back to article US insurer punts 'bestiality' to wide-eyed kiddies, gasp 'mums'

US insurance outfit Geico has incurred the wrath of campaigning group One Million Moms for punting a "disgusting bestiality" agenda at wide-eyed kiddies. In an advert for the Geico's mobile phone roadside assistance app, the company's porcine mascot Maxwell "and a young female are in a parked car on a lover's lane", as One …

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  1. M Gale

    Meanwhile in the UK, we get Rebecca Loos wanking a pig. Yes, really.

    Caution: Contains corkscrew dong. And bloody hell, that little bugger's productive.

  2. Mussie (Ed)
    WTF?

    The Sooner

    Someone builds a rocket so all the normal people can leave this place and start a new saner colony (preferably on a hoth like planet... I like the snow OK) the better....

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Unhappy

    Tiny, unrepresentative group in UK advocates stupidity

    <US Reg Readers> What a stupid group.

    <UK Reg Readers> What a bloody stupid group.

    Tiny, unrepresentative group in the US advocates stupidity

    <US Reg Readers> What a stupid group.

    <UK Reg Readers> ARGH AMERICANS ARE STUPID AND FAT AND BLOODY FAT STUPID CONSERVATIVE RELIGIOUS PEOPLE WITH STUPID RELIGIONS AND FAT STUPIDITY! FUCK THE FUCKING FAT STUPID AMERICAN WORLD POLICEMEN GUN TOTING REDNECK RELIGIOUS STUPID FAT PEOPLE!!! AARRGH STUPID BLOODY FAT PEOPLE! AND ALL THEY THINK ABOUT IS AMERICA AMERICA AMERICA!!! THEY'RE FUCKING OBSESSED WITH AMERICA! FUCKING AMERICANS! USELESS GITS! FAT FAT FAT TOURISTS AMERICANS GUNS RELIGION AMERICANS!!!!!

    Seriously - I really don't get it. I live in the rural US, in a place where you see truck nuts and every trailer has an American flag, and I have yet to speak to anyone so utterly obsessed with America as UK Reg readers seem to be. What's going on, guys? I hadn't even heard of these jokers before - god knows nobody in the US pays any attention to them.

    If you want to take a country to task for its policies, fine, but why to Reg readers obsess over the social conservatism of the US, where gay marriage is only a matter of time, and a significant majority of the population supports it - but never criticize France, that bastion of European enlightenment, where they had weeks of huge, enraged protests from their own religious right over the same thing?

    Despite being an American, I don't consider this 'the best country', despite some other posters in this thread seeming to think it's a universal trait.

    But I don't think it's "jingoistic" to take exception to, as a response to an article about some religious windbags, be the target of:

    "How sex with a beast is different to sex with an American?"

    "The Yanks really haven't got a clue. They're steeped in stupid religions... and insist on the "right" of everyone to carry sidearms.They're just another version of the Middle Eastern bigots."

    "Bloody Americans..."

    "...in the US, these people hold views which are taken seriously."

    Is it just me, or is it a bit ironic for a forum full of guys to go on a collective nationalistic rant which judges a country of 280 million people by the actions of a few thousand, while simultaneously attacking those people as being ignorant of other countries?

    Here's a hint, guys: Most people in the US favor gun control. Most people favor gay marriage. We have gays in the military and will soon have women in combat. And for a nation supposedly consisting only of obsessively celibate, sex-hating religious freaks, we have an awfully big porn industry, and do not, as a matter of fact, have a broad and ill-defined 'extreme porn law' that prevents adults from looking at pictures of adults, nor do we have an organization which acts on its own and without supervision or oversight but can exert enough pressure to ban web sites at will.

    Yeah, the US has a lot fat people and a lot of gun nuts and a lot of religious freaks. I get it. But you guys are tarring an entire nation based on the wild opinions of a tiny, tiny minority.

    Remember that the US is only a bit smaller than Europe taken as a whole. Would the UK people here think it reasonable of me to accuse them of being rabid anti-semites because Hungary's foreign minister suggested that Jews should be identified and tracked as a danger to the state? Would Germans be pleased at being lumped in with France's ultranationalists? Are Finns and Swedes supposed to take responsibility for Greek financial profligacy and Italian chauvinism?

    What's truly strange is that most Reg readers are Americans, yet the vast, vast majority of jingoistic vitriol is directed at Americans from Britons - and the vitriol is often specifically based on Americans being jingoistic and attacking other countries!

