People who signed this get that it was a joke. Some others didn't. It very obviously wasn't a serious petition Surely no one could think this was going to be sent to the U.N.? It was low brow satire, a farcical jest that I shared with some friends. It would have remained that way, and been forgotten about very quickly, as all silly jokes are, had someone in the news media not seen it and thought it newsworthy. That anyone saw it as newsworthy is puzzling. How so many saw it as newsworthy is far more puzzling. It must have been a very slow news week. I doubt very much that Phil Collins would give a damn about my musical taste, and nor do I think anyone else should be bothered by something that was easy to see had no serious intent. It's gone now, so people who were annoyed about it and gave their attention to it, and people who reported it and directed so many other people's attention towards it may direct their attentions to something of real importance. This petition wasn't that. It was a silly joke, that is all, no more than that.