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He can be annoying, but I wouldn't go as far as calling him a prick.
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Errr.... I'm from the UK and am well aware, as is everyone else in the country, I can assure you, of the \"other\" meaning of the word \"prick\". Really.
ARGH! Why did this end up as a reply to JDAC? That's not who I was replying to....
But since you mention it, JDAC, yeah, Ainsley can be as annoying as all get-out.
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Hahaha, there may be no evidence, but someone clearly did not like Mr. Harriott.
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I'd suggest that it should have said \"Prick package with a fork\" but that might be worse.
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Man, I NEEDED that belly-laugh... not sure my colleagues appreciate it though. :-D
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@Rectilinear Propagation: Well given it's a package full of sausages, calling it a \"prick package\" might be a pretty good description.
@Rectilinear Propagation: Even \"Prick plastic with a fork\" would be worse if you think about it enough.
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@Rectilinear Propagation: Noooo... what's worse is the idea of whether the \"special recipe\" actually contains Ainsley Harriott.
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Well I guess this is probably obvious to most of you.
This product and its packaging were made in the UK, where they don't seem to understand that the word \"prick\" has another meaning in the US. I'd fire the package designer, if it were my company.
The Brits are quite aware of that particular meaning of \"prick.\" In fact, they have been for a few hundred years or so.
I quote The Bard:
Mercutio: 'Tis no less, I tell you, for the bawdy hand of the dial is now upon the prick of noon.
@m4ximusprim3: I smoked a fag, then knocked her up because I needed a rubber.
(Not all pencils have erasers...)
@varro:
Hehehehee... I remember, many moons ago, a (fellow Brit) friend of mine trying to come up with the worst possible lines he could utter to horrify people on his forthcoming trip to New York. \"Smoking a fag\", \"wasting all those fags\", rubbers (in various situations) and the phrase \"knock up\" were all included. He was most disappointed to find that no matter what he said, the only reaction he could get was of the \"I just loooooove your accent!!\" variety.
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@MsAnthropy: I remember once at a concert, the British singer looked at the audience and, momentarily forgetting himself, announced that he really needed a fag. Then he realized where he was, panicked, and said, \"well, not what you call fags. I'm not that way. I mean a cigarette.\"
Funny thing was that half of the audience were cross-dressers and wouldn't have cared if he DID swing that way.
Made me remember a friend who once famously stated he needed to take a drag of a fag before a college test.
Weird looks were liberally given to him, especially since it wasn't even in the US, but an english-speaking class in mexico, so british slang was absolutely unknown.
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@Trai_Dep: as a brit id like to say we bloody well do know the double meaning of prick. I just find that were less juvenile/sensitive when it comes to things like this.
@smileboot: W/e. That's not it at all. I'd wager that it's that the brits have their own impressive catalog of slang terms for wang, and 'prick' is just lower on their funny scale. Penis humor, while not entirely universal, is more than represented in british humor and popular culture. Brits love bawdy body humor.
@ludwigk:
\"Prick with a fork\" made me snigger. And I'm a Brit. It means exactly the same to us anglo types as it does to, well, anyone from any other English-speaking country.
That is just too funny!
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I'm curious why someone felt the need to obfuscate the ingredients?
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I dunno. The guy signed on to advertise the \"new, thicker Fairy\" that \"keeps on going,\" which leads me to believe that is overall judgment in terms of marketing copy is seriously impaired.
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Looking at the perfectly clean bottom edge of the label, this is obviously a photoshoped pic.
Still pretty funny though . . .
@mavrick67: Just uncooked. Boil them and put them on the grill; they'll have that nice golden brown and delicious color you're familiar with.
@Veeber:
Wait... BOIL the sausages and then put them on the grill? Boil them? Noooo!! You can't boil sausages like that. Just grill 'em, they'll turn out lovely!
something that isn't gray and upappitizing out of the UK . . . um, Keira Knightley? Kate Beckinsale?
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Ainsley Harriot is always a happy fellow. But that just cracked me up. I also think the package means to prick the sausages with a fork so they don't explode when you cook them. Why that particular instruction would be so giagantic on the front of the packaging though is odd. Maybe A. Harriot is actually a demanding diva behind the scenes and that was the package designer's way of getting even.
@ganmerlad: Evidentally they were in sale in Ireland till someone notices the innuendo.
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I'm guessing fake. Wouldn't pass copyediting with the unnecessary period.
@shepd: I'm not denying it's fake, but I have no problem believing it could slip past the copy editor. If copyediting was such a precise science we wouldn't have jewels like Lance Snack Food's slogan, \"I Got Lance In My Pants.\"
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Please rewrite...
\"Jerkoff with an eating implement\"
prick is the proper word to use, \"dick\" on the other hand would have been too obvious.
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I also note that the first letters of the top three lines spell out \"Ass.\"
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Photoshopped packaging... At best, this might be a 4chan-esque post. Why consumerist?
@Maous: OMG Y IS DIS HEAR?!?!11
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Actually,you never prick the skins of sausage...only handle with tongs.If you prick em,they lose all their juice.
Most packages warn you of this...
Hahahahahahah.. it's the UnCola!
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If you prick with a fork, juice is not the only thing that will be lost......
\"OUCH!!\" There goes that Viagra moment!
Who?
@jsbeagle:
Ainsley Harriott. TV chef type geezer from the UK. Very bouncy and really rather annoying, but seemingly well-meaning with it.
ENGRISH.COM !!!
Wikipedia also reports that Chef Harriott appears in ads for \"Fairy Liquid\". Here near San Francisco, if I were to discover someone selling \"Fairy Liquid\", I certainly would not wash my dishes with it.
My dentist once said, \"you might feel a little prick\"
They definitely need a copywriter makeover. Maybe down-sized the old one. I would suggest for a slogan: \"You can't beat our meat!\"
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Also, looks like they \"borrowed\" his photo from his Low Fat Meals cookbook.
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Aren't those just the instructions for cooking?
@hypnotik_jello: Actually, I thought that was it.
Although, I see the \"other\" meaning being inferred here.
@hypnotik_jello: wooooooosh
@hypnotik_jello: Zing!
@hypnotik_jello: \"Just?\" No, no, they're far, far more than that.