You ever have that one friend of yours that doesn’t know not to tell a joke in front of the wrong person? They’re the idiot that is blatantly racist, sexist, whatever right in front of your black girlfriend and then is honestly shocked when they get a drink thrown at their head?
Well that guy is a bloke named Harry Taylor and he’s about to go to jail for leaving a mock “No More Nails” ad featuring a smiling Jesus on the cross in the prayer room at John Lennon airport in Liverpool. I can’t get a copy of the ad he used without stealing it, but here’s an example of the joke that really got him in hot water:
So, for starters… cool! There’s a John Lennon airport in Liverpool!
Two, my point in posting both the mock ad and the video is that this joke is not new by any stretch of the imagination. Using Christ on the cross in an ad for liquid nails is one of those jokes that everybody swears they thought of first, like when the news came out that they were going to build a wall around Mexico and people said, “who will they get to build it?” It’s an easy leap… I’ll give you points for it, but don’t get cocky kid.
Now, our hero is actually not going to jail for creating this ad… otherwise they would have to round up half of England. No, no, this man is being sent to jail for being a dick and leaving a joke that we all know as being distasteful to religious folk in the friggin’ prayer room at an airport.
So, kids, the moral here is, want to stay out of jail? Don’t be a dick.
J.
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