You know, we keep hearing about how the Brits are smarter, how their schools are better, how their game shows are harder, how their television is just so much more intelligent, and so on and so on and so on. So it's interesting to see that they can be stupid yahoos just like everyone else.
That said ... 117 complaints? Can you imagine the flood to the FCC if the Today show decided to broadcast any such thing? Although I don't imagine that there would have been much comment about the orgasm cream.
It's also interesting that the Coronation Street episode inspired such outrage. It would have gotten mostly just a shrug here. Which probably doesn't say anything good about us.
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