Humour. The fitness of subjects thereof. Opinions?

[Hullygully]

Mine is often unsuitable, apparently.

So, I am genuinely interested to know, what subjects do you think shouldn't be joked about?

Did anyone see the joke about the French pen knife - complete with a white flag ....

Most French food is a test IME.

sorry bej, that was to proud, not you.

French food withered on the vine.

steak hache.

say no more.

I have met lots of rude English people but not many rude French people.
They actually go out of their way to help, as we found when we hitchhiked around France. They would not only give us a lift but find us a hotel and then take us out for a meal!

I'm not much good at jokes and can remember only one.

What's black and frizzled and hangs from the ceiling?

I'm sure some of you will know.

I have had some appalling food in France to be fair.

Italy on the other hand, I've only ever had ONE bad dish in Italy.

I am now taking myself and my one and only joke off this thread; because I am offended.. It is very funny and I'll take it somewhere where it WILL be properly appreciated.

i like it feckarse

I don't think I could have made my point any clearer, really.

I'm so sorry, I just can't see what you're trying to say, prodn

I don't tend to find jokes funny when the humour is at someone else's expense. Quite often the malice or lack of thought of the 'joker' is very obvious and just makes him or her look like a twat IMO. However, I don't mind people having a joke at my expense, or making jokes about mothers (as an example) when it's done with affection and good nature. Then it's not about making someone feel small or foolish in order to get a laugh; it's actually something that speaks to a shared bond between the comedian and the subject and implies equality. The trouble is, that's very much dependent on the person making the joke and the tone of voice in which it is done. On the internet, you can't really get that across well.

I'm not a funny person. I am not witty. I often come across as quite serious. But I have a very well-developed sense of humour, often quite black. Just because I don't make jokes doesn't mean I don't find things funny. There is something funny in most situations TBH. I often find that the more shit you have thrown at you in life, the funnier you find things (since the choice seems to be find a coping mechanism like humour or end up a scarred and bitter individual). But even if I could make funny jokes myself, on the Internet I'd steer clear of making any where someone is the butt of the joke simply because it is so open to misinterpretation.

Thank you bejeezus

What joke was that Feck?

What's black and white and red all over ?

A nun in a liquidiser.

BOOM BOOM.

It could have been a zebra, couldn't it?

And I didn't get the one about the white French flag

I wish I could tell you my faith healer joke. It doesn't come across written down. It needs voices.

That's a shame Proudnscary because i didn't get it (your point).

I don't understand people who continually post on threads where they don't like the OP or are offended by the content, if you must, make your point then fuck off and leave others to it, report it if you think it offensive, but to bang on and on and on about something over many threads is just a tad sad.

oh have a go tethers

Also could have been a newspaper with ketchup spilt on it

Sorry bejeezus, double crossed-wires, I'll just STFU now, eh?

"The frog leg thing though - that's just proper wrong. Also my X ordered a pizza in France once (I don't know why, because he's a dick probably) and when it arrived it was a pancake with a hamburger on the top. HA HA HA! How brilliant is that? FUCK YOU AND YOUR PIZZA!"

THIS is why the French are the shizzle. My ex's sister who was a whiny fucking strict vegetarian once breezily asked a waiter in the Dordogne for "whatever the vegetarian special is". he brought out a single sliced radish, arranged beautifully on a side plate. Almost shat myself laughing.

Rule. That's just sick. Zebras are lovely.

absolutely anything is fair game for humour.

couldn't agree more, mayor.

It amazes that I come across many people in life who don't seem to be able to seperate real opinion from satire. I'm not saying that people don't have the right to be offended when a person is joking but what they do NOT have the right to do is assume that we all have the same sensibilities and are arseholes because we're not as offended as they are.

Christ, I belong to 2 different "minority groups" and, for me, a good laugh at things seems like the healthy way forward rather than getting my panties in a bunch. It's like sticking two fingers up to anyone who has given me real grief.

I accept completely that because someone thinks that something is funny that it doesn't then mean that they agree with what was said in the joke. It just means that they can laugh about it in a different context. No need to read any more into it than that really.

I accept that I do need to edit myself depending on the audience because I don't set out to deliberately offend but, when in the right group, I can have a rare time knowing that we don't BELIEVE what we're saying. We're just having a laugh.

I didn't read all of Hully's thread, it's 18 pages long! I got to page 10.
Didn't see anything offensive as far as page 10.

Thing is, someone posted about her dd being locked in the house and her dh missing. Lots of worried posts asking her to call the police. She finally discovered her dh upstairs in bed reading, oblivious to the panic downstairs. Not one person said that thread was offensive and there were lots of people making silly suggestions too, esp when he was found.

Hully posted about her neighbours, with a few funnies about them all being dead. Yes you could compare that with the recent cases of dads going beserk, killing their families and then themselves and you could get offended. But from what I saw, that wasn't what offended some of the posters. They were offended because they had experienced domestic abuse and thought what exactly? That Hully was taking the piss out of DV? That's an absurd notion. Then other posters come on to be offended on behalf of the people who were offended. Which is just downright silly.

Whether or not you thought the thread funny is moot, it was no more offensive to victims of DV than a leg warmer is offensive to a sheep.

Seemed to me that people were more put out about their troll accusations being wrong and so started a different line of offence. Some people actively WANT to be offended because that gives them attention.

There, that's my tuppence spent.