I don't want to cause an argument or offense. I to have children, but we must remember a joke is a joke, we have enough problems in this country with the "thought police" please let us keep laughing.
By the way I have not heard any jokes yet about Shannon.
Mike
if the girl had been butchered would you laugh then, if you can laugh at this then your sick in the head
If that had been the case then I doubt a joke would have been circulated. Thankfully, she was found alive, well and unabused.
I have not heard the joke you speak of but it is human nature to try and see a lighter side to either try and make sense of a situation or merely to stop you slashing your wrists. Isn't there an old adage that contains the line 'laugh or cry'.
Whilst I may or may not have found the "joke" amusing, I do beleive in freedom of speach, a freedom he excerised in sharing the comment with you and a freedom you practised in chucking him out of your house.
["engage minor rant mode"]
that was a refreshing reminder that the freedom of speech carries with it some caveats...
part of the problem with the internet , and which carries over into real life, is that people assume that the right to say something, "freedom of speech" does not actually automatically carry with it the absolute right not to accept the consequences of it.
in other words... rather more bluntly than perhaps is civil...
you can't say "you're a Lady bits" without accepting that the other party may well wish to punch your lights out for saying it.
A joke is only a joke, if
A) it's funny.
B) the people hearing it don;t find it offensive and lynch you for it....
frankly, uttering a joke about the situation in question to any right thinking, and caring parent, or even sane human being, is directly equivalent to telling racially abusive jokes to the members of the culture being ridiculed.
it's not going to be well received is it?
it's not the "Though police"
it's common decent civil behaviour.
["/end minor rant mode"]