Joke at my expense at networking event

[Reubensway]

I am self employed and attend various business/network events, this morning I went to one I hadn’t attended before but had heard positive things about.

There was about 25/30 people there, and it is essentially ‘chaired’ by one man. After I have my presentation about my business, he made a comment about where I am from (Liverpool). He said that anyone with their purses or wallets in front of them on the table should hide them immediately, to some muffled laughter from a few others.

Am I being unreasonable to expect professional standards as opposed to stereotypical jokes? I won’t return to this particular meeting.

To be honest, scousers aren’t ’uniquely offended’ more than bored shitless of having to pretend laugh at boring dullards.

Imagine if someone asked you why the chicken crossed the road in 1985, and from that point on you got asked twice a week for the next 40 years, every time by someone who believed themselves to be God’s gift to light entertainment.

At what point do you stop giving a faux polite chuckle in answer and instead say “I don’t give a shiny shite why the chicken crossed the road, you tedious, unfunny cunt”?