Forgive me, but this has to be said.

I know, I said this blog was never going to be about protesting against anything or anybody and I assure you I won't let it become one of those. However, this post regards something I feel quite strongly about and, although I know nobody needs me to leap to their defense, this is something I really need to get off my chest. Please, bare with me.

We hear the dreaded words everywhere we go, political fucking correctness. Well, in most cases minus the 'fucking' part. That would be extremely contradictory if the followers used that term in the middle. I'm going to abandon that phrase for the duration of this post because I don't like it. There's nothing 'correct' about it, it's just a term that some cunt made up. Why should we all abide by the rule of someone most of us didn't know existed?

As you probably know, or you may have guessed, I am a huge fan of Scottish comedian, Frankie Boyle. This is not a biased post about how much I like him or telling people to leave him alone as such. This is about freedom of speech and expression. Frankie just happens to be the epitamy of this 'freedom' and that's why I enjoy his work so much. He is known for his 'controversial' and 'offensive' style dubbed 'shock humor'. Lately, he's been back in the news with seemingly every article in every paper having a fucking go at him for being himself. He's a comedian, he tells jokes and there are, and should be, no boundaries in real comedy. If you don't like it, don't laugh and watch/listen to something else instead of wasting your time writing a big fucking article about hurting people's feelings. Boo hoo fucking hoo. We all have to put up with the same shit in our lives, think of it as a case of someone managing to take it and embrace it rather than cry and moan like a little bitch. Frankie called Olympic swimmer, Rebecca Adlington, 'dolphin face'. I've heard much worse than that in the school playground.

The people calling it 'insensitive', 'immoral', 'vile' and the likes really bother me because they think the world revolves solely around them and that their wants and needs should be catered for at every minute of every day over every square inch of this planet. If you are one of these people, FUCK OFF!!! Who are you to tell people what's right and what's wrong? When 75 of you are complaining about a 'foul-mouthed and distasteful slur' on national TV, you show complete disregard for the other 1 million people who actually enjoyed it or even those who neither found it funny nor offensive. You need to accept the fact that not everyone loves the Queen, not everyone believes in the Bible, not everyone has been a rape victim, cancer patient or mentally challenged. I'm not saying this means we shouldn't care, we are in the position of being able to take a fucking joke for what it is, a joke. It's not made to inspire people to become paedophiles or to assassinate public figures, it is merely an attempt to take the seriousness out of something serious for the sake of having a bit of a giggle. If you take yourself, your life and everything else too seriously, the more likely you are to become hurt and offended.

Enough of this bleeding heart bullshit. Last year, my dad passed away from severe lung cancer, my dog died from cancer earlier this year and a friend of the family died from liver cancer. Let me tell you something, it didn't stop me from seeing the funny side and laughing at any jokes on the subject. If anything it helped me deal with and manage the pain. You fuckers need to realise that it's not all black and white - 'this is offensive and that is not' - because people take offense to different things. It is taken not given. Don't blame the speaker for the fact that you can't take it, leave the room and listen to something better suited to your interests. Whether you like it or not, we're not all humorless pansies spouting 'knock knock' jokes and jumping around playing slapstick pranks like morons. Some of us have a more sophisticated sense of humor and sometimes it can be a therapy, a chance to let go of reality and fucking enjoy ourselves for once without someone leaning over our shoulder telling us what we can and can't laugh at.

At the end of the day, the fact that you don't like something doesn't mean it has no business existing. We have to put up with your Diamond Jubilees, your X-Factors, your Olympic Ceremonies and your Soap Operas. So why should we let you take away our fucking interests? By all means, promote your charities and do your thing, just let us 'insensitive, vile' people have our fun and don't judge us just because we don't share the same imaginary rule book. Stop trying to turn Earth into fucking Sesame Street and open your mind for a change.

Thank you.