is it's never been 'OK' to say that and with all the undertones to the comment I'm not surprised.

I never said it was okay.

But the fact remains that only 2 people out of millions complained, thereby underlining the insignificance.

Iggy Pop, you pathetic little loser, there's no way on earth you're a hope in hell of getting onto the Anti-PC Hero Club when only two people complain. And they were most likely your agent and your mum, assuming they're two different people. If not the other one was most likely some hack from NME.

Like Madonna, you used to shock many years ago but now you merely bore.