“The rudest imagery appeared in schools – scrawled in the margins of exercise books. That iconic schoolboy’s doodle – the puerile “spunking knob” – how did we know what that looked like? It’s like a cave painting symbolising not fertility, but gleeful stupidity; an image hard-wired into the mind of every sniggering boy in Britain. Everyone smiles inside when they see the spunking knob scrawled in the dust on the back of a van, or scribbled on a poster. Is it a global phenomenon? Strikes me as inherently British. It should’ve been our logo for the 2012 Olympics.”

— Charlie Brooker: If the Daily Mail is so worried about the sexualisation of children, all they have to do is hit ‘delete’ | Comment is free | The Guardian

9:13 am  •  13 June 2011