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

Joyless Dementors? Dementors are supposed to happy now, are they? Have you ever thought what it must be like to spend time eternal in the timeless wastes of Dementia, always on call? Oh, no, never mind any other spirit's life of painful misery, they must stick on a happy face so as not to offend the likes of you

Reporting you for being uncaring.

I'm reporting myself for saying "Dementia" without making consoling noises about the terrible group of illnesses that are collectively known as dementia. I have Alzheimer's you know.

I'm reporting myself for referring flippantly to the terrible disease that ruins lives.

Absy - I am not a morris dancer! I have never been morris dancing.

You have me mixed up woth someone else. I know that solidgoldbrass is a Morris Dancer (unless I have made a clanging error and she was being euphemistic )

But seeker people get offended by things that aren't offensive or even matter that much.

'Am I taking this too literally?'

Yes.

It was a joke.

Are you one of the 'offended'?!

The best threads are when you get the joyless dementors and the frothing berserkers clashing.

There is some overlap, I myself can see both sides, but generally they don't get on.

Yes seeker, but someone somewhere is always offended by everything.

How anodyne convo would be.

For eg, calling for the abolition of grammar schools is mighty offensive to a great many...

But how do you know something is offensive if it is not offensive to you? Offence is subjective. If you aren't saying things like "black people can really dance and cook all the fried chicken" or "Gays and their AIDS" etc etc, then you're into subjective territory.

Oh christ yes someone not too long ago had a go at me because I started a thread called 'magazines for the demented' and she said I was being perjorative towards those with dementia.

i love cupboards i spent my whole child hood playing lion witch and the wardrobe im deeply offended.

Robbie Williams offended me on Loose Women today. I was so cross I started a thread.

~RL Hully? But that's where racist twunts people like my colleague dwell?

Do you know what offended me the most? is that he said it to me in a "you know what I mean" kind of way.

NO I DON'T I'M NOT A TWUNT LIKE YOU

And breathe.

Apologies GetOrf for the slander. I have a rubbish memory.

I'm now going to look at topless pictures of a young Robert De Niro to calm me down.

Was he wearing a waistcoat to conceal his expanding girth, Sparkling? That seems to be his new trick. It's like the male version of those optical illusion dresses that seemto be springing up everywhere.

laqueen you had a face at the wellie-less children of Iraq! I read it as 'offended that everyone is not aware of weather conditions in Iraq'.

Ooo yes, surely it's time for topless men again? Who was that one we like?

I think gawjuss men go very well with ranting and anti-po

No Bupcakes, but Denzie Welch was simpering and giggling.

I wonder how long it would take for the rumour that Getorf is a morris dancer to spread across mumsnet?

I know that someone will always be offended by pretty much any viewpoint. But that's missing the point.

You have to be open to people having these views, and to discussing them, at face value, and humour or mocking is a way to STOP discussion and basically end the debate.

It's a way of being so domatic that you refuse even to consider the other person's POV.

It's rude to cut off discussion, or differences using humour. It isn't a fair thing to do.

That's the difference between disagreeing, or arguing a point on here, and laughing someone off the board.

No. Calling for the abolition of grammar schools is not offensive. Saying that you're only campaigning for abolition because your child is too stupid to get in and you're jealous is offensive. Posting about how worried you are about whether your child is going to get into a grammar school on a thread somebody has started to talk about a child with significant intellectual impairment is offensive. Posting about how everyone whose child goes to grammar school is a crashing snob is offensive. But calling for the abolition of or increase in grammar schools isn't offensive.

Why do I miss everything

I have a picture on my profile of cock pants. That my offend people.