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

IT WAS CLEAR FROM THE OP BY THE USE OF "INGLISH" FOR EG THAT SHE WAS USING SATIRE TO HIGHLIGHT THE LUDICROUSNESS OF SUCH AN OPINION.

hth

In Bups' case, she was just being silly about her own dh.

What is it people don't get about satire..???

This is fun. But I've got to go to the dentist.

Apologise for using boob..do not want any breast people to be offended..

I did wonder what tits head was about

Oh dear. I do hope I haven't upset anyone with a real Tits Head affliction. I really am most terribly sorry for any offence caused.

I like satire, I just don't like it when it's not funny, when it's crassly put to cause maximum offence, before backtracking fast, and when it's pointless.

When it's done properly it's great (HIGNFY etc etc)

I think that Frankie Boyle is fucking VILE and I wouldn't piss on him if he were on fire, tbh. But I wouldn't berate anyone else for finding him funny. I might re-evaluate my thoughts on a person that thought that laughing outright at disabled children was fair game, but I wouldn't huff and puff and "Oh I am oh so very offended" at them. Humour is subjective and I maintain that people have a right to find things funny that I, or others, might not.

I KNOW that I don't like FB's humour, so I avoid it. I wouldn't rock up at one of his shows and then protest about how offended I am. People would tell me to shove my offence up my arse, and they'd be right.

However, this is all academic because I do think that a lot of offence is taken on MN about things that aren't even THERE. Things are twisted, agendas are aired. People are told that they are not joking when it is obvious that they are. It does seem like some people are just up for a ruck and if there is no ruck to be had, they'll make one.

Sorry Hully, most of the time I agree with you, this time I don't. You've done a thread like this before. Being outraged with the outraged. It doesn't work imo.

Not everyone who gets offended is humourless and not every joke made is funny. It was a crass thread. It was bound to get the response it did. Some people (probably those who have experienced racism) got quite offended by it. The thread was pulled.

I don't understand why another thread has to be started to have a go at those who didn't find it funny in the first place. We're not all the same. Making out that they are somehow thick is not fair.

So now we will be having a go at typos!
I am prepared to name and shame!

What Eds said.

That was not satire. It was merely a foolish thread.

That's ok Rhubs

I am not offended that you are offended by this.

Let's agree to differ.

It's getting a bit dull, isn't it?

'Saying those who didn't see the funny side are humourless rejects from the 1970s is going too far'

You didn't need to find it funny but you also don't need to offended you can read it, think that's a bit stupid and move on.

Rhubarb this is the problem I have with 'PO'

I've spent my childhood and life being told I had 'no sense of humour' when I got upset about being teased, or bullied etc

and now MN has started doing it with a convenient little label to attach to all us rejects from back then.

What are people defending? How are we a threat?

Cynner :o

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.

It WAS a foolish thread. I already said it was hamfisted. However, I don't think that there was any malice in it or that OP really wanted non-whites out. It's the accusations that it was a serious thread/MN suicide that rankle.

Rhubarb are you joking? Or are you really offended by the thread about the easily offended?

What was this racist thread about anyway? I thought we were talking about Buppy's metrosexual DH. Have I missed un fred controversee?

Dont be a silly billy hully gully!

Eds, same here. I would suffer daily abuse from my stepfather, sarky remarks to me, subtle put downs and if I complained, I had no sense of humour. Clearly

This thread, these posters (I understand this is not what you meant Hully) are doing the same. It's vile.

i agree whole-heartedly Rhubarb