Oh, the humanity…
It might seem impossible to hurt the feelings of a 3,000-year-old corpse. But woke museum chiefs have stopped using the word ‘mummy’ to describe the remains of ancient Egyptians, all in the name of ‘respect’.
They say the term is dehumanising to those who died and – of course – an unwelcome throwback to Britain’s colonial past.
The phrase now deemed politically acceptable is ‘mummified person’ or ‘mummified remains’.
Fuck off. It’s a mummy.
Maybe we should start calling them daddy.
I think we should find out if any of them want to self identify as non-binary before we take that step…
I can no longer read articles on the Daily Mail site on my Android phone. (Some people may say that’s a good thing.) For example, I tried reading this mummy story. After a few seconds on the Daily Mail site, I get redirected to a luckypuppy.xyz scam thing.
Anyone know how to stop this luckypuppy crap? I looked online, but most of the advice was for Windows, not Android devices. Google’s own advice was useless – basically uninstall and reinstall all apps on my phone one by one until I no longer get redirected to luckypuppy.
I’d suggest trying a different browser. Brave has built-in adblocking which might catch it.
Having said that, it doesn’t sound like something which should be happening in the first place. It’s certainly possible there’s an app on your phone doing naughty things with it, so Google’s advice shouldn’t be dismissed out of hand. It may be up to more sinister monkey-business than just redirecting you away from the Mail. But try Brave anyway. It’s good stuff.
(Oops. I’m guessing this is stuck in moderation because I used my personal email address by mistake rather than my commenting spam-trap. At least you don’t publish them, LR.)
Hammer Horror could not be reached for comment…
Would it be frowned on if I commented that Boris Karloff was the daddy of all mummies? As for “mummified remains”, why not just call them stiffs? Or would such terminology be too inflexible?
From https://www.ajaonline.org/book-review/1184#:~:text=Mark%20Twain%20reported%20in%20his,paper%20in%20the%20United%20States.
“Bizarre products came from mummies, or parts thereof. Such commodities included “Mummy,” ground mummies molded into pills for medicinal use (175); “mummy brown” paint (176); and cheap fuel for locomotives. Mark Twain reported in his 1869 travelogue The Innocents Abroad (Hartford, Conn.) that mummies were burned like coal to produce steam on the rail line from Cairo to Alexandria (176–77). Entrepreneurs imported mummy rags to make paper in the United States.”
Recycling – that has to be worthy, surely?
I think that these museum chiefs haven’t got enough to do.