if u read my entire post Nostromo...i was saying exactly what Aurelius said....this whole monkey controversy was publicized during the one day series in India about 3-4 months back, there were even a couple of people arrested for making those baboon gestures!!!....if its not a big deal for calling people monkeys in india then why didn't BCCI take up this issue at that time?? when a player is banned on an allegation of making monkey comments..BCCI and chetan chauhan say monkey is not a huge insult and saying the b-word is far more insulting, its just suggests that ur defensive and something must be wrong...in the West the b-word is not that big a deal...maybe the ICC needs to come up with a universal code on what words are acceptable...there is talk of the stump mic recording evidence now...wonder where the evidence was for so long...? and the BCCI is on the backfoot saying the evidence maybe doctored and threatening to pull out...lots of sinister undercurrents in this issue!!! but if bhajji did say it....it would be honest to come in the open and apologize for his remarks and accept the decision...even warne was banned for using steroids... accepted the ban and came back strong!!!