Joke

[Josh]

On a more serious side guys.. who's the mug here..The pretty girl with with a slight limp .. or the old old ageing pop star who thought he could still pull..?

Or the people mocking someone because they have nothing better to do?

[The_nun]

Het Josh..slow down bud..
I was merley making a point that we can all take the mick out of someone..because of the money aspect of this marrage .. but lets not 4get Paul aint no oil painting..

[thetank]

Hands up, nothing better to do here.

I do like the lass though, not trying to be cruel.

[tikay]

I must say I do find it a little sad that so many people think this is funny. She strikes me as a pretty brave lady.

Guess I'm just an old fart. I've just got up from my aftenoon nap, & I'm always grumpy when I wake up. I'd be a lot grumpier if I only had 1 leg, & Posters on Fora ascross the world thought it was funny.

Maybe it's because we don't know her. Nobody would laugh at Ironside's problems, except in the way that good friends bust each others balls, is that just because we know him?

This is the problem with getting old. We see things different.

Yours etc,

Grumpy Old Fart.

[The_nun]

Really sorry if i have upset someone here..I shall retire ..Sorry..

[tikay]

I think "retiring" is a bit extreme Maureen. I tried that & look what happened to me!

[Hairydude]

No offense sorry, just a bit of less than PC banter-I felt quite guilty postin mine but we all know its just a laugh and not anything malicious meant by it

peace out!!!

[thetank]

Sorry if anything in this thread has offended anyone.

Political correctness is a funny thing.

One man's taboo is another man's fair game and vice versa.

Personally, I don't find anything to do with flicking baby monkeys, or any kind of cruelty to animals, remotely amusing.

Grumpy Young Fart

[tikay]

I dont see it as a PC thing. I see it more as, if we knew her, or she was a blonde member, would be be quite so cruel?

But it's me out of line with the rest of the world I think, it seems the fashionable thing to do these days.

After 9/11, it took 2 days before the text jokes started, same after the cockle pickers disaster at Morecambe.

Think, maybe, I need to lighten up sometimes. Then again, maybe not.

[The_nun]

So true Tank..

If I got upset ever time someone mentioned a colostomy bag or similar.. I would never stop but unlike me ..not everyone can take what life throws.. you have to have a laugh or else you'll cry..and to be honest I was sticking up for the lass...

[Sark79]

Political correctness is a funny thing.

One mans taboo is another one's fair game and vice versa.

Personally, I don't find anything to do with flicking baby monkeys, or any kind of cruelty to animals, remotely amusing.

Sorry if anything in this thread has offended anyone.

Very good point Tank.  I don't think any badness was meant in this thread. On reflection , the subject matter may be offensive to people. Heather Mills is a very brave lady of course and so is everyone else in a similar position.


Here is a light hearted joke to ease the situation.


Two zebras pondering
Two zebras are talking and one asks the other, "Am I black with white
stripes or white with black stripes?" The other replies, "Well I don't
know. You should pray to God about that and ask him." So that night he did
and God replied, "You are what you are." The next day he said to the other
zebra, "I still don't understand what I am because God just said, You are
what you are." The second zebra responds, "You must be white with black
stripes or else God would have said, Yo is what yo is."
 

[tikay]

On behalf of all the Zebra members of blonde, I object to that......

[Sark79]

On behalf of all the Zebra members of blonde, I object to that......

Why,  that is a funny one.  It isn't offensive.  I was going to tell a monkey one, but I didn't want to risk upsetting matt

[whufc65]

A man walked into a cafe, went to the bar and ordered a beer.

"Certainly, Sir , that'll be one penny."

"One Penny?" the man exclaimed. He glanced at the menu and asked: "How much for a nice juicy steak and a bottle of wine?"

"A penny," the barman replied.

"A penny?" exclaimed the man."Where's the guy who owns this place?"

The bartender replied: "Upstairs, with my wife."

The man asked: "What's he doing upstairs with your wife?"

The bartender replied: "The same thing I'm doing to his business down here."

[Ironside]

guy i am the most un PC person out there when it comes to disabilties, i "walked" down the corridor of the spinal unit 10 years ago singing "you'll never walk alone", i call friends in my local wheelchair basketball team "crip" or "crips"
i have the name "ironside" from the fact thats what the boys in the pub called me after i ended in chair

all this is amongst people that i know and who know me, if someone i had never met called me "crip" or "cripple" even in fun he would be needing medical treatment this is due to the fact the term was being used to belittle me and make them look superior

if i knew heather we would proberly poke fun at each other disabilites and there would be no problem (all depends on her take on life) as neither of us would be trying to make the other person looksmaller than the other BUT i dont know heather and feel it would be wrong of me to make a joke about her disabilty.

i dont mind any blondite taking the mickey (within reason) about my disabilty (after all its part of me) just as i hope you guys dont mind me taking the mickey out of you. but i would prefer it if we dont take the mickey out of people we dont know just for something that makes them different from anyone else (disabilty or race etc etc)