Want to smack your co-habitant around a bit?

Fine.

Do you want to watch the torture of a small animal?

Go for it.

Would you like to see two animals fight each other?

No problem!

You want to watch someone smoke a cigarette?

Are you some sort of fucking deviant?!

It appears that Tom & Jerry, the staple of many a childhood evening in front of the television in the days before Xbox, is to be edited to remove any scenes that show people (or cats and mice) smoking a cigarette. Now, I hate smoking, but removing any smoking scenes from a fucking cartoon?! Are they mentally unstable?

In fact, if you’re going to ban just the smoking bits, then the message you are actually sending out to the kids is that everything else in the cartoon is model behaviour. This means it is perfectly acceptable to hit someone in the face with a frying pan, you can become an amateur rodent executioner with nothing more than a broom, and pitting two animals against each other in a fight to the death, purely for entertainment purposes, is to be positively commended.

In essence, we’re telling tomorrows adults (who will one day rule the world) that cats and mice are merely instruments for torture.

Is this what we want for our children? Well, perhaps it is. I mean, cats are fucking shits. Whenever I’ve been told I have the morals of an alley-cat I don’t think it’s ever been meant as a compliment. Even though Top Cat was a pretty nice guy.

Does this ban mean we now assume Osama Bin Ladens fascination with explosives is the result of a childhood spent watching the exploits of Wyle E Coyote? Or that shoplifters around the world are basing their defences on the influence of Yogi Bear and his picnic basket stealing tendencies?

On the plus side, if torturing animals is now OK, I guess that any new drugs will get tested a lot quicker in years to come?

** UPDATE **

The Devil himself predicted this. THREE whole months ago!  Everyone, go over to his kitchen and ask him for the next set of Euro lottery results.  He is clearly some kind of scary clairvoyant.

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