Paul McCartney?

[elbongo]

Oh shut up you moaning fannies, all jokes are poked at some section of society but theyre considered acceptable. Youre all mongs

[Mud Dweller]

I know Liverpudlians who have no connection to the tragedy (and who weren't even born) but who still jump on the bandwagon in order to seem important and to give them some identity.

[elbongo]

I know Liverpudlians who have no connection to the tragedy (and who weren't even born) but who still jump on the bandwagon in order to seem important and to give them some identity. Sort of like the cretins who sing about the IRA without any knowledge of the situation or history because they like being in a big masculine group. Are these people not ripe for parody? Or are they forever protected because they choose to latch onto and use a sensitive issue?

[mrtourette]

You're being very vague, I'm not sure what you consider unacceptable. All I'm getting is that you're sad that there are bad people in the world (which is perfectly fine).

[mrtourette]

I dont think its a bandwagon, more a show of solidarity. You'd be surprised just how much fundraising the younger generation do for the justice campaign.

Edited March 25, 2013 by mrtourette

[MEGABOWL]

Is there a line you draw then? If so may I ask what is it and why that?

Havent seen the video btw.

[Bobs]

Anyway..... Macca for Glasto?

[Wooderson]

I get personally offended by all sorts of stuff. But it doesn't matter. I get on with my day. It takes far more effort to get upset about a comment on a website by someone I don't know than it does to shrug it off

[Wooderson]

Anyway..... Macca for Glasto?

[graham1030]

I hope he plays, perfect glasto headliner in my opinion. I would definitely be there to watch him

[eFestivals]

I once saw a spastic taking the piss out of spastics.

At Glastonbury. In the cabaret tent.

Was it wrong? Or had he simply recognised that there is always room for humour?

[mike99]

I once saw a spastic taking the piss out of spastics.At Glastonbury. In the cabaret tent.Was it wrong? Or had he simply recognised that there is always room for humour?

[neil999]

I once saw a spastic taking the piss out of spastics.

At Glastonbury. In the cabaret tent.

Was it wrong? Or had he simply recognised that there is always room for humour?

[eFestivals]

Bit near the mark neil

Nope, it wasn't.

There's room for humour about anything, even tragic deaths.

The 'joke' here was extremely weak and not worth defending, but the idea behind it is worth defending. No one dies.

[Morse Code]

I once saw a spastic taking the piss out of spastics.

At Glastonbury. In the cabaret tent.

Was it wrong? Or had he simply recognised that there is always room for humour?

[eFestivals]

its all about the context

the context for any of them if the possibility of saying something that others find amusing, nothing else.

There's room for humour about anything.

[Trebor]

He, or anyone, can tell whatever jokes they like for all I care, but it was a shit and pointless joke, so he deserved criticising.

[MEGABOWL]

Think the subject in question genuinely strikes a raw nerve for many, including me and I'm obv not from there.

Given how maligned the city and her people is - clearly visible on this thread but also regularly on these fora over the years - I applaud those who openly voice their displeasure at cheap gags on the issue.

That is despite broadly agreeing with your point.

[eFestivals]

I once saw Jim Davidson taking the piss out of black people on prime time Saturday night tele.

Tough one that.......

there's telling jokes to try and cause pain to others, and there's telling jokes because something is funny.

Is there nothing funny about you? Similarly, is there nothing funny that can be said about cerebral palsy or its sufferers?

It's not only people with cerebral palsy who can find these things funny in people with cerebral palsy - as that self-defined 'spastic' made exceedingly clear.

[Morse Code]

there's telling jokes to try and cause pain to others, and there's telling jokes because something is funny.

Is there nothing funny about you? Similarly, is there nothing funny that can be said about cerebral palsy or its sufferers?

It's not only people with cerebral palsy who can find these things funny in people with cerebral palsy - as that self-defined 'spastic' made exceedingly clear.

[Guest]

there's telling jokes to try and cause pain to others, and there's telling jokes because something is funny.

Is there nothing funny about you? Similarly, is there nothing funny that can be said about cerebral palsy or its sufferers?

It's not only people with cerebral palsy who can find these things funny in people with cerebral palsy - as that self-defined 'spastic' made exceedingly clear.

[Wooderson]

But everyone gets stick. I don't see why this subject or people from Liverpool deserve special treatment. Where do you stop?

[mrtourette]

Thats the question ain't it? Of course I have no idea of the answer. But like other things - you know it when you see it.

Theres nothing the Irish like more than someone winding them up about our daft idiosyncacies and hypocracy. But comics arent falling over one another in the rush to do "Famine" gags over here.

[The Nal]

True, I imagine they would leave quite a sour taste in the mouth.

[graham1030]

I wonder what Paul McCartney would think to these famine gags?