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

I get POed by POs sometimes.

I often want to ask, when they've laid into someone who has made a ignorant faux pas, if they've never made a similar gaffe or been guilty of holding similar prejudices. I bet some of them have. Lots in fact.

Honestly.

People have a right to be offended as much as people have a right to offend.

MN have a right to delete things they deem offensive.

I get lots deleted.

cyn I missed that

Of course some 'humour' is offensive (and that thread was more ham-fisted shit-stirring than satirical, from the little I saw), but there is something very satisfying in an elegant piece of satire. I love the humour of MN, and I find it frustrating that any levity is pounced on by people who don't want to join in or can't keep up. Rather than just posting in the way they prefer to, they sometimes attack anyone sharing a joke as cliquish and bullying, which is inordinately depressing. If everybody posted in a measured slow fashion, listening and debating respectfully, we would end up with just some earnest conch-passing exercise, and I doubt the place would be anything like the draw it is. Can't people just accept that there are different styles of posting, and that the site is all the better for it?

I get the point here BUT this just comes over a bit like people are saying things are only offensive if the person/group its directed at 'just can't take a joke'

Some times, its a very thin line.

Some times I read stuff on here that is offensive, I dont get outraged or 'PO' it just tends to make me think that person is a bit of a wanker.

glares and best you missed it SP! Just tonnes of crotch talk and mooncupiness...your delicate sensibilities would have been offended..

Sole anyone can be racist no matter where they or their kid's heritage comes from.

I'm not saying you are racist btw, just pointing out a fact.

The PO stuff is pretty tiresome and here it seems to be "you don't find the same things funny as me, ergo you are PO".

A couple of years back on MN loads of the SN mums including me were accused of being professionally offended as we stood up against disablist threads as we were expected to explain and educate. Now disablist bollocks is deleted and all the better for it.

Sometimes it takes people speaking up to get good changes to happen. Dismissing them as being professionally offended just because you don't agree with them is a bit twattish really.

Re 'known' posters, I think when you get comfy on a forum like this and know all the 'in jokes' it is easy to forget that not everyone will know the in jokes.

I think people should bear that in mind before calling 'PO'

Am beginning to think SP's Fanjo is a clown car...if anyone sees my gold watch in there, please pass to lost and found..

Posie - you're the arse steak/stake owner, aren't you?

That's how I think of you anyway

...and what Keema said.

Yup and on the "known" thing - being a known name does mean that you can say things or start threads that other people may not get away with. Its fair enough that if you hang around long enough on here you're going to make friends and have in-jokes.

Its not a bad thing, its not a good thing, its just how it is. Pretending that it doesn't happen, though, is daft.

BOF - excellent point. I did however read 'we would end up with just some earnest conch-passing exercise' as 'we would end up with just some earnest crotch pissing exercise'.

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I get that people are unhappy about certain subjects.

But when theres a thread, and I'm not referring to the earlier thread by sole but a thread where people are all having a little joke, like this mornings little jokes about our DHs, is it really and truly necessary to get offended by that and post the most ridiculous statements in order to totally derail a thread where every other person on it was just having a joke?

Sometimes people joke about things. Perfectly un offensive things, like their own husbands or children. It's obvious it's meant to be light hearted. Everyone finds it funny.

And then one person has to come along and start picking holes in everything and reading things that are not there

I'm not comfy on MN really. I try to treat others how I would like to be treaed myself. But I was angry I guess and tok the pee out of people like that.

So you'd advise crowd following as the way to live life tantrums? How equally dull.

I think I'm with Amber and Keema. Which is surprising even for me

(BTW, that isn't a 'surprised to be agreeing with Amber and Keema', more a 'surprised to be holding this opinion, but still am')

So if I ever find myself sat next to you at a dinner party, LaQ, I'll know what my host thinks of me....

Chickens I nearly got offended there