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[Nickbat]

I see that David Jason has been forced to apologise for repeating an age-old joke:

"What do you call a Pakistani cloakroom attendant?"

The Telegraph prints the punchline as: ""Ma-hat-ma coat."

It's very old. In fact I first heard a similar joke on the Two Ronniies years ago.

"Mr Mohammed Shafiq, of the Ramadhan Foundation, accused Sir David of being out of touch with reality in portraying Pakistanis as cloakroom attendants.

"Many top jobs in this country are held by British Muslims, from lawyers, to doctors, politicians and businessmen.."

Er hallo, Mr Shafiq? This was a pun. That is a play on words. It has nothing to do with stereotyping Pakistanis as cloakroom attendants. It is making a play on words about the name Mahatma (remember Ghandi?). The pun would not work if the person was a lawyer, doctor, politician or businessman, you tw*t!

Are these puns racist: "Have you heard about the Scottish dentist 'Phil McCavity', or the Irish rice worker called 'Paddy Fields'. No, they are not. It's just making fun with words.

Isn't Mr Shafiq himself inciting racial hatred by suggesting that we cannot continue our long tradition of making puns out of peoples names and, by implication, that Pakistanis have no sense opf humour?

Link here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/5049771/Sir-David-Jason-apologises-for-Pakistani-joke-in-radio-broadcast.html

Rant over.  

[vauxmad]

indeed they are slowly taking over and forucing their culture onuse and trying to wipe ours out.... small rant today

[STMO123]

Scottish cloakroom attendant. Angus McCoatup.

[Bacon Butty Man]

I see that David Jason has been forced to apologise for repeating an age-old joke:

"What do you call a Pakistani cloakroom attendant?"

The Telegraph prints the punchline as: ""Ma-hat-ma coat."

It's very old. In fact I first heard a similar joke on the Two Ronniies years ago.

"Mr Mohammed Shafiq, of the Ramadhan Foundation, accused Sir David of being out of touch with reality in portraying Pakistanis as cloakroom attendants.

"Many top jobs in this country are held by British Muslims, from lawyers, to doctors, politicians and businessmen.."

Er hallo, Mr Shafiq? This was a pun. That is a play on words. It has nothing to do with stereotyping Pakistanis as cloakroom attendants. It is making a play on words about the name Mahatma (remember Ghandi?). The pun would not work if the person was a lawyer, doctor, politician or businessman, you tw*t!

Are these puns racist: "Have you heard about the Scottish dentist 'Phil McCavity', or the Irish rice worker called 'Paddy Fields'. No, they are not. It's just making fun with words.

Isn't Mr Shafiq himself inciting racial hatred by suggesting that we cannot continue our long tradition of making puns out of peoples names and, by implication, that Pakistanis have no sense opf humour?

Link here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/5049771/Sir-David-Jason-apologises-for-Pakistani-joke-in-radio-broadcast.html

Rant over.  

while i agree with you that the pc brigade has gone too far, i actually find that joke amusing, there are "racist" jokes about all races and to my mind to pick out david jason and that joke a racist comment or what ever is and actual racist thing to do against david jason.
eg, you go to any inner city estate and there will be an asian or blacks community center, which is fine by me and i have no problems with that, but if i opened a whites community centre i would be lynched. before i get slagged off i have friends of all races and we all take the pee out of each other.
i used to go on a forum hosted by sony for bruce springsteen related topics, a similar joke was placed on there, no this forum was used by people all over the world and i was the 90,000 and something member so there were a lot of people on ther, the next day the forum was pulled and never relaunched. the joke was funny.
i thing it will get to a point where kids will be taught wat is funny or not, what they can laugh at or not, its a sad state of affairs.
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please miss, may i laugh!!!!!

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[Martin_1962]

Do we have any Pakistani members to comment?

[doog]

Scottish cloakroom attendant. Angus McCoatup.

Irish petrol pump attendant

phillip Mcormick  

Doug

[Richie London]

one of my best drinking buddies is indian, my boy and his boy are best friends, when he walks in the pub we call him the suicide bomber.he thinks its funny.hes actually got more white friends than indian. but we never say anything when hes around other indians. he gives as good as he gets and hes a great laugh. even he thinks it getting a joke with the complaints and feels embaressed about it.

[Martin_1962]

BTW I thought it was quite funny!

[amigov6]

So we're now being told what is & is'nt funny.
    Who exactly is being paid to come up with this B/S & who exactly is paying thier wages?

  If something makes you laugh no one can stop it doing so, end of.

[Big Bri]

There are jokes about Irish, English, Welsh and Scottish should we take them as a racist remarks no they are jokes.... ment to  be funny   think they need to relise that.... and stop taking every remark as personal racist attack.

[STMO123]

As a scouser I am regularly abused by people who have no idea how nice we really are.

[Debs.]

As a scouser I am regularly abused by people who have no idea how nice we really are.

Calm down....calm down!

[AndyMV6]

Surely if they dont like our way then.............go home.

Simple as that. Im NOT a racist im a realist.

Ill tell you what, ill jump on the next tristar to helmand and say "hang on, hang on im feeling that your all being a bit racist to the white population" And of course a nice meeting will be called, talks will be had, people will change and we all live together in perfect harmony.

OR ill meet the very very wrong end of an AK47!  

I dont know, poor britian, its being destroyed from the inside out.

[AndyMV6]

sorry bit off subject there i think, cant help it though.

Just to clairify im no racist and think everyone is equal. but it does seem the white people get the raw deal every way.

[Welung666]

I found that really funny, he should realise that it's a joke same as the others. If he doesn't like it I can direct him to Dover quite easily!!!