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Tastleless jokes

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Moononthehill28 · 05/02/2019 08:03

Last night I watched s bit of Live At The Apollo. Really enjoying it I found the kind as the jokes were genuinely funny without being vulgar for once. Don’t eknow the name of the comedian but he was Canadian.
Then he told a joke which I found really offensive .
‘I prefer women rented,

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Moononthehill28 · 05/02/2019 08:03

Like my skis, a bit of oll on the bitt

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RunningFeisty · 05/02/2019 08:13

Probably best not to watch comedy shows then if you have no measurable sense of humour..

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Moononthehill28 · 05/02/2019 15:21

Well since I didn’t in the end post the joke due to my phone playing up, how can you judge? Yes I do have a sense of humour, this joke was just really off colour.
I like my women rented, like my skis. A bit of grease on the butt and off I go. Miming pumping action.

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Fatbutt · 05/02/2019 15:34

Stewart Francis? He used that joke on Mock the Week too.

Don't worry yourself, he has announced a farewell tour.

Nothing to get offended about though.

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Moononthehill28 · 05/02/2019 15:37

Really? Why not?

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Confusedbeetle · 05/02/2019 15:38

The joke is not remotely funny

MilkTwoSugarsThanks · 05/02/2019 15:45

One person's "tasteless" is another person's "rofl" 🤷🏼‍♀️

araiwa · 05/02/2019 15:48

I like my women like i like my coffee- covered in bees

No thank you, i take it black... like my men

Bezalelle · 05/02/2019 15:51

"a bit of oll on the bitt"

What does this even mean?

ItsallGoinDown · 05/02/2019 15:56

I like my women like i like my coffee- covered in bees

Just when I thought i was down wiv the yoof! pls tell what does this mean? Grin

Fatbutt · 05/02/2019 15:56

why is it nothing to get offended about?

Like @MilkTwoSugarsThanks said, One person's "tasteless" is another person's "rofl"

to me its a bit 'Meh!' - so he told a joke, its not exactly shocking or controversial, its not really worth getting in a tizzy about.

DorothyZbornak · 05/02/2019 16:28

If that's all you have to worry about OP, then I really envy you.

AutumnCrow · 05/02/2019 16:37

Just imagine if the genders were reversed*

  • MN meme

I like my men like I like my silently poured double espresso. Quiet, rich, and dead. Oh no, hang on, that's Les Dawson. Oh wait a minute, let's go for Howard Hughes. Clint Eastwood? Is he alive? Frank Carson with a Britta filter up his arse? No? Where's your fucking sense of humour?

AliyyaJann · 05/02/2019 16:37

What about that joke Frankie Boyle made about Harvey Price?

Yeah just someone's rofl right?

ChairmanMiaow123 · 05/02/2019 16:40

Itsall - it’s an old Eddie Izzard joke.

He was excellent, back in the day. I try and remember him like that and not as the div he is today.

ItsallGoinDown · 05/02/2019 16:44

@Chairman But what does it mean? i've heard, "i like my women like i like my coffee", meaning the man likes women of colour. I just don't get the "covered in bees" part. Whatever it is, it sounds like a very painful situation Confused.

WendyImhome · 05/02/2019 16:48

I like my coffee like I like my women... in a plastic cup

randomchap · 05/02/2019 16:53

I prefer Joe Lycett's version:

"I like my women like I like my coffee; nowhere near my penis"

Bumblebee39 · 05/02/2019 16:55

Love Joe Lycett Grin he makes me laugh for sure
I guess that's the thing with comedy, some comedians fit your humour and some don't. If you don't like it then on to the next one.

ChelleDawg2020 · 05/02/2019 16:57

Any decent comedian will throw out a few jokes that will upset somebody or other. We all have different tastes, and what is "tasteless" to one will be hilarious to another.

Some people like Mrs Brown's Boys, for Christ's sake!

Ifangyow · 05/02/2019 17:00

Everyone has a different sense of humour.
I have a black sense of humour, the sicker the joke, the funnier I find it.
I find the joke that you've just described funny, but it's an old one.
My sister however, doesn't get black or sick humour so therefore doesn't find it funny.
Much the way that some people frown at dirty jokes.
It's each to their own.

AutumnCrow · 05/02/2019 17:00

I like my men like I like my tea. Picked and shredded into teeny tiny pieces, dried out, steeped in boiling water and poured with milk. Well obviously I don't, becaue that would frankly be quite weird, but it makes people laugh apparently.

Racecardriver · 05/02/2019 17:03

@autumncrowGrin

donquixotedelamancha · 05/02/2019 17:12

Some people like Mrs Brown's Boys, for Christ's sake!

Are we sure that's true? I've never met one in the wild and I'm not even sure which bits are supposed to be the jokes. Perhaps it's all some sinister conspiracy and nobody really likes it? Perhaps MBB is a really intellectual parody of 1970s bawdy comedy and those who watch it actually appreciate it on a much deeper level?

@OP. Not really sure what your AIBU is? YANBU to not like a particular joke if that's it.

Lovingbenidorm · 05/02/2019 17:15

Comedy should not be censored.
I don’t find that joke particularly funny but I think you’re overreacting a little