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[gatso]

I laughed at the bumper joke - think people are reading too much into it.  If Billy had said he'd found jobs for three women today, and Andrew had made the same crack, would it not have been funny then?  Can't see the difference myself from where I'm sitting, especially given who said it.

I don't know which side you're on Vinni with the diagf stuff, but I just don't get it at all - the lads seem to find it amusing among themselves though - perhaps I'm just too old.

I'm not against any of it, I'm just asking whats the difference?

the shrewdies know each other & billy & Gary know each other. Yet Gary has been condemned for saying it IMO.

Not quite the same in Gary's case IMHO, when Gary posted his comment it was not meant as far as i can see or taken for that matter in a lighthearted way,  I do believe this has more to do with Gary and I being at odds over an issue with a grimming and posting part of an IM conversation on another thread that has been taken out of context.  but that again is another story.

As for a permanent ban, I don't think its needed to be fair, Gary made his comment in the heat of the moment i accept that and i even accept the intention behind it. That's just Gary and he does not know any better.

And if you don't like jokes against disabled people you should never come to my office, 97% of the workforce in my company has a health condition or a disability, piss taking is rife and jokes are thick and banter filled, take it on the chin and grow a thick skin is the motto.

Question answered, thank you, therefore Gary is now officially a tool for saying it.


And if you don't like jokes against disabled people you should never come to my office, 97% of the workforce in my company has a health condition or a disability, piss taking is rife and jokes are thick and banter filled, take it on the chin and grow a thick skin is the motto.

Jokes about disabled people by disabled people is different surely?

I don't see why,  they all have different disabilities, we have 1 fella in a wheelchair who gets a rubdown purely cos he cant reach the plates and cutlery or the tea urn in the kitchen so he takes it tight for doing his share of the tea making as well as his ridic paint job on his Wheelchair, now nicknamed hotwheels.

we have a woman who issues with her hip and she tries to run everywhere and fails at it, she gets it tight for running like an NCP carpark attendant,

 A few people with serious sensory disabilities and they get it tight for pretty much being blind.  Its all in good fun and jest no one takes it seriously wether you are with as disability or without.  Makes the days go faster tbh

thanks for that post billy, it's quite refreshing to see that it's still possible to act in a normal way, taking the piss out of mates/colleagues without someone throwing a strop and threatening to sue. sadly getting rarer with today's crappy pc attitudes

[cia260895]

Anyone heard the 1 about the chinese, diasabled, homosexual, muslim, immigrant who grims for a living,who entered into a civil partnership with a Gypsie catholic priest who represented plaid cymru in the welsh assembly?

[MANTIS01]

I laughed at the bumper joke - think people are reading too much into it.  If Billy had said he'd found jobs for three women today, and Andrew had made the same crack, would it not have been funny then?  Can't see the difference myself from where I'm sitting, especially given who said it.

I don't know which side you're on Vinni with the diagf stuff, but I just don't get it at all - the lads seem to find it amusing among themselves though - perhaps I'm just too old.

I'm not against any of it, I'm just asking whats the difference?

the shrewdies know each other & billy & Gary know each other. Yet Gary has been condemned for saying it IMO.

Not quite the same in Gary's case IMHO, when Gary posted his comment it was not meant as far as i can see or taken for that matter in a lighthearted way,  I do believe this has more to do with Gary and I being at odds over an issue with a grimming and posting part of an IM conversation on another thread that has been taken out of context.  but that again is another story.

As for a permanent ban, I don't think its needed to be fair, Gary made his comment in the heat of the moment i accept that and i even accept the intention behind it. That's just Gary and he does not know any better.

And if you don't like jokes against disabled people you should never come to my office, 97% of the workforce in my company has a health condition or a disability, piss taking is rife and jokes are thick and banter filled, take it on the chin and grow a thick skin is the motto.

Question answered, thank you, therefore Gary is now officially a tool for saying it.


And if you don't like jokes against disabled people you should never come to my office, 97% of the workforce in my company has a health condition or a disability, piss taking is rife and jokes are thick and banter filled, take it on the chin and grow a thick skin is the motto.

Jokes about disabled people by disabled people is different surely?

I don't see why,  they all have different disabilities, we have 1 fella in a wheelchair who gets a rubdown purely cos he cant reach the plates and cutlery or the tea urn in the kitchen so he takes it tight for doing his share of the tea making as well as his ridic paint job on his Wheelchair, now nicknamed hotwheels.

we have a woman who issues with her hip and she tries to run everywhere and fails at it, she gets it tight for running like an NCP carpark attendant,

 A few people with serious sensory disabilities and they get it tight for pretty much being blind.  Its all in good fun and jest no one takes it seriously wether you are with as disability or without.  Makes the days go faster tbh

i get same rub down and i dont care

disabled folk joking about each other no harm

but i didnt find the joke funny and wouldnt of if it was disabled people or any other people

Yeah, I agree with Iron 100%. The joke wasn't funny at all.

Andrew can talk all he likes about the juxtaposition of the two clauses being the backbone of the joke, but I would strongly suggest either an Irishman, a nun, or some kind of animal walking into a pub as the backbone. That would make for a funnier joke imo.

[CelticGeezeer]

Yay bigoted anti-Irish jokes FTW.

[G1BTW]

Yay bigoted anti-Irish jokes FTW.

I'm all for having a laugh but there's a tim and a place for everything

[Newmanseye]

Yay bigoted anti-Irish jokes FTW.

I'm all for having a laugh but there's a tim and a place for everything

Groan.....................................................

[G1BTW]

And I aint even posting a link to it cos it is offensive but if you youtube search 'world's most offensive joke' it shows the channel 4 program that looked at the different categories in a pretty offensive but enlightening way.  They did disability, Diana, 9/11, race, the holocaust, the tsunami and islam. Islam won.
The disability one touches on some of the stuff discussed here.

[seven2unsuited]

to be fair if the guy didn't have a yellow jacket on he would/should be getting done for murder.

[Ironside]

to be fair if the guy didn't have a yellow jacket on he would/should be getting done for murder.

no he wouldnt he didnt actually use disabled people as bumpers

[TheChipPrince]

to be fair if the guy didn't have a yellow jacket on he would/should be getting done for murder.

Surely while pushing him is pretty awful, it is far from murder?

[Maxriddles]

to be fair if the guy didn't have a yellow jacket on he would/should be getting done for murder.

If my understanding of murder is correct your post suggests this officer's intention was to kill the guy.  

[seven2unsuited]

well he died from it, if it was a normal person on the street who pushed him u know he will go to trial for at least manslaughter, so should the copper.

[seven2unsuited]

to be fair if the guy didn't have a yellow jacket on he would/should be getting done for murder.

If my understanding of murder is correct your post suggests this officer's intention was to kill the guy.  

i don't know the officer maybe it was maybe it wasn't,  what do you think?

[Maxriddles]

to be fair if the guy didn't have a yellow jacket on he would/should be getting done for murder.

If my understanding of murder is correct your post suggests this officer's intention was to kill the guy.  

i don't know the officer maybe it was maybe it wasn't,  what do you think?

I think there's no point in me saying any more on the topic to be honest.

[seven2unsuited]

probably not