He may well be the proud possessor of a bus pass, but Under The Counter’s sense of humour remains firmly juvenile, probably because he was raised on a diet of Carry On films and Viz comics.
The Auld Boy was therefore sniggering like a schoolboy on nitrous oxide when he saw the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party’s attempt to “sweeten” the final sprint of a regional election last month.
The AfD’s plan was to tempt voters with packs of red gummy sweets in the shape of its logo – a Nike-style swoosh with an arrowhead on the tail. Unfortunately, what you want and what you get are often two very different things: the finished articles bore more than a passing resemblance to miniature dildos.
As UTC somewhat uncouthly put it: “The confectioner appears to have made a cock-and-balls of it.”
Despite not being best-known for their sense of humour, Germans were quick to poke fun at the ‘kleine penisse’ on social media, although the AfD’s regional chairman Frank Rinck was not amused.
“Everybody sees what they want to see,” he said. “We’re not taking any consequences.”
By consequences, Herr Rinck actually meant seats in the regional parliament: the AfD saw a grand total of zero members (tiny or otherwise) elected.
Nein luck faschisten!
