Piss be upon him

I know, I know: But what about the pee tape? Wait, you might be saying, remind me about the pee tape? Is it real? Are there porn parodies?

My visceral repulsion to this juxtaposition of the filthy and the sacred is probably similar to the feeling Muslims get when they see the beloved Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him degraded in crass and crude caricatures. It can feel like a blow to the stomach, with anger and disgust rising up in response, to see or hear that which we hold most sacred defiled. In the past month, two large-scale events have been organized specifically to demean and provoke them. When this event ended in the shooting death by police of two vengeance-seeking gunmen, it prompted Marine veteran Jon Ritzheimer to organize a similar rally held on the last Friday in May in Phoenix, AZ.

The relatively new phenomenon of storing piss in empty beer cups might leave Mr Kardashian in need of a poncho. Yet this is beginning to look less and less like a joke, and increasingly as if Kanye is going to have to invest in several heavy-duty umbrellas and a raincoat. Kanye has a history of storming off and on various stages thanks to an arguably inflated sense of self-importance, and a swift scatological sousing could cause a similar reaction.

Taking the piss is a Commonwealth term meaning to take liberties at the expense of others, or to be joking, or to be unreasonable. It is a shortening of the idiom taking the piss out of, which is an expression meaning to mock , tease, joke, ridicule, or scoff. Taking the Mickey Mickey Bliss, Cockney rhyming slang , taking the Mick or taking the Michael is another term for making fun of someone.