(There were, of course, occasional exceptions; 2012's Sniper Elite V2, a game centered around the Nazi rocket program, featured an "X-ray kill cam" that allowed players to watch their bullets tear, almost pornographically, into the enemy. Hitler's bollocks were a common target).
The response to the Tri Force speculation was rather lily-livered in its nature to say the least; essentially it was "a call to heroes has been put out, and only men are heroes", and to say that's bollocks is a tremendous understatement.
"I was wary of the quick leap to judgment – 'Dickens was a scoundrel.' An Irish friend of mine said, 'Oh he was a bit of a bollocks, wasn't he.' But there's a whole spectrum of Dickens.
" 'Bollocks' was considered an unforgivably rude word," Branson said.
" 'Bollocks' was considered an unforgivably rude word,'' Branson said.
The playwright and lawyer John Mortimer successfully defended him by producing an expert witness to demonstrate that the word "bollocks" was derived from an Anglo-Saxon term and could be used to refer to a priest.
It was self-serving bollocks that was a (well intentioned) attempt at justifying the existence of some very, very, very horrible music.
As THUMP's UK editor Josh Baines wrote last year, while the mashup was once championed in highbrow circles as an "important development" culturally, the whole thing was really always "self-serving bollocks that was a (well intentioned) attempt at justifying the existence of some very, very, very horrible music".
"This is bollocks," was the unworthy response, I am afraid, from my sofa.
