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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Bubbles on November 09, 2015, 12:48:14 AM

Title: Tote n scrote
Post by: Bubbles on November 09, 2015, 12:48:14 AM
Yeeeuk!

£1000 a shot

 :o

Horrible things, won't be on my Christmas list  ::)

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/scrotum-inspired-satchel-most-offensive-6790225
Title: Re: Tote n scrote
Post by: jeremyp on November 09, 2015, 05:47:21 AM
Look on the bright side, it'll make spotting dickheads in a crowd easier.
Title: Re: Tote n scrote
Post by: Harrowby Hall on November 09, 2015, 08:33:45 AM
Gilbert & Sullivan are reputed to have written an obscene opera. One of its characters was Scrotum - a wrinkled old retainer.
Title: Re: Tote n scrote
Post by: Sebastian Toe on November 09, 2015, 08:43:23 AM
Yeeeuk!

£1000 a shot

 :o

Horrible things, won't be on my Christmas list  ::)


Actually once in production the bag will seemingly retail for $120 which is much more affordable!

I'm not sure if I'd have the balls to wear one in public though!  ;)
Title: Re: Tote n scrote
Post by: Owlswing on November 09, 2015, 08:45:43 AM
Look on the bright side, it'll make spotting dickheads in a crowd easier.

I don't know - the original is used for carrying the most important things a man has around in - using one to carry other, less important, things in seems strangely logical.

But not at a grand a time!
Title: Re: Tote n scrote
Post by: Shaker on November 09, 2015, 11:15:56 AM
What really offends me is that the Mirror regards this as offensive, on the basis that it's modelled on a part of the body possessed by close on half the world's population.
Title: Re: Tote n scrote
Post by: Rhiannon on November 09, 2015, 11:27:35 AM
I agree, not remotely offensive. Actually I think it's an amusing answer to the man bag dilemma.
Title: Re: Tote n scrote
Post by: Owlswing on November 09, 2015, 11:38:04 AM
Gilbert & Sullivan are reputed to have written an obscene opera. One of its characters was Scrotum - a wrinkled old retainer.

Huge Grin!
Title: Re: Tote n scrote
Post by: Owlswing on November 09, 2015, 11:40:45 AM
What really offends me is that the Mirror regards this as offensive, on the basis that it's modelled on a part of the body possessed by close on half the world's population.

Considering some of the things which, over the years, the Morror has found acceptable this is, in a way, actually logical from the Mirror's point of view.
Title: Re: Tote n scrote
Post by: Rhiannon on November 09, 2015, 12:46:32 PM
What really offends me is that the Mirror regards this as offensive, on the basis that it's modelled on a part of the body possessed by close on half the world's population.

Considering some of the things which, over the years, the Morror has found acceptable this is, in a way, actually logical from the Mirror's point of view.

Piers Morgan.

Ok, fair point.
Title: Re: Tote n scrote
Post by: ProfessorDavey on November 09, 2015, 01:05:00 PM
Gilbert & Sullivan are reputed to have written an obscene opera. One of its characters was Scrotum - a wrinkled old retainer.
That's from Sir Henry at Rawlinson End by Vivian Stanshall is it not. Actually he was Old Scrotum the Wrinkled Retainer. Also included the contract house cleaners and "resting theatrical artistes," Teddy Tidy and Nigel Nice (aka Nice and Tidy).
Title: Re: Tote n scrote
Post by: Harrowby Hall on November 09, 2015, 04:43:04 PM
Gilbert & Sullivan are reputed to have written an obscene opera. One of its characters was Scrotum - a wrinkled old retainer.
That's from Sir Henry at Rawlinson End by Vivian Stanshall is it not. Actually he was Old Scrotum the Wrinkled Retainer. Also included the contract house cleaners and "resting theatrical artistes," Teddy Tidy and Nigel Nice (aka Nice and Tidy).

I first found it in Obscenity and the Law (1956) by Norman St John Stevas. I suspect Vivian Stanshall "borrowed" it - or he may have independently invented the same joke. I also recall that G&S also had the Brothers Bollox - a pair of hangers-on.
Title: Re: Tote n scrote
Post by: ProfessorDavey on November 09, 2015, 04:44:53 PM
Gilbert & Sullivan are reputed to have written an obscene opera. One of its characters was Scrotum - a wrinkled old retainer.
That's from Sir Henry at Rawlinson End by Vivian Stanshall is it not. Actually he was Old Scrotum the Wrinkled Retainer. Also included the contract house cleaners and "resting theatrical artistes," Teddy Tidy and Nigel Nice (aka Nice and Tidy).

I first found it in Obsenity and the Law (1956) by Norman St John Stevas. I suspect Vivian Stanshall "borrowed" it - or he may have independently invented the same joke.
Probably borrowed it, I imagine.
Title: Re: Tote n scrote
Post by: Harrowby Hall on November 09, 2015, 05:16:57 PM
In the interests of academic probity, a trawl has found this:

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According to legend, Gilbert and Sullivan wrote an obscene work under the name The Sod's Opera, with characters including Count Tostoff (a ruined Pole), the Brothers Bollox (a pair of hangers-on), and Scrotum (a wrinkled old retainer) - and, by way of corroborative detail, it is said that, for many years, a copy was kept in the guardroom at St James's Palace - but there is no authoritative record of this remarkable creation.

Source: http://www.lexscripta.com/articles/wilde4.html
Title: Re: Tote n scrote
Post by: jeremyp on November 09, 2015, 06:29:52 PM
Look on the bright side, it'll make spotting dickheads in a crowd easier.

the original is used for carrying the most important things a man has around in

That's a load of bollocks, and you know it.
Title: Re: Tote n scrote
Post by: Owlswing on November 09, 2015, 06:51:50 PM
Look on the bright side, it'll make spotting dickheads in a crowd easier.

the original is used for carrying the most important things a man has around in

That's a load of bollocks, and you know it.

In my own case - a load of old bollocks!
Title: Re: Tote n scrote
Post by: Free Willy on November 09, 2015, 08:01:19 PM
Look on the bright side, it'll make spotting dickheads in a crowd easier.
that's ok if it's your ''bag''.