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Title: Paralympics - Joke
Post by: johnnycboy on 16 September 2008, 00:05:32
Some bloke in the paraympics has just tested positive for WD40
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Post by: Vamps on 16 September 2008, 00:07:07
 :-X :-X :-X
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Post by: Gaffers on 16 September 2008, 06:44:35
Not cool or funny whatsoever, and thats coming from a soldier with a very dark sense of humour  :-X
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Post by: Andyb on 16 September 2008, 08:45:12
sorry not good  :-X :-X :-X
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Post by: Entwood on 16 September 2008, 09:03:23
 :-X :-X :-X :-X
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Post by: maria on 16 September 2008, 09:15:25
Not funny at all :-X :-X :-X
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Post by: mantahatch on 16 September 2008, 09:31:09
Question, why is it ok to make sexist and rascist jokes on this site. But not ok to make jokes about the differently abled people and paedophile victims.
I am asking to be educated, not to be ripped to shreds.

Mike
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Post by: platty on 16 September 2008, 09:38:04
Not particularly funny, but don't see how it is offensive?  :-[
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Post by: The Red Baron on 16 September 2008, 09:41:23
wouldnt say its offensive but maybe in bad taste so to speak.
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Post by: shyboy on 16 September 2008, 09:41:47
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Question, why is it ok to make sexist and rascist jokes on this site. But not ok to make jokes about the differently abled people and paedophile victims.
I am asking to be educated, not to be ripped to shreds.

Mike


Because lots of people, despite professing to hate PC, indulge in it when it suits.
Title: Re: Paralympics - Joke
Post by: The Red Baron on 16 September 2008, 09:43:53
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Question, why is it ok to make sexist and rascist jokes on this site. But not ok to make jokes about the differently abled people and paedophile victims.
I am asking to be educated, not to be ripped to shreds.

Mike

i agree with that.
Because lots of people, despite professing to hate PC, indulge in it when it suits.
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Post by: platty on 16 September 2008, 11:40:49
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Because lots of people, despite professing to hate PC, indulge in it when it suits.

Hit the nail on the head... methinks
Title: Re: Paralympics - Joke
Post by: johnnycboy on 16 September 2008, 12:31:14
Its a joke as the title states I have abided by the site forum guides with regards to putting jokes in the title. if its not in your taste what can i say :exclamation
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Post by: Welung666 on 16 September 2008, 12:38:05
I found it quite funny but then I've got a weird humour anyway. As long as it's meant as a joke and correctly labelled as such I don't see the problem. I have a lifelong friend with cerebral palsy who from the first time I met him called him 'Jake' as in the peg. Just another of my mates sticks or not! Now could someone help me off this soap box? I can feel my vertigo kicking in  :o
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Post by: rikki_essex on 16 September 2008, 12:40:04
it is a joke at the end of the day and i dont think anyone in a wheel chair would find it offensive. my uncle is in a wheel chair and would not be offended its just every one jumping on the band wagon. a joke is a joke
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Post by: Richie London on 16 September 2008, 14:13:21
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Because lots of people, despite professing to hate PC, indulge in it when it suits.

Hit the nail on the head... methinks

i agree
 
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Post by: Entwood on 16 September 2008, 14:19:30
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Because lots of people, despite professing to hate PC, indulge in it when it suits.


or just don't find it at all funny ....   :(


In the same way that some folks think Bernard Manning or Matt Lucas are funny... and others (like me) think they are peurile ....

:(
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Post by: Proz on 16 September 2008, 14:33:01
It made me smile  :)..... but then i take a joke as a joke ..... i think jokes should be banned from forums ..... causes too many problems.... :(
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Post by: Richie London on 16 September 2008, 14:36:18
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It made me smile  :)..... but then i take a joke as a joke ..... i think jokes should be banned from forums ..... causes too many problems.... :(

then so should religion and politics as people have different views on those subjects too.   ;)
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Post by: Proz on 16 September 2008, 15:02:07
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It made me smile  :)..... but then i take a joke as a joke ..... i think jokes should be banned from forums ..... causes too many problems.... :(

then so should religion and politics as people have different views on those subjects too.   ;)


Yes .... ban them all  ;D ;D ;D     :y
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Post by: Martin_1962 on 16 September 2008, 15:39:17
Not offensive, not very good.

We all know all WD40 does is repel water
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Post by: rikki_essex on 16 September 2008, 15:57:41
water dispersal attempt number 40 to be presice lol
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Post by: sir moanalot on 16 September 2008, 16:28:49
I'm not amused at all, or I'm not too sure- I'm confused, oh bugger i don't know what to think anymore?  its all gone crazy and to cap it all I've just missed oz aerobics.  :(
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Post by: jereboam on 16 September 2008, 16:33:46
Well, I thought it was funny. Not even particularly tasteless, and certainly not in the least offensive.

Keep on with the jokes!
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Post by: albitz on 16 September 2008, 16:44:29
I have a clicky(rusty :D)knee and surgical steel in bits of my foot.not sure if that qaulifies me to judge any more than anyone else,but it did make me chuckle. ;)
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Post by: Gaffers on 17 September 2008, 06:50:18
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Question, why is it ok to make sexist and rascist jokes on this site. But not ok to make jokes about the differently abled people and paedophile victims.
I am asking to be educated, not to be ripped to shreds.

Mike

Judge your audience  ::)

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Not particularly funny, but don't see how it is offensive?  :-[

No one said it was offensive just not funny  :y

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Because lots of people, despite professing to hate PC, indulge in it when it suits.

Hit the nail on the head... methinks

i agree
 

If that was directed at me then I am offended.  Anyone who knows me knows that I detest the way PC culture is ruining life, fun, common sense etc.  At work I have to 'be' a certain way and abide by certain rules, part of being an Officer is acting.  At home and on here I am completely different, normal so to speak.

To say I put my PC hat on when it suits is frankly an insult.  I like good banter even at my own expense and my humour can be described as dark.  Taking the p!ss out of the opposite sex male or female is a two way thing and has been going on here and elsewhere for a while, is that sexism......?  I havent heard of any arguements from our female members      And the English, Irish, Scotsmen jokes is that what you are refering to as racist jokes?  If so then it is not me that is being too PC.

Taking the p!ss out of someone who over comes tremendous disability to compete in events doing faster times than many able bodied people can just aint funny.  In my mind they are the true heros of sport esp when you put them alongside footballers who get paid a lot more for their acting than I do  ;D ;D
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Post by: The Red Baron on 17 September 2008, 07:09:26
i dont think it was aimed at you at all gaffers.  :y
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Post by: The Elite on 17 September 2008, 07:12:50
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Taking the p!ss out of someone who over comes tremendous disability to compete in events doing faster times than many able bodied people can just aint funny.

I'd have to disagree here. Why is it not funny? Are you saying that less able people can't be funny or we just can't laugh at them? I'm of the South Park school of comedy, you can either laugh at everyone or laugh at no one. Surely by saying you can't take the pi$$ you've singled them out? Don't get me wrong the joke wasn't the best tho!