Matilda Mugs Removed Due To Snowflakes.

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8640207/Roald-Dahl-fans-furious-campaigners-force-Sainsburys-remove-Matilda-mugs-sale.html

It takes a special kind of stupid to think this refers to domestic violence.

Didn't Newton come up with gravity when something "hit him"

[Cloverjo]

Andy//The pen is mightier than the sword"
becomes The penis, mightier than the sword"
Which is exactly the same words, presented in a way that gives an unintended and unwanted meaning. //

Not the same words, Andy. Are you sure you’re a journalist?

[jno]

you're not wrong, bhg. Note how the last line is in a different typeface from the preceding one - the designers' equivalent of a full stop between them. If it had all been in the same font, I don't think there would have been a problem.

[jno]

ah, I missed andy's analysis, but I think he's right.

[THECORBYLOON]

On Amazon, there is a postcard with the caption, "'THE GERM OF A brilliant idea HIT HER' and the font of "brilliant idea" is exactly the same as that on the mug.

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Seems to be more than coincidental but why were the first three words on the postcard, left off the mug?

[Deskdiary]

Blimey - that’s pretty tenuous Andy Hughes and jno.

[Peter Pedant]

// Sorry, 'know it all' rant over!//

well to be honest - Kepler described elliptical orbits but newton and leibnitz were able to explain it

"Success az many fazzairs and Defeat she has none" (napoleon ) Hooke ( ut tensio sic vis that one ) had suggested suggested an inverse square law which Newton already suspected and demanded some recognition.

Newton did some pretty remarkable things with his new differential calculus - shell formulae - and keplers laws and the first life tables

gravitiation was a gedanken experiment - the apply went bonk and so he wondered if one from the top of a building? and wondered why the moon didnt - motion in a circle

He told the biographer who went up in 1720 that he had done it all in 1665 the plague year - but we know from his notes that he did it in 1672 - same time almost as Leibnitz. The idea of making it 1665 was to ensure he had precedence

he was quiet for a long time because his estimate for the mass of the moon was wrong and his calculations did nbt quite fit.....

2nd rant over

[douglas9401]

Over anal, ysis, no offence intended toward a Brazilian lady who posts on YouTube, you tube.

[jno]

Deskdiary, that's how designers work. If I wanted to make a mug message look edgy, that's exactly how I'd do it. If I wanted it not to be edgy at all so no individual words or phrases stand out from the rest, put it in the same font throughout.

[Mamyalynne]

Best bet , buy children plain mugs/cups and ceramic paints - you'll get far more entertaining results.

[andy-hughes]

Mamya - // "The penis, mightier than the sword"


would be against the trades description laws. //

I'm not suggesting that the phrase should be used as a mug slogan!!!

I'm using it to illustrate the point that - had the mug been designed properly, with correct spacing and uniform type face, there would not have been a problem.

[Mamyalynne]

K

[douglas9401]

On reflection I've decided, reluctantly, to accept the autocorrect/typo explanation.

I'll just grim and bear it.

[andy-hughes]

Deskdiary - // Blimey - that’s pretty tenuous Andy Hughes and jno. //

My argument is that tenuous is exactly what it is not!

To me, the fault leaps out on first sight - bad spacing, bad type face choice, leads to an ambiguous message, which could easily have been avoided either by actually quoting Mr Dahl correctly, or failing that, making the quote read as he intended.

[andy-hughes]

Cloverjo - // Not the same words, Andy. Are you sure you’re a journalist? //

Yes, I'm quite sure thank you.

My point is that, you can take two words which are the same two words if you miss a space out, except it becomes another different word with a different meaning.

No you can amble down a semantic cul-de-sac if you wish, or you could simply agree that my point is still valid, even if you take the illustration away.

[Mamyalynne]

"True, This! —
Beneath the rule of men entirely great
The pen is mightier than the sword. Behold
The arch-enchanters wand! — itself is nothing! —
But taking sorcery from the master-hand
To paralyse the Cæsars, and to strike
The loud earth breathless! — Take away the sword —
States can be saved without it!"

[douglas9401]

I have to agree, the point of Andy's penis is valid.

[andy-hughes]

jno - // If I wanted to make a mug message look edgy, that's exactly how I'd do it. If I wanted it not to be edgy at all so no individual words or phrases stand out from the rest, put it in the same font throughout. //

Maybe the designers should have thought - this is Roald Dahl, he writes children's books, perhaps we should give the 'edgy' designers a swerve on this one.

[ChillDoubt]

Whoever complained about this needs removing from the gene pool, for the benefit of all mankind.