AIBU to find this " Best Gag of the Edinburgh Festival in poor taste?

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www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-49389208

I have seen and read this "joke " repeated several times on TV in the past few days and find it in very poor taste. Newsreaders on TV have been chuckling. Tourette's can be a serious and debilatating condition and sufferers have huge challenges in everyday life. Surely we are a bit more grown up these days than to poke fun at people with a neurological condition?
Is is just me being stuffy?

I liked the cow joke too.

As far as the freedom of speech thing goes- I think he should be able to make this joke. I just don’t think he should have made it. And I don’t think it should have been given an award. With rights come responsibilities.

It’s a pun on the word tourette’s, it doesn’t poke fun at or belittle people with Tourette’s, IMO.

wow a whole 15% are capable of empathy. That's fucking depressing.

I didn't think the joke was great, but it didn't offend me either. But once I knew that people with Torettes WERE finding it offensive, then I'm going to say they have the casting vote.

Making fun of disability isn't the same as making fun of ignorance, or organised religion or the everyday stupid things people do, because disability isn't a choice.

The only people who can make fun of a disability are those who actually experience it IMO.

funniest joke ? it was crap and a about as funny as piles !

This thread sums up the world we live, people being offended for the sake of ot, hate to think what the world will be like I 10 years

I don't find it offensive.

But if that's the funnest joke at the Edinburgh fringe, then I think the Edinburgh fringe must be seriously unfunny.

I'm very fond of a good pun, that is not a good pun.

People are not being offended for "the sake of it". People have clearly detailed how this joke winning an award has made their children feel. Political and structural discrimination are fed by cultural discrimination. The child who is being excluded from mainstream education because of their inability to deal with his neurological condition is also the child who switched on the news today to find out that making jokes about that condition is completely acceptable. The joke is shit. The comedian had the right to tell the joke. Those who gave him the award are arse holes.

wow a whole 15% are capable of empathy. That's fucking depressing

I was thinking the same. Then I mentioned it to OH and he reminded me of some of the threads I've told him about on mumsnet that have made me feel like I live on a different planet to many on mumsnet. Glad to be part of that 15%. More importantly 100% of the people who are important to me would feel this joke is insensitive and completely shit

Cauliflower and broccoli are tasteless, to be fair.

I keep shouting about my baby marrows. I’ve got courgettes.

runs away

You are a wee bit delicate, don’t actually go to a comedy show, that’s a very mild joke 🤣😉

If you find that offensive... fine, that’s on you. Only you can control what you find offensive and perhaps if you change your outlook you will see it in another light.
however... it’s not right to be offended on behalf of someone else. That’s not how that works. You don’t get to decide what other people find offensive. That’s not your place

This joke is being officially endorsed as the best joke of the festival. A joke about a neurological condition. Wow.

Let's face it, all gags are in poor taste, one way or another someone is going to be offended, don't sweat it, it's just a joke!

book the point is that now lots and lots of people who didn't choose to expose themselves to it have heard it...because it won a prize.

I don't think many on here are saying jokes like this should be censored...just that jokes like this shouldn't win prizes.

Yip. It's actually pretty embarrassing @Bertrand

monchat yes you are right. I've had a nice grown up entertaining debate with DH about this issue and he agrees with you that we just have to be grateful we aren't in the 85% and don't know many peopl in RL who are.

“Let's face it, all gags are in poor taste”

No they aren’t!

Well IMO it wasn't that funny.

The one about the stolen anti-depressants was far funnier...😂

Yes they are, someone or something is always the butt of the joke, it's in poor taste in their opinion! What individuals find funny will always subjective.

I think it's brilliant word play, i like it. I like the Demerara one too.

Pffft. There are much much worse things to be offended by.

Of the other 9 jokes, only one of them has a “butt” - the Duke of Edinburgh. One other is about old Etonians- but it was told by an old Etonian. So no, not all gags are in poor taste.

So no, not all jokes

Aww, all you patronising wee folk going on about the professionally offended. You’re quick enough to make a fuss if my ds with his gross motor tics and occasional odd noise wants to go to the cinema or the theatre or any other public place that exposes him to bullying and ridicule, but yeah, he’s jus professionally offended. 😡

It's a rubbish joke!

i think this is my favourite..

""I've got an Eton-themed advent calendar, where all the doors are opened for me by my dad's contacts" - Ivo Graham"

or

"To be or not to be a horse rider, that is Equestrian" - Mark Simmons"

But closely followed up by "I accidentally booked myself onto an escapology course; I'm really struggling to get out of it" - Adele Cliff"

and "After learning six hours of basic semaphore, I was flagging - Richard Pulsford"