    I used to be quite a fan of the UK, and to a lesser extent, Europe in general - but at this point I'm starting to feel like I actually really wouldn't be welcome in Britain or on the continent. You've managed to hate the United States' (largely-imagined) self-righteous hatred so much that you've become it yourselves.

    I don't have many experiences of Americans going on forums and doing the equivalent of the Reg forumites referring to Americans as stupid, fat, inbred, violence-loving fundamentalists. And yet we're seen as - and hated for! - being the mean ones and the aggressors.

    Sigh.

    1. Chairo
      Pint

      Remember that the US is only a bit smaller than Europe taken as a whole. Would the UK people here think it reasonable of me to accuse them of being rabid anti-semites because Hungary's foreign minister suggested that Jews should be identified and tracked as a danger to the state? Would Germans be pleased at being lumped in with France's ultranationalists? Are Finns and Swedes supposed to take responsibility for Greek financial profligacy and Italian chauvinism?

      Yes, the Germans are lumped in with France's ultranationalists, the Finns and Swedes are supposed to take responsibility for our Greek and Italian friend's deeds, as is the rest of the EU in one way or another and we all suffer under whatever stupid statement the Hungarian foreign minister might or might not have uttered.

      That is one of the reasons why the EU is not so popular at times...

      Want to join the club? You know it all started with a free trade agreement...

      Cheers!

    2. Psyx
      Joke

      "but never criticize France, that bastion of European enlightenment, where they had weeks of huge, enraged protests from their own religious right over the same thing?"

      The difference is that we already hate France anyway.

      Whereas we're at least on speaking terms with America.

      Also: We can get our smug sense of superiority over the French by knowing that they'd surrender if someone fired a pop-gun over the Channel, whereas we have to feel socially superior to the US, lacking the manpower to kick their asses in civilised warfare.

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        "Also: We can get our smug sense of superiority over the French by knowing that they'd surrender if someone fired a pop-gun over the Channel..."

        I don't know about that - as The Economist pointed out, Hollande has something to prove. He might call your bluff on that one, and take you unawares - and before you know it, the royal family will have met the headsman and the King of England will speak French once again.

    3. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      It's "Favour"

    4. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Take a deep breath....

      @David W - take a deep breath. Let it out slowly. It's OK.....

      Unfortunately, the Internet at large, with the Reg as only a microcosm of it, is one gigantic Lord Of the Flies. When the kiddies decide something is acceptable to hate, even desirable, then that thing is hated with all the fervor of the 5 minute hate in 1984 - be that something Justin Bebier, or Windows 8, or the US. 90% of the haters are ignorant of the thing they purport to hate; the only information about it they have is what they've heard from the other kiddies, and have no more direct experience of it than the common prole did of Emmanuel Goldstein - they just hate because it is expected.

  4. HFoster

    Where's Max Branning?

    What happened to the GEICO Gecko, voiced by Jake Wood (known to British soap fans as Max Branning off EastEnders)?

    One Million Moms should chill out. It's a pig that can drive, use a mobile phone, and would rather play Fruit ninja than make out with a woman.

  5. flatline2000

    MUPPETS

    Were the offended by the muppets, cause Miss Piggy used to get all freaky with almost every male presence on the show, or does beastiality only work one way ?

  6. Martin Budden Silver badge
    Coat

    Insert pork sword gag here.

  7. Mephistro
    Happy

    To the guy at ElReg who wrote the article's heading:

    I'm sure you'll enjoy this video. ;-)

  8. Muckminded

    I want a turn at that

    when she is done.

  9. Paul Hovnanian Silver badge

    One Million Moms

    I've seen some of them. And their husbands. So their aversion to bestiality is understandable.

    And probably based on personal experience.

  10. Znort666
    Facepalm

    So...

    being a front for a Christian organisation, they are ok with a talking serpent seducing the first woman into eating a forbidden apple, but a pig (obviously meant to represent the person who has purchased a contract from the company) driving a car and being seduced by/suffering the advances of a woman is a bad thing?

    Religion...go figure!

  11. Deadly Headshot
    Facepalm

    I assume they're also offended by The Muppets...

    "A Pig and a Frog?! That's disgusting!"

    It's probably worth mentioning now that "One Million Moms" are a registered hate group, with similar views to Westborough etc...

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