Some bright spark marketing team have announced the newest member of their much loved Transformers line of toys is to be named 'Spastic'. Apparently this means something different to our stateside brothers and sisters, but over here in Blighty it is a potentially very offensive term used in a derogatory fashion toward the disabled. A perfect example of marketeers not being able to see the wood for the trees and a lesson to us all to look at what we are doing.