Okay, we are in January, with nearly the full year to go, but let's see if anybody can take offense at something more tenuous than the Turkish complaining that their model of Jabba the Hutt's palace looks like the Hagia Sophia mosque, and said depiction is racist.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/austria/9820517/Lego-accused-of-racism-with-Star-Wars-set.html

And for comparison :-

The lego model looks much smaller. I don't see how anyone could say there was any resemblance at all

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And isn't that the mosque that started life as an Orthodox Christian Basilica?

Oops! I thought this was going to be a thread about JingThing.

Ok, here's another one, a latex Jimmy Savile puppet makes a recent showing, resulting in the BBC switchboards going into meltdown.

http://www.thedrum.com/opinion/2013/01/20/could-savile-row-lead-stalinist-purge

As an aside recent showings of Fawlty towers contained editing out of language deemed racist in 2013, but was evidently funny when the program was first made.

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Are you sulking?

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Are you sulking?

It's just hurtful that people haven't noticed my radical alteration in posting behavior in the last several months. Once you've earned a rep, you're stuck with it, it seems.

Hey, Turkey! Try to catch up. What have guys been doing for 30 years? Hasn't anyone in that country ever seen Return of the Jedi?