blue_bird said:Wonder if the heartbroken bereaved parents would see it like that? Unbelievable.
brass neck said:blue_bird said:Wonder if the heartbroken bereaved parents would see it like that? Unbelievable.
No they wouldn't, As the parents of disabled parents wouldn't about disabled jokes, as some Irish people dont about Irish jokes, etc etc etc.
at the end of the day, as long as bad stuff happens. people will make jokes about it, its human (especially British) nature I'm afraid. yes some of it is close to the bone, some of its untasteful, some of it makes people angry, but it will always happen because that's what people do. Look at all those Gary Glitter jokes that later got re-hashed for wako-jacko, they were about paedophilia, how closer to the bone can you get than that...
do you know 9 out of 10 people enjoy gang rape? funny subject? not really, does it make you laugh? different question!!
brass neck said:blue_bird said:Wonder if the heartbroken bereaved parents would see it like that? Unbelievable.
No they wouldn't, As the parents of disabled parents wouldn't about disabled jokes, as some Irish people dont about Irish jokes, etc etc etc.
at the end of the day, as long as bad stuff happens. people will make jokes about it, its human (especially British) nature I'm afraid. yes some of it is close to the bone, some of its untasteful, some of it makes people angry, but it will always happen because that's what people do. Look at all those Gary Glitter jokes that later got re-hashed for wako-jacko, they were about paedophilia, how closer to the bone can you get than that...
do you know that statistically 9 out of 10 people enjoy gang rape? funny subject? not really, does it make you laugh? different question!!
brass neck said:blue_bird said:Wonder if the heartbroken bereaved parents would see it like that? Unbelievable.
No they wouldn't, As the parents of disabled parents wouldn't about disabled jokes, as some Irish people dont about Irish jokes, etc etc etc.
at the end of the day, as long as bad stuff happens. people will make jokes about it, its human (especially British) nature I'm afraid. yes some of it is close to the bone, some of its untasteful, some of it makes people angry, but it will always happen because that's what people do. Look at all those Gary Glitter jokes that later got re-hashed for wako-jacko, they were about paedophilia, how closer to the bone can you get than that...
do you know that statistically 9 out of 10 people enjoy gang rape? funny subject? not really, does it make you laugh? different question!!
blue_bird said:just out of curiosity, did you find it amusing?
brass neck said:well sick jokes are funny to some people and not to others. Its what makes the world a interesting and diverse place.
"A cartoon which appeared in the regional newspaper, the Metro, shows two people discussing Professor Stephen Hawking. At the time he was seriously ill in hospital, the caption says "I wonder if they've tried switching him off and switching him on again".
Professor Hawking has motor neurone disease. He uses a wheelchair and speaks using a voice synthesiser. The Motor Neurone Disease Association say the cartoon is distasteful and it's appalling that the cartoon seems to mock disability.
But did you chuckle when you read the joke?"
One mans meat is another mans poison