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

oops - moved on a bit!

I'm a Scorp but not 50 yet

Yes Maryz, but the misspelling is actually that posters own style.

She always spells like that. So actually, knowing how the poster writes and then seeing that, it could either be a poor attempt at irony or just a way to wind everyone up.

As it happened, it wound everyone up.

I still fail to see what was so funny. Even when you realise it was not serious, it was hardly hysterical and to call it satire is an offense to satire. It wasn't clever enough.

Thanks Tantrums

I didn't read the original thread. So I actually have no clue.

No offense intended, Amber

Oh, I dunno. The tone has changed on 'ere. Or, maybe, I have changed

Rhub is quite right MaryZ

Do you want to think about it a bit?

A thread like this reminds me of how the Tories got in and why DM has a huge readership.

I didn't find that thread offensive
but i agree with rhubarb it wasn't funny

Well the tories got in because the libdems sided with them and people read the DM because they are thick.

But ok.

Hi all,

These threads are a judgement call and we hold our hands up that we sometimes make the wrong call but we do not delete threads/posts just because folks are offended - we delete when a thread/post breaks our guidelines

However, humour/sarcasm/irony are not always obvious - even to us - and even if they are, we do not always keep threads or posts because some people think they are funny. There are plenty of vile "jokes" in existence, after all.

It was satirical

Whether you found it funny or not is entirely irrelevant

But it's that idea that if you get offended by stuff you're a dick.

Really, Posie? So now laughing is right wing?

'Three women walk into a pub and say, "Hooray, we've colonised a male-dominated joke format".'

Bill Bailey.

I get offended by stuff. I don't think I'm a dick.

You couldn't tell the op was satirical?

You really really couldn't?

hully maybe its yous lot, that did find it funny that have something missing...

I HAVE NEVER SAID THAT IF YOU GET OFFENDED YOU ARE A DICK

I SAID (FOR THE FIFTIETH TIME) THAT IT IS VERY BORING WHEN INTENT AND PURPOSE ARE MISCONSTRUED AND JUMPED UPON IN A HUMOURLESS FASHION

Same Teethkissing.

Even the OP said it wasn't intended to be particularly funny or a satirical observation, she was just passing the time of day and started a bored thread.

It was badly worded, again she admits this. Some people did get offended by the tone (if you didn't know the OP you could be forgiven for thinking this was a stupid troll, which many posters did). Others who knew the OP or read it differently came on to defend it and then those who got offended were called stupid and humourless and it all got out of hand. Then this thread started.

Not exactly a contender for Classics is it?

Oh the irony of it all

the bloody irony

No laughing isn't right wing! I laugh a lot, I can also be offensive (to some) and I have no desire to change. BUT the idea on here is that if one is offended it's because they don't understand, it reminds me of Ricky Gervais being criticised for using 'mong' or 'twongs', instead of holding his hands up and saying sorry he made it loads worse, first.

HULLY. I am talking about this thread NOT YOU. SO SAVE YOUR CAPS and I'll save mine.

STOP BLOODY SHOUTING YOU SHOUTY WOMAN YOU.

Or, are you my Mum? She bloody loves CAPS LOCK