To wonder how a 'satirical' thread is deemed 'not in the spirit' of this site...

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... and deleted toot suite, and to feel sad for the seeming decline of satire in general?

There is still a variety of satirical websites, publications and similar. But I feel not so much mainstream content ie regular popular tv programmes, aired at peak times. I also sense that satire is often misunderstood or that many people either don't ' get it' or refuse to get it. I long for an extra few tv and radio programmes dedicated to the satire of everyone and everything, from the great and the good to your everyday people.

Please someone reassure me that satire isn't dying or disappearing from the public consciousness? I think it plays an important role in politics, culture you name it.

Not quite a TAAT - more a personal concern that satire just seems to be slowly shrinking as a means of commentary in the UK.

Is this the Peter Andre thread? Has it gone already?

Ubik - ah sanity saving Private Eye - favourite read on the commute.

Raspberry

It was taken from a Facebook page called I See You, which gives the same treatment to any number of celebrities. I think people thought the OP was speaking her brains when she was just saying "I read this. It's funny."

I don't know if it is because people sometimes read things out of context on the internet. Or don't pay proper attention to what they do read. The Guardian (or is it The Observer) has a column purportedly by a hipster, or a banker, or a cyclist, or whoever, which is clearly a joke, but if you read the comments underneath the online version they are full of comments by people who clearly believe it's a straight article.

If Swift published A Modest Proposal today online it would have loads of comments saying "OMG u is so sick u shld be lockd up"

The thread about Peter Andre, it was C+P from the Facebook page 'I See You'. It's dark humour but very well written, I think it's a shame it was deleted But some posters had gone very 'Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells' so I guess it was inevitable.

What is this long-running joke on MN about Peter Andre? I need to know.
Have I missed something?

(I agree that some people are completely humorless and love to get a thread zapped just for the sake of it)

Good riddens to it. I had a post deleted as some had chips on their shoulders and me repeating what a court judge said was apparently racism.

i wonder if CAN associates have requested MN to keep a lid on all the perfectly pointless Peter stuff?

We always laugh at The Annoying Orange, it's a staple on here

Raspberry I fucking see you!

I was about to comment on it to say how much I was actually, properly, laugh-out-louding and then poof!

It was funny.

They deleted Perer Andre Loves his Kids?

Is this not a long running mumsnet joke? Don't they have an orange klaxon and everything ?

Those threads were brilliantly funny.

I like satire, am a Private Eye reader and generally not particularly PC at all - but that was weird, a bit sick, very long, rather horrible, not even slightly funny and there is no reason to get personal about people's kids just because they are in the public eye.

Satirize politics, business - by all means but not peoples' kids - on a parenting site.

i don't even lurk much here these days, and tbh, no fucking wonder

sucking the fun out of a clown, anyone

(with the SIOB, before anyone makes any other connection)

Oh. I don't like the I See You page. The satire is so subtle it goes over my head. Wouldn't insist on its deletion though

Can we not slag off the Orange One now?

What is the world coming to!!

It Was not satire nor was It remotely amusing or entertaining.

Was that the thread that ended with PA killing his kids?

I'm sure many people do enjoy satire, but to be honest I'm not sure that particular piece was suitable for a parenting website.

I found the FB page,
I See You (Horror Stories from the Celebrity Void)

Classic!

Nobody was slagging off his children. They were happily playing on the luxurious cream pile in the living room.

They were describing his kids.

actually scrub that, I have just read the I see you thing and it was truly unpleasant
sorry to cast nasturtiums mn

Satirize politics, business - by all means but not peoples' kids - on a parenting site

It was saying he loved his kids - who were actually baby goats and did nothing to 'satirize' his actual children.

It was weird and a dark and I thought it was great.

Can't believe it has been deleted.

Funny though that a lot of people on this parenting website seem to think it's ok to suggest that some people's children shouldn't have been born.

Usually when money worries are raised.

Didn't see the thread, but absolutely with you on the decline of satire. Thank f..for Private Eye and Viz!

I think part of the problem is that many people these days are very, very easily offended (in RL not just on here) and refuse to see humour. Others simply don't "get" satire. Shame.

It wasnt satirical it was nasty and personal im not P A biggest fan but the man is torn to shreds on here for what being a bit dramatic and cheesey satire is meant to be cutting witty and funny not down right nasty .

Just looked dt that FB entry.

That's not satire. It's character assassination. I can see why they deleted it.

The long running mumsnet thread was very tongue in cheek. It wasn't cruel.