?a blind man walks into a bar?,
as he reaches the middle of the room he picks his guide dog up and swings it around his head and then puts it back down on the floor. ?what are you doing?? asks the barman, ?oh, I?m just having a look round? he replies.
Now I don?t find that offensive, it?s a crap joke as in I?ve heard far better, but it certainly wouldn?t offend. However I think that there?s a vast difference between that kind of joke and people making jokes about people with learning difficulties for instance, because someone with a physical disability can turn around and say that they find it offensive, but someone with a learning disability doesn?t know any better and would often not even realize that someone was having a laugh at their expense. And the parent of that someone with a learning disability knows that their child is being used for a cheap laugh.
And to the poster who said that these programmes are shown after the watershed and that children should be in bed, do they then not realize that these children grow into adults?
I think it?s important to be able to make light of your own disability, because I think that if you don?t then you run the risk of it getting you down, but that?s for the person with the disability to decide.