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?

Fair enough @Lifecraft- that was all much more interesting and thoughtful than your earlier “but what if jokes about farming upset vegans” schtick. But I do hope as a teacher you don’t bring that attitude into the classroom.

Incidentally, am I the only person who could not retell that joke even if I wanted to because I say FLOret, not floRET?

Fair enough @Lifecraft- that was all much more interesting and thoughtful than your earlier “but what if jokes about farming upset vegans” schtick. But I do hope as a teacher you don’t bring that attitude into the classroom.

I'm not a teacher, I said that for comic effect

It wasn't funny though.

You probably have no idea what it's like to see this illness close up and why it might be upsetting.

I actually do, and find your comments incredibly offensive.
But you know what, just because I'm offended doesn't make me right. And in a free society, you're allowed to make baseless and hurtful allegations about me on social media. If I can't take it, then it's up to me to quit social media.

“Laugh? I thought I’d never start”

The unoffended people are so cool....🙄

I was having a conversation about this earlier, the two people that thought it was 'really funny' think nothing is crossing a line in the name of comedy. So rape, domestic violence, child abuse etc..... They are both complete fucking idiots but think they're 'oh so cool and all that.' How strange it is that they don't really get on with anyone at work because they insist on saying it 'how it is' and apparently that's 'just how they are and we just need to get used to it'.

Or we could just ignore them and think they're complete twats.

Personally I was more intrigued that it was by someone who's not a native English speaker (spectacularly misses the point).

How many British comics go and rock Scandinavia, with their sets in Swedish (I bet Izzard is preparing as we speak) ?

For goodness sake, it’s a play on words. Perhaps someone can post a list detailing what we can joke about/words we can use.

Some people look for offence when none is meant. Lighten up!!!

“Perhaps someone can post a list detailing what we can joke about”

OK- i’ll start. Not neurological conditions unless the person telling the joke has that condition.

85% have voted YABU.

Love his name - Olaf Falafel

For goodness sake, it’s a play on words

Well thank goodness you’re on hand to explain. All cleared up now

As I said earlier- it’s not even a play on words the way I say it!

@BertrandRussell perhaps that’s why your not a comedian! It’s all in the delivery

Really? I thought it was in the

85% have voted YABU.

does it mean anything? especially if the vote was in Aibu? this board is known to view those with a neurological difference as somewhat different and less worthy.

Happy to be in the minority on this.

It just confirms my thoughts on the majority of people.

timing.

I don’t find it offensive. I don’t have experience of Tourette’s. If those affected, find it offensive they are speaking against it. It’s up to the comedian to decide if he wants to apologise.

That’s comedy, always has been. Censorship is not the best way to deal with it.

OK- i’ll start. Not neurological conditions unless the person telling the joke has that condition.

The end of that path is we can only ever make jokes about ourselves. Which is surely offensive to God ? (or would be if he existed).

I don’t have experience of Tourette’s.

Jess "Biscuits" Thom can help ?

Because being a vegan is not a neurological condition

So it’s ok to make fun of people based on a trait or choice as long as it isn’t a neurological condition?

Making fun of old people is ok? Making fun of mothers is ok? Making fun of people with blonde hair is ok?

Making fun of anybody in a way that may upset or distress them is shitty behaviour - even more so if it's done for laughs.

OK- i’ll start. Not neurological conditions unless the person telling the joke has that condition.

You see, the above is an example of the utter nonsense you get into when you embark upon this route. Next up, why should neurological conditions have a special status over other conditions. They shouldn't so no jokes about disability at all. That takes us on to phobias, which can be debilitating, and doctors and nurses, because they deal with disability.

Pretty soon you're only left with "why did the chicken cross the road"...until the animal rights mob start complaining.