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Commonwealth Games mascot is shit-faced octopus

HE encapsulates modern Glasgow and extends a warm Scottish welcome to the world: He’s Mungo the Shit-Faced Octopus.

Organisers unveiled the £1.2 million mascot which will be the best thing about the Commonwealth Games.

A council spokesman said: “Ten years ago we might have gone for a little Scottie dog or maybe even a cheeky wee haggis.

“The fact that we’ve chosen a shit-faced octopus shows just how much Glasgow has embraced the 21st Century.”

Wayne Hayes, of design company Conceptionly, explained the thinking behind the new brand.

“He’s called Mungo, because Mungo is the name of our managing director.

“He’s blue because of Glasgow’s proud maritime tradition. He’s under water because for millions of years the Glasgow area was completely submerged.

“He has eight legs because he’s an octopus. And he’s shit-faced because he’s a Glaswegian octopus.”

Meanwhile, a volunteer in a Mungo costume will appear unannounced at Games venues where he will choose a random member of the public and then urinate on them.

The lucky victim will then be handed two free tickets to the judo.

 

Government To Tackle Binge-W*nking

THE legal age for masturbation is to be raised to 18 as part of a series of measures aimed at tackling binge-wanking among teenage boys.

Supermarkets are to be banned from two-for-one pornography promotions, and all magazines will have to be purchased through special checkouts staffed by intimidating, attractive women.

Any pictures of naked breasts or private areas will have public health minister Shona Robinson’s head superimposed on them and a speech bubble saying: “Eat healthy!”

Ms Robinson said: “We want to make binge-wanking as socially unacceptable as drinking blood or setting fire to children.

“At the moment masturbation is an integral part of Scottish culture. This process will be long and hard, but I am determined to pull it off.”

All aerobics videos are to be banned apart from health secretary Nicola Sturgeon’s forthcoming Suzi Quatro Workout, which was declared “mind-numbing” after repeated viewings by the lower sixth at Merchiston Castle School in Edinburgh.

According to the Executive’s latest guidelines, adults can have up to three personal hand interactions per week without causing any great harm to their health, apart from a degree of short-sightedness and bad breath.

But medical evidence shows that any self-pleasuring by those under 18 is certain to lead to blindness and ugly disfigurement before the onset of middle age, while binge-wanking will lead to total derangement within months.

The British Medical Association said the Executive did not go far enough. Bill McKay, of the BMA’s Scottish Masturbation Committee, said tougher action was needed to deal with what he called a “stroking time-bomb”.

Roy Hobbs, A&E consultant at Glasgow’s Victoria Infirmary, said: “If Channel 4 shows another Kylie special we will simply not be able to cope.”

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