Queen Bleeped

Published: 01/02/07

Qantas officials were forced to apologise to passengers after they screened a movie that was practically unintelligible thanks to the actions of an over zealous, albeit stupid censor who removed all mentions of the word god because he thought it was a profanity.

The film in question, The Queen, starring Helen Mirren was being shown on Qantas long haul flights to Sydney, when passengers complained to cabin crew that it was excessively bleeped.

Movies shown on aircraft normally feature heavy censorship to avoid children seeing any offensive scenes, although this is the first time that the word god, which is considered offensive by almost no-one has been deleted.

A spokesman for the movie distributor said that 'the little BLEEPer has been fully BLEEPing dealt with'

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