Snipe, on the situation in Japan.

    I attended a lunch this afternoon (that’s right, when you’re a writer you don’t ‘go to lunch’ you ‘attend lunches’, it’s much more glamorous and there are teeny-tiny sandwiches) at which a fellow writer asked me when Snipe would be writing something funny about the current situation in Japan. Irritatingly enough, I received a couple of emails along the same vein and I want to make one thing clear now and for always.

    We like to take the piss out of things. The religious Right (Nut Jobs), the extreme Left (Nut Jobs), The Pope (Grand High Supreme Nut Job), ridiculous celebrities (Kerry Katona, Paris Hilton, the dickhead on the ‘Go Compare’ adverts), Nick Clegg, teeny boppers, scene kids, Nick Griffin, people that wear tracksuits to night clubs, girls that think wearing babies' dummies is somehow cool, people that think that their being uncool is, in fact, ironic (it isn’t; you’re a dick), people that think that if you don’t go out and get wasted every night you’re a loser, two-faced bitches, scumbag idiots, homophobes, literophobes, Stylo...phobes, people called ‘Nick’ in general, bassists, people who cut themselves and call it art, people who cut themselves because it’s ‘cool’, people who cut themselves in really obvious places and then go ‘Oh shit! No! Don’t look at my pain!’, people that write poetry about lost love/the sea/flowers/cats/losing a loved cat to the sea whilst on your way to bring flowers to your lost love.

*Takes deep breath*

    But one thing that we will not take the piss out of, is suffering. Listen here Snipers  and listen close. The death of thousands of people isn’t funny. Forced homelessness, destitution and abject poverty aren’t funny. On the other hand dragging idiots who make jokes about the turmoil in Japan down to the ocean and making them watch whilst you drown their loved ones, and destroy all of their belongings is hilarious. Some things are ok to laugh at. Like this guy and some things aren’t, like this. Anyone who expects us to take a shot is reading the wrong magazine.

    And anyone who thinks it's funny to take a shot can go ahead and unsubscribe - I assume you're too busy sucking the devils tits to read us anyway - or too much of an epic moron.

Thanks everybody.

Rob and the whole team at Snipe.