MN IS NOW OFFICIALLY A JOKE FREE ZONE BECAUSE EVERYTHING IS REALLY SERIOUS AND GUARANTEED TO OFFEND SOMEONE SOMEWHERE IN A CUPBOARD IN 1970

[Hullygully]

No jokes please.

1. No jokes about my dh walks a bit funny.

Because real people walk a bit funny and it is SERIOUS. I HAVE REPORTED YOU.

1. No jokes about furriners go ome or goats because real people face this everyday and it is SERIOUS I HAVE REPORTED YOU

I HAVE REPORTED EVERYONE EVERYWHERE FOR EVERYTHING JUST IN CASE

FFS

Rhubs that is v sad, lovely.

GhostShip (there's a missing apostrophe if one hovers over your nickname... REPORT IT and GET IT FIXED!)

THIS IS A FEMINIST ISSUE
THINK OF THE CHILDREN

Oh boy, seen those a few times now... anyway, RL demands I go and get rained on as I need milk

See? A thread like this that now condemns those who don't share your sense of humour as idiots who lack a certain piece of DNA

I'm backing out now as I find some of these views quite repulsive in their own rights, quite smug, quite arrogrant and frankly quite unintelligent

^^ this, i meant

Oh lordy Getorf

I thought I was being funny, and that you were a baby female Morris dancer.

Well I don't think that anyone is an idiot for not sharing my humour, but I do think it's rather futile and a wee bit daft to register offence at simply everything that you do not like (I mean this in terms of humour obviously)

I totally get where Rhubs is coming from.

How often do we see threads where posters feel offended, are put down, and are blamed for "no sense of humour" by their abusers, who claim that "it was all just a joke, but you have no sense of humour, tut tut"

It is bullying behaviour. One should be a bit more sensitive.

I read it as a though you were joking help! I think the 'offended' bug may be contagious.

Dont be so bloody crass and obtuse, LeQueen.

Or in proper mumsnet terms:

Did you intend to sound so rude?

Nice

FFS

Or perhaps LaQueen is being satirical?

Rhubarb has made me laugh at her witty posts many a time. She has a SOH fo'sure.

Yes! it was CLEARLY A JOKE!

xpost

sorry Rhubs didn't mean to talk about you like you weren't here!

it made me laugh

LeQueen

It's irrelevant whether THeRhubarb has a sense of humour.

What is significant is that her stepfather used 'not having a sense of humour' as an excuse to emotionally abuse her. It's relevant because it means she, and many other posters are more sensitive to tongue in cheek threads.

Well HAGB maybe it's you wot is lacking, then, in the old humour sense dept?

Hmm...

Eds is there a need to be rude about what someone else finds funny? Haven't you just got cross with everyone for that very thing?!

It was only a suggestion, to counter a suggestion...nothing rude about it.

It's easier not to make a particular joke in case it offends. But every joke will offend someone, and I've always believed that the audience is bigger than one person. The danger is that things will become bland.

• David Walliams

I think he has a point.

Erm. I'm not very happy about THIS IS A FEMINIST ISSUE being linked to no sense of humour.

So ner ner.

of course she is a morris dancer.

LaQueen don't mention it- I got the wrong end of the stick with bells on it.