...to think Crimewatch referring to a suspect's "ugly mug" is inappropriate?

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Just flipping channels and saw them display a still from CCTV and saying "he's left us with this shot of his ugly mug".

1. He looked normal. (inasfaras anyone is normal looking)

1. What can their comment add to the image?

Or am I being silly/unreasonable and "ugly mug" is just a turn of phrase?

He tried to rob a bookies and beat the guy working behind the desk. I think ugly mug is quite fitting and I'd also add stupid to that as well.

YABU he is ugly inside and his behaviour is criminal and violent and vile.

He tried to rob a bookies and beat the guy working behind the desk. I think ugly mug is quite fitting and I'd also add stupid to that as well.

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The constant equating of ugly and criminal/evil really bugs me. If he'd rescued his granny from drowning I doubt they'd be calling him ugly.

Yes he's ugly inside but that's nothing to do with his looks.

YABU. It sounds like a flippant comment, intended to be humorous. If you want to be offended by things there are better causes

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Yes inappropriate but frankly do you care about the scumbags feelings? If he didn't want his ugly mug talked about then he shouldn't have done the crime.

BarbarianMum has said what I was trying to. Obviously I'm not condoning what he's done or making excuses for his crime, but I don't think calling his face 'ugly' is anything to do with it.

It's not really about his feelings though. It's part of a continuum whereby villains/criminals are stereotypically portrayed as ugly/scarred/deformed.

It matters to many ordinary people who have facial scarring, or deformities that the way they look is still synonymous with some kind of moral judgement (all hunchbacks are evil kind of thing).

Hang on though, they haven't pointed out a disability/deformity and teased him and humiliated thousands of other similar sufferers up and down the country!
He's a criminal who leapt over a counter and beat a man up!
Considering 'mug shot' is everyday police speak, I think the use of it here is just a flippant turn of phrase incorporating this into winding up an item.

It's usually used as a joke though and usually said in affection.

Or so dh says when he calls me it! [sceptical]

I don't think it's offensive. I think if you are likely to be distressed or offended by day to day things, crime watch isn't a great thing to watch.

Ridiculous thing to huff about , you are being unreasonable !

I don't find it offensive to use derogatory terms to describe CCTV of a person whilst they are committing an offence.

After all, they're not saying all ugly people are criminals, or that you round up people for being aesthetically unpleasing. If you don't want people to think you're shit and condemn you in whatever terms they like when they're looking at footage of you committing the crime, then don't do the crime and you won't attract epithets.

Really op you need to get a bit of a life. Who actually ponders over stuff like that?

I don't think it is an offensive term.

His behaviour is pretty offensive though.

YANBU

Sounds rather amateurish for a law enforcement effort.

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What a ridiculous thing to get offended by. The phrase has been around for donkey's years, often used as a jokey indearment and quite appropriately used in the crime watch context.

YABU bizarre thing to get even slightly worked up by

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I think if you are likely to be distressed or offended by day to day things

You don't have to be distressed or offended by something to think it was inappropriate.

YANBU, OP. UGLY does not equal BAD and the BBC should be trying not to reinforce this sort of stereotype.

Ha! It's a bit similar to a woman I saw intervene between two men squaring up to each other at a kids' football match recently.

After separating them, she said the instigator and his cronies were acting 'like a bunch of chavs.'

Oh they did not like that! Proper offended they were!

I think she was right and that the tv presenter on last night's prog was right too.