You Couldn't Make This Up, Could You?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3509124/Aldi-forced-change-paint-labelled-rape-yellow-complaints-sex-assault-victim.html

Why don't she now take it a step further and demand that the name of the plant rape seed be changed, since their is more connection between the two words rape and seed, that there is between rape and yellow?

[Mamyalynne]

Unfortunate the instore tins dropped the word 'seed' but even given her situation it is not worth getting so upset about.

[jackthehat]

Calling the paint colour Rapeseed Yellow and printing that on the tin ought to prevent any further problems.

[Islay]

I would imagine that being a victim of sexual assault that it doesn't take much to upset her.

A simple change of words would be suffice.

[agchristie]

Aldi should start playing Coldplay in store:

" I drew a line,
I drew a line for you,
Oh what a thing to do,
And it was all yellow"

[webbo3]

Sounds like shes a little over dramatic, started choking, if she has no idea what colour rapeseed is and thinks that anything yellow may refer to a sexual act she has real problems, what if a chef of a cookery show said their were using rape seed oil would she phone in and complain or faint.

The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, branded the product name 'offensive' after she spotted the tins while she was shopping with her son.


The furious customer said she started 'choking' when she came across the product at the Radford Road store in Coventry, Warwickshire.


Dave.

[gness]

As the victim of more than one childhood sexual assault it still takes a darn sight more than a tin of Aldi paint to upset me.

I'd be with this woman if she quietly spoke to Aldi and suggested changing it to Rapeseed......but maybe she'd have a problem with Rapeseed too I guess, I don't know.

Did she, whilst choking in Aldi and getting straight out of there, take photos to send to her friends?

Does she start choking when she sees the word rape in the newsagent?

Maybe I'm just a little intolerant of folk who make a fuss over things like this when it could have been sorted without the fuss....Aldi is really good to deal with in my experience...x

[webbo3]

divebuddy,

how is the act of rape connected to the colour yellow, it was named rape yellow because of the colour of the canola plant.

The word "rape" in rapeseed comes from the Latin word rapum meaning turnip. Turnip, rutabaga, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, mustard, and many other vegetables are related to the two natural canola varieties commonly grown, which are cultivars of B. napus and B. rapa. The change in name serves to distinguish it from natural rapeseed oil, which has much higher erucic acid content.

and has nothing to do with the sex act.



Dave.

[Bazile]

I do think that dropping the word 'seed' was deliberate /intentional , in order to promote / draw attention to the paint

Like '***' clothing brand

[gness]

But granted, Dive....bit of a daft name...what's wrong with good old fashioned Buttercup?.....☺

[Islay]

Perhaps you are a stronger person that she is Gness, we don't know what she went through.

But as I said earlier it could have been sorted with Rapeseed Yellow.

[Bazile]

That was - f.c.u.k.

[gness]

I guess, Islay.....but it's not the only place she has to deal with the word.
Rapeseed Yellow....perhaps....Buttercup Yellow....okay but I draw the line at Turnip Yellow!....☺

[jno]

The Americans simply call it canola, which seems to solve the problem without fuss.

[Islay]

turnips are orange/red!!!!! ;-)

[naomi24]

I'm assuming she doesn't choke every time she encounters the word in the media.

[aelmpvw]

does this mean aldi are going to stop sellng grapes?